The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-02
AFTER THE STORM
THEY PARTED IN ANGER, BUT
MET REPENTANT.

''There is an end to all human endur-
ance," observed the gentleman sternly.
"Sir," said Miss Chickson. 81 have put
up with your eccentricities until forbear-
ance has ceased to be a virtue"'
"a months notice. said Mr.. Buffing-
ton, savagely flourishing his yellow silk
pocket handkerchief.
You are quite at liberty to go at the
end of "a hours. for all I care!' retorted
Miss Chckson, with dignity.
Madam. take you at your word"
said the gentleman.
"Sir, | shall congratulate myself if you
WILL" said the lady.
Mr.. Rarnabas Burlington had lodged
with Miss Patty Chickson for ten years
He was rich and eccentric; she was poor
and proud. AS young people there had
been certain love passages between them
or rather the buds of loves passages,
which had never blossomed into full per-
fection-and when Mr.. Burlington came
home from China and found his old pas
tors orphan daughter trying to gain a
scanty livelihood by letting apartments
he engaged her entire second floor at once
and paid his way like rajah.
"Poor girl. poor girl!' said Mr.. Barna-
bas Burlington. But how thin and old
maidish she has grown, 1 really can't
imagine how / could ever have fancied
her a divinity. What fools young men
are, to be sure"
"Poor, dear Mr.. Burlington! How
stout and vulgar he has become" said
Miss Chickson. And only to think how
slender he was once, How the dreams
of ones youthful days do alterv'
Mr.. Barnabas Burlington was not per-
feet enough to be canonized. and Miss
Chickson had her petty peculiarities. The
consequence was that little collisions
were inevitable.
And one day there came a longer meas
uring of wordy words than usual. and
Mr. Burlington and Miss Chickson for.
mally parted.
"Ten years is quite long enough to toll,
crate this state of things" said the old
bachelor.
I'm only surprised that haven't turn,
ed him away long ago" said the old maid
So when Mr.. Burlington had gone away
in a cab piled high with baggage Miss
Chickson rang the bell for her maid.
Barbara" said she.
eyes. ma'am," said Barbara.
"Mr. Burlington has gone at last"
$50 I perceive, ma'am," said Barbara
Sand won't he come back again. ma'am?
"Never" said Miss Chickson. with
spirit.
"Ohw said Barbara, rather surprised.
at will be necessary for us to reduce
| expenses" remarked the mistress. "Oi
course l cannot any longer afford to KEEP
| so large n house as this. Mr.. Burlington
whatever We're his faults, cannot at least
be accused of parsimony."
"Certainly not. ma'am," said Barbara
| "Of all liberal, free handed, kind spoken
| GENTS
| Barbara. you will oblige me by hold
ing your tongue" said Miss Chickson.
"Certainly, ma'am." said Barbara.
Get me cup of tea" said Miss Chick
son, land when have drunk it | will &c
out to look for cheaper house in less
aristocratic ncighborhood."
| Barbara brought up the cup Of tea il
a quaint little Wedgwood teapot on O
| japanese tray.
| Miss Chickson drank it in silence, look
| ing sadly at the fire.
| Tea was, SD to speak. Miss Chickson':
| inspiration When she was low spirited
or in doubt Or puzzled or in any way
| thrown off her mental balance, she drani
| tei dlu SlIalSHlNdy peSahiS hSiSSi1
again.
| Meanwhile Mr.. Barnabas Burlington
in the solitary splendors of west enc
hotel, was scarcely less i'll at case.
81 don't like this sort of thing at all,
said Mr.. Burlington to himself one morn
| ing month later. at isn't homelike
There's no cat here Patty Chickson al
ways kept cat. There's something yer!
domestic and cozy looking about a cat
I'll go ont and look down the advertising
columns Of the daily paper and see wha
inducements they have to offer in thu
way of quiet, respectable homes for ell
derby gentlemen"
So it came to pass that Mr. Barnaha
Burlington sailed forth, not house hunt
ing, but home hunting.
| 1t was not a so readily disposed o.
business as he supposed. This house wa
next to Il livery stable; that one contain
ed a young lady who WAS practicing TO
an opera singer; the third smelled as i
the drainage was defective; the fourtl
was too splendid. and the fifth TOO shah
by.
81 don't know but that l shall be com
PEELED to sleep at the station house,
gloomly remarked Mr.. Banabas Buff
fngton, for, come what may, nothinl