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Seth, did the housework for eight persons.
Eliab didn't even let her have woman to
help with the washing and the ironing"
Must have been regular going BRUTE"
said Seth, Tightening the handle little
"All the Sc wing too" added Uucle Paul
the mending and making. Never went
anywhere except to church. Eliab didn't
believe in women gadding about"
The old savage" said Seth
She was fond of reading, but she new
er got any time for it" said Uncle Paul
She rose before sun-up, and never lay
down until eleven o'clock. 1t was hard
work that killed that woman, and Ehab
cody declared that it was sheer laziness
when she couldn't drag herself around any
longer. And when she died he rolled up
his eyes and called it the visitation of
Providence.
"Why didn't the neighbors lynch him?"
cried Seth, fairly aroused to Indignation
at last
Uncle Paul took off his glasses, wiped
them vigorously and looked his nephew
hard in the face
why don't the neighbors lynch your"
said be-
Seth dropped the sickle and started
Nephew Seth said Uncle Paul, i'm
pressively, thou art the man! Are you
lot doing the very same thing?"
'I?" gasped Seth.
Your wife is doing the work of a house
hold of sixteen people," said Uncle Paul.
She is drudging as you could hire no for
eigner to drudge She is rising early, and
lying down late; she is offering up her life
on the shrine of your farm and its require
ments. | have seen her grow thin an pale
even during the few days l have been here.
have carried water and split wood for
her because there was no one else to do it.
| have seen her carry up Mrs. Belford's
breakfast daily to her room, because Mrs.
Belford preferred to lie in bed and cook
ing dainty dishes for Helen Patterson, be-
cause Helen wouldn't eat what the rest
like. No galley-slave ever worked as she
and your array of labor Saving machinery,
stand coolly by and see her commit slow
suicide. Yes, Nephew Seth, think it is
a case for lynching."
Seth had grown pale.
II never thought of this" said he
why didn't some one tell me?'
Where were your own eyes," said I'm
Gle Paul
Seth Bellenden rolled down his shirt
sleeves, put on his coat, and went into the
house.
He told the Belfords and Pattersons that
it was inconvenient to keep them any long
er. He gave Cousin Susan to understand
that her room was needed. He made ar
rangements to board the hired men at the
vacant farmhouse, and engaged stout
dairyman and q house-servant to wait on
Lucy. And he telegraphed to her father
to come to Silvan Bridge at once
''She deserves treat he said He
shall spend the Summer with u.s."
And then he went to tell Lucy.
She had tainted among the buttercups,
picking strawberries for tea. Poor little
Lucy! The machinery had utterly re-
fused to revolve any longer.
His heart grew cold within him.
She will die" he thought "and shall
have murdered herr
But she did not die She recovered her
strength by degrees.
1T is better than any medicine" she
said, ito know that Seth is thinking of me
and for me-
And Uncle Paul--"the last straw" as
she had called him--had proved her saliva
ton.
II don't want her to go as Eliab's wife
did " said Uncle Paul