The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-08
Yong Lochinvaf.
MARTHA McCULLOUCH-WILL-
JAMS.

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or don't mind just plain, ordinary sting
.ss" Miss Marticia said: Il never saw
.sa GOOD of it. but it may sometimes be
iii while. What 1 hate is little mean
,..,g;ness like Lucindy-Tom Warheld's. I
bs,iave that woman would try to rise
90 g., The dead, if she remembered in her
~ mat she had paid for half cents
'r.b of something she hadn't got
",tarcia. a softened copy of Miss Marti-
Zen 10 the name, flushed and turned
a,.v her head Miss Marticia ran on:
VT s1w her do the meanest little thing.
and the littlest mean thing. she hlreo olu
.i,,l, Rem one spring TO make garden for
,-,,l know he works for so cents day
c,rnd He got done about O'Clock,
"I Iucfndy-Tom made him take up her
,,rs and plant 'em over again three
me lust TO make out the fun days
+r. She pretended TO believe he had put
.r, first 100 deep, and afterward too shall
felt real sorry for the poor old
~ dare say you gave him something ex-
.., Marcia interrupted, smiling family.
No NIarticia nodded: II had to- she said.
81 o,uldnt let him think all white folks
uora 81 mean. About Lucindy-Tom though
strikes me the reason she never misses
sunday at church is she thinks she's paid
f,r,,,r+ of all the sermons. and 'twould be
aiol.o5 waste not to go and hear EN-
"Anntv Marty! Aunty Marty! You are
ui.llod and uncharitabIe, Marcia said,
Men cosxingly: Lets talk about parties!
c,, hardly think of anything else since
,,v beautiful dress and my new white
sinners came. They are just what L
edo so badly-but did not ask for
fosa,ise I doubted if we could afford
them , A.r
tbay.ve got the money to pay for, without
leaving anybody else unpaid. Miss Mar
,icja said: MY father said so, tool had
inet a fitting out for my first big party
;rbe dollar never went in his pocket that
r,s too big 10 be spent for anything he
rar+ed or | wanted. He believed as 1
hoIiave in putting his money in the bank
- banniness. Lucindy-Tom thinks she
has cot thousands to my nothing-but L
wouldn't swap with her any day IN the
year. o,.u.,o o..
Cd Miss Marticia wheeled and caught
her niece by the shoulders
.,r have cot to mind about her." she sa d,
ovben YOU sent John Warfeld, her neph-
CIV. 10 ask me if he might have you.
.T-I hope you don't object" Marcia
said. getting crimson
,.I',-e oof nothing to say against him.
Miss Narticia said. 80 far as know, he's
a pretty fair sort Of man. But what
bre5 in the bone is bound to come out-by
time he's 40 he may be same as his aunt
Trcindv-Tom. You're all I've got in the
world won't ever agree 70 your ma ry-
ing where you might come TO De gruuse gu
a-nrvlhing-even the air you breathed.
~ don't want to marry Miss Luncidy-
Tom - Marcia said pcuting Her aunt
loughed grimly. Anybody that dli Wouiu
he a curiosity" she said. Marcia pre- end
"a 10 pout more than ever. though smile
lowered in her eyes. She dropped them
and half turned away as she said
81 don't see what we are to DO Aunt
Narfvi We thought you would be our
friend and let us live with you. Miss Lu-
cindv-Tom swears John shall never take
me there,'
II was her trump card. John and her
self had agreed merrily that all wh1ch was
needed to overcome inevitable opposition
was 10 let each of the aunts know ina
the other opposed their marriage. The
two spjnsiers had been on terms of init
mate enmity for at least fifteen years.
Their houses faced each other, standing
each about 100 yards back from a broah
beaten country road. The road was the
boundary between the two farms, which
stretched in fiat fertile reaches beyond
and behind the houses. Originally tne
houses he'd been nearly alike-white, win
green blinds. small front porches and tall
red outside chimneys.
That was in the days of the fathers
The daughters had expressed differences
in temperament largely by means OF
paint Now the Warfield house was
violent yellowish drab with vermilon
trimmings; the Ewing house slate blue,
picked out on cornices and window fac
ings with deep buff The Wartield Chin
neys remained intact, though smoke rare
ly came from more than one OF them. Inc
Ewing house boosted a furnace, and had
r. thn al n
spaces Miss Marticia had flowers in them
oil winter long-fowers which she gave
away with an open hand, although she
might have sold them for good money
In town. The giving was Ewing all over.
It fretted Miss Lucindy-Tom beyond
measure. She was almost tempted to pull
down her chimneys. be comfortable, and
raise flowers too-but the shame of an
open imitation was too great.
Still there had been constant passing
back and forth. Each housemistress felt
that she could not afford to remain igno-
rant Of what the other was doing. Ihey
had run in upon each other at oil hours,
and twice in each year had formally en-
tertained each other-once al dinner, once
q, tea. Outsiders hidden to these feasts
said that Miss Warfleld gave you good,
ordinary victuals or the finest sort or
CHINA; Miss Ewing, things that We're sim
Ply ravishing in good plain, everyday
"al'' one nhu CHINA, OIL COURSE JUL VIZ
never made a parade of il, and, least or
all. before Miss Lucindy-Tom
Miss Lucndy-Tom had been forbidding
from her youth upward-so much so that
IN spite of being also handsome, and well
covered, no man had ever summoned up
the courage requisite to court her. II
was just the other way with Miss Marti-
GA, She was single solely because she
had not been able to make up her mind
and heart among twenty beaux, the best
the county afforded. Somehow none OF
mem had quite measured up to her father
The standard in her mind of all things
masculine. But she had dealt with them
so kindly they were all still her friends
her lovers even in a friendly open fash
loh-although they had wives and children
OF their own
80 far she regretted sending none OF
mem about his business. She had the
lsrn. she had her sweet supremacy, most
OF al she had Marcia Marcia had come
70 her a child in arms, orphaned by the
lsNer plague. which had desolated the
,lJy in which Robert Ewing had made
nome and had hoped to make a name. He