STRANGE HOW IT GOT OUT.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 305, 13 November 1883, Page 6

STRANGE HOW IT GOT OUT.

OTE VILLAOfc &SCBET *THAT KO okrf ' AXD KO ONE TOLD, „,,. . « oh i %vthe \»*y=y ;toaimci-iW iM* ; wtung, Buddenl7lchangi^gthe,conwr»atioo» . ! 'you^n^stha^.^^aring.giri;/ TOI, ..her }1! .... brother, lie that was sent to State prison four, ' . i>r five' years' ago, is' out, ' f «iw l them to?' : ' l gether .just now; i Ido hope that nnbddy W] ! - 1 ?' knowthat he?3 r bee)i in priponyfpr.his ßister** ! ; = : >* a real good girl, and uhA dreadfully; taaAvp* thWTom 'lido well ; 'and ofbuneft ft gets, . ' pUt, you k'no^'tfiaihVg l jadt'oat'oSE'pflaon', ' it'll be alriiost impossible for him to get any* • - thing^o do.,i jßotj taercj?l look at thatclopk! , •»!) I declare I- didn't, know; I'd, been here so- long. ....;, Gctod-by, Mrs &mitti'; now do call, won't ' you?" ■' : •"■= i ."*:•• y-.--'mf/^'- f „ ( lira.' Intobertungi ! is" nefcfc *dtfnd > tit- Mrs > < -1 Brown's* .-• >:■•<•» • '■:;; ■■; .titf i. '»< V : -ni -'"Oh.! that reminds, me,!" Bhe.;Saj^ inter? . ■„ rtfpting Mrs] Brown. > You know; that* Flos-;' \ siug fellbw who got into trouble 'and wa^ sent' °<v tq State Pribonf?. Yds? Well, he's <*ht;" H« ;- « looks as though he wanted 10 do right now, and I hope for hb^isrer V sake, if not for bis own, that nobody will mention anything about his paflt life. It ought to be kepi secret. Both of em hare suffered enough, the land : knows." '. -•-. -fr --.-«.? ■.'; ■'•■■ ■■«." • '.' Mrs. Brown, promises not ftp say anything . . ; about it, and Mrs L^mber£angjjoe#, put. X)a , . „ the street a block or two away she moeta 'M ro ' ' Jones..'- 1 v" ' -" '!' "'■ ■ '-'• '''■'■' '■'' '■""■' " Why, h>w do yon do, Mn Jones h What a • : • « stranger, yoii are! I have-got sonie new* for. , jm. Fanny 'JFtosfpgTßroth^^ got. r home— ,,... whatl you never heard "of t&rf^ssihg'e f That's funny; I thought eVerybo^lySfoefltJ^ them. Well,' you see, Fanny's brother' Ibm> r " stole a lot. of money, foar or five years, ago— - ; •, . ; yes, and he got taken ;np and had t<£~g° *9 prison— strange you never Heard of 'it li— a'jid ilfauny's worried herself almost • to? dc^th ' ' about him— Fanny ia that pale looking girl ■••' < in a chip hat ypn saw mo talking, wtti this raornipg^and.,she:sayai^Bhe J c»n.onl^ keep, j..---it from getting out— it' would b« awful, you ' V know, if folks'should find but thsit' there's' a State prison : bird in thd village- she- hopey' ■ - ■ T.om '11 get something to, do. > I pity her aw- i - fully, and I .would not lisp it tp. a soul, would . . y° u? " . - ■>'. '•"■ "'■> ; / •••■•', •' ■ -"i Mrs liimbef tting, ih : the course 'of the ". ' \ [afternoon 1 , meets or risits " pei^Ujw 1 a score'"* 1 ojt her acquaintances, and to . «very \ one- shs •:.••.• relates tke story , of the FlQssiugs, and re? , /r . 'peats the hope that it . won'i; get put| ,The ' story and the' hope *re' "carried ioio f: ihe, grocer's and the butchers, and the hope and " : the story are left with the; baker: and the dry : goods dealer, and when Mrs Limbpi^ung lies - down to sleep tnat night her, las^ though ti \, 'are upon the Floaoinge, and her last hopf ere, slumber overpowers her is that ! " i* Won'i get out.!' ; = *, :.. ..■ „• ,m ...' ...,-■ t . r^«, -,h A' day ' or t^yq letter she. meets, Miss .Flossing;. _ , "Why,, what;* .the , matter^ f'annjf^.iihe exclaims. "How pale you 100k 1 J And,; I ' declare! if you'havh'fbeenbryitig'T'- ' ''■"■"-- i r "tean'thelp it !" ! says-. Jfantiyv iwakiagPh outapew.; "PodrTom-!! 1 ;, . , .-.. ?,. .. -.;". .:, ",'* ' " Why, what's happened ?" . -. »_ !t " Nothing, onht I've trted. and . tried. ?'and • Tom's tWed/'fyoßjttfe ;ii*f -nb . Will' Hire him. ■"> 'Somebody/'ha* "• been^&toWL&x:? anditbia everybody; about; him, an.d. l i^B;#tt^;", Use, it|s.flo use-V'.i And Fanny's, r tear» fiill.y ! thick; and fast. ' •••-•' • -•■■ * • °-li*a 'posjti^ly' shiaineful I 1 ; exdlainis'Mrs ; ' liimberiung,minglh^'her tears -with Fanny's ; i-: .f' that!? what l^call it^ pcajtively' ri^weifuJU 1. » X wo^er .-w.hp could hayo the hetirt,.to dp.. |lf : auci a thing £ y t iif as In hojjes tW nobody would' 1/ekr ' anything ' abbiif 'it' j and 1' did ' ,hope that Tom would do well—aiid I Jlcnow i-> he will, if- he's given. half a> ehance.lr, r i jl/ AndMra Limbßrk^ng. v ki3seß .,Fanny p and, • againtelis her to cheer- up, before saying •gbodibyei ''Y 5 ' 1 '■■■ 1 j -'-^"-;" 1 : , •-" ; Mrs Limbertung goes down the street 1 won» ! ; dering who coald have told it,; at'tjbhsrisamei. , ; ; time : : hopiug— and sincerely, . f hop^gj— tha|i poor Tom will get a place, and .Fanny; and ha* . j--Will live "real happy " together. "■'■'■ - f ( :ifL :- But for the life ot'htt' she > can't think^'f " how it got out." — ' Boston Transcripti 1 1 , ■■■ . X