Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-10-30

NO, sir. che amt" replied Ryan
"Laviny. she's sort OF diff'rent lately.
She amt nigh $3.50 down on a fell
Ter as she used to be. / can get out
once in a while by myself nowadays,
when she wants to write a letter or
somethin'. Writes one about every
once in a week. l don't know who
they're to. nuther She's talkin' Of
goin up to Sandwich pretty soon"
She is? Alonef"
$50 she says"
ITO leave you heref WhyI well, I'm
surprised"
"Godfreys mighty! 30 be l. But she
says she b'lieves she needs a change
and there's church conference up
there, you know, and she fggers that
she amt been to conference she don't
know when. l s'pose you'll go. won't
you, Mr.. Ellery?"
Probably"
Lavinia got herself elected a dele
gate and went, in company with Cap
tain Elkanah. Mrs. Mayo, and others,
, to the conference. She was faithful
attendant at the meetings and seemed
to be having very good time. She
: introduced the minister to one Caleb
Pratt resident Of Sandwich, whom
! she said she had known ever since
she was a girl.
t Mr.. Pratt's a cousin Of Thankful
Payne over to home" volunteered La
vinia. you know Thankful, Mr.. FL
D lery."
3 Lavinia confded to her pastor that
T Mr.. Pratt made the best shoes in Os-
t table county. He could fit any kind of
v feet, she declared, and the minister
= ought to try him sometime. She added
that he had money in the bank.
r Spring once more; then summer
Z And now people were again speaking
/. OF Captain Nat Hammond. His ship
/ was overdue, long overdue. Even In
6 those days. when there were no cables
d and the telegraph was still something
a. OF novelty, word of his arrival should
have reached Trumet months before
=. this. But it had not come, and did not
n Before the summer was over, the wise
II heads Of the retired shippers were
s. shaking obviously. Something had
d happened to the Sea Mist
e AS the weeks and months went by
without news Of the missing vessel
this belief became almost certainty
At the Come-Outer chapel, where Eze
re fiel Bassett now presided, prayers
we're offered for the son of their for
re ner leader.
8 One afternoon Keziah came into FL
ii ery's study, where he was laborine
With his next Sunday sermon, and Sal
Own in the rockingham. She had
y ben out and still wore her bonnet ant
- shwf
y John" she said, 81 ask your par
do for disturbin you. / wanted t.
., as II you knew Mrs. Prince wal
sh sic?"
-, 20. Is she? I'm awfully sorry
~ Noting serious, hope?"
"a IN. | guess not. Only she's got ,
"a cold ad is kind of under the weather
4. l thovht pr'aps you'd like to run W
and Sc her. She thinks the worlC
and alof you, cause you was SO gooC
when he was distressed about he
~. son. DOR old thing! she's had |
80 hard the OF it. just heard that SHE
on was ain from Didama Rogers. Di
M dana sid she was all but dyin', SO
Az. knew Sc probly had little cold. o.
no someth.'. II she was really very bad
,ot Di wou have had her buried by THU
co time. SIS to be sure her news wa
ho ahead anybody else's. / amt beef
's, up Their but l met her t'other morn
- in"
Ia 'Didaa?"
eff mo; RS. Prince Shed come dow
Inc to see Cace."
-, ooh"
saa Yes. The old lady's been awful
rt kind ar sympathizin' since-sinc
this newtrouble. 1t reminds her o
the lossf her own boy, I presum
likely, al so she feels for Grace
John. VIII do they say around tow
air about-aht him? ?"
"Captai Hammond? Why, II yo'
mo mean thathey've all given up hope
III. l should lrdly say that. Captain
Mayo and aptain Daniels were speah
ing OF 1t inmy hearing the other da
and they freed that there was Still
a chance"
I. "A prettslim one. though, the
,l callated, dit they?"
E We'll, the were-were doubtful, @
~ course. The was the possibility tina
y he had oeeRrecked somewhere an
ya hadn't beenhcked up. They cite
Mh several suchcases. The South Ps
In cific In full islands where vessel
* seldom touchand he and his ere,
Ii may be on OIL OF these"
H John" shenswered. with a sigf
%, sometimes Think you'd better &c
another houseeper"
49, What? Aryou going to leav
me? You?"
"Oh, 'twouldl be because I wante
80 to, But 1t sees almost as II Their
was kind ofate hangin' over m
and that" she miled family, as
twas sort of tchin', as you Nigh
say. EverybodI ever cared for ha
had somethin' appen to em. NJ
brother died; r-the man marie
'lsh went to the dos then you and Grac
lieu had to be miseDle and had to hel
rum malSe you so; lent Nat away and h
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