Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-24

passersby, she was saying to hersalf.
''Pink shall goi 1 never knew what h..
teacher was like before! Yes, poor lin.
| thing! I don't care what Della say.
Pink shall go!'
Meanwhile, in the two attic rooms NJ
Trumble and Della and little Pink sbsrsi
one CT Miss Emmeliegh's "GardeDsrs,I
was very fOrlorn young person
Pink had come home with the inrf.,
ton and been promptly told by DaT.
joyce that she needn t be making no bs-
mind for any such stuff. How was n,
to go to party in such an old dress. ana
who did she suppose was going to Uuv bs,
another?''
An unanswerable question 10 PM
Mrs. Trum bull she believed would On =
If she dared face the consequence VIE,
Della, but cripple, and care tina. .bs
was upon her sister and Pink. Da-s
reigned supreme in the attic houssher+
Her will was law. She was not q en-,
ferer, but having been from Ch.dt7o4
lame and incapscitated for work sla
considered ii her right to exercise ar
thority over the ablebodied people aroma
her and-for some reason known 0uIvt =,
herself-to make things take what9vs,
course suited her own Whims or fa-rfs.
Pink-growing up into q str.kipgr7
pretty girl with grace and dafntsra;,
about her that was Ger tainly not like s--
OF the Joyce 's-seemed to irritats her
for some reason neither Pink nor Mr..
Trumbul could make out. They often
talked it oYer-thess two. They va-s
great friends and confdantes NJ,
Trumbull would tell Pink ''nOt % mind,
Della had always been like that ,rs
would eXplain-but she was lame-s7f
they must make everything happy f-
her. So Pink had grown up to be uesr.r
thirteen with wonderful patience ami
self-restraint, her model being ll-,
Trumbull or fAunt Jone' as she caIz5
her, but on this afternoon every gsrv
maxim had to be put in practice.
Poor Pink.
While Mrs. Trumbull was punching AMI
pinning on May Stuart's tea-gowu DsIis
from her chair in the front window vs.,
har8nguing Pink, who was cleaning
down the closets.
you've no business even asking 70 go
to party, " Miss Joyce fairly screamed.
''I'd like to know where you think
clothes for party are to come from, AMI
me going without my chicken broth three
days a-runnin -
81 didn't ask, Aunt Dele, - said
Pink, turning pale, olive tinted face
with great dark eyes and a framework Of
red-brown hair toward Miss Joyce. 81
only-just-told about it -
Back went Pink 9 face to the friendly
shelter of the cupboard doors. Not Tor
worlds would she have let Della see he
cry! But the tears had to come, Il
had seemed so beautiful when Miss En-
meleigh had invited them to the party,
Della had allowed Pink to attend the
Kitchen garden school simply because +,
would make her more useful in house.
work at home, but now she began TO re.
greet this lest it had put motions in the
child g head. She had no idea whatever
Of the suffering and disappointment PINK
was experiencing. Her one fear was
that JOne would be foolish enough to
spend some money on letting the child
go.
All the time "Jone - with her new
determination, was nearing home. PINK
had the shelves nicely cleaned, the fire
bright and the dOrmer window attic as
tidy as she could make it, but as Mrs.
TTumbull burst rather impetuouslv into
the room the first impression was Of the
sadness expressed in every line of Piuk's
face and figure. Her work over, the
child had eurled herself into the window
seat; sat there, her hand against her
cheek, her dark eyes fixed upon thu
bousetops visible across the street The
heavy little face, the detected figure,
smote Jones' kindly, if timid, heart,