Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-02-09
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b: -he-. ire WIDOW Darby vas p-07e--
b.aMT cLe~ry She had suffered koer.l :
The .os. u her husband and both u her
children. but time had soft-ned her grief.
snl -..e ra- tDD wise 10 -,,-nd her life
Il e.D.m and grief OVER The loss II tho.e
who ~"r@ Leyoad all care and soTrow.
She hal comfortable iir,Ie. hons and a
fc1 acre4 II .a..1 aG59in ~ Jared kent's.
She had known Jared all Of her life. but
not once had she thought of him as a
posaiole Successor 10 Jo~! Darby.
Jared will never marry any one" she
had aaid. He isn't of a marrying dlspo-
gition. Some men are that way. Its all
they lack To make en- what God intended
they should be. Ny husband and used
10 talk Jared over q good deal, and We did
our full snare 70 get him settled for lif.
with good wife. We used 10 invite lot :
of nice girls, young and elderly both. to
our house and then have Jared come over
10 ga and 70 play cr1quct with him. He'd
be nice and pleasant and all that. but bs.
never came any ways near falling into
any Of the traps We ScL for him. We
thought once that he did take Kind Of
SINE to n nice, sweet, real good looking
girl Of about 80 named Janet Deanc from
over Shelby way, who was visiting ne
Shed " made him an awful good wife
and ! sung her praises all the time. but
nothing came " it,"
Its an elegant morning, isn't it," said
Jared, as he and the widow few alone
over the hills and through long lanes in
which the snow was drifted almost to rho
top rails Of the fences.
"Oh, it's lovely replied the widow. 81
like snow"
80 do |. You got much to do in town -
"No; III be through with all Of nv or.
rands in an hour can lct sometime go
If You don't want to stay in town that
long"
"Oh, thatll be none too long for m.
Where shall | meet you:'
III! be al Smith & Hanscom's drv goods
store, any time you say"
We'll call it II o'clock, then"
IT was three minutes after II wbo,
Jared drove mp to the appointed nlace ~
meeting. The widow had stepned ;rta
the sleigh and he was tucking the robes in
around her when she said:
There, Jared, I'm Just like othor Won,
en-; | We forgotten something"
What is it!'
Il forgot to go around to the postoffico
l know that there's nothing there for mo
because one Of the Stone bows broucbt ~, :,
mai out last night, and there's M moi,
trains IN until noon; but poor old Jano
Carr came over just before I loft and
wanted me to be sure and see il there wa .
letter for her. Her daughter is verv
SICK out West, and she hasn't had n lcttor
Tor week, and she's half wild. couldn,,
pear 10 tell her I'd forgotten to 70 to tbo
Office" ~ 'nc
III drive round that way." said Joroa
i. won be three blocks out Of the wav ;,
! A"o or three boys stood idling in front