Talbot's Angles

ely-known localities, it did not lack interest for its residents, while at the same time it provided a

pecially in matters relating to the little church, which, because it stood upon Talbot ground, had always been considered the special care of those dwelling at Talbot's Angles. The church was very old and it

, making her way through dankly green paths overgrown with woodbine, that she might reach the enclosure where dead and gone Talbots of many generations were buried. Upon a newly-sodded grave she laid her

had been scarce large enough for them all, father, mother, grandmother, two brothers, three sisters, and now all resting in the quiet churchyard, herself the youngest of them all, the only one left. She ran her hand lovingly along the corner of the pew where her mother had been wont

ooks," was true balm to her grief. She always went regularly to church, swept in late in all her swathing of crape, to take her place in the Talbot pew, and as certain suggestive looks were cast her, she returned them with a plaintive droop of the eye, and a mournful turn of

fain sit and listen to commonplaces till Grace settled herself for a nap, and then she escaped to her room. There had promised to be a stormy time over Phebe's leave-taking, but as both Linda and Lauretta brought arguments to bear upon the matter, Grace was at last made to admit that, after giving a week's notice, Phebe could n

d Jake. She was so importantly funny that Popsy, who was to fill her place, and Jake, who had long known her ways, grinned and snickered so continually, that after all, Linda's departure was not the heart-breaking

the air of one who knows her duty and intends to do it. "Of course, you remember that it

LAK AN OLE BLUE J

mer." That season was too far off to be making plans for it now when the winter m

Your room is all ready. That's it, Phebe. Fetch along the bags. I've fixed you up a place over the kitchen. It is a new experience for me to have a cook who doesn't wan

going to have you wai

arkling blue river, the harbor near by and, on the opposite shores, stretches of green farmlands. The room itself was long and low. It held an old-fashioned four-poster bed with snowy valance, a handsomely-carved mahogany bureau, a spindle-legged table with leaf set up

ure around any way that you prefer, tack up pictures, put your own belongings

a gratefully. "I can't imagine how on

, and there will be room for some of your frocks on these hooks; the rest can go in the clothes-press on the other side of the room and you can have another bureau, if you like. The trunks co

of the outside. Along the river's brink stood some little houses, where the oystermen lived; nearer, was a long building, where the oyster-packing went on. Every now and then, through the open window, came a sound of cheerful singing from the shuckers at work. Tall-masted sail-boats dipped and curtseyed upon the sapphire waters. Across the river a line of shore was misty-green in the autumn light; closer at hand a grassy slope, over which tall trees cast their shadows, stretched down to the river. One or

the kitchen. Miss Ri was looking over some photograph prints. Sh

didn't know you were an ex

n the gate. I had never seen him before and thought he must be a book-agent or some sort of trader in dustless dusters or patent flat-irons, though he was much too nice-looking for that kin

that pleased

riors, and I think they are pretty good. He didn't overcharge, and if he ha

e to say you ask

ave almost anyone rather than eat alone? He did stay a

ff with his pockets fu

he is a

ng photographs? This is interest

l the papers he needs, has gone astray, and, what is more, he was robbed of his pocketbook; so now, while he is waiting to find the trunk and until his next quarter's money comes in, he finds him

een robbed of the camera instead of the pocket-book. He strikes me

of that; and as for the trunk, it was sent by a local exp

ly surprised that you didn't offer to take him

r eye, "and if you hadn't been coming, I might have done i

. "You certainly are considerate, M

aving a mighty nice time of it. She has turned him over

there really was a

but that in time he can find enough proof to substantiate what he has told us about his claim. If only

erious stranger? I suppose he

m through the crack of the door; but he is

fessed matchmaker, Miss Ri? May

gh to make you turn your back on him

person doesn't kno

How good that dinner does smell. Phebe is the only t

Ri, that you get everythin

as been so. I found out the secret fro

secret, I

makes it a rule to want only what he can get. If you think you haven

sufficient for such a state of

ace the question. What do y

fore she said tremu

hina, in India, wouldn't you still have him? Even if he were in some unreachable place like the South Pole, he

metimes I am afr

uld have told you.' Even the greatest scoffer among us must admit th

saw it that way before. Is it that, Miss Ri, that keeps you almost always so bright and hap

her reason," returned Miss Ri, unwi

t is the

ols," replied Miss Ri with a laugh. "Of course, I

the door. "Miss Ri, I cain't find

ack yard. Randy certainly has a temper, for all she is so slow in other ways. Come along, Verlinda; I promised to show you that old wine-cooler we were talking about the other day. I found it down cellar, when the men were clearing out the tra

ainly curious enough. I do love this room, with all this beautiful

se the things, so they keep bright. Let us see about the potato-masher; Phebe's found