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JAS. B. WEST, 100th Pa., Oct. 13. 1862; First Lt, Feb. 28, 1863. HARRY C. WEST, 100th Pa., Oct 13, 1862; Resigned, Nov. 4, 1864. E. C. MERRIAM, 8th Me., Nov. 17, 1862; First Lt., Nov. 19, 1863. CHAS. E. PARKER, 8th Me., Nov. 17, 1862; First Lt, Aug. 26, 1863. C. W. HOOPER, N. Y. Vol. Eng., Feb. 17, 1863; First Lt, April 15, 1863. N. G. PARKER, 1st Mass. Cavalry, March, 1863; First Lt, May 5, 1863.
This was how it happened that she was sitting at the rear of the room when Edward Watkins came in, looked searchingly over the audience and then slipped into a chair beside her. "Miss Merriam not here?" he murmured under cover of a duet that Dorothy and Della were playing on the piano. "No." "Do you know why she won't speak to me?" Ethel Blue fairly trembled. What was she to say?
The two girls talked about the news in low, horrified tones on the way back to Dorothy's, and down they sat, prepared not only to amuse Elisabeth but to amuse her until the return of Miss Merriam, no matter how late that proved to be. It seemed an eternity but it was only half past five when she and Mrs. Smith came back. The Ethels sat before the fire in the sitting room like judges on the bench.
"Count my guineas?" cried Miss Merriam. "Certainly they're your guineas. You're a direct descendant of Algernon and Patience. The bag and its contents belong to you." Gertrude stared at Mr. Emerson as if she could not understand him. "Mine?" she repeated, "mine?" but when Mr.
MacGill, after sampling the impromptu dessert, assured his hostess that her husband's eulogy had been only too moderate. He vowed he had never eaten such apple sauce. But Mrs. Merriam still looked bleak. She knew she could make a better deep-dish peach pie than Mrs. Allen could. And, then, to give the minister apple sauce and nabiscos! the first time he had eaten at her table in two months!
It also does much good in destroying insects in the early summer, the young birds being fed almost entirely on insect food until they are grown. Of the crow, Doctor Merriam, who is at the head of this branch of work in the Department of Agriculture, says, "Instead of being an enemy of the farmer, as is generally believed, the crow is one of his best friends and the protector of his crops.
She will blame me for it, and she will be right, for it would have been very well for me to drive up in a shabby station carryall; but an invited guest " "No, indeed, she shall not blame you, Miss Shirley. I will make a point of taking the whole responsibility. I will tell her " "Mr. Merriam!" she cried, in anguish. "Will you please do nothing of the kind? Do you want to make bad worse?
"It isn't necessary, thank you, and I don't think Cousin Evelina would approve," she replied, primly; and her light dress fluttered away into the dusk and out of sight like the pale wing of a moth. Poor Thomas Merriam walked on with his head in a turmoil. His heart beat loud in his ears.
Her love for Merriam was not lessened; but it now appeared a hopeless and unrealizable thing. The visions of their future that had seemed so blissful and complete had vanished. She tried to assure herself that her renunciation was rather for his sake than for her own. Now that she was cleared of her burden at least, technically would not his own weigh too heavily upon him?
And Going obeyed, Merriam and Kimbark following, the new broker fairly throwing the wheat at them in thousand-bushel lots. "Sell May at 'fifty; sell May; sell May." A moment's indecision, an instant's hesitation, the first faint suggestion of weakness, and the market would have broken under them.
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