Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-02-06


about"
The reader will suppose that week
has elapsed since the conversations
just recorded, and that the govt has,
to use an expression of Johns, got
de ole man fioored." In this condition
his temper is not angelic. John and
the cook have agreed on that point,
and the family have been equally GER
tain of the fact in question. Leonora
has heard the changes rung on her
exasperating and undutiful and UNI
| grateful conduct, every day, and has
been reminded, many times over, of
the awful fate that awaits her if she
persists in her present most astonish-
ing and unwomanly course.
But having made this assertion for
the hundredth time, until Leonora
may be supposed to have grown some
what accustomed to il, the govt gave
him an extra twinge one day, just as
Miss Leonora came in, smiling and
rosy, and heard of this desperate fu-
| ture without a tremor.
|
the judge, nursing his foot and his
wrath with equal tenderness. As
you make your bed, so you must lie.
Marry anybody you ike, miss! Marry
the dew"
"Oh, Uncle Adj" cried Miss Leonora,
rushing at him jubilantly. "Do you
really mean that you are not going to
try TO make me marry Frauk?"
MAKE you marry?" shrieked Uncle
Ad, wild with rage. Don't be a fool,
Leonora!"
"Oh, Uncle Ad, I'm so glad, because,
you know, / like Frank-and | think
he likes me-in fact, we like each 9TH
err"
"What do you mean? What do you
las live, you mink, you are in love
with Frank"
Miss Leonora, with a prim and
fetching air-"But, Uncle Ad, you
/ know / was not going to be made to
marry anybody"
Uncle Ad. limping wildly around
the room "Ha, ha, hal The cunning
/ little rascal! Mrs Martin, come here!
/ Think of her fooling her old uncle that
way! Where's Ethel? John, call
| Ethel want her-l want her this
minute How surprised she'll be!
You little hypocrite! That's one time
/ was taken in, III admit that. John,
YOU idiot, what are you grinning at?'
John, sober on the instant-"l want
a-grinnin'. sch. Please, sch, heah's
note dat was ies lef' at de do by a
white man, sch"
Judge. searching vainly for his spec
tacles. and unable TO find them be-
cause they are on top of HIS head
"Confound those glasses! Here, Mrs.
Martin, read this letteE
Mrs. Martin, reading-"DearU Uncle
Ad Morris and / were married this
morning at St. Paufs. We have been
engaged ever since a month before
Ieonora came, and we didn't want to
run away, but what else could we DO!
We know that you can never forgive
ms. so we won't ask it.; and, of course,
wen be poor. but we don't mind that.
! So. qood-bv. dear old Uncle Ad, and
dear Auntie and Leonora.-Hour Lit
tie Ethel"
The sensitive reader will please eX-
cnse himself for few moments and
leave the room until the worst of the
storm has blown over. BY this means
he win return just in time to see the
nudge raging up and down with a limp
and a look OF agony, and to hear him
roaring, lion-wise:
"gtbeu Ethel That child! Why,
I could have told every thought she
ever had. from her cradle up. She was
as transparent as glass, madam! And
here She has been engaged for months
under my very nosel Where did she
, meet him? When did she see him?
How did they ever have a chance 10
! talk about love? And | believe Leo
, nora knew al about it! All look at
her facet II makes man doubt me
evidence Of his own senses when ne
, cor be circnnvented. hoodwinked, de-
Z ceived. bv these girls in pinafores!
And 70 deceive me mel!
Mrs. Martin. nuocently-"But, Mr..
Martin thought il was Leonora that
Won didn't want TO marry Mr.. Gray
You never said a word about Ethel.
u Won didn't wan { Ethel TO marry him.
WIN didn't you say so?-and then, OF
{ courss would have tried to prevent
Il for ANYBODY might have known that
IL and Ethel we're in love with one an
other" .
Judge. staggering back and sinking
Into cbair-eHa. Another! Mrs
Martin. do ! understand anybody
Does any man understand any WON
; an IN the world? Are you a woman
with a mania for fancy work?-or are
j Won female sherlock Holmes with
( / pebble in one pocket and red eye
lash in the other?"
He kicked at the stool before him
: and then remembered his govt, with
! : shrek Of anguish, ard threw mag
5 ozine AZ John. who had forgotten 70