The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-06-14
ssWell," said Winifred, ssnow-"

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wife. l couldn't expect any girl to 60
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, Il don't mind the
loneliness nor the east winds, if-if only
YOU love me! I'd risk it all, if
sWinifred! Do you really mean it?"
"Yes, jack" she answered, softly,
blushing beautifully.
You'll risk it all, Winifred, for my
sake?n
"Ycs, 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.
'.If it had been Simeon, now," croak-
ed Mrs. Wynhart, Il shouldn't have SO
much objected.
..But | didn't love Simeon, mother, :"
pleaded Winifred
"Love!'' 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 child of mine
deliberately turn pauper."
Wln!frsd, who had Decn secretly con-
tempiating the idea of a new white al
paca dress to be married in, now re-
solved that she would have to wash and
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.
81 love him, MOTHER she said pite-
ously, when Mrs. Wynhart was most
merciless in her vituperation.
''Humpr' 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"
So matters stood, one gloomy, blowy
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, '1've been waiting
for you this half hour. l thought you
were never coming!'
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
ungracious eyes.
'.Mother," said Winifred, in q low
voice, 1--WE have something to tell you.
Jack has sold the Beach farm"
"Humph!'' said Mrs. Wynhart. "Ano
you're expecting to come here to live,
are you? But you can't!'
''To the city OF Sandport,'' went on
Winifred. as if her mother had not
spoken. ''for seaside park. And they
have paid him twenty thousand dollars
for it..
housand-dollars!" gasp.
ed Mrs. Wynhart For a hundred
acres of barren sea sand! 1t isn't true
l don't believe it!''
s.And." added valiant Jack, ''we have
bought Dr. Baily's farm, with the stone
house, and l can give Winifred home
at least as good as the one take her
from"
''As good as you take her from! ]
should think so!'' calculated Mrs. Wyn-
hart, remembering with regret that all
this golden prize might have been Lu-
elias. esquire Baily's stone house,
with bay window and double parlors,
and blinds to every window! Well,
Winifred, | hope you II not be too setup
to speak to your mother and sister when
you've moved therer'
''There is no danger of it" said Win.
fired, laughing almost hysterically-fo1
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 Il only dc
thatr'
And Mrs. Wynhart did so, from the
bottom of her heart Neither was it an
act of hypocrisy. For Winifred engaged
to a man worth twenty thousand dollars
was different sort of person from
Winifred who resolved to marry 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
be married at home in a new white dress,
with Luella to arrange her hair, and she
was glad they all liked Jack so much.
But she loved him-nothing else matter
ed much-she loved him, and that was
enough.
a Curious Canon.
MIR. j. P. Farris. who has been travel