Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-09

train her wax plants
And at the end of four weeks Miss
1sidora put into execution a plan
which she had been forming.
''Mr. Marshall" she said, 'sit's
great deal of trouble for you to go
three times day tramping down that
long hill to the Toplady Arms aud
back again. You are no longer a
stranger to us here. We have learned
to respect and trust you. If you
choose to take your meals with us
here, I shall be quite willing to SUBJ
init you to my frugal table, as q
friend"
Mr. Marshall's countenance changed
oddly. He made curious sound in
his throat as if he were swallowing
something.
miss Isidora," he said, ''I can't"
Can't" repeated the lady.
Nothing could induce me to eat
salt under this roof" said Mr.. Mar
shall, incoherently.
'Bless and save usl Is the man
mad?" cried Miss Isidora Ives.
IL am, socially speaking, fraud, I"
said the stranger, "a forgery"
Miss Ives sat down on the sofa in q
helpless way and stared at him.
"But your sweet graciousness and
kindness have conquered me-" added
Mr.. Marshall.
"What do You mean?" said Miss
Ives.
"Just this" said the stranger. ST
am here on false pretenses. 1 am
your cousin, the plaintiff. Ny name
isn't Marshall, but Gideon Marshall
Robinson.
'Ma'am," whispered the heartless
maid, who turned absolutely green on
hearing the name of the family enemy,
''shall bring the kettle of boiling
water?"
"Rebecca," says Miss Ives, 'hold
your tongue and go out and feed the
young turkeys. am fully competent
to manage this matter myself"
And kebecca, feeling herself put
down, departed.
81 came here" went on Mr.. Robin
son, 'to look into the facts of the case
myself. l have heard of your pre-
judices against me-"
''Yes, l think so," interposed Miss
Ives.
''And do not blame you for them"
said Mr.. Robinson. ''Now that am
personally acquainted with you. Miss
Ives, nothing could induce me to pro-
secute this"
Ubiquitous claim" interposed
Isidora.
Ubiquitous claim' acceded Mr..
Robinson, with repetition of the
swallowing sound. 'Just what you
please to call it. Irespect you as a
lady, but l appreciate you as a rela-
am, you cannot tolerate me any longer
as your friend. will pack my bag
and depart at once. 1 can only feel
regretful that have deceived you so
long. l feel myself to be a hyprocrite
and swindlerp'
He waited meekly to receive the full
tide of Miss .Isidora's curbed wrath.
She put out her plump little hand,
with four dimples in the four joints.
Don't go!' she said in low voice.
"What! cried the incredulous
plaintiff.
There's no reason why we
shouldn't be friends" said Miss Ives,
in her odd, brusque way. Things
seem so very different, now that we
are acquainted with each other.
Couldn't compromise"
''Isidora," said Mr.. Robinson,
'we're cousins, you know, twice re-
moved. may call you Isidora?"
"Oh, certainly" said Miss Ives.
"We are the two last seeming
heirs"
plaintiff and defendant" nodded
Isidora.
Exactly so. Now it has just oc-
Cured to mel mean, I've been
thinking OF it for some time-that if
we were to unite our claims"
''To get married, do you mean?"
said Isidora, bluntly.
eyes, precisely. 1t would put an
end to all litigation" pleaded Mar
shall Robinson. would you be will
ing to marry me?" said Mr.. Gideon
Marshall Robinson.
"Y-yes!" said Isidora. ''I think I
should. I'm not young, but then six
and thirty is not absolutely DID,"
''You are rose in full bloom, -
said Mr.. Robinson, enthusiastically,
land myself am not a mere boy, it
must be remembered.
"And if people should laugh at us,
why VII let them laugh" said Isl
dora.
'And we'll laugh, too" said the
middle-aged lover, cheerfully.
The fire was allowed to go down,
the kettle cover taken of, the charges
drawn fro N the gun, and the Tower
pronounced to be no longer in a state
of siege.
And this is the way in which the
famous case of Robinson VS.. Ives,
which had promised to swell the fees
of lawyers innumerable for the next
ten years, was removed from the court