The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1897-06-05

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screw your face up, such things hay,
happened, and sensible fellow lik,
'Siah amt going to be played fast ant
loose with always and then gooS
Mrs. zimmerman took herself, and tn.
dish cloth with which she had beer
pointing" her remarks, out Of thu
room, and Letitia, pretty Letitia, wa
left to herself and her own unpleasant
thoughts.
She was pretty, this Letitia Ammer-
man, noticeably pretty, even In New
England, where pretty May-Flower
faces are 80 common In spite Of the
cold skies and clustering winds, but
at this moment she was looking decid-
edly cross and out Of temper, as she
stood by the stove, pulling down her
sleeves slowly over her round white
arms, and wrinkling her fair forehead
Into as many little lines rs possible.
A knock at the door interrupted her
meditations. Go see who 1t is, Gus
sie," she said, giving her hair a hasty
brush with her pink palms, and a fur
tive glance at her fair face In the little
looking glass on the mantle, and II
tt's"-but Gussie had already opened
the door and admitted the newcomer.
oh, it's you, is it?" The pretty hands
went down deep into the pockets of her
dainty apron. Gold night-isn't 1t?
Mas in the other room but she'll be
out In minute. Sit down, won't your"
Thank you" he moved the offered
seat little nearer the fire, and conse-
q little nearer Letitia. Run
and tell your mother I'm here, Gussie,
and most anxious to see her." He spoke
with great gravity. but there was a
CLEAN Of amusement In his eyes, and
when the door closed, he went on,
There's to be a sleighing party down
70 Holbrook's, Thursday. OF course
you have heard Of twill you 20 down
with met"
Letitia hesitated. Thank you" she
said slowly, but lin fact I have al
ready promised"
"Oh, never mind, then" She looked
up astonished at his Indifferent tone,
% unlike his usual manner. 81 only
thought you mightn't have anyone else
70 take you, and there's room enough
'or three in my sleigh. Sadie M'Intyre
ls going with me anyway" and then,
- Mrs. zimmerman came in, he arose
md buttoned up his coat. Anything
Tou want at the lower end Of the viii |
age, Mrs. zimmerman? / am going |
Town after Sadie, she's been spending
he day with her aunt, you know"
Lefty stood still until the door closed
Ifter him, but as his sleigh-bells jingled |
Iown the road, she looked out into the |
deepening darkness with a red spot
Iurning on either cheek, and an in
ignant brightness in her pretty eyes.
Go with him and Sadie M'Intyre, in
eedT she said to herself, Il think
ee myself.-and now he's gone clear
own to the Cross Roads after her
onight," and then. taking up her tat
Ing, she sat down by the fire to medi-
ate on the disagreeableness Of man
ind in general, and Of 'Siah Lincoln
D particular.
The Thursday evening sleighing par
7 was great success. Lefty was
here, Of course, with Clinton VAIN
right, who was the most devoted of
but although she danced
nd laughed, and chatted like q little
lagpie, she felt all the long evening
sxed and dissatisfied, for 'Siah Lincoln.
fter the first greeting, seemed totally
Of her presence, save when
intervals their hands touched In
be dance. and his hearty laugh and
right face yexed her greatly.
A dim idea was coming to her that.
erhaps, at last. he was getting tired of
cling her obedient slave, and that he
'as determined to slip away from her
lpricious rule, and assert his own in
spendenee. This was an entirely new
lea to pretty Lefty, for since the days
round jackets and yisorless caps,
iah Lincoln had been her most deyot-
1 and humble follower, obedient to her
very within. and apparently with no
lought in the wide world save that OF
leasing her; and, in consequence, the
oung lady had grown to feel that he
'as. in some mysterious way, her es-
ecial property, although she did not
'nsider that he had the least claim
pom her. And tonight the conviction
as coming to her that the old state
affairs was at an end,-and was It
the awful thought would force itself
pom her,-was It possible, that Sadie
rIntyre. with her pretty babyish face
nd little childish appealing ways, was
le one who was making the breach be-
Eeen them?
The sleighing party. however, was a
reat success. Lefty described It as
lch when she came down to break
vt the next morning. and she told
linton Wainwright 20 when he looked
] for . minute In the afternoon, but
,me way when night came and 'Siah
lincoln drove by the door on his way
, the village she felt very unhappy
ID cross, and was glad to take herself
I'D her troubles up to her own room
] good season. II