New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-08-06
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BY M.ARrHA
M'CULLOCH-W ILIIAMs
Copyright, 1901, by A. Mcu Villiams

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Garcia Il Aunt Sarah called, her
| voice acid, vet tense.
| Well! Garcia answered without.
looking up from her book.
It's 10 O clock Ugh time you were
dressing. Z came back, the tone more.
acid than ever.
.s."Why. % thought you had set the
| wedding for 4 o'clock Garcia said,
turning d leaf and not raising her eyes
| Aunt Sarah stamped her foot. g S lie.
! you didn't know what folks arey'. she
protested. You know they'll begin
piling in here around II, or i at the.
latest The last one Of 'em is crazy to
see what happen :. -~-.'s;'SsFrr
"How stranger Garcia commented,
apparently to the book. Aunt Sarah
darted through the door, caught the
book, flung it across the room and
clutched Garola's shoulder. Angry
tears stood in her eyes, but still they
snapped yieiously. You'll be the death
Of me YETI she gasped out. Lord,
Lord, II / only had known what trou-
bic you'd be I never would have had
you here, never in this world!' p VI
You mean really that you brought,
| me here so you could make trouble for
| both Of us, Garcia said, standing up
and edg1ng away from her aunt's
grasp. "You know you would find
| heaven dull If you had not griev-.
ance." .@ ssts5s ...
| stop! won't hear such sacrilegev"
Aunt Sarah cried, shaking Garcia hard.
II thought j knew what ingratitude
was-after all I've done for you-but
this caps the climax"
"You have done-many things" Ca
rola said, setting her teeth hard. "First
you gave me a namefI hate and shall
hate till die. You thought it Sounded
| finer than the name of any other baby
around. Right there you struck the
keynote-of everything. You are so
tyranically vain you want to show
/ everybody how much better you can
do everything. That is why you have
| pitched on johnson Blakely for my
husband. Poor fool! I should be al
most as sorry for him as for myself If
he had not mans strength and a
mans chance to run away. He does
not really want me. Peggy McMann
suits him ever and ever so much better.
But you got him under your thumb be-
fore he left off ,roustabouts. He's
worse afraid OF you than death or the
judgment, If he is six feet two and big
as an OK Z
"Johnson loves me like a mother.
He's good looking, as moral as-as a
baby-and will have 100000 when his
old uncle dies" Aunt Sarah broke in,
her eyes swapping harder. "And any
yes, every-Other girl around would
jump at the chance Of him. while
YOU L. +, -; #@#,.
''Have had to be locked up for, two
months to keep me from marrying
somebody else" Garcia supplemented
as Aunt Sarah, otherwise Mrs. Wilson,
paused for breath. johnson knows all
about It," she ran on. Mice, chival-
rOus Johnson, to want a wife who says
to his face: I hate you. agree to
have the wedding day set only because
l am tired of prison life.' If there was
one grain Of manliness in all his hulk
ing height, he would, not take me-he
knows how helpless am-with you
for guardian and not penny Of my
own" >ss it,. "a. ss..-s. r., r. nod T.
"Yet you want to turn your back on
a good husband and rich one and
throw yourself away on beggarly
lawyer who has never had q case since
he hung out his Single year ago."
Aunt Sarah snapped. Garcia laughed
a short, hard laugh. ~ IL
Mrs. Wilson knew her neighbors.
They did come piling in before the
clock struck l.. Carola's love affairs
had been the gossip Of the countryside
for six months past. Naturally there
was edged expectation Of some uncom-
mon climax to what had been so
strange. To the bucolic mind it was
wholly unheard Of that Johnson Blake
~ had been cut out by sprig of a
lawyer with hardly a second coat to
his back. The most part stanchly up
held Mrs. Wilson's strenuousness In
keeping her niece from so throwing
herself away. Still there were few
softer souls who shook the head, say
ing girl, as you might say, driven in
to double harness would be mighty apt
before long to kick over the traces and
small blame to her If she did. 5 II
Everybody wondered at the setting
out Of a wedding feast and calling in
wedding guests. A simple marriage,
with only legal witnesses, seemed to
tit the cases complications better. A
few understood, but wisely held their
peace. The wedding was Mrs. Will
sons triumph. She would not forego
showing to her world that in this her
hardest battle she had prevailed. But
even this wise few were something
amazed at one thing she. had invited
among the rest Jack Harrison, the
lawyer lover whom two months ear
i lier she had forbidden the place
He would not come, Of course, but
i by 8 o'clock everybody else was on
hand, minister and bridegroom includ.
ed. Aunt Sarah was for setting for