The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-04-13

>,eS< he two women sat face to
!, face in the green shade of
: " q Mrs. Martins side porch,
- i x their feet on the same
~on wooden footstool. They
Were sewing on long, straight gray
garment.
'Somebody's always had to bring up
Jane Anne Leach's sewing" Mrs.
Thomas remarked, a smile broadening
her face.
"You couldn't expect woman to
sew on her own shroud," Mary Martin
observed, pensively.
Not afterwards" Mrs. Thomas re-
turned, dryly. Still, there amt many
that wouldn't have had something laid
by besides magenta barege and a
f1owered muslin. But not Jane Anne"
,"She spoke to me about it that last
afternoon" said Mrs. Martin, mildly.
"Said she'd been meaning for some
time to sort of plan it out; that she
had a plenty to do with, only hadn't
got about it,
Mrs. Thomas smiled again, under
standingly, but not disagreeably. "Oh,
yes,'' she said. "Jane Anne always
had "a plenty'-plenty of everything"
after all, what we're making up
was her own CLOTH"
Mrs. Martin spoke with gentle heat.
"You needn't snap me up So" Mrs.
Thomas said, coolly. II had soft
spot for Jane Anne. same's you had.
But you know as we'll as you want to
that she was all arson nothing"
81 don't know as I'd call it airy,
Mrs. Martin said, with wavering de-
fance.
That's what I call it," retorted Mrs.
Thomas. "Now take that night ten
years ago, when 7 went over to Jane
Anne's and found her rocking and
looking on while Louisa Morse was put
ting her poor old duds into trunk.
Louisa she says, I wouldn't put
that light delaine on the bottom: it
muses. awful easy. It's seen its best
days, but it looks nice by lamplight,
and may want to dress up some even.
ings.'
".You spea.; s if you were going
away says.
"I am s'she, but didn't tell where.
81 kind O. wondered, same S anybody
would, for Knew she'd no money for
travelling. and that none of her folks
had any to give her, so finally asked
her. She didn't answer right off, and
her head went down. Then she perked
up.
"'My medical adviser has been tell
. ing me for long time that needed a
change, and I've decided to take one,
s'she.
"tWhere are you going?' I asked.
''She sort O. hesitated. I'm going to
the poorhouse tomorrow she says,
then frightened up. 4 do hope you'll
come and see me soon,' she says,
You'll most always find me, and I'd be
so glad to see you, Lucy
IF that wasn't airyr' challenged
Mrs. Thomas. "Do you suppose any
body else would call going to the poor
house "a changer"
"Jane Anne could have gone to hel
Cousin Heman's,," Mrs. Martin said
quickly, but" with unconscious irony
''she preferred the poorhouse."
81 don't blame her; Heman's wife al
ways was a terror" Mrs. Thomas has
tened to say. II never felt above Jane
Anne. We went to school together
and her folks were as good as anybody
once. It wasn't that. But somehow
! she always hit my funny-bone."
"She didn't hit mine," said Mrs. Mar
thsreddening.
"Nhatr' Mrs. Thomas lively coun
tenance expressed amusement and sur
prise. "Not when we called at the
poorhouse to see her, and she asked il
we wouldn't like to meet Mrs. Peter
son, who had just arrived""
''No."
"Nor that time when she said sh'
thought little music would be pleas
ant, and had in old Joe Jennings t.
play 'Ye Banks and Braes' on hi
mouth organ:"
mo"
'Nor that afternoon when Louis;
took over the blanc mango, and JAM
Anne sent some up to that weak mind
ed Scott girl, that they always kept il
the garret when there was visitors
with Miss Leach's compliments: Mis-
Scott was not feeling quite as we'll a
usual, she said. Now, don't you cal
that little mite airy"
Il call it fine Manners"