The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-06-16

oS-Ae-NET vi uer mousse, Where
her babies were. She had almost
missed her train lingering over good
10y kisses and baby love-making.
"'Ou won't 'tay away from Baby .?
"Ou tum wife back adam, Mamma
tauses Baby loves 'ou." And the soft
ditto of the younger baby-"Wite
back adam, Mamma, 'tause Itty Baby
loves 'ou."
They were such mites, these tiny
girls, it had always seemed preposter-
Gus to call them by the stately names
Chat they had been christened by.
They had dubbed themselves ''Baby,"
and Little Baby" and in tender
home parlance they were called that.
Mary could feel their plump little
arms around her neck now, and their
soft baby curls against her checks.
She strained her eyes to catch the last
glimpse Of the little gray shingled
house as the train swept out of the
station. She had told the nurse to let
the children wave her "good by" and
che smiled as she saw two tiny scraps
OF white tiuttering from the nursery
window. But even the house was out
OF sight in moment, and she leaned
back in her seat feeling tired and de-
pressed.
She was doing very bold thing
For the first time in her four years o.
married life she was undertaking
something without consulting her hus
band about it. But it was for his sake
for his dear sake-to save him from
terrible anxiety; and to do that she
would dare anything.
The tears stood in her eyes at tn,
thought of his shoulders already
stopped under their burden of care,
and his face so crossed with lines tina
tod as plainly nssdid the scantily GOV
cred crown from which the curly
boyish crop of brown hair had slipped
how bard had been, and was, his figh
up the stream of fortune.
And his shabby coat and frayet
linenl David rarely got any new
clothes, and when he did he went to
cheap tailor who aid not fit him yer,
we'll He was little man. Mar
used to think il he had been a few
inches taller he would have cared NOR,
for dress. But she was wrong abou
that. David was very modest and no
wonderfully clever; but he knew tina
it would have to be a coat as beautifu
az Joseph's to make him more respect
ed Mt his Office or more loved at home
All beyond those two places was moth
ing to him.
Mary used TO buy him n lot Of new
collars and cuffs now and then, Fan,
neckties, and they were more becom
'u9 90 him than the ones ho bought
He al not think so, but he worc then
mceBly for her sake. She even bough
his hats when matters had gone to,
far for her wiIely endurance; as, 70
example, when he wore n dust an,
rain stained straw hat far into Novem
Der.
David had come to New York from
tho South, and he never seemed 10 b
able TO acquire tho spck-and-spa
look Of tho native New Yorker. I
he had INDUCED his taste In dress j
would have manifested itself in long
flowing, broadcloth Prince ALDER
coats, widely haring Byrouic collars
ucckties, tied 90 blow in tho breeze
aud wido-brimmcd soft hats.
But Mary loved him. She more tina
loved him. She put him on pcdestt
and crowned him with glory an
honor She broke tho alobaster DO
Of her whole beings alteration at hi
feet; and she would have died for hir
gladly.
Mary was q large, fair woman, win
richly and iashiouablY dressed, woul
have locked like a duchess. As it wal
in her simple homemade gowns an
modest bonnet, she only looked like
very beautiful mother, which is NOR
than some duohesses do.
A conventional looking youn
cnrate, and handsome, large feature
man Of fifty, with a deep mournin
band on his hat, sat in the seat dircotl