Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-12
CHAPTER XIV.

1t was essential that Mr.. Howaru
spiritual barrel organ should grind o.
tune of which he could approve. If any
thing occurred to disarrange the machin-
cry. there was nothing easier in the
world than to find new tune and to
persuade himself that it was no more
than a natural variation of the old one
In face OF Hepzibahs news his senti-
ments at once became fatherly, and he
was completely aware that he had been
fatherly all along. and had only waited
for a propitious moment TO declare his
benevolent intentions. 1t had hitherto
been his opinion that it was Mary's
place to come to him; he knew now that
ii had been his opinion all along that it
was his place to go to her-after wait
ing. as a matter of course, quite proper
ly until now.
Seeing things thus clearly, he walked
round to the back of the houe, TO save
the trouble of admitting hims If by the
front door, and encountered Mn. How
arth in the kitchen.
Fanny Ann" said Mr.. H,warth,
"I'm thinkin' it's about time we Swere
down street and took n look at Avary.
We've had no news of her now for tull
fortnight, and it's nigh ON that t ne
since that young villain of Hackett Ut
and left her"
ABR said Mrs. Howarth, 81 could
ha' told you how that match would ha'
turned out oil along. l could ha' told
you what would ha' come o that there
marriage. You was full of it. You was
all for marrying the CELL to a gentleman.
And where's your gentleman now, John
All, where is hep
That's just what l should like to
know" responded her husband, posing
himself in vivid consciousness of his own
physical majesty. II should like to have
my hand on that young villains collar"
And them as was theer would see
how that & end" said the wife.
End said the incensed father. And
how would 1t. end
1T nd end" replied Mrs. Howarth.
safely venturing on prophecy, in respect
10 this extremely improbable contingen-
CIV, I'm his borrowin' five dollars, an the
two of you sittin' down TO drink togeth-
err"
1T nd end" her husband declared,
with a solemn and impressive gesture of
the right hand. in his getting the sound
est AOSS-RuiHHAA OAic man ShC4 gave
other"
You'd ha' took no notice of anything
might ha' said, John" she continued.
''and that's why l KEEP silence. But
we'll go and see the CELL II you think as
so we'd best; though, for my part, l
don't see what's to come OF il"
'-This'll come on il, anyhow" said
Howarth, yenturlng into the domain OF
candor, II with one foot only. "I've wait
ed as long as ] think fit TO wait, and
now our goin'll stop the tongues as are
beginning to wag again US, Fanny Ann"
III was Mary's place TO ha' come TO
us, John," said Mrs. Howarth.
There" returned her husband, you
and mes at one. Ii was her place TO
come to us. but sence her has not thought
fit TO do so, we must make il our place
10 so to her. Get your things on, and
wen go down at once"
When Mrs. Howarth had made her
preparations, the pair walked down the
street together, and Howarth noticed.
though his wife did not. that their pro-
gress toward their daughters house, and
their arrival st its door, created con-
siderable amount of public interest
Now. almost at the moment when
Howarth arrested Hepzihah on her home
ward walk, his daughter had found her
way TO the actual borders OF despair.
There had been no further news from
her husband. and, of course, no further
remittance from him. The little maids
monthly wage happened to be payable
that day, and it also happened that the
provisions OF the house were so far re
dnced that they woaad last for the day