Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-09-07
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BY SOPHIE SIME4uE.

l. hO iSONs HIS" ~aD
pacing to and fro in his little study,
and every footstep seemed to fall
upon his daughter Angelioa's heart.
lie had stayed at home from church.
meeting because she had persuaded
him, much as the widow persuaded
the unjust judge, to write q letter to
the church, which Deacon Mudgett
was to read. He could not bear to
hear it read-the dear, sensitive, un-
practical father!
Angelica did not repent of what
she had done, but she thought the
increase Of salary should have been
given without tho asking; she
thought the people should have
known that a man with three child
rem could not live OH six hundred
dollars year. They certainly knew
that he wrote beautiful sermons that
had been copied in the papers, and
that before they came to Holdfast he
had received call to city church
at salary of fifteen hundred dol
lars.
That CITY call had given Angelica
dazzling VISIONS. She had owned
to herself, for one brcathlcss mo-
ment, that she would like to be an
other kind of q girl altogether--a
girl who went to symphony concerts,
wore "picture" hats, and could buy n
bunch Of violets or box of choco-
iates whenever she liked.
But dazzling VISIONS are not for
girl whose endless problem is to
stretch a dollar over five dollars
worth of needs.
Her father had been too ill to min
lister to any parish for many months
before they came to Holdfast, and a
small accumulation of money had
disappeared with astonishing celer-
ity. The minister's modest letter,
had asked for an increase of only a
hundred dollars; Angelica would
have made it two hundred ii she
could have had her way. The Rev.
Adoniram Drew had singular limita.
tions of Judgment in practical affairs.
AS Angelica made the apple sauce
for supper, she reckoned up how many
things could be done with the hun
dred dollars. And Second Cousin
Sarah Ponsonby had written that
she was going to send them another
box. She had once before sent them
a box of clothes which her children
had outgrown or discarded. There
were not only tho finest of Jackets
and trousers for the boys, but some
dainty clothes that had belonged to
Mrs. Ponsonby's daughter just An
gelica's age, who was one of those
happy symphony concert flower and
candy girls. There had even been
bits of lace and ribbon in that box
most gratifying bits of lace and rib
bon.
BY the time that the apple sauce
was made, Angelica felt 80 happy
and hopeful that she feared sbe had
punished little Adoniram too severe
ly for running away from school to
go fishing, She had sent him to bed
for the whole day on diet of bread
and water. Still Adoniram was nine
now--old enough to know better
and his truancy must be stopped be-
fore it came to his fathers ears and
worried him.
But she certainly had been wrong
to snub fifteen-year-old Freeman for
making a stupid joke when he said
that the church people showed a
sense of the fitness of things in
making Deacon Mudgett moderator
of the meetings. Freeman was too
serious for his years; he ought to be
encouraged in making jokes, even if
they were poor ones. Deacon Mud
gett was moderate perhaps the
church had only been too slow to
think how little her father was paid.
The quarters salary would be due
in n few weeks; Angelica felt almost
as if she had the additional twenty
five dollars in her hand
A knock at the front door. An
gelica peeped into the little entry
way, and saw her father open the
door to Deacon Mudgott. She stood
waiting by the door, and the buba
bling of the apple sauce upon the
kitchen stove and the humping of
her heart seemed to be keeping time
with each other in queer chorus.
How little hundred dollars meant
to Deacon Mudgett-~a rich man for
Holdfaet, the proprietor of the pa
per mills down by the river! OF
course 80 little could not be rcfueed