Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-05

"HERE was meat for gossip
 a-plenty in Canaan that after
 noon and evening. There were
 \ rumors that ran from kitchen to parlor, and rumors that ran from parlor to kitchen; speculations that de- tained housewives in talk across front gates, wonderings that held cooks In converse over shadeless back fences in spite of the heat and canards that brought Main street clerks running to the shop doors to stare up and down the sidewalks.
 Out of the confusion of report the judicious were able by evenfall to ex- tract fair history of this day of revo- lution. There remained no doubt that Joe Louden was in attendance at the deathbed of Eskew Arp, and some how 1t came to be known that Colonel Flitcroft, Squire Buckalew and Peter Bradbury had shaken hands with Joe and declared themselves his friends. There were those. particularly among l the relatives of the hoary trio, who ex- pressed the opinion that the colonel and his comrades were too old to be responsible and a commission ought to sit on them. Nevertheless some echoes of Eskew's last argument" to the con clave had sounded In the town and were not wholly without effect. ! Everywhere there was nipping curi- osity to learn how Judge Pike had taken the strange performance of his | daughter. and the eager were much dis | appointed when it was truthfully re- I ported that he had done and said very little He had merely discharged both Sam Warden and Sans wife from his 1 service, the mild manner of the dis missal almost unnerving Mir. Warden, although he was fully prepared For bird shot, and the couple had found | immediate employment in the service of Ariel Tabor.
 | Those who hunanfy fel. the judges behavior 10 be a trifle fiat and unsea- sational were recompensed late in the afternoon when it became known that Eugene Bantry had resigned his posi- ton on the Tocsin. His reason for severing his connection was dumfound. 1 ing. He had written formal letter to the judge and repeated the gist of il to his associates in the office and ac. auaintances upon the street. He de clared that he no longer sympa.hized with the attitude of the TOcsin toward his stepbrother and regretted that he had previously assisted in emphasiz ing the papers hostility to Joe. par ticularly in the matter of the approach ing murder trial. This being the case he felt that his effectiveness in tht service of the paper had ceased. and he must in justice to the owner re sign.
 Well. I'm cursed-' was the simple comment of the elder Louden when hi, stepson sought him out at the factory and repeated this statement to him.
 So am I. I think said Eugene wan iy. ''Goodby. I'm going now to ses mother. but I'll be gone before yo1 come home"
 Gone whereT-
 "Just away. I don't know where Eugene answered from the door. = couldn't live here any longer. IT.
 You've been drinking" said NIT Louden. inspired. You'd better no let Mamie Pike see you"
 Eugene laughed desolately. "l don mean to. I shall write to her Good by.- he said and was gone before NIT Louden could restore enough order ou of the chaos in his mind to stop hiEl
 Thus Mrs IJ0aden-s bong wait at tn window wss tragicaIly rewariei- an she became an unhappy actor in Ga naan-s drama of that dsy- Other ladie attended at other windows or ne&