The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-11-04

| have made money out or the plantation if
| had stnid and worked 1t instead of lcay-
ing 10 10 the tenants l might have made
| $500, perhaps 81 1000, extra for myself
out of 1t, but couldn't do It, Dolly. l
just couldn't stay there and clothe and
| feed that old woman with my own hands
| She lives in the house, and--oh, well'--
"Yes, dear, ] have mamma"
Eyes, but your mother is--cxcuse me-
Dolly, but your mother is fat-plump /
mean To say-and portly women must be
more endurable than thin ones with claws
| and bcaks.
"Jack"
Eyes
"Tm thinking of that plantation. I'm
so glad you've got IL.
"Well I'm not. +"
"Oh, but you will be. You see didn't
know you had property, and that was max
| ing ID hard for me. / thought of that col
lection of old family miniatures of yours
you showed me. and thought that might
do
"DoG Do for whatf" he calculated
| "Ncver mind 1t really wouldn't any
way. What want you 10 give me now Is
n mortgage--a genuine mortgage for so,-
900 on that Virginia property"
WHAT"
How much Is the property worth?'
"Oh, perhaps $l5, 900 l should say. But
I what on carth -
We'll it's just this" said the girl ex-
citedly. II am TO give you 50, 900. 1t is
the income have saved from some proper
~ left me. am to give you $4,000, and
you are 10 borrow IL from me by fixing up
IA mortgage on your plantation for that
amount My lawyer will attend to il in
regular form. Papa didn't leave me his
business head for nothing, Jack, dear"
And what am TO do with the money!"
asked the youth aghast.
NOW, I've been thinking out all that
for months. thought il out when / was
dancing, and l had long restful, delicious
thinks over 10 while mon were twaddling
their nonsense at me. Papa made his pile
mining, you know, and what have you
studied mining and engineering for IL you
cant make yours that way tooy You re-
member talking to me about gold possibil-
titles in Alaskan Well, | want you to take
this money and try your luck there. And
oh, Jack, don't be so rude and don't kiss
me while I'm talking, and don't look at
me az If you'd cry with feeling If you
weren't G feet In your stockings-your
socks / mean. You are TO 20 10 Alaska
and make fortune--a great, big fortune,
Jack, big enough to make mamma quail
before you and to convert the count into
poor little, black, trickling grease spot at
your mighty feet.
Dolly Radnor was n little body, and she
was almost brcathlcss and decidedly tum-
bled and out of order when she emerged
from his enthusiastic recognition of her
devotion. The big fellow stood up and
held her at arms length and looked at her
II t..ll -l.--.x. L..
looked at her-and then he gathered her
up in his arss again, and presently they
both sat down and he said, "Oh, Dolly"
in voice hushcd with tender emotion
"Oh, Dolly can't accept"
And then she put her little, soft white
hand across his lips and said in the deci-
sive way belonging TO small women :" You
are accepting nothing. i am making you
a loan, sir. II girl can't help chap she
loves before she gets him, she shouldn't
ever have the right TO do il afterward,
that's all. Andz-wcll, If you don't let me,
I'll-I'll marry tho count or that bcastly
old officer with the wooden leg or n Chi
neso attache or something like jack in
the box from Korea.
They both laughed, and there was much
personal talk and argument and many
carcssos that need not be recorded here
Suffice ii TO say that two weeks after this
conversation Jack stuart threw up his job
and went 10 Alas..a :rstcad of to the devil,
as everybody thought, his companions
during his stay there being not the devils
seryants-wOmcn, wire, cigarettes aid
cards-but instead miniature of u very
beautiful girl smiling from frame of tur-
quoisc, a face all Washington society would
recognize. and TO keep It's memory right in
the heart Of It's owner thcrc were letters
long, delicious. crossed and rccrosscd let.
ters--sccnte, with Niuicts and ornamentcd
with modest mOnugraIn Dolly Radnor
did not use her n.oticrs crest.
The last LEe Cf these letters was q bit
curt and imlHtirnt 1t read
DEARGxr LlcA-you have got gold enough
20 siartlc o',A EGrh EInna with, much lcs'
mamma EaG Tie tuuat Mrs. BETTY Green
woald-l started TO say would lie gitCn with
envy ! am L!tstI able and SCu l. Cst cone
home can s,una tktm riy longer. Nam
mas led r;GD.E lr lncl c.,ts wlth ter an Cr,
and Ne courj = bToErn lnl ii,h ana oriental
perfume LCv, S.v G.otc CDCuti.,t !lr ~ las love
intcrsltcs al Ecitlrg lCw ana Vulgar. ioo
would not Euuw ne I've trlcu everything 10
ccsc ku ct|n.. / frequently tCnc town when
le cells nc w.;h ny Lalr Ctre ups IN 1ril.tg
kiCs aau chcw rJsII IN his presence constant
ly. Nulhlng Ycems 10 work with him, though
country place Re counts all my occentrci.ies
rs "se car.lor OF one petite Glle-charmGnio--
gentle '-gll tac French eriihets of approval
Come home or will run away with him just
for the pleasure Of numbering him neatly On
our wedding journey Your own for eternity,
DOLLY.
She didn't add that she was wearing all
Of her last summers frocks, that she
hadn't new gown or new hat TO her
name; that everything had been cut of
from the first of the yCar--Gt least all the
spending money her mother gave heron
account OF her disubvdlcEcc about tho
count And, as for her own income. she had
taken the whole of that for year In ad-
vance to lend 20 certain young fellow
who had recently dug u fortune out of an
| Alaska goldfcld THIS young fellow has
no idea of how mean even a lat mother
| cuH bc when she Is stupid AMI vain and
! ambitious. nor will he ever know from
Dolly = lips ,he extent of her sacrifice. 20
| am dctcri:lncd hc shall rad 1t here.
He came homo ten days ago, and there
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