The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-23
grand folks and do care for Jack

toms grand folks and do care for Jack
Hall?" laughed lilly.
"Yes, that's about it," responded Will
with a G in. Pm so sick and tired," he
went on. "heatinp about 'swells' and money.
Tie best fellow l know at school IL quite
poor and one of the worst of the lot is what
you'd call a swell, and has no end of
money!"
''rhere are all kinds of swells. Master
Willie. Why, yon know perfectly we'll that
you belong to the swells YOURSELF" retorted
Dora.
II don'tp' growled Will.
"Weil. l should just like to hear what
your cousin Frances would say to that"
''Oh, FanI' cried Will contemptuously.
IF you don't think much of the old
Wentworth name"
II do think much of it," interrupted
viii.
II think SO much of il that I VAN to live
mp to it. The old W~entworths were SPLEEN
did fellowe-some of 'em-and all of 'em
were jolly and generous and independent.
There wasn't any sneaking little brag and
snobbishness in 'em. They'd ont a fellow
dead that had come around with that sort
of stuf," and 16-year-old Will nodded his
head with an emphatic movement that
showed his approval of this trait in his an
oestors.
Dora looked at him curiouslv; then with
n faint smile she said: Your cousin
Frances Ia 80 proud of those old Went
worths. She's often told me how grandly
they lived, and she is so pleased that her
name Frances is the same ss one of the
p~rettiost of the governors wives"
''Yos, and ono of the prettiest, and dare
say one of the best of 'em, was a servant
girl in Governor Benning Wentworth's
kitchen, and he married her out of it. Did
Fan ever tell YOU thatP' ano viii ohuckled.
Amy Robson stared at Will with amaze
ment as she exolaimed:
We'll, l never saw such Il queer boy as
you nre-to run your own family down"
"Tm not running 'epl down. 'T'sn't run
ming 'em down to say that one of 'em mar
leo Martha Hilton. Martha Hilton was q
nico girl, though che was poor and had to
work in n kitchen. Plenty of nice girls
farmers' dauRhtefs-worked in that way in
those OLD times; the New England histories
tell you that"
Not one of the girls made any comment
or criticism upon this statement, for VIII
Wentworth WAS known to- be we'll up in his
tory, but after a moment or two, Dora
burst forth in this wise:
You may talk as you like. VIII Went
worth, but you know perfectly well that
you dsn't think a servant girl 10 as good ms
You are"
IF you mean that | don't think she is of
the same class, of ooutHe | don's. She may
be u great deal better than | am in other
ways, for all Tint. In those Old days
thouRn' "a seINhht Riths Nofen tue hiha
we have now; they We're AmericanE--far-
mers' dauRhters-most of EN-"
"Oh, we'll, You may talk and talk in this
grand way, Willie Wentworth, but you
know where you belong, and when the Pei
hams come, Tilly'n sts for herself tnat you
are one of the same aort."
"As tho Pelhsms?"
well, what have you gotto say about tho
, Pclhains in that seornful way" asked Amy
/ rather Indignantly.
I'm not soornfni. l was only going TO
set you right, aad say that the Psihams are
| fashionable folks and tho Wvntworths are
not"
"Dh I'd like to have Your cousin Fanny
hear you say that. Fanny thinks the
Wentworths are fully equal to the Pelhams
or anyone else"
"They are"
what do you mean. Win WentworthY
| You just said -"