The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-02-05


right at our house. There want no
lie in that, was there, Sol?"
NO.. l says. d" should say
'twouldn't be shaving the truth too
close II you'd said there was more
quietness than anything else down on
the Neck road"
WELL" he goes on, not noticing the
sarcasm, IL wrote and never got a
word back. Me and Hubby had given
up hearing. And then, yesterday
morning, they come-both Of EN-.
Nice lookin' young fellers as ever you
see, they are; dressed just like the
chaps in the clothes advertisements in
the back Of the magazines. The big
gest one-they're both half as tall as
that mast, seems so-he took up his
hat and says, kind Of lazy and grand,
like a steamboat capt'n:
"'Mr. Scudder?' he says.
""Thats my name a I. I was
kind Of suspicious; there's been so
many sewing-machine agents and such
round town this spring. And yet I'd
ought to have known he want no sew
ing-machine agent.
"Ah!' he says. You've been ex-
pecting us. then. Has the luggage
Gomez
what in time did 1 know about his
luggage as he called it?
mo says /. "Tain't.'
"'Oh, well, never mind he says, Just
as If a ton or two of baggage didn't
count anyway. Can you give us two
sleeping rooms, two baths, a setting
room, and a room for my mann
1.-TWO baths?' says /. Can't you
take a bath by yourself? You seem
to be having lots of funny jokes with
me. Would you mind saying what your
name Is and what you want?'
HE looked me over sort of odd.
Beg pardon he said. 4 thought you
were expecting us. Here's my card
81 looked at it, and there was the
name Edward Van Brunt,' printed on
it. Then 1 begun to get my bearings,
as you might say.
obi I says. 4 see.'
$50 glad, I'm sure he SAYS. Now
can you give I'D the sleeping ROOFS,
the baths, and the room for my man i?
Hump says !, lookin' back at the
house behind me; If me and Hubby
bunked in the henhouse and the chore
boy in the cellar, maybe we could &C,
commodate you, that is, all but the
baths. You'd have to take turns with
the washtub for them I says.
HE laughed. He was so everlasting
cool about things that it sort of riled
me up.
perhaps you'd like to hire the
whole shebang?' says l. sarcastic
pointing to the house.
HE looked at it. It looked sort o.
cheerful, with the syringa over the
door and the morning-glories hiding
where the ~whitewash was of.
. "'Good ideal he says. 4 would
well, that was too many for me
1 went into the house and fetched GU
Hubby Ann-she's my wife. There
amt many women in this town car
beat her when it comes to managing
and business, If I do say 1t.
"How long would you want thu
house for?' says Hubby, when 1 tolt
her what a going on.
t ga month"; a y Van Brunt, turn
, ing to the other city teller. Hey, far
tin?' T'other chap nodded.
| "All right say Van Brunt. 'Hov
much?'
l Thinks l, I'll scare you, my fine fel
ler.' And so l says, "A month? Well
l don't know. Maybe, to accommo
date, l might let you have it for tw'
} hundred I sort Of edged off then
thinking sure he'd be mad; but h
i, wa'n't-not him. Two hundred l
is he says, and fished out a littl
blank book and one of them poke
y pens.
i NAMES Scudder?' he asks.
l Eyes says 1. Nathan Scuddel
One T in Nathan
I "And I don't know as you'll believ
r it, SOL" says Nate, finishing up, "bu
that Teller made out a check for tw
1 hundred and passed 1t over to me Xix
twas a postage stamp. What do 20
think of that?"
1 didn't know what to think of 1
On general principles I'd say that
man who wanted to board with Nat
= and Hubby Ann Scudder was Graz
anyhow; but of course these Teller
y didn't know.
u ut beats me. Nate" 1 says. "Wha
do you think?"
blessed If I know!" says Scudde,
with another of them long breathI
"All I'm sure of is that they're u
home, with the parlor blinds open an
= the carpet fading, and me and Hubby
, living in the barn. She's doing til
8 cookin' for 'em till this man Of their
y comes. Land knows what kind Of
man he is, too. And that check wa
on a New York bank. and I've ju,
been up to Trumet here with 1t an
the cashier says twill be o week afor
1 know whether it's good or MT. An
1T cant make ont whether them tW