Charles
was an artist; he went to Paris to study about thirty-five years ago.
From there he went to London. Some thirty years ago Robert got a letter
from him in which he said he was going to return to America. Robert
waited, but he did not come; then he wrote again to his English address,
but the letter was returned with the words 'Gone to America' endorsed
thereon."
"Was he married?" inquired Quincy.
"Robert never knew," said Aunt Ella, "but he imagined not, as Charlie,
as he called him, never spoke in his letters of being in love, much less
of being married."
Quincy caught the three o'clock train to Eastborough Centre, and Ellis
Smith, another son of 'Bias Smith, who had taken the hotel carriage in
place of his brother Abbott, drove him home.
A few days thereafter invitations to the wedding of Ezekiel Pettengill
and Hulda Ann Mason were sent broadcast through Eastborough Centre, West
Eastborough, Mason's Corner, and Montrose. Then it was decided by the
gossips that Ezekiel was going to have Mr. Sawyer and Hiram Maxwell and
Sam Hill to stand up with him, while Huldy Ann was going to have Alice
Pettengill, Mandy Skinner, and Tilly James as bridesmaids.
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