Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-01-02
and brother-in-Iaw with q

his sister and brother-in-law with o.
air of amused defiance.
I 81 soon saw that wasn't welcome
he continued, ''and that Judy we
havin' hard time amongst You.
didn't mean to take her away agains
your wishes, but when I saw how sh
dreaded to go back when Jonas tolt
her that you, Harriet, had change
your mind about her goin', it come al
over me to once that the poor chile
needed me, more perhaps, than need
ed her. Come how-you'n give her vi
I reckon"
''We couldn't think of it, Jud," re
turned Jonas, his covetous instinct a
once aroused to vague possibility O.
profit.
/ ''You hain't no idea, Jud, what stor,
we set by judy" remarked Harriet,
eying the child as if she were SO muct
precious metal.
Judy turned to Uncle Judson with ,
! frightened look. She could not beal
the idea of leaving this new, brigh'
existence for the old hard life at hei
| ,unt's.
"Don't worry, child" said he sooth
ingly as he took her on his knee ther
turning to his sister, '1t's true that
am what you call well of, Harriet. YET
I came to you as poor man, mainly
10 see if my nearest kin would care 70,
me at all, aside from my money. Thanl
the good Lord-one of 'em didp
He patted Judy's head, while Jonas
resolved to try the effect of little
buster.
"We've raised her." he insisted,
land we've spent money on her. How
nre We to get it back onless she works
it out? I tell ye, she's got to go back
long of us"
''See herer' Uncle Jud, lookin.
somewhat stern, held ont the slip OF
paper. ':Do you see this9 Well, be-
fore I came out to your house 1 heard
you were in debt, and bought up this
note intendin' to make you present
of it, if you showed any signs of carin'
for a poor old man. You didn't, SO
fetched 1t away. 1t holds you for two
hundred dollars and your stock and
place are good ior tie amount"
Jonas cast a despairing glance at his
wife. Uncle Judson regarded the pau
With O grim smile.
:.Iou've showed your hands, you and
Harriet" continued he. 'But don't
want to be too severe. You did make
out to keep me few days, and 1 bear
no hard feelin's." He took Judy,
placed her on the floor, and said very
gently. "There is your Aunt Harriet
and here I am. Now don't forget
that you're free 10 make your own
choice. Which one of us would you
rather stay with?'
Judy, in reply, threw her arms about
Uncle Jud's neck, who, thus embraced,
held out the note.
"rhat settles it," he said. tsHere,
Jonas take this note and burn it up.
I've got full value received right here,
with the biggest kind of intruss to
boot"
Jonas and his wife, having no other
choice, accepted the situation, and re-
manned to partake of the finest dinner
they had ever eaten. Uncle Judson
anu Judy came out on the front por-
tico to see them off. AS they drove
away Judy gave her uncle's arm
light squeeze.
81 feel sorry for EN-" she ventured
TO say.
Goodness knows! don't see what
for"
"Tm sorry for 'em, because they've
lost SO much. You'll never help 'e,r
any now. That's what makes me pity
'em. They've lost SO awful much"
"Well, now, it do sound sorter pitt.
ful, to be sure" His eye here lighted
ND with humorous twinkle. "But
they swindled themselves. They
swopped little gal for two hundred
dollars as is wuth thousands. They
swindled themselves, Judy. Don't you
e1rget that Yankee Blade.