The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1905-03-30

she Vas kltdly received. Mr. hariwe
~a In the litehtr. hot leii her work M
seated bciali sith hsr visitor 10 the iittl
; sitting room. rttchtly Mrs La'iin q
ered the attach
I'm sfrsid I'm ls,piag you from sou
woik, the Ycnlgrtd, with osteHta,ious All
= ieiy.
Her has'tss smiled was baking bu
IL eau wsi', she replied calmly.
BAkirg 10 the tfternoot Mrs Luikin
eJesross express ed gres, disapprosaL
slssys plan 10 bake carly 10 the morning
she observed irIeialy, so'st tsa Sc dow
ard sew after d,nuer.
Yu, suppose Sc, IVES tie quiet snsy er
srd Il Ia very nice way to do. Bat m,
mornlfgs are otbeIwlJe oesupad.
As she made DO further txplsrsiion, an'
ss the lice Of her shut lips looked tiif
fofbicding, Mrs, Luikln very Ielrc.antl!
ehshged the sui c..
tee ycu had lmpsny lha o'her day
Jadge Kepntv ard bis sife are mica folks
Known I'm lofss
Very lorg.
Any connections Of yoor folks.
None, madam.
50 tmi1 Gus was tie tone of this lsst
brief utieItnee that Mis-. Lufhin sgair
thought best to change The tu' Ct She
approached the covet, d p lat ifCm smother
direction
ls'pose you va, awful glad thty come,
she suggested tweelly, You must &c,
real lonesome here, hayieg no company,
not even your owl ftlks, come TO see yCu.
But perhaps they don't live round her,
iDquripgly.
was glad 10 zee them, admitted Mrs.
Hartwell but, with emphasis, | am never
lonely. lama very busy woman, Mrs.
LuiaiO, ard hsvc Io time either for max.
ng or receiving calls. Then arising with
her obviously cffeBded caller, she continued
pleasantly: Please do not think me uu.
friendly. thank you for coming, for am
sure you mean very kindly.
She held out her hand with a smile, but
Mrs. Lufkin, blind and dumb with wrath,
retreated hastily to her own part, where
she 4 Iur ced and fed and scoldtd like an
enraged hen. Pretty way to treat body?
she stormed Might as well gone to
dea. lnG dumb asy lum fer all found
out.
But enllghtment was at hand. Matte
came home from school that afternoon with
eyes shining ard face full Of excited in-
terest. On, mother, she cried, I've found
out all about the folks in the other part
Amy Adams sister works at Judge Ken.
nep's and she's heard the whole story there.
Oh, mother, lis SO romantic just like
novel The girls eyes grew soft with
emotion.
Lands sake br1ke In her mother, im-
patiently can't you tell a body. Here, set
down 'lorg side OF me and let's hear the
whole thing.
Mrs. Hartwell, bsgaa Matte, used to be
Annie Wetherell, and old Lawrence Weth.
erell, over to Newton, is her father She
,miled as her mother gaspei and threw up
her haads 10 smczement then continued |
He and Judge Kenney are great friends,
and the kenney's think everything Of Mrs.
Hartwell, because she was so ultimate with |
their daughter that died. They say she
used to be over there to the Judges half
the time years ago. Then she met this Mr..
Hsrtweil and they fell In 1--we with each
o her. He was nice appearing, but kind
Of wild, and hadn't any money, and her
Il Ike forbid her going with him. They said
il she married him they wouldn't have any.
thing more to do with her. So che ran
away from hcme ard msriid him srd for
a lorg time no one around here knew where
she was. And now she has come and take n
this tenement. Her hubbard died few
months ago aid left her without money and
he little girl to support.
She writes for the magazines under the
name OF Margaret Dlnsmore. You know
hats the new writer every body Is talking
about. She has written several beautiful
hort stories. 50 now you see Why she
Iweeps ard bskes afternoons. She poor
Ind can't sfiord to lire II done, and SO docs
herself whenever she can. How hard 1t
nust be for her When her folks heard she
vas here and how she wss situated, they
wrote her to come home aud they would
axe care OF her and her child, ard ell {
would be forgiven. They are Ilcb, you
NOV But she would not 20. She ssid they
asst her cif for marry ing the man che lCv-
d. and II thst was a sin she was still elm
er for she loved him as well sstver and !
vas as true and loyal to him as when he q
vas alive, and the preferred to live out her !
lie ard bring up her child Independent tf
hem. She told the Judge ihe didn't come c
ere for help, but because II fetmtd more |
Ike home to her than 10 the west, where i
he had lived with hsr husband Oh, '
mother Matte clStptd her hands rsp.ur-
usly, isn't IL iine OF her to be SO brave and .
oy al to the man she lovee: To work 20 '
ard and i've so poor, rather than accep,
geal.h and luxury from those who dtspis- t
d. think she's iIst lowell, And those 9
tories Motbtr DO lei me 90 Ia and zee
er, .
Mrs. Luikin drew long brs,h. Her q
l.
ceilings we're mlxed ard hard to tnsly zs q
at they were no lorger rsmpapt,
You can 60, fcr al of m, fte replied,
oberly, but you had better not. She II
ont want comply. was 10 there ms. o
III this sfterr oor, d he ss good ss told y
ie 20. She dol't want tottiog ofus. c
Mattie's face fell She logged to fel q
,ore closely ,he charm II thi, HE, the .
,ere recital OF whose mncs had ehkird. b
q go roiily The nres Cf her youthful en-.
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