The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-08-13
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you come here like this?"
"You forget the house is my own. "
"Oh-er-so it is. You-want
the rent? I am afraid we cannot pay
you just yet. If you will give us
time, few days, or"
"In few days, nay, in few
hours the bailiffs will be in unless the
rent is paid at once" he replied,
firmly.
"But, Ja--Mr. Allingham, you
would not be so cruel?"
"Cruel? Were you never cruel ?
What was my fault, and how much
mercy did you show me? Now it is
my turn, and no mercy will give.
Can your companions or whatever
they call themselves pay me now?"
''No, they cannot
Every well. Good morning"
He turned away and she slammed
the door.
"What did he say :" asked Miss
Tabbs, anxiously, when she entered
the room.
HE is every inch a man r. re-
piled Sibyl, significantly.
II.
Before two more days had passed
the Spinsters' Society were acquain-
ted with the worst. The members
were not afraid of the opposite sex,
antagonistic though they might be,
but they had to acknowledge terror
of the laws When one morning the
housemaid answered knock at the
| door, the landload promptly pushed
himself into the hall. He was ac-
coinpanied by man, who held in
one hand a brown paper parcel and
an official document in the other.
Good morning, Miss Cathcart,
he said, as she came out to meet him.
"You expected me, of course?"
"I don't understand you
Really? There is nothing much
to understand. I am, in fact, my
own bailiff, and only immediate pay
ment of the rent will prevent my being
quartered upon you. This gentle
man here will prove the truth of my
assertions, as he represents the law.
Just run over this paper, please"
"You brute - she ejacalated.
Sorry to inconvenience you-
very. A debts a debt, you know.
But I don't think you'll find me a
very troublesome tenant. I shall
come at 9 in the morning and leave
at 6 in the evening, until the money
ispaid. That parcel, Jenkins, please, +"
he added to the man, and discharged
him.
The girl hid her face in her hands
and burst into tears.
''I always knew you were a cow
ard r. she sobbed. "And now you We
7 hope not. IF come as my
own bailiff you should congratulate
yourselves upon having escaped so
lightly, for commoner man might
have made his presence intolerable.
And besides, have brought my own
food, which no ordinary bailiff would
have done"
The bursting of this bomb in the
headquarters of the Spinsters' Socie-
ty did not tend to draw the members
toward the male sex, and immediate
steps were taken to realize the money,
a matter of some difficulty.
cts nothing short of scandal,
piped Miss Tabbs, between fits of
hysterical weeping, when the news
was conveyed to her. 1T will be the
talk Of the neighborhood. If it had
been commoner man it would have
been different, but him And to
cook his mutton chops-ugh r.
"And he stands in the doorway for
ten minutes wiping his boots so that
the neighbors shall see him enter !"
gasped Miss Franklin, to the groans
of the other members.
But the calamity fell more severely
upon the head of Sibyl, though no
one dared to imagine that she had
once nearly become the wife of the
obnoxious individual. Her one
thought now, as she sat in the little
study set apart for her own use, was
how to get rid of him. Giving open
battle only ended in signal defeat,
therefore, why not try strategy? He
had always been swayed by her in
huence, so, perhaps, might be still
amenable to persuasion. And she
could continue to hate him all the
same. The experiment, at any rate,
was worth trying.
She rose to put her plans into exc
cution, when the two domestics en-
tered without knocking. They were
dressed in their outdoor things and
appeared anything but pleasantly dis
posed toward her.
Were goin' miss said the cook,
shortly.
"Going? Where?'
come anywheres out of this
ERE 'ouse. We b'ain't agoin' to run
all over this place for man like that,
an KNOWN there's no wages for us.
You be all as poor as church mice,
an the funniest set of females as
we've a-seen barrin' yourself, miss
Our chaps is waitin' for us outside,
so vid our best respects to you, miss
we'll git out"
care my chops ready?" came 6
voice from the dining room.
Ozark at 'im," said the cook
Then putting her head outside the
door she shouted: eyes, your chop.
be ready an waitin' an gettin' cold
an may go bad afore we brings 'en
to you, you great lanky bounder Z"
"Silence p commanded Siby
"You may go at once, and you
wages will be sent to you. We d'
not keep money in the house"
80 that bloke seems to think
Well, good-day to you, miss. An
mind you don't fall in love with tha
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