Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-07-05
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but now
.'Well," said Winifred, now
II don't dare to ask any girl to be nv
wife. / couldn't expect any girl to 90
to the bleak loneliness of the Beach
Farm, with its acres of sea grass and
shingly sand, and its an old, one-storied
house, all leaning to one side with the
east wind
Winifred looked at him with soft, Gilt
tering blue eyes.
Jack" said she, II don't mind the
loneliness nor the east winds, tiff only
you love me! I'd risk it all, if
"Winifred! Do you really mean it?''
Eyes, Jack, . she answered, softly,
blushing beautifully.
You'll risk it all, Winifred, for my
8ake?"
Eyes, Jack" she said again.
Great was the tumult and displeasure
in the Wynhart family when it was dis
covered that Winifred had engaged her
self to Jack Jelliffe.
eff it had been Simeon, now" croak-
ed Mrs. Wynhart, Il shouldn't have so
much objected"
'sBut L didn't love Simeon, mother"
pleaded Winifred.
''Loye?' repeated Luella, angrily.
''Bah! I've no patience with such SEN
timental trash, and if Winifred is really
determined to 90 to the Beach Farm, she
must make up her mind to separate her.
self from usn'
'Luella is right" said Mrs. Wynhart.
81 never expected to see q child of mine
deliberately turn DauDer."
Wlnl1reQ, VINO nau Deen secretly con-
templating the idea of a new white al
paca dress to be married in, now re-
solved that she would have to wash and
iron her old white muslin, because it
was very plain that her mother would
not open her purse string in her behalf
Winifred, soft and yielding though she
was in other matters, was most true and
loyal to Jack Jelliffe, in spite of the We
hement opposition she met with from
her family.
Il love him, mother" she said pite-
ously, when Mrs. Wynhart was most
merciless in her YituperatiOn.
''Humpn' said the stout matron. ''Its
a pity you didn't fall in love Billy See
ley, who has just been sent to the poor
house"
Y
April evening, when Winifred went out
under the crimsoning naples of the
woods to meet Jack Jelliffe. For Mrs.
Wynhart had made herself so obtru-
siVely disagreeable that all hopes of
pleasant evenings by the fireside were
abandoned, and Winifred lived only in
the brief, bright moments when she met
her lover in the winter sunset, with the
frozen branches cracking overhead and
the chill stars shining in the sky.
Jack Jelliffe was there before her
''Well, lassie,' he exclaimed, joyous
~, as she came up, give been waiting
for you this half hour, I thought you
were never comingn'
Mrs. Wynhart was cutting out little
cloth waistcOats for the twins, by the
light of a smoky kerosene lamp, when
the door opened, and Winifred came in
leaning On-Jack's arm! She glanced
at them over her spectacles with most
ungracious eyes.
'tMother," said Winifred in low
voice, 1--WE have something to tell you.
Jack has sold the Beach farm"
"Humph!'' said Mrs. Wynhart. ''And
you Ic 6A pCCUIuS 10 COME mere 10 i've,
are you? But you can'tn'
''To the city of Sandport," went on
Winifred. as if her mother had not
spoken. ''for a seaside park. And they
have paid him twenty thousand dollars
for it. J"
Twenty thousand dollarsT gasp
ed Mrs. Wynhart. For a hundred
acres of barren sea sand! 1t isn't true
I don't believe it,
''And," added valiant Jack, eve have
bought DR.. Baily's farm, with the stone
house, and [ can give Winifred a home
at least as good as the one take her
FROM
CAS- good as you take her from! I
should think sou calculated Mrs. Wyn-
hart, remembering with regret that all
this golden prize might have been Lu-
elias. esquire Baily's stone house,
with a bay window and double parlors,
and blinds to every window! Well,
Winifred, hope you'll not be too setup
to speak to your mother and sister when
you've moved theren'
"There is no danger of it, - said Win
fired, laughing almost hysterically-for
brave as she had been in the face of
trouble, good fortune almost took her by
surprise. ''But oh, mother, if you'll
only kiss me and say that you're glad
I'm going to be happy-if you'll only do
that!'
And Mrs. Wynhart did so, from the
bottom of her heart. Neither was it an
act of hypocrisy. For Winifred engaged
to man worth twenty thousand dollars
was different sort of person from
Winifred who resolved to marry q pau
per. And this was the sort of logic by
which Mrs. Wynhart argued her way
through life.
Squire Sandiman's will was so differ
ent from the way in which people gen.
orally had interpreted it Simeon with
his five thousand dollars in cash, was all
very well-but the Beach Farm had sold
for four times that amount, and the dis
inherited nephew became the hero of the
day. How was Squire Sandman to have
fOreseen all this?
But Winifred had cared little for all
that She had loved Jack before and
she loved him now. But it was nice to
he married ~ homo II, q now yI-bito 1roCc