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Updated: May 25, 2025
Sparrell and the youngest Miss Piper were gone; and when they at last reached the highroad, they were astounded to hear from a passing teamster that no one in the settlement knew anything of the disaster! This was the last drop in their cup of bitterness!
Some hilarity was occasioned by the mischievous Miss "Georgy" Piper declaring, when it came to her turn, that she was "pinin'" for a look at the face of Tom Sparrell just now! In this local trifling two hours passed, until the party sat down to the long-looked for repast. It was here that the health of Judge Piper was neatly proposed by the editor of the "Argus."
The response and joyful explanation, "for a dam across the trail," was on everybody's lips at the same time. But the strokes of the axe were slow and painfully intermittent. Impatience burst out. "Yell to him to hurry up! Why haven't they brought two men?" "It's only one man," shouted the captain, "and he seems to be a cripple. By Jiminy! it is yes! it's Tom Sparrell!" There was a dead silence.
And really a later comparison of the family records shows that while Captain Fairfax remained "Captain Fairfax," and the other sons-in-law did not advance proportionately in standing or riches, the lame storekeeper of Red Gulch became the Hon. Senator Tom Sparrell.
Why should she now degrade the family by marrying a country storekeeper? It is said that here the youngest Miss Piper made a memorable reply, and a revelation the truth of which was never gainsaid: "You all wanter know why I'm going to marry Tom Sparrell?" she queried, standing up and facing the whole family circle. "Yes."
But there's my family up at Cottonwood and they must eat. They're that low that they expect me to waste my time getting food for 'em here, instead of drinking in the First Principles of the Grocery." "Geology," suggested Sparrell blandly. "The history of rock formation."
We have a fair quality of oil-cake and corn-cobs in stock, at reduced figures. But the canned provisions were for your own family." Sparrell; it's better than minstrels or a circus. I suppose you get it outer that book," indicating the concealed volume. "What do you call it?"
It was said that there was a stormy scene in the Piper household that evening. The judge had demanded that Delaware should break off her acquaintance with Sparrell, and she had refused; the judge had demanded of Sparrell's employer that he should discharge him, and had been met with the astounding information that Sparrell was already a silent partner in the concern.
Others pretended to discover near a woodman's hut, among the belt of pines at the top of the descending trail, the peeping figure of the ridiculous and envious Sparrell. But all this was presently forgotten in the actual festivity.
Tom Sparrell and Miss Delaware were enjoying a "pasear" in the forest he having a half-holiday by virtue of the festival and that the earthquake had revived his fears of a catastrophe. The two had procured axes in the woodman's hut and did what they thought was necessary to relieve the situation of the picnickers.
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