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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1887)
THE HOME AGAIN LE1X1E. 7: once, after an unuaually good dinner, aupple- over her IwMcd apite. she knew Km well ho mented by the rum tdMy which uaually fol- utterly uelc would t tle attcm4 In aow the zminr ,nwwl I""'' t:r.?X5Sor.;c.! l!u'J ML.if.;;MUiHUtim-inntriTntliiU on that aubject, to bin hoUHekecja-r, anl hinted ily matol pair, fly arnne chance, the vrry fact pretty broadly that if she could pit him in the nf Garland' javnniary revrrx 1.1 failed . way of securing a lrilo with two fjualiflcationa, nii her raw, until the day, on the evening youth and good Iwka, ho would take it tin which, the family roum il i4 the GartamUwa himself to we that ahe waa comfortably etal- held. On the mning if that day, Garland linheil in a lodging houae, to lie the project had met Wintennute, and told him frankly that of audi an institution Deeming to lie the height only hy the aale mrttra)Ce of hU homcatcad. of Mr. Becky' amhition. She had given the could he hoa to aecure to him the aytiM'nl of subject a good deal of consideration, hut up to the large aum due him, and alo explained at ' the time of our atory, nothing definite had eome length Ida Mpoed mining expedition. I r tin I of her cogitations. Like all aelfiah and norrow la juat to Wintennute. He had advanced iimhhv j minded enple, Mr. IWky waa eaacntially re- to t tarUnd on liiic incplca, a a laiainew vengeful in disposition. MVhen ahe pwacntcd proportion. He regarded the investment aa a ' herself to Mra. Garland and told her that her reasonably aafe one, and, la-yond getting hi third roiiHin had married Mra. (Sarland'N annt'a own, with Interest, gave no other tluaight to the I husband's hrother, Mra. Garland admitted that transaction. Wintennute waa neither a lila-r- she had a dim rememhrance of the occurrence tine nor a anmdrel r and the Idea U mil of that interenting event, and, seeing that it ing up with the affair Garland' lovely wife, expected of her to make profcrt of the hospital- who had played live agrveahle htc to him itiea of her quiet little home, she did Ho. Geof- inore than a aeon of times, never crowd hi frey Garland said nothing, hut when the unex- mind. Hut temptation cornea in ipiwr ha cted vinit had Iwcn prolonged into a month' sometime. sojourn, he took occasion, one morning at the A la ail the name hour in which Garland and breakfast table, to call attention to the fact that hia family held the mcimfaldo ciaimil, Winter the ha-al pajier contained an advertiHement for mute waa eating an unusually gil dinner, a lih a housekeeper, and added that he waa ready to Mra IWky a hi n'Mtii. TIk niiiill ly waa I vouch for the i"cuniary resnsihility of the mollifying in it effect, and, a the gtaMwa ) advertiser, and added, further, that if Mra. emptied, Ol-d turned tola hiaiwkeria-r and IWky chose to apply for the vacant Nitioii, said, " I aupa, Mr. Hcrimegiair, yiai hate hia influence waa at her command. Mra. IWky heard of the mifilunc whit h have (.-vrrtakrn at once aaw that she had outstayed her wel- Mr. Garland?" Mr. Iloky had ! aitting, come, ami not lading altogether devoid of mm- with half cimI eye, f half an Iwair, aixl by mon aenae, ahe acted accordingly, and, within a aingntar c)im iik-iuv, Ikt lluatghla had Uiti forty-eight luaira, waa inatalled in tlu caMb of tlie "Garland crowd," a aln alaay nanml Wintennute, where, for more than five year, them to herwlf. TVre had trn unniul bit ahe carriel the houat-kn-ia-r'a keya, baWI it term-Ma in her meditation. He fai t that Mr. over the cook, chamber-maid anil atab-Nty, Wintennute had eaiple Garland' naiiHwitli and aa the trnth muat la1 told nunMNl her mifa-tune, waa bowy to Iter aail. Itnl, by imi j ; wrath againat Geoffrey Garland and hi wife, taitwaH l4 i gv-ture, did ) riray lirr In- j and ke4 it warm. The h"a? of finding an o ten-at in tle nutter. Me i4y relirl, " I jmrtiinity to " jmt a apider in the cup" of her had not licrdof It. Are aomrofthr family ill?" far-off connection' connubial feln-ity, wa her Ami then, Olr, with linn h ummwM j.r thotight by day and her dream by night, hlie litity, UM hia hoot kee-r llr w!mJ vj U had been too cunning, however, to la-tray thi the borrowed nvifiry, tle itle mine, Ibe deaire to any living human la-ing. Neitlier rmt m.1gagr or aalr of the Hanrlrml. Garland mar Ida wife, nor Wintermute, dreamel and Garland' drtmiiinati4i to aeek rmat- id anch feeling on licr rt. had kej4 up ment of hi Vim- In lh ww tninlng rnrl.. J B viaiting accnuintawe with her rminertkma. luring m m ital, Mr. IWky hal arirn fr4i I Now and then Grarie ami Harry would be hailed lirraeat ami drhiy rtic.ir a nrtKl b.ldy, ly Mra. IWky, aa they were returning from an inrrjnriit, lut m4 aluetlter .IH-U-m, acliool, and fairly Vavled with del-arie fnan rurrrnce. M l.anlr!!y,lt ij1. tUiir- i ta Wintermut' jntry. Aa year after year tire Urrgr, ami. a Mi. A-rimrajr w atrial went by, ami ahe aaw no fijijajrlunity to gratify hi f flili ami hi eyr lak- i4i .iwh!r lier univaauning hate, alie fretted HMe and najre U a rile, - w lirrUI an ra.y r hair to ll-