Mary Minds Her Business
and grew,
her aversion to Un
r father. He carried a walking stick, sported a white edging on his waistcoat and had just
she thought, missi
my daughter, have
ung man with a brilliant smil
iah when he had left. "He's just through coll
she looked for Burdon and watched him with an i
ost as well as she knew the house on the hill. Not only that but she could have told you most
, one night she asked her fathe
id Josiah, "gen
she not only kept her eyes
r patience w
ch they were passing. Mary stopped her father and
said she, "ge
him he heard a whisper, "Chip of the old block," he couldn't repress th
Mary liked to watch the builders. She often noticed a
the foreman. His name, she learned, was Archey Forbes, his father was the foreman, and when he grew up he was going to be
happened, Aunt Patty paid a weekly call to the injured man un
isits-which was a part of the family training-a
ne Saturday morning, breaking a long silence,
asked Mis
our she had been comparing the lives of the men in
, "and everything is made nice for him. But his wife at
start with her father down the hill a few minutes later. "A
said Miss
letely with old people. When everything i
her so much if we s
inking of sendin
was quiet
last, "whom she could play with, and talk with-some one
wo Miss Spencers for nearly a year, and then it was s
leaving a daughter behind him-an orphan-who was a year older than Mary. Correspondence finally led Miss Patty to make the j
n Helen. She is going to make us a long visit,
ch other. Then in her shy
tead. That evening they exchanged confidences and when Miss Cordelia
ally inquired Miss Cordelia, making
I had a beau, and
what did
g the matter with the boys around
d t
l bet you I'll soon find
in and we h
s looking thoughtful and spoke
m," she said, "and what do you
ied Miss Cordelia in
ographs of
u had been there you would have seen that if they had held fan
of this-in Charleston?" as
I heard she was very p
ular'
perhaps, that we
l," she said at last, "I must confess we were looking for an a