The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-08-26
THE
SIXTH WIDOW
BY NJ. QUAD
Copyright. 1910. by Associated Lit
erary Press.

AhNAN NNAN wv NlhNh1 III Aht WI
age Of Glen Head when the sixth ar
rived. Her name was Tompklns.
There was one widower In Glen
Head 10 Offset the five widows. He
was Thomas Jordon
The good naturcd Tom Jordou helped
10 unload her furniture and wrcstle
The hcdstends and bureaus around. He
bought lime and whltewash brush
und hired u boy to whltewash the Gel
lar He took hoe himself and cut
down the weeds In the front yard
The Widow Tomnklns was thankful
End nffable. but she held Mr. Jordon ut
distance. He had been told all about
the husbands of the other Widows
when they died, how they died and
their very last words lie knew the
financial resources of the house to
cent He even knew that one of the
Others had corns, In his fntherly way
he questioned the sixth widow, but he
was turned down at every point. BAT
lied curiosity kept him thinking OF her
The more he thought of her the more
he wondered If Providence hadn't sent
Mrs. Tompkins along to become Mrs
jurdon. In II month or so he decided
that II was so. See how easy It was!
See how those five widows had neg.
lected logic for years and years!
The Widow rompklns sized Mir Jor.
don up for fatherly man aud good
fellow. but logic came in here again,
Fatherly men aud good fellows are
slower than molasses In January about
getting around to propose marriage II
things are left to their natural course.
'Ehc five other widows hadn't figured
this out. An event must happen, Prov
ldence was right around there to help
1t to happen,
At the end of three months the ia.
therly man was quite Mt home In the
house of the sixth widow-just neigh.
bory. you know; Just dropped IN to
say II she wanted the kitchen door
painted or the ceiling whitewashed
he'd see about 1t for her. On this par
ticuar day we have In mind he was
in want of couple Of empty barrels
1t struck him that he had seen three
or four in the widows cellar when the
embarrassing was doing He found
the kitchen door open and walked In
He found no one In the house. and he
walked down the ccllar-only neigh.
borly, you know; just neighborly. He
had found his barrels when he heard
the door shut on him and the lock
click. He climbed the stairs and
pounded on the door and called out
his name and errnnd, and voice an
swered him:
"Ab, you tramp, I've got you un-
der lock and key and am going for
the coustablew
Mrs Tompkins, this Is no tramp
This is MIR Jordon,"
You can't lie to me, sir. Mr. Jordou
doesn't walk into folks houses and
down cellar"
but did l was looking for
barrels"
well. you can keep on looking until
the constable comesw
| He sought to further explain, but
she ridiculed the idea. The fact that Il
tramp had robbed house In the vii
| lage few days previously gave her
good groundwork TO build on. The
/ most she would promise was TO leave
| him down there until he had under
/ gone an entire change OF heart and
/ was prepared to live nm upright life In
/ the future. II was O'Clock when MIR.
/ Jordon found himself prisoner. He
sat on the cellar stairs for the next
| two hours vainly trying to convince
| the woman upstairs that he was no
tramp. He gave his name over and
over again. but the steady reply was:
"You are simply trying TO initiate
Mr.. ,Iordons voice, but you can't i'm
pose Oh me. think ! will call him
In and let him settle with you"
From 3 to a O'Clock MIR. Jordon pm.
trolled the cellar. He had cobwCbs
and whitewash and old barrels Tot
company, He could have called from
one of the narrow windows To pass
erby. but he didn't care to, lie didn't
want to be laughed at, From Ia 4
he sat OH the stairs giving his name
over and over again and taking his
solemn affidavit that he was ThOmnr
Jordon and no Weary william. His
words brought no response from the
other side of the door. From q to /
he sat al the bottom OF the steps and
saw the gloaming enter the windows
and heard the whIppoorwills tune up
/ al ,sul Iai
him up to hear the words:
81 am now going for MIR. Jordon."
"But am Mr., Jordon."
"Your voice does sound q bit Ike
his. but you can't deceive me. Mr.
Jordon is fine man"
But so am l."
mir. Jordon thinks | am fine wo
man"
$50 do l."
81 believe Mr., JordoD intends to osi
me to marry him"
81 know he does. ! ask You RICH
now"
"And Mr.. Jordon will want the mar
riage to come OF next month"
81 want II 10 come of next week"
Well. there you hre, Five widow
foollng away their time for seyera
years. and along comes the sixth au'
plays the Joker within three months
Yes. sir. and that couple are living 20
happy as clans. It's as easy as green's
when you know how. and widow boo
all the. rest OF your days when yol