The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-15
ON WITH THE OLD LOVE.
A Thanksgiving story.

&sss what to do with it. She had lived
GaF fatteen years solitary life, had
EgIl6ed herself for decade and half
@ag1 being Independent of and indifferent
DO tho rest Of the great human family,
szgs1 now she grew suddenly weary of
2Esr self-imposed solitude. Ii might be
Eeecause it was Thanksgiving week, and
everybody about her was SO busy and
@6sas6ling and happy, or it might be from
a2azaIy other reasons but, whatever the
@sanso, the fact remains that, on a certain
@1zaay morning in November, Miss Finch
invoke TO the knowledge that her condi-
gaaon was not to be envied
Kin vain she tried to argue herself
,l3ack into her old self-satisfaction. It
'@Fas gust as true now as it was yesterday
&aIa$ her brother James had married Sa-
1laah Jones--a girl she thought she had
good reason to hate; but, someway.
there was no pleasure to be gained from
comparing their poverty with her riches.
She tried to WOO back her old content.
GGEy thinking of the seven little Finches
@9hc, could be SO well-dressed, so we'll
&3e1ucated, and SO altogether comfortable
SR2tt1 her money, and wlao should 4aevey.
,s3g1gG a. cent Of it, But this, contrary to
a&a past experience, only had the effect
MI making her feel more uncomfortable
S5haa before. She tried to picture the
~SF Old Woman's Home" she was going to
~al2dGw; but the great, massive piece of
@G0hlGecture brought with it no consola-
aI1a whatever.
a monster turkey was just being
drought into her next-door neighbors.
&e reminded her that the following day
,tEgAs Thanksgiving, and also reminded
aer fjAat she had yet to provide herself
EEFh She culinary wherewithal without
whsch no Thanksgiving day might be
.E7Goperly celebrated for Miss Finch was
IA Massachusetts, woman, and not once.
KAN all her fifteen years of social exile,
42&ttt she failed i'm the outward observance
qsE this holiday.
Nc always made Miss Finch's face
&uEn to think of Capt. Abel Jones'
FIRST cousin to her obnoxious sister-in-
4aw. Long ago, when she was in her
'teena, they had been lovers, and every
body knew that, as soon as he got his
sfl1p, Abel Jones and Jenny Finch we're
20 9ts man and wife; but one evening
.si1e Ean over to Sarah's (they had once
taeen bosom friends), and hearing voices
5A9 Che parlor had stopped moment to
discover who was there. In that mo-
Eraent she had seen Miss Sarah CRYING. as
af her heart would break, with her head
,raa MFR, Abel's shoulder.
quite ignoring the fact that these two
aad been brought up together, and that
A&ps2 had time and again told her that
SSa&ah was just the same to him as q
oscar sister, Miss Finch grew righteously
indignant; yet she was just-very lust.
Ea4eod she would not Judge them on
GhtS evidence, although to most anyone
NJ would have been proof enough of a
very dlsagreeable fact but she would
wait and see how their conversation ac-
corded with their position. So she
waited. WV
90 Don't cry" said Mr.. Abel Jones,
1SE,l e<sAingly. Il am sure I can fix it ali
EiG2A& She isn't nearly SO fond of me
ass YOU think; and you know, Sarah. how
%iear you are to her. Ill break it to her
gentiy, and I'm sure she'll give me up
OF her own accord"
Now, Miss Finch hadn't iealous ma
lure not st all ! but the most unsus-
plGloIs idiot in the universe couldn't
. alave misunderstood that speech. It was
very evident he wanted to be free from
1Ser. So she stole gently out. without
&e5ting them know of her presence
vEaihed home at railroad speed. and.
with very proper sef-respect, imme
~GAa@@ely tied up his picture, his few pres
e1lts, and his fewer letters, and sent
alam back to him, with the pretty false
Sa9nd that she found she didn't like him
TNe@l enough to marry him, and should
Gs@ 0oliged if he would release her from
&!ae engagement.
"a. one 0s6nt propose to be Tilted 6y
''sl1p-and she wasn't.
Ihen she went off on visit. STAYED
%@'Ro months, and came homo to find her
s1rother James engaged to her false
EtTiend and her false lover nowhere.
An vain she endeavored to prevent this
EoHEE1aa9e. Her brother would not be
convinced, without absolute proof. that
'sSssrtth Jones was not perfect woman
tstt9 begged, pleaded and urged. But
fz.a2ae prevented her giving him the one
GG.ae& OF which she had become possessed
~ NA1% WV WC1C AnU She
'41'caE her fortune Cleft her by her fathers
"ras1iy Gister) and herself to another town
gradually withdrawing herself more and
alsase FROM the world, until, at twenty
SIX, she WIS confirmed misanthrone
seeing alo one.
This sort of existence she had kept I'M
.2zEtl the time our story opens.
Why Sarah Jones married James
Gtnaeh, and why Abel Jones was still 4
bachelor seasCaptain, were.smysteries she
&a1a not trouble herself to explain. Sure
.ssf sheir treachery, what mattered it to
etar how they spent their lives?
To-day Miss Finch, in thinking over
y4aag past, acknowledged to herself for the
FIRST lime chat she might have been hastv.
M@5 40 far as the stalwart sailor was con-
csfg&ed, but about her brother.
~ don't suppose ought to have ex-