The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-02-03

ways will do. and then they decided tha'
they would put the 500 and the $500 t.
gether. and, as that was the 1st of Feb
ruary. they would get married Feb. II
valentine wedding as Tom said, and
then, when she said ''she never had had
valentine he laughed out of a heart
Just bubblinS over with sweetness. and
love. and merriment, and told her "he
would be her valentine and she would be
his" and then he kissed her. and Meg
was in such state of delight that she
forgot she ever had been lonely. and she
wouldn't have changed places with 4
Queen, even if the latter had insisted up
on it.
AS the time drew near for the wedding
Meg had q pretty new dress made and
somewhat softencd by the love affair
which had gone forward directly under
her supervision, the landlady had made
preparations for wedding supper which
was to outdo any previous effort of the
kind in the neighborhood. Indeed, she
had resolved that for once she would he
cXtravagant, and she got out several an
cient receipts. which were headed Brides
Cake" and set to work beating eggs and
weighing sugar in Il way which made the
kitchen scullion TO declare. in confden-
tial manner, to the garbage man. that
"Missus 'psared to lie Il little teched in
her upper story" and gave as her reason
for her conclusion that she was a-mak-
in cake TO beat sixty"
A few days before the time set for the
wedding the weather, which had been in
that condition known as ''muggy," turned
1.
Meg good-by before going out on his run
for the last time before he claimed her
as his bride, he had powder of snow or
his collar and that strange. indescribable
smell of cold on his clothing which made
Meg snuggle up to him and say she was
sorry he had TO so out in the cold" and
then, as she kissed him in that motherly
way that comes natural to women when
they love, she asked him to ''be very care
full and watch his footing rs he ran across
the tops of the cars, which were sure to
be slippery because of the snow" and. al
last. she let him go.
St Valentines morn dawned clear and
bright, although snow lay like bleached
linen wherever a heavy team or an early
pedestrian had not marred its purity, and
Meg arose light of heart and light of foot
to make the final preparations for her
union with the man she loved. She had
told the foreman on the previous evening
that she would not return TO the factory
and that hireling of men, who considered
humanity of her kind as merely adjuncts
to money getting. had deigned to say in
an interlocutory fashion: Going to git
married. hey?" Meg did not answer. but
she felt such delight at leaving the huge
building, where she had been merely as
piece of the machinery, that it seemed
10 her she had never known freedom and
vaguely wondered if it really were She
Meg-who walked on air and was so hap
by that now and then she caught at hel
heart lest it should beat aloud.
No. 207. which was Toms train. would
be in at 3:20 O'Clock, and at &, in the
presence of only one or two of the board
| ers and the landlady, the ceremony was tC
be performed. Meg watched the clock
but when the hands pointed to 4:30 She
concluded that the train was an hour late
and she would don the pretty gown so 4:
| TO be all ready when Tom came. She sml
| ed ut her image in the glass as for til,
! twentieth time she shook out the rustlins
| skirt and then ran hastily down to agail
| look at the clock. 1t was O'Clock now
and still Tom had not come, and all a
once something like cold hand graspet
| Mcg's heart and she trembled as one Will