The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-12-11


Beats all how this mignonette does snell!" she said
in voice of soldierlke quality, she reached the
Pick sprig.'" said Mrs. Marvin. "You always was
N.tS got some lemon on, ye?bena hers said Aunt
won't do to mix EN- harnessed up this afternoon
an drove down the Junction git bottle o cologne
tor Annie t9-norrer l thought mebbe she'd like to
That's complete. Well, Nabby to-morrer's most
YES. 1t don't seem moren yesterday Annie was
trotn off to school with that little waterproof on the
hood up her head"
NO it don't Mrs. Marvin impulsvely put out
if should tell you suthin'e"
Well. sometimes think Annie's weddin' amt the
only w Thing tt that's ats go 7ia to hap happsa
81 don't beieye in signs an on,ens,' Sarah went on
breathlessy. But I've got it into my head suthn's
"Well, what kind of thing is it," Aunt Nabby
spoke with abated curiosity not yet knowing what form
NaSss to be s5 5Sn o Be OF a.s s
"You think Stephens goin' to send for yer"
NO. OH no! he never would think I'm goin' to
Cats grandmother Sarah Marvin What's got that
Mrs Marvin spoke solemnly now, as if she told the
story to herself regardless of her nearer.
Its partly because my mind dwells so on the past.
was kind Of We Nsb1y that's s ' how
it's ben with me this last week feel as if was kinder
Cats grandmother" said Aunt Nabby again. in her
comfortable bass you're all nerved up over Armies
weddn that's the matter with you You're all beat out
Sarah, with this frosn' cake an packin' things an
losin Annie an all!"
mo- she said solenniy, my time has come. But
I've talked with Annie an she knows what l want she
regard it. Shed say twas mothers wish. Well,
Nabby-" Her tone had changed to quick alertness.
The school children are comm early with brakes an
things to trim up an I've got to set out my chiny It's
aHi She was
troubled by her sisters confidence 1t as if Mrs
Marvin had taken off the mantle of her gloom and
Sarah" She hesitated Now, Sarah!
No" said Mrs. Marvin brightly, no, amt a-gon'
"er1ed an fo after sa ter
morrers over I can settle down again"
But that night i'll her own room, with Annie breath
ing at her side, she knew this for spectre of the
mind. She lay there looking out into the moonlight.
where the linden breathed from countless blooms and
thought that something going to happen quite
different from anything that had happened to her before
attacking her husband in her dreams They were less
real. 1t something very large and it 1t
bringing with it, too strange beneicence and she
told that death itself is welcome at the last.
nay IN al OF coed
from woods and meadow, and her girl mates turned the
house into greenwood bower The bride still and
calm, and the shone her. The young husband
looked all pride and strength The cream was whipped
precisely right, and there tears: And through
silk moved about with her hating STEP seeing that
everybody served and that nothing suffered lack
self again; but Nabby did not know Cheerfuy as
Sarah Marvin turning here and there her brisk
with expectation of summons sure to come But it
not until Annie had driven off and the last guest
mood and recognize it. Aunt Nabby had stayed to wash
the china and they talked excitedly the sweet
Now said Aunt Nabby when the last dish put
in place. you come with an we'll have cup O
tea an go straight into our beds
NO no." said she don't you ask me-not tonight.
I'm n. gG i'm to stay right here I'm gon to have
an 60 to bed You let me do it just that tonight
We'll" said Nabby, :.well!" She rolled down her
dishes loaned for the occasion "11i be over in the
at bser een se
git breath she called from the garden. Smells
But Mrs Marvin wanted no tonic save that of sol;-
tude IN her familiar place She sank into the rocking
chair by the window with sense of peace. The house
the ferns in the next dfused damp deliciousness
like their own color She hardly knew her house: it
clock struck eight This the way she had ex-
pected to feel on the night of her girls wedding but
strangely. her mind was not Annie but with her
lost youth AS if she had stepped from this ceremony
into chamber of her life, she found herself going
II was at n % n h e "e sney were
else there Only he seemed to be always her
carrying her basket picking flowers, and saying things
the others must not hear: Then their marriage
and the first year Of it, when there seemed to be moth,
ing in the world but good fortune Beyond that the
invisible spirit that led her mind did not guide her The
years of slow understanding of her husbands nature
the years when patience had been born in her through
sharp travail had dropped away benehcen hand had
wiped them out as if their mission having been
plished. she might turn from rest. So
she dropped idly back into her courtshp days wonder
ing again II, as Grandmother Marvin said. this appar
ton OF the past were forerunner of the end
Sally came mans voice from the darkened door
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