New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-07


II wonder if any of the windows" they
were French windows, opening to the
grOund) care OpenP said her companion
trying them.
20, we mustn't go in, said Bessy.
very well.'
'But the splashing is spelling my dress;
don't you sect and my boots will be wet
| through" pleaded the inconsistent one.
Then go in, said poor James Wymper
opening window, ''and / will run round
and make it all right with the people in
charge
In ten minutes he reioined her, saying
that it was all right.
'What pretty room y she said, looking
at herself in the pierglass ibid you ever
know a girl to enter a strange room with
out going straight up to the glass y
"Hum-m, yes" he replied: ''but the fell
low who built it was an ass Why, you
have TO twist your neck to get view of
the river from these thingsn-with con-
temptuous kick toward the French win
dows. Ii l had it, I'd knock that vernan
da into a cooked hat, break out a big bow
in the middle, and then it would be some
| thing like"
20, you'd work wonders, dare say" she
| said; rather Grossly; "Only it would be as
| well toward getting house of your own
| before you think Of improving other PEG,
! ple's."
at ,gould be nice to have house of ones
own" said he, particularly"
"Well, 90 on"
Particularly if it had a bow window
''James Wymper y
"And pretty meadow for picnics but
] suppose it would not do to give people
leave to picnic on ones grounds |"
'Why nOtp
"Wonld that not be becoming good-na-
tured ~
Il did not mean that sort of good ma
ture."
''If l had fine house and grounds like
this, / might be good natured then 2"
"lts no use arguing with you," she re-
piled sharply. "Is it ever going to leave off
Our picnic viii be quite spoiled
"Never mind; wen have another soon.
dare say Sam will send me some money"
care you not ashamed of yourself. James
Wymper, to take money like beggar - she
said with flashing eyes
20, don't take it like beggar."
eyes, you do"
mo- / don't"
"a man who takes money that he does
not earn, takes it like beggar-there -
WHO told you / take money / do not
earn 2"
"Of course you can not earn it,"
why of course 2"
What a plague you areI What do you
do to earn it %
Nothing now"
What have you ever done {"
'"LOts of things"
do you mean to say that this person you
call Sam really owes you mOney2' She
came quickly to his side as she spoke, and
laid her hand OF his arm.
''Yes, he does"
What fOr?"
.'Formy share of what we did at Chicago"
That could not have been much"
what ?"
"Your share"
Sam saysit was half; Sans generally
right"
4'Where is ChicagoE'
'Well, now, that is good You don't
know where Chicago is, and you're clever.
know"
"Of course when you've been there"
That's true" he replied, after reflection.
did you really get your living there!"
Yes, did"
"Then 90 back. o James do-do 20 back.
| can't bear to see you as you are-depend- |
emit and looked down on. o, do go back, |
and work like man. l suppose it is be- |
cause we women are so dependent that we |
prize and honor independence For me /
there is nothing so contemplate as a strong
man who isidle and cOntented. Go back |
to Chicago. shall be sorry to lose you,
and you have been very kind to me; but
don't you know, can't you imagine, how
happy, how glorious it must be to strive
and conquer; to stand erect before the
world, owing nothing but to God and your
honest labor"
=" can, l do = he cried, starting up. cit
s glorious. Do gols know, can you imagine,
what it is to have people despising. you as a
O1l-an ineapable-and yet to feel here" |
a Tna Givynf, n1,no1 Hr,, |
that you were wrOnged, that you had not
air play ToMRel knowledge, invention,
lower, coming growing burning in your
lraln-to see the ideas thus born forming
themselves under your hands, and to KNOW
hat they were right and sOund-tO make
hose who came to scof, stay to praise
'or this" hesadded, in lower voice,
'am Thacker.p
Now, When Bessy Jervoice had her say,
Is above recorded, and, piqued by surprise
nd excitement and perhaps by something |
Use, had said more than a well-reguIated |
oung lady ought to say, she naturally sat
own and cried; but wonderstruek at the
she had evOked-a response which
rev more astonishing, more fervid as it
slowly raised her eyes, and |
here, before her, stood James Wymper
he had never seen before. Not a Door |
ames Wymper in any sense of the term. I
he cuTate was right, and the magnificent ]
cad, its features lit up with pride and
7ell it must Out-love was sight to see.
Forgive me,' he said, taking her trem-
ling hand. 'tor having played part 1t
ras Sam Hackers doing. Said SAM 'you 7
0 back rich man among those cusses"
Sam is a regular Yankee, you knowl and
ley'n just crawl over you and suck your
itals; you sham poor and stupid, and you'll '
BON see who's who" Ahy Bessy, how kind ,
on were to me at first. Am | wrong in
mixing, in hoping, that what was not SO
ind lately was meant for my good !''
40, but how unfair-hOw-" :
ScOld me presently, but hear my story. q
ran away from Manchester because /
1t dimly that l could improve and invent
lings if / had a chance; but was awk- t
ard with my hands. / could not draw, i
,uld not plan. l was not ready with nv :
ngue; could not explain / got impa-
ent when people did not understand me. I
Id all went badly until | fell in with Sam 1T
I'm is the handiest fellow in the world; and G
for talking, he could coax 'pOssum out
his hole; but, at first he hadn't one idea "
his own. Well, we worked together, and L
we went on, got handy and Sam inven- c
re-; and to make long story short, we a
Id two patents for fifty thousand dollars
Oh, and we have four more, which bring
about two thousand year in English
Oney as royalties. am going to pay my h
are in this picnic out of that money; and =
is quite true that Sam sent me the cash,
cause all my remittances' come through Il
M .
I'll think" stammered astopished
'ssy, that we must net stop here any "
lger." o
Just a few minutes" b
They will think it so odd" .,
AS you please. Win you have these :,
wers? And he took bouquet from o.