Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-08-06
me what all this means. You know

heartless way after the engagement ha
been announced.
"Oh, know It'll But il isn't m,
fault l only found out last night how
badly we are adapted to each other.
thought If people liked each other i
was enough, but it isn't. If people
tastes and dispositions are all-criss
cross, you know-and all that they ar,
wretched"
"But you should have considered al
this before
II didn't know it then. Oh, how
beautiful it is to lie ignorantv'
but how came you to find it GU
now?"
Professor Swithin told me-"
Professor Swithin!" echoed Mrs
Baxter in fresh amazement. "Why
what has he to do with it?''
He has looked us up, !" sobbed Lalla
He says we've both got Mars in Libra
He says we would be miserable-w,
would kill each otherl"
Mrs Baxter stood in silent thought ,
moment, and her face was study
Then she turned to the girl gently
/ ANc'SA 'hiuu, dOoAs DOH u WUTTy, auC
we will see what can be done with these
adverse planets. Well, Jimmy, what il
it?''
| The last words were addressed to 8
small boy in buttons eff you please,
ma am, the housekeeper says can she
see you few minutes-quick?"
Certainly. Mrs. Baxter sought the
culinary department where she found
the housekeeper quite alone, locking
depressed None Of the servants was
visible, and the place resembled Pom
peiian kitchen just unearthed, all the
departments of work having been sud
denly deserted in half finished condi.
tion.
Mrs. Baxter" began the housekeep
er, "the cook and the waitress have
took sudden leave. Shall go to town
to get others? And il do who'll cook
the dinner and wait on the table mean.
while?'
GLOW did it happen?' said Mrs. Bax
ter in dismay. Really, it's quite
dreadful. "
1T was this way" said the house.
keeper. Professor Swithin was down
here talking to EN- this morning, and
they say he used bad language.
"What nonsensel'
"But it's true as the gospel, Mrs.
Baxter. 1 heard him. First he asked
their ages. Now what decent, middle
aged girl wants to be telling how old
she is? But that wasn't the worst.
When they wouldn't tell him, he said
he knew what they were, and he called
one Of 'em Gemini and the other a
Scorpion, if remember right. So they
up and said they wouldn' draw anoth-
er breath under the same roof with the
likes of such as him, and they're sit
ting outside now on their boxes, wait
ing for the stage to come along.r
And all these people in the house,
besides extra guests invited to dinner
1t is too much" And, taking advantage
Of woman's privilege, Mrs. Baxter sat
down and burst into tears
Meanwhile the perpetrator of these
dire evils sat comfortably. ensconced in
little hollow of the rock, expatiatiig
to General Stanhope of the Importance
of founding college of solar biology
EAOlh ehOll pOSlGlOu vi tu0 udrTOW Su6lI
of rock they watched the advancing tide
which bounded sullenly against the re-
sisting wall of stone. The booming of
the waves drowned another sound which
came warningly now and then-the
mutterings of thunder So, facing a Sc
rene horizon sheltered in part from the
wind and deafened by the sound of the
sea to the artillery OF the sky, the two
elderly men whiled away the afternoon
chatting and smoking. The first intima-
tion that came to them of the storm was.
the angry aspect of the ocean and the
rapidity with which the late afternoon
dropped into dusk.
"Shouldn' wonder if we were going
to have storm" remarked the gener
AL rising "Do you see how wild the
sea is?''
Before the professor could reply a
glare of lightning split the sky, follow.
ed by crash of thunder which seemed
to bring heaven and earth together
The general, being taller and more agile,
was the first to ascend to a point where
he might spy outlthe land. He stopped
short, and his calm, intellectual face
assumed such an expression that the
professor, who had paused below to take
breath, was fain to inquire what the
matter was.
"A good deal is the matter, should
say. We're on an island''
Professor Swithin elambered labori
ously up to level with his companion,
and his face blanched and then paled
Stretching out before them, landward,
for nearly mile was an angry waste
of waters, which, Infatuated by the ris-
ing storm. was already tossing spray up
into their very faces. and the tide was
rising. Above doomed an awful sky,
torn up by flashes of vivid fire and
roaring with the sullen rage Of beast
OF prey. Already it was dark, and big
splashes of rain cut their faces now and
then.
Gan you swimf" asked the professor
in q hushed voice.
"No. Who could gain the shore
through such sea as that anyway? It's
awkward. We may have to remain here
all night
"No," said the professor in hollow |
voice. eve shall never remain here all |
night. 4"
"How do you know?' asked the gen.