The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-10-29

shade Of Mrs. Doves clintz window
curtains, Audrey kissed that letter as
mothers kiss their babies. Then she
came back to the parlor.
smart, amt it," asked Tom.
/ What asked Audrey. "Ohl YES
the letter; very nice" And IA she
| spoke, she would have given twenty
dollars. or fifty, all -he hal IN the saw
inss bank money she had earned by
making pot chee-cs for market all
this little hoard would Audrey Dew
nave given Just u have that letter for
her very own.
\ week afterwlrl she went % see
sally Slocum, and Sally exhibited her
/ photograph album. Here was Uncle
ouas and Mr.. AID Mrs. johnson. all
IL row, with their i've children, and
Aunt Tabitha, md
oh, cried Audrey, II didn't know
be hal had any taken
w ent down 10 the store one dav. 8"
said Sally, 'AnI there he was 'ournIn
a dozen Didn't reckon how't they
favored him, be said This here was
lest scorched; poucced down on it.
l II hev that, anyway. says I.
'l4or says be, what We want Of
that?' but l KEEP it. Think it like
him?"
''WheL he's serious, said Audrey.
Il sall, That's your Identical I'M
/ age when you're n church. And
/ what I've think Ae saIl9 Reckon III
stay hum. then LORI II l. the beat
eness how people want their cards to
look.
She had viewed without envy SaIIy's
new bonnet; she hal never coveted
her link bracelets, but she broke the
I eighth commandment when she
looked mt Ned N0rroway's photo graph.
am sorry 10 say that She diI not
stop there.
/ Next day Sally went out to see her
. Cousin Pringie, and about two 10 the
afternoon Aubrey Dew stepped softly
upon the SIoclus' front piazz'.
| slipped into the pari0r window. nnd
had the photograph album in her
| pocket IN Il minute She dared not
take Ned's picture ont by itself, her
guilty conscience would have filed
I her with fears OF instant detection ::
/ but the theft Of the whole album
woUIl never be laiI nc her door.
Most singular thing ever knew. -
SAID OH Mrs. S.ocum, relating her er-
/ perIence to friends afterwlrl. 'Somg
tramp or somebody slipped IN and
hooked -a.Iy's album SarcheI high
AMI low, and couldn't hear notLiu'
ont; offered reward and all. and
Civ IL up; but about two weeks after.
here comes bundle for Sally, AMI
into IL n album, bigger and better by
two than her tOtle- Wa, AMI on the
first page the picture Of her Uncle ST
IAs-he dead, ye know. Ali the rest
she ha'nt never heard nothin' on.
AMI who took 1T, and who sent it. I
dunno, nor nobody.
Nobody knew indeed, save one
guilty girl. Cousin Ellen and Aunt
Ea1iJdI, and Mr. and Mrs. johnson
and their otfsprin-s, had smoulLersI
into ashes between the covers Of the
book, and only Nell NOrrowav's fece
existed, cu5 round AMI pendant ia a
tiny frame anil class over Audrey
Dew's foolish little heart.
whats that you're q wsarin' on q
chHln3' asked Ms Dew OF Audrey.
''u'raDdpa Browns hair, ma, " said
Aubrey.
Watching AMI waiting wears one
tt-1. Auirey was lot quite as pretty
rs she hlI been, II bloom and brirbf-
ness make ali beauty, as most folk
think they DO, and she was conscious
o., this. AMI av1ra also 5uat her new
best dress Was of an unbecominr
color, when. Mt Christuls5lIe it was
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