Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-23

Tk4EJgSN ecstatically. "Who
l#fa A$A knows what may
~ h%1 happen in a month";"
For Jenny was one of those social suf-
ferers who are too genteel to work, and
too poor to be idle. Captain Llnsley had
been dead a year, and his wife and
daughter were already beginning to
comprehend what an abyss of debt and
difficulties had underlaid his light and
fascinating manner.
Jenny is very handsome" Mrs. Lins-
ley said wistfully to herself. "If only
she had the opportunity, l think she
might marry we'll"
'But, mamma" said Jenny, with a
troubled look upon her apple blossom
face, "what have / got to wear? My
mourning is deal too shabby"
"0f course it is" Mrs. Linsley an
swered, briskly. 81 shall make over my
pearl-colored silk for you, with white
blond; and there is the black net,
which will do very well, If it is bright
ened up with few bows and loops Of
cherry ribbon. And then we really must
order a new white gown-nun's yelling,
or albatross cloth. or some of that mex
pensive material which make such
good show. 1t needn't cost so much, you
know. We can make it ourselves, you
and l."
Jenny clasped her plump white
hands.
"Oh, mamma, how perfectly delight.
full !" she cried. but about jewelry?'
Mrs. Linsley's countenance fell.
Ribbons and flowers are most suita-
BILE for u young girl, she suggested.
But l ought to have something"
pleaded Jenny. "Oh, mamma, If only
hnI Am Col An hn
is going to leave them to me at her death
or. at least, she always said So"
Eyes, sighed Mrs. Linsley, "but she'll
live to be hundred years old yet"
Aunt Sabma, Mrs. Linsley's maiden
aunt, had all the money there was in the
family. She was a shrewd, wrinkled,
lit tile old woman, who kept her purse
strings tightly tied.
"Linsley and Barbara always were an
extravagant pair" she said. They've
made their bed; now let them lie upon
1t. don't feel called upon to interfere.
She had snug little bank account,
this eccentric maiden lady, and SOM,
valuable trinkets, chief among which
was a set of rare old sapphires, each one
outlined with a glittering row of dia-
monds; and these were the Jewels after
which pretty Jenny's soul yearned SO
iongingly.
Mamma" said Jenny, after moment
or two Of sad reflection, "would sou
write and ask her to lend them to me?"
1T wouldn't be of the least use, said
Mrs. Linsley, shaking her head. AUNT
Sabina never lends anything"
Then, mamma" said Jenny, with
glittering eyes, "Ill hire a set"
Hire it y repeated Mrs. Linsley.
"Other girls do it" breathlessly de-
cIared Jenny. "And why shouldn't L?
There is old Sansuinetti, on Terrace
street; he makes a business of renting
jewels. l can't afford to hire a set Of
diamonds for n month, because even to
hire they are expensive. But sapphires
are becoming to me, and sapphires I'll
have
But, my dearest child" plaintively
demonstrated Mrs. Linsley, ''where on
earth are you to get the money!
Lilly Hayward will lend 1t to me-
said Jenny. "It was she that told me
about it. She hired lovely pearl neck
lace to wear to Lucy Osmond's birthday
party"
People do the strangest things now
a-days," said Mrs. Linsley, with a sigh.
So Jenny Linsley hired set of sap
phires not so elegant us Aunt Sabina's,
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OF antique gold; lace-bar and pair of
ear-pendants, which became her plump,
blond loVeliness like 1t cluster of blue
bells.
"Only twenty five dollars for the
month, said she, radiantly.
twenty-five dollars y said Mrs. Lins-
ley. sis not that very dear?"
"0h, mamma, 1 couldn't buy them for
three hundred dollars" said Jenny.
"Yes; but how are you ever going TO
pay Lilly Hayward" sighed the mother.
''Oh time enough to think about that
when l get back" said Jenny, saueily.
"Perhaps l shall be engaged TO some
bonanza king, whose money IL rs ex.
haustesS as the treasures OF Aladdin's
lamp. Just think what a blessed range
OF possibility there is within tho thirty
one sunshiny days Of August.
And she danced merrily away, leaving
Mrs. Linsley 10 sigh over the elasticity
which had long since died out of her own
heart.
Jenny Linsley went with Mrs. Major
Glenalvon to the White Sulphur Spring,
and the first bright evening she came
down TO "the hop" in her white dress
with pale blue ribbons, forget -me-nots
pinned in azure masses into the red gold
luxurianco of her hair. and the sapphires
glittering at her throat and swinging
from her ears like stars of blue, corrus-
eating light.
Yes, she was very pretty. Her glass
told her that before she left the seclusion
of her own room the full-length mirrors
of the ballroom duplicated the pleasant
tale. and the admiring glances of the as
sembled crowd repeated it yet third
time.
"And those nice old Jewels" she heard
a lady say just behind her in the pause
of the dance. "You can tell she belongs
to fine family from those. No psrvenu
wears sapphires."
"I'm 30 glad thought of hiring them
from M. Sanguinetti, said Jennie to her
SELF 81 should have looked perfect
dowdy without them"
But what was our fair heroine's ama.,a.
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