The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-04

TO what he would be served with, Miss
Matty suddenly. at the sound of his
voice, sat down In the nearest chair.
IL was the lover out of the past, the
beloved Thomas of the lost years.
Miss Jenkyns will have the black
sarsenet," said a shopboy. The big
man turned at the name. "Matty-
Miss Matilda-Miss Jenkyns! cried
Holbrook. "God bless my soul!
should not have known you. How are
you? How are your" And he kept
shaking her hand in a way that showed
|ethe warmth of his friendship. But he
kept repeating. half to himself, II
should not have known you. should
not have known YOU"
Mr.. Holbrook left the shop with Miss
Matty--both forgot to make their in
tended purchases-and escorted her to
the door of her house. What did they
talk about? Well, one remark was
overheard by a passerby. Mr.. Holbrook
was saying: your poor sister, your
poor sisterl Well. well we all have
our faults"
That was q new idea to Crawford
the late Miss Jenkyns having been pos
sessed OF faultsls u &, @ u Say
When Mr.. Holbrook left Miss Matty
at her door she went straight to her
room and did not appear again until
tea time, when she looked as IL she
had been crying. A few days after
came a note from Mr.. Holbrook. invit-
ing Miss Matty and young lady who
was visiting her, a Miss Smith, whose
father had been the business adviser
of the late Deborah, to pay him a
visit at woodley and take dinner. He
had invited Miss Pole. he said so that
they could join in the expense OF a
carriage.
Poor little Miss Matty was all Of a
hutter. Would 1t be proper? Would
Deborah have approved? But Miss
Pole and Miss Smith SO aided and abet-
ted with powerful arguments the sec
ret longings of Miss Matty's own heart
that the Invitation was accepted and
the day of all days in Miss Matty's
starved life came.
There were bright Sunshine and the
odor of flowers in the clear air. the
warbling of the birds was upon a
thousand boughs and4a beautiful. soft
green spread over the rolling fields
such as Miss Matty had not noticed be-
fore for many a long year.
construct q drive" said Miss Pole as
they alighted at the gate of Woodlev.
"It Is a very beautiful place" said
Miss Matty in a whisper as she cast
her eyes over the house and fields of
which she had dreamed SO often. but
which she now saw for the first time.
AS she walked between the box
rows up the graveled path to the open
door silently what dreams and visions
was she conjuring up out Of that deep
gulf where things that might have
been and never were are always wan
dering."
They dined after an oId-fashioned
manner and when the dinner was over
Mr.. Holbrook presented his pipe to
Miss Matty to light, compliment paid
by gentlemen to ladies' in his youth.
Miss Matty performed the task with
a pretty little cough and something of
faded coquettish air. and then the
ladies retired to another room while
the stout yeoman had his smoke out
and probably a slight doze in his arm
chair.
1t was easy to see that Miss Matty
was enjoying herself thoroughly. ut
Is very pleasant dining with a bache-
lor," she whispered to Miss Smith. II
hope 1t Is not improper--so many plea
SAINT things are, you know"
OF course. Miss Pole and Miss Smith
and all the rest of Crawford construct
ed a second chapter of Miss Matty's
romance upon the foundations of the
dinner at Woodley. But 1t was some
time before Mr.. Holbrook was again
seen in Crawford. and then he came to
call upon MISS hhILy anu IlST IFlonuS
to say: "T am about to take a trip
to. Paris. Any commands for Paris,
ladies. Always thought should like
to see the French capital before die"
No, nobody had any commands for
Paris, and Miss Matty said with a
plaintive sigh after her visitor had TAX :
en- his departure: ooh, dead I am so
sorry he IS going to Paris / am sure
frogs will not agree with him" Then
for several days she was very pensive
and more Kind and thoughtful of others
than before-if that were possible.
Finally the eventful day of the ar
rival of Lady Glenmire at the house
of the Honorabl Mrs. Jameson came
and there was such buying of new caps
and such making over Of old gowns
among the ladies OF Crawford as had
not taken place before within the men,
DRY of the oldest inhabitant OF that
genteel community. Imagine the
wrath. the dismay. the surprise. of the
Crawford elect when Mrs. Jameson
came painting out of her sedan chair
into the parlor of every one OF them
in turn. and delivered q little speech,
the purport of which was that she did
not expect the ladies OF Crawford to
call on her titled sister-in-lawi
Bitter were the sarcastic remark 3
of Miss Pole, while Mrs Forester con-
sonled herself with the reelection that
she was born a TyrrelH; and Miss Mat