The Newtown bee., 1896-10-09

likely & -ha.uugh ,ryf~jon. T~c next day, Wrd e-rls, 'hcG'v t1 gettir 2 our taa ,-.p"r. ~,I ru.d E rae grn-lyas
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 A we both ro q aid shn bad, ne good afLpruuon. -Ao ru. cut her hand, and then, with littlc brown flush in her cheeks, timidly drew It back, as if unwil- ling to make the first advances. But l held my own out until she took it, and she was still holding it when we reached the outside door. As she went out she gave one quick, shy look at my face, then said: "Thank you; Thursday, then, and walked hurrjodIy up the street.
 took the manu-crip. with nc when 1 left tine ontce and read it that night at my boarding place, It wa3 sketch of pioneer life jn Illinois I0 years ago, writ ten in a sttI, ola-fa-hjontd style, for peo- pie who had plenty of time to read; but it was correct as tD syntax, and the incl dents were evidently the writer own ex- perience. Some of them were old enough to be new to the reading public of to-day, and on this chance l hesitatiDgIy wrote on a slip of paper the names of two or three fashion magazines, and new chil dren's weekly that had started in West ern New York.
 Something pathetic, like the fragrance
 .g brauce of the little old woman; for she was old, uDqucstionably, that she had not hesitated to prove by the dates in her "reminiscences; and l carefully shook the neatly written pages together and laid them away in a drawer,
 Good Mrs uotchkiss, with whom I boarded, had a way of dropping in ar my room for 10 minutes or so just before bcdtime to see that was comfortable and gossip a little; and as we sat by the. open windows later in the evening l dc scribed my caller as well as I could with out revealing her errand, and asked wh- she was.
 Mrs HOtchkIss was a stout, blackhair ed woman with vitality to waste and she rocked back and forth in the chair, taL- nlng herself violently with palm-leat fan that she had brought with her.
 "Why, that must have been Evvy Chadsey 7" she said "I didn't know sh, ever came down in the street."
 The article was signed E. J. C., so gave her credit for being right.
 "She's odd" Mrs Hotchkiss said. throwing her head back and flaming her stout throat.
 "Odd?' I repeated, because she seem ed to wait for it.
 "Yea, odd. She's real nice, I guess, tho. She came here eight years ogo t. live with her cousin and teach school She's taught every term in the Upper Neck District until last spring. Then they thought they wanted a normal graduate. After that her cousin died, and then Mir Beach-her cousin married a Beach. She's been living in the house but the estate is about settled now, so I don't know what she will do. She's odd B
 Mrs Hotchkiss paused in her rocking and famed the other side of her throat. This time, however, did not repeat the word, but waited for her to go on.
 There was a slight reproach in her tone as she proceeded after l had neglected .he given opportunity. "She never gees anywhere, not even to the church soci l .bles. She's no more like Mrs Beach ] But they say she's smart; and it doe. eem too bad. She had let MT Beach lse what money she had; but there vasnt any papers between them, and low they say she can't get cent"
 The next night, after supper, took a walk along the Upper Neck road. ItI vas pleasant path, following the river part of the way and edged on both ides with cedars. A sharp turn, about two miles from he village, brought me before small 'hite house, and in front, watering [ ed of blazing geraniums, I saw Miss ! hadsey. As my shadow fell halfway cross the tiny square of lawn, she look. f ] up, hesitated minute, then dropped i ie watering pot and came to the gate. ' She asked me in. l had hoped she | ould, for felt growing interest in le little woman who, according to Mrs s was todd" and never attend . the church sociables and was ssno 4 ore like Mrs Beacht"
 told her that usually walked some q here after tea, and as I had read her ,etch, had brought it with me, think I z to leave 1t if l found her. 2, With little stir she made an event of n y visit, drawing out the deepest rock. Q.