Middletown transcript., 1897-12-04

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ly nothing-out of what is rightfull,
yours through your mother ? Shame
full Shameful ~ said the girl.
| '.I'm big coward to fell you al
this, y he went on, s'but felt so dowl
in my luck that had to talk. Now,
might have made money out Of ths
plantation if had staid and worked i
instead of leaving it TO tenants.
might have made five hundred, per
haps a thousand d i,,rs ezra for. my.
self out of it, but l COULDN'T do il
Dolly; | just couldn't stay there ant
elothe and feed that old woman witt
my own hands. she lives in the house
and-oh. we'll"
"Yes, dear, have mammal
''Yes, but your mother is-excuse
me, Dolly, but your mother is fat
plump, | mean to say-and portly wo-
men must be more endurable than thin
ones with claws and beaks."
.Jackp'
t'Yes.n
"i'm thinking of that plantation.
Pm SO glad you've got it,"
"Well, Pm not.
'.Oh, but you will be. You see
didu t know you had property, and that
was making it hard for me. thought
Of that collection of old family minia-
lures of yours you showed me, and
Thought. that might Go.''
s.Do2 Do for what2'' he calculated.
Never mind. 1t really wouldn't
anyway. What want you to give me
now is a mortgage genuine mort
gage for $1,000 on that Virginia plop-
erty.n
'.WbatS''
How much is the property worthavs
"oh, perhaps $4,000 l should say.
But what ON earth-''
'.Well, it's just this," said the girl,
excitedly. ''I'm to give you S.. 600. 1t
is the income 1 have saved from prop
erty left me. am to give you S., 600
and you are to borrow it from ms by
fixing up q mortgage on ,your plauta-
tion for that amount My Ii wyer will
attend to it in regular form. Papa didn't
leave me his business head for nothing
Jack, dear.o
"And what am to do with the
money!" asked the youth. aghast.
Now. I've been thinking out all Of
that for months. l Thought it out
when / was dancing and I had long,
restful. delicious thinks over it while
men were twaddling their nonsense at
me. Papa made his pile mining, you
know, and what have you studied min
ing and engineering for, if you can't
make yours that way, too. You rem
ember talking to me about gold possi-
bilities in Alaska? Well, | want you
to take this money and Try your luck
there. A,d-oh, Jacks don't be SO
rude, aud don't kiss me while l'm ialk-
ing. and don't 10 kat me as If you'd
cry with feeling If sou weren't six feet
in your stockings your socks | mean.
You are to go 10 Alaska and make
fortune-a great big fortune, Jack,
b ig enough TO make mamma quail be-
fore you and to convert the count into
i poor, little, black triekling grease
spot at your mighty feet. !"
Dally Radnor was ! little body, and
she WAS almost breathless and decidedly
lumtled and out OF order when she
emerged from her enthusiciast recog-
titton Of Ier devotion. The big fell
low stood up ard held her at arms
lergth al d lotktd at htr-oh, / can't |
btgin Ia tell yun low he looked at her,
and tlltn lie eatheltd her up in his
aims again, and presently they both sat |
down, and be said: .Oh. Dolly'n in a
Voice iiusbed with tender emotion. 20, |
Dolly can't accept. y
Aud then she put her little soft,
white hand across his lips, and said in
Tie decisive way belonging to small
women: You are accepting nothing.
am making you loan, sir. If girl
san't help a chap she loves before she
gets him. she shouldn't ever have the
right to do it afterward. that's all,
And-weil, il you don't let me I'H-
Ill marry The count or that beastly old i
pficer with the wooden leg or Chinese
stlache or something like jack-in-the-
box from Corea. >
They both laughed, and there was
much personal talk and argument, and
many caresses that need not be record
ID here Suffice IL TO say hat two
weeks after this conversation Jack
Stuart threw up his job and went to
Alaska. instead Of TO the dogs, as every
,ody thought. His companions during
lis stay there being not the devils SER
fanls-women, wine, cigarettes and
;ards--but instead, miniature of
Eery beau iful girl smiling from q
'rame Of turquoise, face all Washing
on society would recognize and keep rs
memory bright In The heart Of its
,wner; there were letters -long, dslici-
Jus, crossed and recrossed letters
Icented with violels and ornamented
with . modest monogram. Dolly