Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1885 — Working in the Dark. [ARTICLE]

Working in the Dark.

“Ma and I,” she said shyly, “are more like sisters than mother and daughter.” “Yes,” he said with a lingering inflection on the afterguard of his “yes,” which rose clear to the ceiling. “Yes, indeed,” said the girl, with a rosy flush on her cheeks making her; infinitely more beautiful than ever. “Ma and I are inseperable. We have never been separated a singie day since I was a little baby.” “N-no?” he said, this with an inflection on the second of “no” that went only half way to the ceiling and back again. <{ “O dear, no,” the girl went on in her artless way, “and ma always said that when I wa» married she was going to 10, e my husband like her own son and come and keep house for us.” “Oh-h!” said William with a circumflex. Th »n he rose up slowly and firmly, and said that he had a note in bank to take up at 3 o’clock; as it was now half-past 9, he would go. And he did go. And he didn’t come back again. Not never. And ma said to the girl: “That’s where you missed it in not fully trusting your mother.— Why didn’t you tell me that man had been married before? Had I known he was a widower, I would have played the diorne for old women’ racket on him.”—San Francisco Alto.