The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-03-15
music" !" added Luella, "nor for socie.

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lty, either"
1t was the way in which matters
were always decided in the wynhart
household. Winifred was quite used
to it, and never dreamed Of making
an appeal.
Luella was undoubtedly the beauty
of the family; but there were those
who might have preferred the yellow
locks and limpid blue eyes of the
younger sister, in spite of her round
little nose, and the mouth which was
perhaps too wide for classic compari-
son.
But while she sat there all alone,
with the twins snoring up stairs,
and the fire cracking on the hearth,
and the golden March moon climbing
the sky, there came tapatthe door,
and in walked no less a parsonage
than jack Jeliiffe himself.
"oh, jack" said Winifred, jumping
up with a slight scream.
"Yes, it's l." said Jack, somewhat
moodily. 81 just met your mother
and sister. They wouldn't speak to
me-"
"Wouldn't speak to you, Jack?o
Pretended not to know me, until
| spoke. It's all the same. Wini-
fred, yOu don't believe it, do you?" he
burst out, abruptly,
Believe what, Jack?" she faltered.
"That l am wild and worthless
that | deserved the slight my uncle
has put upon me-"
"No, jack" earnestly responded
Winifred, with tears in her eyes, 81
never believed it! Because we were
playmates together, and you were al
ways, oh, SO good to me! And be-
sides, Jack, hoped-I thought you
might one day be my brother"
81 liked Luella well enough" said
the young man, slowly, "but it wasn't
she that | wished to make my wife.
1t was you, Winifredr"
"I!" cried the girl.
"Ilove you Winifred," said Jelliffe,
in faltering voice. "Whenever l
dreamed of a home of my own, it was
your face fancied beside my hearth;
but now"
"Well," said Winifred, "now-"
81 don't care to ask any girl to be
my wife. l couldn't expect any girl
to go the bleak loneliness of the Beach
Farm, with its acres of sea grass and
shingly sand, and its old, one. storied
house, all leaning to one side with
the east wind"
Winifred looked at him with soft,
glittering eyes.
'Jack, said she, II don't mind the
loneliness nor the east winds, Tiff
only you love mel I'd risk it all, if"
"Winifred! Doyou really meanit?"
And she answered, blushing beau
tifully:
"Yes, Jack"
you'll risk it all, Winifred, for
my sake?"
"Yes, Jack"
Great was the tumult and displeas-
ure in the Wynhart family when it
was discovered that Winifred had
engaged herself to Jack JelliGe.
"If it had been Simeon, now,"
croakcd Mrs. Wynhart, 81 shouldn't
have SO much objected"
"But l didn't love Simeon, mother"
pleaded Winifred.
"Love!" repeated Luella, angrily.
"Bah! I've no patience with such
sentimental trash; and if Winifred
is really determined to go to Beach
Farm, she must make up her mind
to separate herself from ,w!"
"Oh, Luella!"
"Luella is right" said Mrs. Wyn.
hart. 81 never expected to see
child Of mine deliberately turn pau
per-"
And Winifred, who had been Sc.
cretly contemplating the idea of
new white alpaca dress to be married
in, now resolved she would have to
wash and iron her old white muslin,
because it was very plain that her
mother would not open her purse
strings in her behalf.
Winifred, soft and yielding though
she was in other matters, was most
true and loyal TO Jack Jelliffe, in
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