The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-30

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 ! "why, yes, told her. I hated to dreadful, but done it. She was aw- full set back at fust, but I guess she asked MT. Tfddltt- Where you goin,, AIr. T1dditt?''
 ! The town clerk, his face red, was on his way to the door.
 ] Asked Ase?" repeated the captain ''Ase, come here! Did you tell her anythtng?'
 i Asaph was very much embarrassed. ! Well" he stammered, "I didn't mean to, Cy, but she got to askfn' me questions. and somehow or mother did tell her about our confab, yours and mine. told her that knew folks was talkin' and felt twas my duty to tell you so. That's why done it, and told her you said-wel, you know what you said yourself, Cy."
 Captain Cy was evidently much dis turbed. He put Bos'n down and rose to his feet
 ] We'll Ee asked sharply, what did she say2"
 ooh, she was white and still for a minute or two. Then she kind of stamped her foot and went off and left me But next time she met me she was nice as pie. She's been pretty frosty to Angie and the rest of lem, but she's been always nice to Bailey and me. Why, when I asked her par don she said not at all, she was very glad to know the truth; it helped her to understand things. And you could see she meant 1t too. She''
 ttSo she has been con1in' here ever since. And the gossip has been goin' on, I s'pose. We'll, by the big dfpper, it'll stop ,nowi I'll see to that''
 The board of strategy and the house keeper were amazed.
 "Gosstpr' repeated Bailey. "Weu, I guess there ain't notf11n' said against her nOw-not in this town, there atn't! Why, all hands can't praise her enough for her smartness in hndin' out about that Thomas. If it want for her he'd be botherin' yoU yet, Cy. You know it. What are you tAikin' about?"
 Captain Cy passed his hand over his forehead.
 sBos'n," he said slowly, you run and help Georgianna in the kitchen a spell. She's got her dinner to look out for, I guess likely. Georgianna,' to the .housekeeper, who looked anything but eager, you better see to your din ner right off, and take Emmie with you.''
 Miss Taylor reluctantly departed, leading Bos,n by the hand The child was loath to leave her uncle, but he told her he wouldn't give a cent for his first dinner at home if she didn't help in preparing it So she went out happy.
 .sNow, then,'' demanded the captain. '-what's this about Phoebe and Thom- v Ir- ask another question Answer me first"
 So the board of strategy, by turns and in concert, told of the drive to Trunet and the call on Debby Beas- ley. Asaph would have narrated the story to the upset sulky, but Bailey shut him up in short order.
 Never mind that foohshness," he snapped. You see, Cy, Debby had just been out to Arizona visfttn' old Beasiey's niece. And shed fell in with : a woman out there whose husband had run off and left her. And Debby she read the advertisement about him in the Arizona paper, and it said he had the springhalt in his off hind leg, or somethin' similar. Now, Thomas, he had that, too, and there was other things that reminded Phoebe of him. So she don't say nothin' to nobody, but she writes to this woman aSkin' for more partic'Iars and photograph of the nissin' one. The partic'lars come, but the photograph didn't; the wife didn't have none, b'lieve- But there Mr. Peabody. And Peabody he writes to his lawyer friend in Butte, Mont. And the Butte man he'-
 4eYeII, the long and short of it -iss S cut in Tiddftt, t4that it looked safe and sartin that Thomas had married 1 the Arizona woman while his real wife. Bos'n's ma, YVES 1ivln' and had run off and left her same as he did Mary And the funny part of 1t is''-
 -1The funny part of 1t is,ss declared Bangs, drowning his friends voice by raising his own, s'that somebody out there, some scalawag friend of this Thomas, must have got wind of what
 was up and sent word to him, cause when they went to hunt for him in Boston he'd gone, skipped, cut stick. 1 And they ain't seen him since. He was afraid of bedn' took up for bigamist, you see-for bein' biganny, mean We'll, you know what I'm tryin' to say. Anyhow, if it hadn't been for me and Phoebs"-
 seYou and PhoebeY' snorted Asaph. You had whole lot to do with it, didn't you? You and Aunt Debby Fl do to go together I understand she's cruisin' round maxim proclamatdons that she was responsible for the whole thing. No. sir-Fee! It's Phoebe Dawes that the credit belongs to, and this town ain't done notfdn' but praise her since it come out. You never see such quick come-about in your life unless twas Heman's. But you knew all this afore, Whit Peabody must have toldsyou-.'
 Captain Cy had listened to his friends story with a face expressive of the most blank astonishment. As hn Ioorr,1,d nfeftar 4rar, t1, NN1.zrrr,s,H. and