San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-12

wooden clock the cause or all this anx1-
ETY. looked down with placid, lovely
eyes that were shaded by a broad straw
hat whose brim cast Rembrandtish shad-
ows over the smooth oval Of her cheeks
and the rounded perfection Of slender
white throat. 1t was the picture Of
very beautiful girl From where he sat
facing it the overseer scanned it critic
ally.
at must be the books and the pian-
ners and the nice clothes and the soft
things all about her 1t makes a good
deal of difference, reckon, to grow up
to fine ways and smooth COINS Liza
didn't used to be too fine for her mann
my and her daddy"
He dragged his chair, clumsy, splint
bottomed affair, back to its place against
the wall with his left hand He was
conspicuously picking his teeth with q
long, cleaning quill pick. He offered
his wife some clumsy comfort while he
was filling his brierwood pipe from the
bag of tobacco" that stood ON the din
ing room mantelpiece for his and the
boys convenience.
Don't you go to borrowin trouble in
wholesale packages, Becky. After all,
we are not such bad lot at heart !"
Its by our outsides Liza's goin to
| Judge us, Martin.
"Jedge usl By jingol don't see as
she's got any right to jedge us at all. "
"It amt question of her rights It's
a question of what she's likely to do. ("
The overseer rumpled his thick, gray
locks with an impatient hand His frank
eyes were filled with perplexity. 1t was
not often he was called ON to decide
ethical points. and as comforter he
was consciously inefficient
II don't know what to say for your
comfort. old woman She's our own
girl / reckon we can't disown her.
How would it do to take the picture up
to the big house and talk your trouble
over with the madan?'
| Mrs Martin caressed Dukes silky
ears abstractedly Eben waited for his
good advice to be absorbed.
"Well, l s'pose / might as we'll
Sooner or later I'm sure to come to it
There's three things there's no mo- use
tryin to get out of reach of than there
is of fyin One is -drs Strong's advice
and the other two is her dose of castor
oil and caloman if you re ailin- But I
don't see clear how she can help me out
er this trouble, Eben. "
Neither do l, but mos gen rally she
does come up to the scratch, and mebbe
she will this time"
"I'll give her trial.
Eben looked relieved Rebecca was
already preparing for her visit to the
governors mansion. She had taken off
her ample check apron and rolled her
sleeves into normal position. Her hus-
band, mounted on the most patient OF
mares, put his face in at the open WIN
dow of her bedroom for a last word:
"Oh, Becky, forgot to tell you to
tell the gov nor that examined them
gin brushes good this mornin, and they re
gnawed all to pieces by the rats Tell
him please don't let any mail day pass
without orderin new ones.
''That is, if can get speech Of him.
He's got Con mel Clements and young
} Dalghren up there. They all three rid
by Just before you come in. He's mighty
full of politics these days"
} She was tying the rumpled strings Of
} green gingham sunbonnet under her
feshy chin. The clumsiness of this piece
/ of headgear presented a sharp contrast
, to the modish much beplumed hat that
cast Relnbrandtish shadows over the
pictured face she had wrapped carefully
in clean handkerchief before putting II
, into her pocket She sighed wistfully
! over her own commonplaceness
"How will this poky old sunbonne1
strike Liza? 1 reckon she won't think
her nanny the finest lady she evel
seen, but l can't make myself ove'
brand new. She'll halter take us jest al
we are !"