The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1906-11-23
The Minister'S Vile

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ME Baamgartsu had hesa speaking q
= half joking way. his heaaslfaI eyes ally,
with RseFrsmeat. Miss Daae received th.
news more seriously. .You did asf "a,
anything Of this at dinner time: you all
not tell mamma"
No. Way should tell herr 1t nigh.
only worry her, you know. The school
sewing i the worst grievance he light.
" ran on. Dame Giles Betsy took some
cleth with her. which ought TO have gone
back shirt, but which was returned a
pair of pillow cases. the dame boxed
Betsy's ears, went to school and nearly
boxed Miss Turner's. 1t seems TO me
| they could not have a better goyerness
than she is. However, such mistakes, I
am told. are often occurring and the
matrons of the parish are up in arms
But do they expect You to look after
the sewing of the school?" breathlessly
asked Edith.
Not exactly: but they think / might
provide remedy: some one who would
do 500
How stupid they are. I'm sure Miss
Turner does what she can with such a
tribe. Not that / think she is particu-
larly clever; and were there any lady
who would supervise occasionally, il
might be better; mamma can't, but"
THAT is just it," interrupted Mr..
Baumgarten, laughing. ..They tell me
ought to help Miss Turner to a SUPER
visor by taking to myself a wife,
He looked at Edith as he spoke. and
her face happened to be turned full upon
ha .t
crimson, even to the roots of her soft
brown hair. Ii her confusion she knew
not whether to keep 1t where it was. or
to turn it away: her eyelids had drop
ped, glowing also; and Edith Dane could
have boxed her own ears as heartily ais
Dame Giles had boxed the unhappy Miss
Betsy's.
1T cannot be thought of, you know,
Edith. Marry on two hundred a year
and expose my wife, and perhaps others.
TO poverty and privation2 No, that
will never do"
The parsonage must be put In repair
II you marry" stammered Edith, not IN
the least knowing what she said.
And great deal of money it would
take to do it, told Squire Wells IL he
could get my tithes increased to double
their present value, then might venture
upon wife. He laughed and replied
| might look out for wife who had ten
pounds"
Such wives are mot easily found.
Edith Dane.
Not By me" returned Mr.. Baumgar.
ten. A college chum Of mine, never
dreaming to aspire to anything better
than possess now, married a rich Young
widow in the second year Of his curacy
and lives on the fat OF the land In pomp
and luxury. would not have done it,
.'Whyy'
Because no love went with 1t even
before his marriage he allowed himself
10 say as much to me; disparaged her.
IN fact. No; the school and the other
difficulties, which are cut of my line.
must do as they can yet awhile"
'sOf course, mamma would be the prop
= person to continue TO look after these |
Kings for you, as she used to do, IL she
we're not incapacitated."
"But she Is, Edith. And your time In |
aiken up with her, 20 that you cannot
,elp me-
Miss Dane was silent. Had her time
lot been taken up, she fancied ii might |
lot be deemed quite the thing, In her
'ensorious neighborhood. to be going /
bout In conjunction with Mr.. Baumgar-
en-; although she was the late rector,s |
laughter.