The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1894-01-04

to brood over the dark side Of every.
thing. Isabel Lilly, you ought to be
. ashamed of yourselfr'
The following day there was another
surprise in store for Miss /Barnasconi,
when she came home in the middle of
the day. Biddy had announced in the
kitchen that 1.-The MISTRESS" had given
her warning. Then. indeel, it was
clear that Mrs Jack had given up her
teaching at Beech Grove-had ''lost
the siderwation." as Mrs Petherick
said, And her kind friend Barney was
anxious about her.
Mrs. Jack went down into the little
parlor that evening and talked with
Barney.
Il thought it right to send away
Biddy," she said. II cannot honestly
afford to keep a servant to wait on me
and the child. Mrs. Lilly was right
there"
and you have given up Beech
Grove?"
Eyes; have given it up
II feared so from what Mrs. Pether-
lex said yesterday; but as you did not
make any signs I would not force my
self upon you with questions"
lou luuSI uOI Uc OHGuueu, uetE
Barney I would have come and told
you myself last night, but I had been
out with Popsy for a long walk, and
was very tired and low-spirited, and I
sat brooding and grizzling until it was
quite late; to late to disturb you"
And you have really, really quite
given up Beech Grover said Miss Bar
nasconi, looking wistfully at Mrs Jack.
"Ah, dear me! Well, I-had-hoped-
that you might form a permanent-con-
neetion there" she continued, dropping
the words slowly, one by one, In her
deep voice.
"Oh, no! That was never very likely,
for the BoddingtOns are only visitors
here They are all going away early in
October, and very likely win never
come back again"
Mrs. Jack looked away from her
friend az she spoke, and fumbled for
her Observation-Disclosures, adding some
indistinct words about having a little
cold in her head. There was short
silence.
II suppose you found the work too
hard" said Barney at length. II
warned you, you know, how dreary and
weary and grinding business it is to
give lessons for money"
ut wasn't that, Barney. Mrs. Bod
dington spoke to me in a manner /
could not brook She was very inso-
lent, and really should have despised
myself if had continued to go to the
| house after what she said"
Goodness! Was she dissatisfied with
your method of teaching?" asked Bar
ney, with an expression of great curl
osity in her black eyes.
mo, Barne-. At least she did not
say so. It was-I cannot tell you ex-
actiy: It doesn' matter IT'S all over
now
I'D wager my head" exclaimed
Barney, in her lowest octave, that
those horrid creatures at Percival
House have been putting spoke in
your wheel!'
ooh, Barneyw
Don't tell me! Hasn't this Mrs. Bod
dington been to call on them, and
doesn't she change toward you the very
day afterward"
And Barney stuck to this view of the
case, despite Mrs. Jacks assurances
that she did not believe the IIillys
would be so cruel as to speak against
her to a stranger.
ITO a strangerI Why, that's exactly
it! They would be ashamed of your
being Mrs. Boddingtons governess, and
would try to cut themselves adrift
from you by every means in their pow
err returned shEewd Miss Barnasconi
Mrs. Jack went that afternoon to call
on her mother-in-law and to tell her
that she had given up teaching Mrs.
Boddipgtan's children.
Dear me, Bell" said Mrs. Lilly, after
listening to her daughter-in-lawis story,
| "and SO you have quarreled with Mrs