The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-09

but it's a mighty poor husband he'd be
| maxim"
GAY, Janet, maybe you're right" said
| Jane, thoughtfully.
| One day Jan was seen Fastening to
| Tom Maddrelrs cottage.
The girls showed no surprise at seeing
him.
well, me dears," he sai0, seating him
self on the cobble stone wall, IT'S sur
prised yen be to hear the news"
What news then, JAM" asked Jane
"Augh, just a little trip I'm thinkin
O. takin'."
'Why aren't ye out with the boats this
evening" said Janet, reproachfully;
that's the best sort o. trip you can
take, Jan Cregeen, instead O. gallivantin
! off to town as we do ,spendin a. yer
money"
Janet, we're always scoldin' me- he
! answered with laugh. eff I was the
warst sinner in the island it's not much
| crueler ye could Debut there, yell not
have me to scold any more" Janet look
ed up at him anxiously Something mat
was not anger filed her eyes.
| 'Whatll you be manin,' JAM"
''Just a little trip West. Indy way, gels,
an little fortune to make, an a little
| trip home and then He looked at
; them roguishly. Jane broke into a peal
of laughter
'Eh, JAM" she said fondIy. 'Its a
terrible man we are, jokin' with poor
gels like tat. low do you know we've
not broke both our hearts In your owe
maxim. I'm sometimes sure it's meseH
think you love-an' men think it's
Janet, an I know she thinks so, too
don't we, Janet p
may think nothin about it at ALL
cried Janet quickly, AN I'll tell you,
| Jan Cregeen, it's no, just for akin you
can get a woman"
"Augh! now Janet" replied the ne'er-
do-well with a gurgling laugh, It's just
| the akin that does il. I'll lay a wager if
I was to take we out this minute for a
| walk an make love as hard as I could
| for an hour an ak We to marry me at
| the end of it, ye'd say yes ay, Or Jane
| either we've no Mon how mighty lovin
I can be when 7 set my mind to it." He
| paused and looked a them mischievous-
| ly then added: "But I'm not going to ak
! either of We now. It's me fortune
| must make first and by then yen be mar
! ried long enough p'raps; an poor old
| Janll be forgot at We. Eth, well, I'll just
have to bear it; an now me dears, good
| by"
He caught and kissed them both and
| then STROBE away down the hill, turning
| once to kiss his hand
! Jane returned the salute, and then
| leaned sobbing against Janet's shoulder
Eth, Janet she whispered through
| her tears, Il do believe, now he's gone,
/ that l really care for hinn-the fine strap
! pin man that he is; an such an eye he
| has at him-aS blue aS-the sea-an'-eh
! dear" and here her tears choked her
Janet only stroked the curly head that
/ lay on her breast, and watched the tall
| Inquire that soon disappeared in the gath
| ering dusk
She felt as if she could not speak inst
| then.
Three years passed away without
bringing any news Of Jan. In the spring
Of the fourth year Janets father was
drowned during a terrible gale and the
cousins were left to face the world to-
gether.
Tom Maddreu left a small, very
small sum of money behind him; and
that, they agreed, must be kept in case
of real need, and they must turn to and
earn living somehow.
And so Janet and Jane both settled
down In the service of the Wears wife
at Castletown-some six miles from their
old home; and their vigorous daily work
was relief to both of them They
were no longer very young, and times
came when they felt their lives incom-
the fishermen who lived from hand to
mouth, and could scarcely feed the chill
dren that chung to their skirts.
| But there was little opportunity for
| brooding in their regular routine and
/ the months grew into years almost i'm
| perceptibly.
| One evening several years after thew
! had gone to Castletown, the vicar and
| his Wife being away on a holiday, Janet
! and Jane strolled out on the green banks
! that skirt the wide bays of CastIetoWn
| and Derby Haven.
| 1t was within a week of the day, seven
! years before, when Jan had hidden them
| Good-bye.' AS they turned homeward
| the sun was nearing the waters edge.
| Jane" said Janet, Tets go UP to Han
sight of the old place from there"
Jane sighed. It's sad it makes me to
see 1t. It's now on seven years since
a sob ended the sentence.
so Don't cry, my dear said Janet,
s sIona en ve I ne e fo mon comm
ye cry Suddenly she gripped James
Jane?"
Jane looked up, then hurried forw u
with an eager cry, why. JAM
ca In p beF in b ian for he il vas had
he echoed AN just as bloomin as ever.
Lord bless me!-an' Janet. too
Janet was standing still; she could not
move or speak for the beating of her
own heart. He mistook silence ferseold-
ness, and merely shook her by the
hand. Still down on me, Janet" he
laughed.
He was the same handsome fellow, sew
eral shades darker, and poorly clad, but
as audacious and winning as ever.
They took him home with them and
there in the snug kitchen they heard his
tales of wonderful foreign lands and
| strange adventures.
An so We see. CELLS" he said at last,
| ruefully smoothing his shabby coat and
| turning his pockets inside out, tits