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

pula

perhaps, that we

ll," she said at last, "I must confess we were looking for an