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MARTHA’S WOOING.
(Continued from page 3.)
and was indefatigable in looking to
her own interests and, seeing that
number one came first.
When she brought the tea tray into
the pretty Rectory drawing room on
Monday afternoon, it was all a tea
tray should be; no cloud dimmed the
lustre of the silver, no spot marred
the purity of the napery or china.
Mrs. Leslie was alone, and Martha
saw and seized her opportunity.
“Please, ma’am,’’ she began, “I think
cook told you this morning that I was
going to leave to go and see my moth
er tomorrow, but I’ve changed my
mind and shan t want to go now.’’
“No bad news, I hope Martha?” mur
mured Mrs. Leslie sympathetically.
“No, ma’am, I was only going to.
take my young man on approval, but
I shan’t w 7 ant to now.”
“I didn’t know that you had a young
man. When you came, if I remember
rightly, you said you were not en
gaged nor keeping company.”
“No more, I wasn’t then, ma'am, but
I was on the lookout so to speak. My
first young man, an Austrian waiter,
had gone back to his own country
and stopped writing, and having no
address after two years, he was end
ed.”
As all good clergymen’s wives do, or
should do, Mrs. Leslie took an inter
est in her servant’s personal affairs.
“And have you found someone else?
I hope he w.ll prove satisfactory.
Hew long have you known him?” she
asked.
“Only since last Saturday night,
ma’am, about six o’clock. As to his
being satisfactory, I did think so yes
terday, but I don’t think so today.”
“Dear, dear,” ejaculated the lady,
hew fairly interested. “What has he
said or done to offend you?”
“It’s more w 7 hat he didn’t say,”
snapped Martha. “He’s one of the si
lent ones that you can’t be up to. If
it hadnt’ been so as I changed to
pass with one and another as comes
to the house today, I should have
been nicely taken in. Some said he
was a widower; others that he had
a w’ife alive, not having heard of her
death; also that he has a dead son
about seventeen, and a daughter next
him left home. And he never has
much as said a word about all this
when I walked with him on Sunday.
But I’ve sent him a letter giving him
the ‘go by.’ Plenty more fish where
he came from, better too, as they can’t
be worse. Mrs. Hall says his wife
died of consumption caught from
nursing his son. Her cfcugh was
cruel, and she hasn’t been dead three
months. He made enquiries for a
wife from the neighbors and thought
he’d got me cheap. The idea of me
marrying a man as carries on like
that! I’d sooner be in the grave with
her as was his first. And he to tell
me he’s twenty-nine!”
“He must certainly be more than
that to have children of that age.”
“Very true, ma’am, and they do say
as viewed in daylight very wrinkled;
but only having seen him in the dark
can’t say for sure. He can find a
wife where he pleases, but it won’t
be me. But there’s the Rector, ma’am.
Shall I get him some fresh tea?”
How much or how little of Martha’s
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revelations were retailed to the Rec
tor, and how they flavored his tea
concerns us not at all. It is more
important to our tale to chronicle that
at 9:30 the same evening when pray
ers had been read, Mrs. Leslie was
again addressed by Martha on the
same all absorbing subject.
“Please, ma’am, I’m sorry to trou
ble you again; but if it’s all the same
to you, Abel and I are going on ap
proval tomorrow.”
“Oh, very well,” said her mistress,
smiling. “But why have you chang
ed your mind again?”
“Well, it’s this way, ma’am,” said
Martha in her level matter of fact
tone. “My note was that cruel and
sharp it cut Hope to the heart. Up
he comes directly work was over and
asks to see me, but I sent w 7 ord to
the back door by cook, ‘No! all is over
and done; naught remains.’ He was
that upset she said it was pitiful to
see him, his sighs and groans fair
shook the woodwork of the door. I
was listening in the kitchen and
heard him. He did beg for me to
give him just five minutes, so I gave
way, knowing as we should all give
each other the chance to answer back,
besides being wishful to hear what
he had to say for himself. He began
straight off. ‘Though making all al
lowance for false information as you
may have heard, I am indeed a wid
ower Neither can I help this by
word or deed, nor can I help a dead
son and a daughter in service. If I
wasnt’ a widower why should I want
a. wife? How was I to guess you
didn’t know? You did go so straight
ahead I never had time to tell you.
But that’s neither here nor there.
Your letter has fair upset me. Oh,
to think of you and my happy home
as was to be, both gone!’ And the
poor fellow leaned against the wall,
he did tremble that bad. This was
all true, so I said ‘And how am I
to know your wife is dead, for they
say she is not buried here, if she is
at all!” At this question, Abel, he
did look very indignant like. ‘She
did go back to her mother by their
own wish, to die together, and more
convenient, too, as she had a grave
handy belonging to her own people.
But to convince you she is laid along
with them, I’ve brought you the bill
for the coffin, with the undertaker’s
receipt. Also my bank book, my
dear girl as was to be.’ His voice
shook with sobs, and I was that
moved that I looked at both. They
were quite satisfactory. Then says I,
‘How did you come by all this mon
ey?’ ‘Some was hers, and some is
my savings, but most is her insurance
money and the sons.’ ”
“I hesitated so as to keep him wait
ing a bit and then I says, ‘Well, things
seem a bit more straighter now, and
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i don’t know but what I’ll give you
a trial after all.’ Oh, he did smile,
he was that relieved and then went
on. ‘One thing your letter did strike
home in, and that was saying I was
twenty-nine; so I am but ten years
besides. I was scairt at losing you
so young and fair’ (though how he
could tell having only seen me in the
dark, I can’t think. ‘I thought you
wouldn’t care for one so much older,
but if you’ll have me you’ll never
repent it to your dying day.’ Well,
after that, he did hand me a note
from my sister to say if I did break
it off with Abel, I should either have
to keep away from their house or
meet him there, as they wouldn’t
quarrel with him if I did, for they
didn’t hold with foolish goings on.
Nor did I when I thought of the bank
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and the things downstairs that he
says he has, and if he has I will
take him on approval, and if he hasn’t
I won’t.. So that’s how it stands,
ma’am.”
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