The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-06-13

Il mSgOlng& over and leave 1t at her,
door, Daisy declared. s d sE& 4 .#,.
Daisy Throop!' Phoebe gasped, in,
I shocked remonsnance. But she hid
1 her laughing face. III . n A.
II am,,'' said Daisey, and you're go-l
/ in with me. She'H II find it in the morn!
ing. Come on" .3
II ...NVe mustn'ty' Phoebe protested. III
Eyes, we must She was mean, you
know she was! She deserves it. It'll
do her. good" Il h. j fl q
Daisy prevailed, as usual, and the
girls set forth on their terrand. Miss
Chipman's woodshed adjoined the
kitchen at the rear. It's door stood
open, and within they saw a strange;
bright glare. y.12,s 4. #r.ss3 4 j.
The girls rushed to the spot Some.
thing loomed up blackly before them
"a tall figure standing on a barrel. A:
frightened yell burst from the appari-
ton. e y s5. + [l5, .s:Se$ Il 4 Z, /;
= who's 'sh that, 1 shay?' a familiar
voice quayered, in shrill terror. The
fiery light shone on the red hair and
the pale, skeWed face Of Ozro Martin:
He stared at them; tehn, with a
choked and stammering word, he
clasped his queer face in his lean
hands, jumped from the barrel and
loped off into the darkness. .-s@
A smell Of kerosene filled the shed,
and the rafters had caught the blaze
Of a burning mass Of something which
Ozro Martin had been stufing in
among them: = 'Run!get some water"
Phoebe cried, and while Daisy ran,
she mounted the barrel and tore at
the burning. mass It was a bundle
of rags, soaked, with kerosene. -s.,
A few minutes later, Miss Chapman,
hearing. peculiar noises at the back
of the house, dropped the paper: she
was reading by her sitting room: fire.
took the lamp, and her pisto oil OUT of
the bureau drawer in her bedroom,
and marched out to the wood-shed,
If it was burglars Miss Chapman felt
equal to them. - e.. :. :.
She threw open the shed door "For
the-land 's-sake! she uttered.
The Throop girls stood there to-
gether. Their hands and their faces
were strangely blackened; water drip
ped from their hair and from their
clothes. All around them lay a litter
of. charred fragments. The air reeked
with the ordor Of kerosene.
1T was Ozro Martin. He was try.
ing to set your house are. We came
over for something something,
and we caught him doing it." said
Phoebe, facing Miss Chipman with a
tremulous smile; she was holding one
hand in pail of water. a
He'd got those old rags, and Dip
ped them in your oil-can, and cram
med them up there among the beams
and set them afire," said Daisy.
''Its all out, said Phoebe, reassur
irgly. For Miss Chapman had grown
very pale. n i :.@f5.,
Every smit ch e said Dnisy. 81
brought water from the pump, and
we threw it on, and Phoebe pulled
the rags out. She's burned her hand"
"Never mind,' Phoebe smurmured.
"Neyer mind?" said Miss Chapman
"Come in here! &
In they went. Before they came
out the girls had confessed all about
the half apple and the note; the spin.
ster, whose property they had saved,
had explained that she had used her
,, own peck measure because through
some error in the making, it contained
more than a peck. Next, Mrs. Nose
ley and another caller wondered, how
Miss Chapman and them Throop girls
came to. be so thick and lastly the
whole village wondered why it was
that ''stingy Miss Chipnlan' was a
goin' to send 1'them Throop girls' to
the Bradley Normal school, they were
so anxious to attend. Mrs. Moseley
said this: @s~&, ,.c-
Il wouldn't have believed it, a spell
back, but now--Well, I don't know