Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-07-01
"Have you other boarders in the


Yes, lady and a gentleman.
They are strangers to each other.
The lady is in the front, and the
gentleman at the back ] could give
you small reom over his-the gem
tleman's. I mean"
THAT will do capitally," said DIR.
| Wynne.
| ''Or I could change into the little
back room myself" said I, land give
you mine; it wouldn't be much trou-
BILE. The front is pleasanter, and
-:
'Not for the world,' cried out the
old gentleman, mot for the and
then he began to cough again until
the tears rained down his cheeks.
Il will take the back room with the
greatest pleasure" said he when he
could speak. ''When can I come?'
AT once," said T. "Haye you
trunk?" .se
"Oh, yes, we arranged that. II I
did not return by four o'clock, DIR.
Smith was to send it out. You know
he boards in the village, but he
thought the dust of Main street
would irritate my lungs. 1t seems
all very sweet and peaceful out
j here"
1 settled Dr.. Wynne in the little
room oyer Mr.. Beldon's, and came
down to find my lower-back in the
| hall.
| You've taken new boarder," said
he, after all your promises"
He is not newspaper man. I
promised not to take newspaper men.
You really must know that 1 cannot
be bound to take no one while you
are here. In that case, you had bet
ter engage the entire house."
| He muttered something which
sounded like .that would have been
better" and then spoke aloud. "How
is it possible for me, poor reporter,
to take whole house like this? OF
course I can't. What is this new man
like?'
''He is an old clergyman" said I.
He is highly recommended by my
old friend, President Marmaduke
| Smith,, of the Galtersville College
He is from way out west somewhere,
/ don't know where. But how did
you know that I had taken anyone? ?"
"How do know? I'm sure I can't
tell you. It's in the air, I suppose,
as you said this morning. You are
sure he is just clergyman"
Zone look at the poor old man is
enough" said I. why, what did
you think he WASP"
"Well, I-I-thought it might be
old Haight himself perhaps, come
out here to track out the mystery
up at the Hall. But, of course, he
would make no secret of who he is,
and he wouldn't tell lie, not to get
the whole scoop. What peculiar SUI
perstition does your friend affect?"
eff you mean what church he be-
longs to-" / said stiff1y, for did not
at all like the lightness of his tone
III speaking of religious matters, 81
think he is Baptist. He said some
thing about bathing, called it INNER
sion, this morning. Poor old gentle
man! I'm afraid he's not long for
this life"
"Well,' said my lower-back, shrug-
ging his shoulders. 81 suppose I'll
have to put up with him, but I
want to say just this, if he makes a
noise overhead, or roams round at
night like your aunt, you can count
me out"
'I'm very sorry" said I, "but my
poor aunt cannot walk one step.
How you do harry me. You are so
fancifnl. 7 really have no one to
help me, and nowhere to turn. !
must make all the income / can at
present, and / don't want you to ask
me why"
"Very well, enough said,' and Mr..
Beldon went into his room and closed
the door, This time he locked it, as
I had advised, and saw nothing
more of him that day.
Meanwhile, whenever I could get
an opportunity, | stole one of Miss
Dacres' letters, and as I did so I re-
placed it with the one that 1 had
just copied. / read them with deer
interest, and spent a great deal Oh
time over them in my own room, sc
much so that Aunt Jane Mary com
planned that she was left entirely to
Glorianna.
One day when Miss Dacres had
gone off on one of her lengthy rides
, and I had been up to call on the la
dies, / returned to find her door open
and Glorianna standing within the
opening. She was reckoning silent
ly with quick, sharp crook OF the
finger.