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Leekins startled the meeting by ejaculating: "Lands alive!" The meeting was demoralized; the sisters hastened to the window, and the good pastor, laying down his hymn-book, followed in time to see Crewne helping out a well-dressed and apparently young and handsome lady. "Hardhack girls not good 'nough for him, it seems!" sneered Mrs. Leekins.
Leekins had spoken truly, for there sat Crewne with a pleasant smile on his face, while on top of the stage were several large trunks marked C. "Must have got a handsome fit-out," suggested Mrs. Leekins. The stage stopped at the door of Crewne's new cottage, and Crewne got out. The pastor entered the parlor to open the meeting, and was selecting a hymn, when Mrs.
One afternoon, when the pious matrons of Hardhack were gathering at the pastor's residence to take part in the regular weekly mothers' prayer-meeting, the mail-coach rolled into town, and Mrs. Leekins, who was sitting by the window, as she always did, exclaimed: "He's come back there he is on the seat with the driver!" Every one hurried to the window, and saw that Mrs.
Leekins was unable to tell, or even to guess. The clerks at the store had been thoroughly pumped; but while they admitted that one young lady had purchased an unusual quantity of inserting, another had ordered a dress pattern of gray empress cloth, which was that year the fashionable material and color for traveling dresses. Old Mrs.
A resigned and sympathetic sigh broke from the motherly lips present, then Mrs. Leekins cried: "Gracious sakes! married a widder with children!" It certainly seemed that she told the truth, for Crewne lifted out two children, the youngest of whom seemed not more than three years old. The gazers abruptly left the window, and the general tone of the meeting was that of melancholy resignation.
"I have seen others manifest an interest in Crewne's affairs, and the result was discouraging. I'd rather not try the experiment." A few mornings later Mrs. Leekins, who took the place of a newspaper at Hardhack, was seen hurrying from house to house on her own street, and such housekeepers as saw her instantly discovered that errands must be made to houses directly in Mrs. Leekins's route. Mrs.
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