The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-08-10

You owe my pa Ten uoilarS q
ront,' said Ann Azalea, spitefully
rs she sat painting for breath ii
the little garrct-room, after having
toiIed up the three long and mar
row flights of stairs. You cam
deny it,
1T is quite true acknowledged
meek Mrs. More, who, in bel
daughters absence, was absolute
ly defenseless but
You ought to be ashamed tc
owe SO much money as that sale
Ann Azalea.
we have been very unfortunate
of late,' said Mrs. More. 'But We
fully intend TO repay all our in
debredness as soon as my daugh
ter
oh, that's all nonsonsep brus
quely interrupted Ann Azalea
pa ought to have put an execu
tion-that's what he ought te
have done!'
Poor Mrs. More shuddered.
'And it amt too late now,' add
ed the young lady, ignoring the
code and ali its provisions.
sob, Miss Harpor
But we don't want to be exor
bitant,' graciously went on Ann
Azalea. so, sooner than be at
the expense Of a lawsuit, I'll take
some trifle or other in pay. That
screen, for instance with her
greedy eyes fixed on the pictured
flight of the scarlet hamingo. Ten
dollars is a deal of money, and the
screen IS an old-style thing, but l
wouldn't mind calling things
even, just to ease your conscience,
it.
4 couldn 't-oh, | couldn't =
cried poor Mrs. More, the tears
coming into her eyes. 1T was
work l did as a girl. My own
poor mother sketcbed in the green
rushes and grass with her Own
pencil, and-and if any one is to
have it, it is already promised TO
an old family friend, who is to
pay twenty-five dollars for it,
Very WE'LL said Miss Harper,
rising, with an ominous toss Of her
head. Then, if you really mean
to swindle US
Miss Harper!'
If you really mean to swindle
u.s. severely repeated Ann Azalea,
1 may as we'll stop at the con.
stables on my way back and put
on the distraint at once
Mrs. More clasped her thin
hands in a sort of nervous hor-
ror.
If poor Mabel, who had gone
out so buoyantly to carry home
her little parcel of finished work,
should return and find the min
ions Of the law in possession
i am a selfish creature she told
herself, TO prefer my own incli'
nation to dear Mays happiness 7
And 30 she told Ann Azalea,
with a burst of tears, that the
screen should be hers.
Il viii! send it to you-in the
evening" said she, piteously.
If You'll lust wrap q bit OF
brown paper around it, I'll take it
now,' suggested Miss Harper, who
believed firmly in the ancient
adage of the bird in the hand be-
ing worth two in the BUSH
And so the scarlet famingo was
carried away in the triumphant
arms of Miss Ann Azalea Har'
per.
After all,' soliloquized she, u
got it for absolutely nothing. For
pa said the old mahogany book
case he took off them was worth
a third more than all the rent
the; owed; any one but a foo
like .bat whimpering little Mrs
More would have known it per
fectly we'll. And I'm sure it'll
suit Aunt Hepsy to a I?
While poor Mrs. More, sobblng
bitterly before the empty place
where her beloved screen hac
stood, felt as if all the sweet asso
Citations Of her early youth bae
been wrenched away.
'Mother-dear mother why ar
you crying?' questioned Mabel
hurrying into the room. is you
neuralgie headache worse ? Oh
mother where is the old screen
l have brought Miss Milman t.
sea vou ahont II. She saws sb