The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume], January 16, 1886, English, Image 4

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St )t tZIjibriiau* Sentinel
SAT U HD AY, JAN. 1«, 1886.
BETSY B LI YEN.
'•Ye*.'' said Betsy Blivcn, "I'm a
Maine gu ! ; I calculate liiat. I cnu earn
mj own living if anybody can."
Mias B iviMi was tall, elect nnd com
posed. She bad seen the world, and
•be wasn't afiaid of it.
"But to think ot a Bliven going not
•a a hired girl !" said Mrs. Midget, a
feeble, pink eyed little woman with
ehtotdc eatai'tli and a dejected smtlie,
who bad been born Matilda Bliven.
•od attached superstitious respect t <
(be name.
"What's the odd* t" said Betsey.
"I'*e got my living to earn, and I
naan to earn it.. Now, you, Tilda.'
with n c-uupassiouate glance at the
pink eyed aristocrat, you're made to
work without any wtigea, juat lor tin*
satisfaction of being called Mra !'' And
Betsey poked up lier bug, shouldered
her umbiella and stalked out to meet
(he stage, whose rumbling wheels were
jast beginning to sound upon the road
like distant thunder.
Miss Btiven had visited a Boston in
telligeuce bureau, and there they hud
obtained tor licr the address of a house
in tha northern part of the State whsie
a reliable gut was wanted in the c«l»a
oity ot table waitiess nud chamber
■aid.
"Wages ?" demuuded Betsy.
"Fourteen doliais.'' leplied the gen
(leuiaiiiy cle.ik, who was smiling be
hind the high desk.
"Privileges f" again questioned the
young woman.
"A whole day to yourself every
■south, and every other Suuday ufter
Boou," replied the man.
"Any other girls kept 1" inquired
Miss Bliven.
"Four,'' said ihe mail, complacently.
"Humph !" commented Betsey,
"Family laige ?"
"Well^rather," admitted the man.
f*Aud the situation is very louely. uud
•o—"
"I don'i care anything about that
quickly interrupted Betsay. "I'd as
•oou keep house for a hermit, or go
on a desert island. I'm not very youug
and I've no followers. Let me see—
Grand Trunk railroad to Black Gorge,
atsge coach to Bleak hall—yes, I've
got the directions all written down."
Betsey paid her fee, took her card,
and creaked out ot the room in a pair
of new calfskin boots.
Miss Bliven traveled comfortably.
8he carried her lunch in a splint bas
ket, and ate comfortably on the road ,
•he beguiled the lagging hours with a
newspaper, and was not very tired
when at last the conductor flung open
the car door, and yelled out, at the top
of a stentorian pair of lungs—
"Black Gorge !'' And Miss Betsey
found herself standing on the platform
oorrouoded by the dark, pine woods,
"Where's the stage T" she asked.
"Lady f >r Bleak hall t" inquired an
insinuating voice close to her ear,
The next minute she found herself
lifted politely into a close, dark wag
tail with leather cushioned seats,
"Where are the others 1" inquired
the driver.
"What others 1 ''asked Miss Bliveu.
"The two gentlemen who were to
come with you, madam,"
"There were none," said Miss Bliv
ob, "I came alone !"
"Alone!" exclaimed the driver,
fianeing uneasily aiound thorn. "All
(be way from Boston !"
"Yes, all tho way from Boston
•aid Miss Betsey, a little impatiently,
"Why shouldn't I ! You don't suppose
I needed keepers do you ?"
"Oh, no, mum ; certainly not,"
promptly responded the man as he
dlimbed into his seat and took the
reins.
He drove circumspectly along a lone
lj road, Miss Bliveu observed, up to
the very door of a dark stone house
kedged about with funeral-looking
spruces and cedars, as Betsey could
discern, in the star-sprinkled darkness,
aad a narrow door was opened.
"I've brought her said the driver to a
respectable looking man in black
whom Betsey at once concluded to be
tke butler, "all alone."
"Alone ! Bless my aonl cried the
nan- "I hope you didn't have any
trouble f"
"None it} the least," said the driver;
i
'
"she is quiet as a lamb ''
•Well, I n**vsr 1'* said Miss Bliveu
tu herself. "Du they take me fur a ra
ging lioness, 1 wonder t' }
In an in»tnut her aiim was drawn
ibiougb that of the respectable man iu
black, and she was conducted along a
i dark, stout--paved passage, lighted >•*
' ly by a twinging lamp that hung above
their heads.
'•Veiy polite they are here. I must
say," thought Miss Belacy, to herself.
B it the idea was scarcely fumed in
her mind when she touiul hei&oif push
eil geiiuy. but suddenly into a smnl
stone-paved loom with circula/ wall
windows high above her leach, and
tile SC'itlllesl allowance of full!
lulin a in .i zj hi cut,
was accosting he
the polite butler
through a grated
111 Al. .
"Eh !', jruid Betsey, '-what's this q
Let me out, will you 1 '
••Quiet..n.t'atu, quiet. Th it's a dear?'
said ilie iexpectable personage. "You
shall have some sup per directly if only
you >viil compose yourself."
"But 1 w.mt to get out." said Betsey,
ratlliug at the dour.
"Quiet, quiet 1" soothed the tutu.
"Don't excite yourself !"
"What on earth is the neaniug of
this?" said the bewildered woman
from Maine.
"Now, pray, be calm," said the but
ler. "Quiet—that's the way.''
"But 1 won't be quiet!" said Miss
Betsey. "I'll shout lor help. What
have I*- to be shut up likes prison
er and a mad woman t"
"Geutly, gently.'' urged the respect
able man iu black. "Jonas; I'm afraid
you'll hate to bring the straight jack
et ! '
"The straight jacket !'' And Miss
Bliveu dropped down on the little
stone beach that was screwed against
the wall. Was impossible that they
believed her to be mad !
"Slop !" she said, trying to calm the
wild, incessant beatiugs of her heart.
• Don t put on that lihug. I will be
quiet.'
"That's a dear soul! 1 said .the man,
in caressing accents, as if he were rea
soning with a fractious infant. "It's a
deal the most sensible thing you cun
do."
- But there's some mistake here,"
pleaded poor Betsey, on whose brow,
iu spite of the chilliness of the night,
great drops of perspiratiou had brok
eu out. Tin uot mud !"
"No, no." said the man, ''of course
not ; you shall have some tea directly,
and a slice of dry toast, apd-"
"Brousou," called out a clear, dis
tinct voice, 'you're wanted. Where
are you ? What are yon doing 1"
-I'm with the new patient, sir," ans
wered the respectable uian. "She's
quieting down very fast, aud——
"What's the man talking about?"
interrupted the voice, shrill, sharper
and more distinct than ever. "The
new patient has just come, by special
couveyauce from Warreuton."
-But then who is this 1" gasped the
respectable mao.
-I'm Betsey Bliven," said our heroi
ne. "Let me out, I say ! Betsey Bliv
eu, from Maine, I'm the new waitress
and chambermaid, at $14 a month,
aud you're taken me for a mad wo
man !"
"Hush—hush—ah ! for heaven's
sake!" said the respectable mao in
black, as he made haste to unlock the
door. "Nobody is aad here—only a
little peculiar. I'm snre, ma'am. I beg
your pardon, bat we are expecting a
Mrs. Laniarqnt, from i ortlaud/—aud
yon correspond almost exactly with the
description— and then we didn't know
that the new waitress would be here na
til to mo,vow, and Mrs. Lamarqne is
subject to dangeious tarns, and—.and I
hope,ma'am yon won't mention this tc.
the superintendent t"
"No, I won't," said Betsey, with a
grim chuckle, for she was beginning to
■ee thelhamor of the ^tiling now. "So
this is a—mad house, eh V
"It's a private retreat," said the re
spectable man. "Very select and excln
sive, I'll introduce yon to ,the house
keeper at once, ma'am, if you'll step
thiB way. Yon will find her a most la
dy-like person."
"She ain't mad, is she?" asked Bet
sey.
" Not at all," answered the man, rath
er shortly,
"Ah," said Betsey, "I didn't know
but everybody in this establishment
was a little cracked in the upper story,
You must be or you never would have
taken me for one of yourselves!''
To which taunt the respectable rani
had no answer prepared on the spur of
the moment.
Three meiiths later Milts Betsey Bliv
eu wrote to her cousin, Mrs. Midget. :
,,1'lH ill H Iliad lull!
Mat
hi.
da.
my
dear," slu- ex jin-— etl
lid sell
*'.4
.i!
e.rl
ly. except foi i ii- iu
in.. 1
tin
1
vi y
tbiug veiy nic^
nml <<
'in
ni la
Lie.
We're very :ii
ii mi 1
hr
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bud society hr.,- a
......I'd
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po
urn
and mm e cei .-iil >u>.i
h tnan
i
is
mil
side tlie walls. An
t 1 slip
r'U
'■
mil
say that I'm a- mail
MK 1 !,e
i.l«
es
and
gentlemen 1 wait on, wlu-n
1
tell
ymi
fhaf I'm cugng d •
lie mill
jet
In
Mr.
Iiubcuck. the lif ii
keeper
>111
I'm
getting pm mil to
tisane
pie.
it ml
really I see my way
ft- II' to
du
mg
nme
gund III llie \vm Id it
1 CO.iCi
nil
to
slay
here permanently.''
.So Mi.-s Blivi-n found ilit- place :i life
long benefice, mid whin Mi>. Midget
was asked by the miisinhuud. "What
has become of Betsey ? ' -lie was woui
to answer, in a uasnl whine :
"Poor dear ! She's gone into a luna
tio asylum, and slip's man ini the head
keepei ; and I don't know but it is as
bad us being crazy one's self. But Bet
sey seems to like it. Betsey always
wus peculiar.''—The Companion.
I had to comb back tin* hair from
my foichcad and omit the parting
to conceal my baldness. Since then
Parker's Hair Balsa in, has made
tuy bait as thick and glossy a < ever
Ladies whose hair is getting thin
will find the Balsam just splendid
Mary Swanson, Chicago.
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