Evening journal., 1891-08-20
REVENGE is SWEET.

Pa said Mahala Mumford .'the wis.
terra vine has grown 50 that Wen have 10
have trelis built for it,
"Ah" said Mr.. Mumford. well. l sun.
pose you know as much about the garden
as do. Order one"
Eyes, pa" said Mahala.
She wanted very much TO ask her father
who put up vine trellises, and what she
ought 20 pay for one, but she saw that he
was absorbed in leader Of his favorite
| paper and would resent further interrup-
| ton. So shs comfOrted herself with the
thought that Mr.. MacSnaek, the local
| florist, would tell her where to 90 il he
could not take the order, and took up her
crocheting until such time as her father.
who dawdled over his breakfast and his
| paper for several hours each day, arose and
asked her why she had not told him what
time It was, and rushed depotward with
the hope Of catching a train that was al
ready half way TO New York.
This event having occurred Mahala gave
an order to the cook, dressed herself for a
walk and shortly found herself at the
florists gate
"a trellishl' repeated Mr.. MacSnack.
when she had propoundesl her question
"Ay, could get the trellish done, but it's
not just my line. I'd charge We a commits
sion on another mans work, and for an
aud eoostomer, that's not quite fair. Ye'd
best go across the lane aud ask the WILDLY
Cumberland 20 send her Jamesy to do your
trellish. You'll find her washing and him
in bed likely. He's a good carpenter is
Jamesy II once he gets at 1t he'll do your
trellish fine He's too good lookin, is
JamesY II he had been ill favored the
mother would have whacked the lazybo
out of him long ago, Beauty isna deseera-
BILE for a man. Laud be praisedl my BOYS
are ma troubled wi it, They're as like me
as two peas Ia a pod. Over there-the yell
low house, miss.
Mahala thanked him, and betook herself
to Mrs. Cumberlands little dwelling, and
really though Mr.. MaoSnack had no such
intention, his description had interested
her, ANA she was much more anxious to
see Mrs. Cumberland's Jamesy than II he
had been spoken OF as plain anIl industri
Gus.
"a trellisr' cried Mrs Cumberland, TAX
ing her pink arms out or the tub and wip-
ing them on her blue checked apron. Eyes,
indeed, Jamesy can make it, and very kind
Of Mr.. MacSnack TO recommend him You
see, Jamesy is backward in coming for
ward and speaking for himself. and he is
that good looking il does seem shame he
should have 10 work. The arrowstockrazy
on his fathers side comes out in my Jamesy.
Poor dear Mr. Cumberland expected for
tune that be never got and he couldn't put
his hand 10 a stroke Of work if he starved
till his life's end. Jamesy will do il if il
comes TO him, though I'll send him"
II couldn't see him to talk il over, sup
poser said Mahala timidly.
We'll, You see he was up late,'' said Mrs
H. "a
I'll send him over in an hours time;" and
as she spoke head was poked cut Of an
upper window and speedily withdrawn,
and Mahala knew that she had seen the
object Of her search and that he really was,
II not useful, very ornamental.
An hour or so after this Mr.. Cumberland
sauntered into the Mumford garden,
dressed rather as though ne had been in
vited to make social call than 70 put up =
vine trellis
He bowed graciously to Mahala, and in
| spected the vine and house wall leisurely.
He remarked that il wanted 70 be done
well and TO have time taken over Il, and
there would he no use beginning until to-
morrow. Then he entered into general
conversation. Miss Mahala, as conscious
Of her social position as are the daughters
OF most rural magnates, would scarcely
have permitted this in the son Of the laun-
dress II he had been plain young man in
ordinary working costume but being OF
beauty with rosebud in his buttonhole
was quite different thing.
She was surprised to see her father APP
preaching the house just as Mr.. Cumber-
land took his leave, and to recognize the
fact that she had spent the afternoon wan
dering about the grounds with a man who
1 hal % 40 l-f lie
for the wisteria, and to comprehend also
that she felt pleased and battered. Really,
he had paid her compliments and looked
into her eyes and all that sort Of thing
When her father said testify, pray who
was thatsM and she answered, "Only the
person about the trellis, pa" she felt quite
hypocritical.
The next day the trellis was begun, but
by no means finished. Many consultations
were necessary. Mahala spent most Of the
time in the garden. with a parasol over her
head, looking upward while the young car
penter took graceful positions upon the
ladder and beamed down upon her
II took six days to finish the trellis. Az
the end OF that time Mahala Numford had
quite forgotten the social distinctions that
prevailed ia her native town, or II she re,
membered the shock il would be TO "soci.
ely Wnen II was known InAb the dauUl'
ter of "0ur old and respected citizen
Phineas Mumford," had eloped with the
Widow Cumberland's Jamesy, cared moth
ing at all about il, for the eve was chosen
and the hour fixed on which she was e
leave the home OF her father and MARI,
the young carpenter.
"You know you can write next day ant
beg him to forgive you" said Mrs. Cum
berland's Jamesy. "They always do, you
know"
Mahala hoped he was right. Her father
had never been aifectiouate in his manner
and seldom spoke to her except 70 fine
some fault But after an he was her onl,
near relative, and she had always had cart
blanche as to personal expenses and he
= own way in most things
l. As she walked down into the village tn
. afternoon before her fitting, she found her
e self growing terribly frightened, askin,
q herself whether she was not committing
Is crime, wondering what she would do /
her father refused his pardon Still sh
u was much in love with Mrs Cumberland
y handsome Jamesy, with his dark mus
d tache, his splendid eyes, his wonderful
"a curls, and, above all, his fine figure. An
N II now and then a lapse In his gramma
t.a.Au A. L. a.