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He lived on the South Side, and the distance between his home and that of the Cresslers was very considerable. It was seldom, however, that Jadwin did not drive over. He came in his double-seated buggy, his negro coachman beside him the two coach dogs, "Rex" and "Rox," trotting under the rear axle.
He contrived to meet her everywhere, and even had the Cresslers and Laura over to his mission Sunday-school for the Easter festival, an occasion of which Laura carried away a confused recollection of enormous canvas mottoes, sheaves of lilies, imitation bells of tinfoil, revival hymns vociferated from seven hundred distended mouths, and through it all the smell of poverty, the odour of uncleanliness, that mingled strangely with the perfume of the lilies.
For the fifth time during the piece the soprano fainted into the arms of her long-suffering confidante. The audience, suddenly remembering hats and wraps, bestirred itself, and many parties were already upon their feet and filing out at the time the curtain fell. The Cresslers and their friends were among the last to regain the vestibule.
He always called the time of the trip from the buggy at the Cresslers' horse block, his stop watch in his hand, and, as he joined the groups upon the steps, he was almost sure to remark: "Tugs were loose all the way from the river. They pulled the whole rig by the reins. My hands are about dislocated." Cressler as the young girl laid down her mandolin. "I hope J. does come to-night," she added.
She did not choose to put into words the fact that for three days with the exception of an hour or two, on the evening after that horrible day of her visit to the Cresslers' house she had seen nothing of her husband. He says that it is the greatest fight in the history of La Salle Street. Has Mr. Jadwin, said anything to you? Is he going to win?"
She even managed to get him away from the others, and the two, leaving the rest upon the steps, sat in the parlour of the Cresslers' house, talking. By and by Laura, full of her projects, exclaimed: "Where shall we go?
Laura Dearborn's native town was Barrington, in Massachusetts. The mother had died long before, and of all their relations, Aunt Wess, who lived at Chicago, alone remained. It was at the entreaties of Aunt Wess and of their dearest friends, the Cresslers, that the two girls decided to live with their aunt in Chicago.
Court, 'Landry'? I remember he always impressed me as though he had just had his hair cut; and the Cresslers, and Mrs. Wessels, and " "All well. Mrs. Cressler will be delighted to hear you are back. Yes, everybody is well." "And, last of all, Mrs. Jadwin? But I needn't ask; I can see how well and happy you are." "And Mr. Corthell," she queried, "is also well and happy?" "Mr.
Almost every evening nowadays the Dearborn girls came thus to visit with the Cresslers. Every day of the warm weather seemed only to increase the beauty of the two sisters.
No one seemed ready to act upon Laura's suggestion, and again the minutes passed. "I'm going," declared Laura again, looking at the other two, as if to demand what they had to say against the idea. "Well," continued Laura, "I'll wait just three minutes more, and then if the Cresslers are not here I will speak to him. It seems to me to be perfectly natural, and not at all bold."
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