Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-12-25

She had been standing near the
door, and now she made a movement
to 20.
II didn't say so," snarled the old
nan. "Sit down a minute. How
I'D are you?"
"seventcen.s
"H'm, yes Well. when your father
was seventeen he"
'.NeV.r mind my father" broke IN
the girl ''He is out of this entirely.
1t is not necessary, nor IS it good
| taste to di cuss his shortcomings. l
/ am the one who is applying for tn 9
place. don't know whether Pm
ON etent to do the work or not
Neither do you until you try Inc. II
you don't wish to try me, I'll look
for a place somewhere else"
Old John jenkins pu he'd up his
glas es and looked at the girl He
had never taken the trouble to OBJ
serve her before. She wasn't pre-
possessing. The light brown hair
I
strong face Her hat was
utterly devoid OF trimming and quite
un becoming. Her dress was like the
dresses she had worn all her life.
made for service, without regard to
anything else Old Johns keen eyes
took in the tout ensemble of the slim
hgure standing before him, and he
said to himself
''She's hcmely enough. There
won't he any nonsense about lovers
and that sort OF things" and with
his usual dispatch he decided to try
her.
"You may come next Monday
morning at O'clock" he said. That
desk will be yours, and the first thing
you are to do is to 60 over the books.
ness, you must hrst get acquainted
with It,"
What will you pay me?" asked
Sarah.
- h. you want to make u bargain,
do you? That isn't bad, thought the
old man. 81 wouldn't wonder il she'd
do. ! believe she's got some of my
meanness in her, and it makes her
sharp"
Aloud he said,-
'.How much do you wantp"
And Sarah promptly replied
IL want fifty dollars month until
1 learn the business. then l want
scveDty-tiye up to the end of the first
Year. After that if we are both sat
ished, We will make contra t."
We'll, you don't hesitate to say
what you want. do your" Here old
ohm jenkins did what no one had
ever known him to do befOre-he
smiled. "Who'S to be the Judge
when you have learned the business
as YOU call it," he asked.
- ou are" replied the girl Il
have always heard YOU were honest,
and l do not look for injustice"
II Sarah jenkins had pondere all
day she could have said no wiser
tnIng than this, TOR John Jenkins
pride was in what he was pleased to
call his honesty. He had been called
Lard, and avarlciouS, aud unyielding,
but no one had ever said that he was
not honest
"AIl right. my girl" he said and
his tone had SUftened somewhat
''1 Ou ME and try your best, and
I'll do the right thing 10y you"
That was how Sarah Jenkins came
to SIT at desk in John Jenkins o ice
for fifteen years. And then the old
man tn ne his face to the wall and
ed leaving his granddaughter every
thing he possessed, as it had been cx.
lie ted he would do.
Sarah'S experience had not been
that of the usual girl in story
Her grandfather. although he ap-
preciated the fact that his business
manager was faithful and efficient.
did not re .ent toward her. and become
loving aud kindly. lie was bard, eN-
act NJ, and wholly unloving TO the
very e.id The o kles OF his heart
Wet cookies always and when he
wa, gone sarah felt a sense of relief.
Sic had ne cr Specuiated Is to what
she Won do with her grandfather's
money when it came to her. She
would not allow herself to do so.
" hen the thought presented itself
she would Say res"lutely,-
1T is not mine yet. 1 will watt
ana she had waited, long and patti.
emily.
On the day that the property was
made over TO her, Sarah went 10 the
humuie boarding house that had been
her home Iur Il !Ong time, and, shut.
ting herself n her room, sat down to
think. She locked about the shabby
little place. She looked over her
nla ho
looked in tne glass And at last
looked at the folded paper which said
she was worth million. She went
back over the dull routine of Ter life
Sarah had reached the age when most
women are happy wives and mothers.
But, for her. the years had held moth
ing but hard work. Even the ro-
mances OF happy lives written in
books had not interested her. She
had not understood them. All her
thought had been concentrated upon
her work. That was at an end now,
and she realized for the first time
that something was missing out of
her life. Immediately she missed the
something she began vaguely to long
for it. Her woman's nature seemed
TO awake. and with its awakening
came to Sarah Jenkins the first really
unhappy moments Of her life
She began to compare herself with
other women They had never in.
terested her very much before. But
now she seemed, all at once, to keenly
realize that they were different from
her. She went to the glass and
looked at herself. For the first time
IT occurred to her that she was very
PLAIN; that the dressing of her hair
was un6ecOming. and that her gown
fitted badly and was not like other
wOmen's gowns.
Sarah did not possess ribbon or q
hit Of lace or iewel Her room had