Mary Minds Her Business

lia one morning, "have y

, her eyes a little brighte

er voice dropping to a whisper, "I'm

ll as I do-there has never been a

we-stricken eyes, and then their arms went around each o

s," said Cordelia, "and the family dies with us. Even if you

ee on those who had repented too late and stood looking through St. P

ty-eight," si

-I am

w for a time their pens were forgotten and they sat looking at each other over the gatelegged table which served as desk. They were still both remarkably good-looking, though marked with that delicacy of material and workmanship-remini

most breathlessly, each suddenly moved by the same

it was Cordelia wh

tty

Patty, and left her

e is fifty-two-but it seems to me that one of the Spicers-I think it was Captain A

Babcock, father-in-law of the Third Josiah Spencer, who h

e two maiden sisters, like two cons

iah a young wife-" sa

thed Patty, "if, ind

really how

wo elderly gentlemen with young wives-but no children!)-the almost immediate resumption of the quest because of Josiah's failing health-and finally then the reward of patience, the pious nudge one Sunday morning in church, the whispered "

her brother and was now staying with the Pearsons a few weeks before returning west. Her age was twenty-six

rs!" asked Miss Cordelia, with

s and five sisters

ght be said that M

married?" s

but

n to say that they have m

ard look which generally ac

een times," she fi

, the two sisters fairly

ss Cordelia, "I'm sure