The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1900-11-23


"True," answered the glrl, medita.
lively, $50 you will let me take sur
prise with the expected dinner?"
Certainly" The mothers gaze
came back to the daughters face.
"Will you bring one back with you,
dear? II not we will be obliged to
scare up one here, won't we? To-
morrow is your birthday, love-"
"A surprise?" and the girls face as.
sumed "A puzzled look again. II do
not know of any to bring" she said,
slowly: "but these would keep me in
mind of the day, even though l tried
to forget" waving her jeweled hand
around the room like a fairy wand.
"As to the surprises, mamma, l mean
to be equal to any Of them"
She spoke like prophet, but with.
out prophets knowledge, yet her
prophecy came true.
Two years before, when Chrysan.
thea graduated at Berea, she left be.
hind her more than college life. al.
though she often declared: "No one
ever had six of sweet and bright com.
panions in graduating class as she
had"
And Nine. Moreau declared, faceti.
ousiy, that she was graduating an
exquisite bouquet that year, there
being two Roses, one Lily, one Pansay,
one Althea and Chrysanthemum.
Beyond this desirable companion.
ship, as we have intimated, Chrysan.
thea's heart warmed happily toward
another not of the feminine persua
sion.
Studying medicine in her uncle''
Office, Jack Beverly had met her al
her uncle's home frequently and whil'
in Berea their lives ran swcetly or
and on together,
But since then she had not seen o.
heard aught Of Jack, save when he
Uncle Kimball wrote that "Y0un,
Beverly had set up shop on his owl
hook now"
ChrySantlea remembered on
Thanksgiving night, as she and Jacl
were returning from party, that HI
had held her hand longer than usua
and said, softly: IL am so glad II
have known you, Miss Kimball. Yol
are my incentive for all things good.'
And in the half.frightened glance
him, she saw something beyond friend
ship In his eloquent eyes.
Weeks afterward it all flashed upor
her with a sudden revelation that
made her heart beat faster and warm
er than ever before; and she knew
that Jack Beverly was in love with
her, and she with him, though nt
further confession had been made.
In the hurry and hustle Of getting
ready to go home, she failed to see
Jack, and she came away from Berea
without even so much as a "goOd.by'
to him.
And then chrysanthemums. How
Jack loved them. She remembered
that. How he would enjoy this pro-
fusion, this elaborate Thanksgiving
border while lie ate his turkey.
But no danger of such happening.
He was now "no longer in Herea,' j
Uncle Kimball said, and she had nc
idea where he was.
A breath of college days stole ovel
the girl as she gathered the bios
SONS ''here and there one" as Nam
ma Kimball had directed, $50 the
effect would be intact"
o, IL the girls could only sit down
with her to dinner to-day! Rose Eyet'
ing and Lily Davenport did so love
turkey, she remembered, and Althea
Harlan 'just adored cranberry sauce
But, OF course, "thlS could not be
either" with a sigh; though some
thing q great deal more profitable
could be and would be accomplished
this morning, than to build air castles
and pull them down again. She woul(
make little Janet happy; and "inas
much as ye have done it to one OF thu
least OF these" etc.
That was reward enough, happlnes
enough for one Thanksgiving day, ant
she would not occupy herself with sci
fish bents. Doubtless the girls wer
buttcrfying it around the social circl
she had heard as much-and Jack
Well, he, most likely, was beginninl
to be a staid physician whose min'
was taken up with pills and potlons
and the aches and pains Of bis pa
irons; while she, Cbrysanthea, hat
her lovely home and loving parents a.
OF old, and plenty Of poor people tt
comfort and help. And plenty to hell
with! What a blessing to be Thankful
for this CHEEKY, Thanksgiving morn
ing.
II will be back in time to help will
the dinner" said Chrysanthea, he
face a.beam with the love OF doini
good, as she posed between baske'
OF dainties on the one hand and
basket OF chrysanthemums on th'
other" destined for Janct's comfort
less sickr0Om.
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