The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1908-02-06

Mrs MO-nngstar was usually gar
rulous enough and liked nothing bet
ter than to gossip of her own and her
neighbors' affairs to an interested lis
tener. But she did not seem to greet
these questions with her usual readi-
ness.
1T don't come easy to me to tell
about what happened there. fur all
I'm used to it fur some twenty years
now. If Eunice wasn't workin' out
with pop and Abe this after in the
fields over I'll change the Suhiec." she
said. using the phrase with u SCI
conscious air of employing elegant
language, fur US we don't never ga'f
anything La.gre her about what l:,~
pened upstairs there; it's near twv..,.'-
one years back already. ETlIi;e -,
| was just a little over a year Old"
She sat down to tell her story AMI
Georgiana and Daisy returned to the
| settee, the latter with her notebook
open on her lap.
eve were keepin' hotel here and WE
| had a-many Corners and gOers Here
! one day couple come. Il man and his
missus and their baby Il year and Il
! half old. Thcy was tony peopIe-that
must give 'enl-and they had money
! plenty. They sayed they'd stay =
| while. bein' as they liked ny coukin'.
! though to be sure they didn't cas much.
! neither one Of EN- The mi,;su: was
! always wonderful pale ana she never
could fetch 4 smile. She W. a.v :
! setin and thinkiu,' starin' in from o
herself and not noticiu' 10 person no'
nothn' She didn't seem TO lave u,
heart fur that baby Of hcrn.
"Shc wouldn't mind. still, THAT IL was
settin' Oh her lap and she'd near lcay"
it slip off Him and her often had
! words up il their rooms. They rented
| two rooms eff Of us and they furnished
| 'em grand with such Il bookcase and
| writin' desk and bedroom suit. Ne
and pop us we used to listen Outsii"
in the hall still. We couldn't hear
what they sayed much. but him he'd
scOIl in q low voice. and her she'd
cry faintlike SOS no one would hear.
| The mister he used to go in town fire.
quent, if not oftcner, and used to tell
pop still You mind if some day he
don't come back no more. | kin see it
at him how he's tired of her yet. Yes,
he'll go off and leave her with that
child to keep, now you see oncet if be
don't | sayed to pop"
"TLe child was Eunice. | supposCT
In his interest in her narrative. not
merely for itself, but for any light II
might throw upon Eunicc. KinroHs for
got to he Pete and leaned forward
across the table. regarding Mrs Morn
ingstar with thoughtful froyn. The
sound o. his own voice brought him
back to himself. and he again glanced
with apprehension at the girls. But
they, 100. were 50 interested in the sto-
nv that even the fact of the farm
hands idlnm in the Kitchen while his
employer and Eunice worked IN the
fields escaped their notice.
eyes. il was our Eunicc." Mrs. Morn
inSstar answered. hut that don't come
in yet ! mustn't get ahead of my sto-
ry. Oncct when / could hear they was
scrapi!:l' | i.>Iped in the keyhole
that wanted to be inquisitive. hut Il
body likes 10 know, too, what's gOin
Oh in their own hotel. We'll, that there
woman could have easy got divorce
cheap if she's of just brang up som"
remarks where he made"
"What remar!is:'' inquired kTross.
J "Why,' she exclaimed. ''he run at
her with Il raZor!'
"Remarks!" he questioned haZily.
"And me- | hollercd and run. And it
was Just the next night the crime was
commit. 1t was the 9th of July. We
was called to the room by the scream
in of the little baby, and we had to
! break the lock, and there we fOnl1d the
woman dead in her bed. lynn in pool
of blood, and the man he had flew.
There was envelope pinned TO the
baby with some money in it, We con
ceited it was meant fur to pay any
one where would keep the child We'll
us we didn't give no one else the
chancet Me and pop we took ami
KEEP the child"
How much money was there?' in
quired Kinross.
''That amt neither here nor there,
she answered CURLY, cOlorlng and look
ing uncomfortable. 1T wasn't so
wonderful much. cOnsiderin' all the
trouble we had to take raisin The
child and the trouble we're havin'
now" she added vindictively, with
! her runnin' after orr Abe the way
she's dom. To be sure" she cOnced-
ed, Eve didn't raise her the way her
mother was raisin her. | never did
see baby tended the way she done
a clean white dress every day-nOW
mind. Yes. indeed Oh, that baby
mustn't never get dirty when her
mother had her. She must be clean
all the time and get washed all over
every day, mind you, stead of oneet
a week, like us country people does u
our babies. Then she practiced this
here hy-geen on it-she must scald the
milk to fOomgate the germs, or what
ever, and wash her mouth and eyes
with borax water. You wouldn't be-
lieve anybody'd be that DUNN to take
all that there trouble, would you? But
that there's hy-geen. l hear lots OF
towners believes in this here .hy-geen-
To be continued next week.