The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-10-13

Next time." cried Drake. hsif-biubber
ing then, with a sudden roar, what. b,
you coming 10 market again. arter this?'
Like enough he Is a sight older thar
! me. It's Mr.. Meyrick, II ye mus
know"
Now Mr. Meyrick was well-to-do, and
30 Drake was taken aback.
"Mr. Meyrick!'' said he. and turned
suddenly respectful.
But presently view OF rich widow
fitted before his eyes
We'll" said he. you shant throw I,
I'm my teeth again. as I speak too late
ask you now, and no time lost"
What am to stop my bans, and jilt
Farmer Meyrick for thee?'
NAY, nay. But I mean I'll marry you.
IL you'll marry me. as soon as ever the
breath is out OF that dail'd old hunks
body"
well. we'll Will Drake" said Mary
gravely. ~ 7 do outlive this one-and
IL you keeps in the same mind as you be
powLand lets me know II In good time
I'm see about IT.
She gave founce that made her pet
ticoats whisk like mares tail. and on
TO the tkichen. where she related the dia :
logue with an appropriate reflection, the
company containing several or either sex.
"Dilly-Dally and Shilly- y-Shally. they be-
long to us as women he. hate and de-
spise man as can't make up his mind
In haff a minute.
So the widow Gosport became Mrs. Mey-
rick and lived in a farmhouse not quite
mile distant from the hall.
She used often TO come 10 the hall and
take peep at her lamb; this was the
name she gave Mr.. Bassett long after he
had ceased 10 be child.
About four years after the triumphant
return 10 Huntercombe. Lady Bassett
conceived a sudden coldness toward the
little boy. though he was universally ad-
mred.
She concealed this sentiment from sir
Charles. but not from the female ser
wants; and. from one 10 another. az last
II came around TO Sir Charles He dis
believed II utterly AT hrst: but the hint
having been given him. he paid attention
and discovered there was, at all events.
some truth in H.
He awaited his opportunity. and ren1on-
strated MY dear Bella am mistaken
or do I really observe a falling ofr IN
your tenderness for your chlld?" Lady
Bassett looked this way and that. as
~ she medltated flight, but at last she
resigned herself. and said: Yes, Charles:
my heart is quite cold to him"
Good heavens, Bella. But why? Ts
not this the same little angel that came
TO our help In trouble. that comforted me
even before his birth when my mind was
morbid. TO say the ieast7"
II suppose he is the same" said she.
In n tone impossible 10 convey by de-
scr.ption OF mine.
That Is strange answer"
''ff he Is. ! am changed" And this
she said doggedy and unlike herself
what" said SIR Charles. gravely. and
with n sort OF awe, "can n woman With
draw her affection from her child her
child7 N so my turn may come
next"
"oh. Charlesl Charlesl'' and the tears
began TO well.
why. who can be secure after this?
What is so stable as n mothers love- IN
that II not rooted too -deep-far- gusts of
caprice 10 blow II away. In heavens name
what is7'
No answer 90 that but tears
Sir Charles looked az her very long at
tentively. and seriously, and said not an
other syllable.
But his dropping so suddenly subject
n this importance was rather suspicious
and Lady Bassett was too shrewd not 10
see that. They watched each other.
Hut with this difference sir Charles
rould not conceal hie anxlety whereas
The LADY appeared Quite tranouil
one day Sir Charles said chesrfuiiy
Who a. you think dimes here tomorrow
IND stays all night? Or. suaby."