Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1882-02-23
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hberately turn PAM per. =
sS And Winiffed, Who had Seen secretly
8conternp lating the idea Of new white
alpaca dress to Be married ID, new resolved
that she wouad have to wash and iron her
old white muslin, because it was very plain
that her tner would not open her purse
strings in her behalf .S$s 5sE Ess
#8 Wilifrea. soft and elding though she
was IN other matters was most true and loyal
to jack Jellsfff j, III spite Of tho vehement
opposition she met with 4, from the
family mi S#is3 5s3s3
II love him, ia d thsr n II she said pitsously,
when Mrs. W mart was most n erciless IN
her yitup eration. 81 ss5
Il. Humphl n said the stout matron ~ { 1t s a
pity you didn't fall III love with Billy
Seeley who has just been sent to the poor
house! 8is 55 SSI III III ss sS s
So matters stood, one bloomy. blowy
April evening. hen Winifred went cut
under the erimsoning naples OF the X WOO d Il
TO meet Jack Jelliffe. For Mrs. Wynhart
had made herself 50 obtrusiveIy disagree
able that all hopes Of pleasant evenings by.
lived only ia the brief, bright moments
when she met her lover in the winter SUM &,
set, with the frozen branches erackling
overhead and the chill stars shining il the
sky. 5sf s5Es5 sN l5
u Jack Jellife was there before her. Il
$ Well, lassie, he exclaimed, joyously.
rs she came up, I've been waiting for you
this half hour! And I Thoughts you never
were wei coming!'
Mrs, Wynhart was cutting out little cloth
waist-coats for the twins, By the Light If a
smoky Kerosene lamp, when the door op-
ened. and Winifred. came in, leaning on
Jacks arm! #355 53 \ # @ 0
s She glared At them over her spectacle
rims with most ungracious eyes. 43 # Ss III
Mother, said Winifred, in 8 low voice,
we haye something to tell you. Jack has
sold the Beach Farm ~ !" n.
Humphl' said Mrs, Nyynhart. And
yon're expecting to come here to live, are
you? But you cant!"
y To The city of Sandport, went On WinI-
fred, as if her mother had nor spoken a" for
a sea- side park. And they have paid him
twenty thousand dollars for it, .4
Twenty thousand dollars!'' gasped
Mrs. Wynhart. For a hundred acres Of
barren seasand 1t amt trueI don't be-
lieve it!n
a'stAnd. added ralliant Jack, s We have
Bought DR.. Bailey's farm, with the stone
house, and Il can give Winiffed g home at
least as good as the one / take her from /"
Az good as you take her from! SHOULD
think sol" calculated Mrs. Wynhart, re-
membeying with regret that all this golden
prize might have been Laella's, Squire
Bailey's stone housed With q bay window
and double parlors, and blinds to every
window! Well! Only Winifred. hone
youth not be 500 set up to speak to yoaf
mother and sister when you're moved
there?n S&x "a & III Tbs 0 H
There is no danger Of it Z said VIM Z
fred, laughing almost hgsterically- for,
brave as she had been ia the face of trou-
BILE, good fortune almost took her by sur
prise But oh, mother, Il you'll only kiss
me, and say that you're glad I'm going to
sbs SO happy --if you'll only do that n
". And Mrs, Wynhart did so, from the very
bottom OF her heart. For Winifred en-
gagged to a nan worth twenty thousand dol
LARS was q different sort of person from
Winifted who had resolved to marry .
pauper. And this was the sort Of logic By
which Mrs Wynbart argued her way through
life.
Squire Sandman s viii was 80 different
from the way in which people gen orally had
interpreted it. Simeon, with his i've
thousand dollars ia cash. was all very we'll
but The Beach farm has sold for four
times that amount, and the disinherited
nephew had become the hero of the day.
How WAS Squire Sandman 70 have fore
seen all this?
But Wiuifrsd cared little for all that.
She had loved Jack before, ana she loved
him now. It was nice to be married at
home, in a new white dress, with Luellato
arrange her hair, and she was glad they all
liked Jack SO much. Bnt she loved him
nothing else rnattered mucbshe loved
him. and that was enough.
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