Price, with a frank laugh.
"Or ef they was dead," continued Spindler.
"They couldn't all be dead," said the widow cheerfully.
"I've written to another cousin by marriage," said Spindler dubiously,
"in case of accident; I didn't think of him before, because he was
rich."
"And have you ever seen him either, Mr. Spindler?" asked the widow, with
a slight mischievousness.
"Lordy! No!" he responded, with unaffected concern.
Only one mistake was made by Mrs. Price in her arrangements for the
party. She had noticed what the simple-minded Spindler could never have
conceived,--the feeling towards him held by his old associates, and had
tactfully suggested that a general invitation should be extended to them
in the evening.
"You can have refreshments, you know, too, after the dinner, and games
and music."
"But," said the unsophisticated host, "won't the boys think I'm playing
it rather low down on them, so to speak, givin' 'em a kind o' second
table, as ef it was the tailings after a strike?"
"Nonsense," said Mrs.
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