The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-02-04

mind, until one erening. after glanciug
from The window IS tie street door
shut %, after rather prolonged good
bye, he saw him in the moonlight,
coolly walking down the graveled path
way, between the two broad grass plots.
Why, mother. Jim Pine has been to
see Eliza. he cried.
The mother bad known itmust come
some day, but now she was very much
frightened
Yes, Jack, she said. Drawing it out
with a smile, Jim comes pretty oftea.
They've liked each other from children.
those two have. aud there isn't a finer
looking fellow that know Of anywhere
on a better son and old neighbors, too,
Jack AN old friends son.
-Oid frieads2r said Jack Horner,
testify. "When a man is poor. he must
live near poor folk. and live like them.
But we've gone up. If Ia had some
women, I'd have had credit for it; but
you-I begin to think you like low down
folk best, Betsy.
NO and never did. said his wife.
@But Jim isn't low down. nor Jerry
neither, only poor. poor as honest work
ing people are, If that's poverty. and
Jim is educated a good deal better than
You and /, Jack just as our Eliza is;
and there's no reason for you TO despise
them; it was just luck. You might be
over there in Wooden Row and be here
on the bill if the chance had come TO
him instead OF you."
All, said Jack Horner, @ihe taking
Of chances makes the difference You
don't do it by letting EN- pass.
agree to that, Jack. said his wife.
4Shll, 1 think Jim is one to take
His mother was capable
smarter than his father. Come, Jack;
remember that Eliza needn't look for
money"
She's got 10 have gentleman. any
way, said Jack Homer Il want her
70 marry into one Of the old families l /
amt going to have q tinAer's son coming
after her for her money. and be banged /
his fist upon the table furiously, so that
4 decanter and glasses that stood there
ianced about and iingled
He gave his daughter a lecture next
at the breakfast tab e, to which
ihe prudently answered very little, un-
i'll toward the last Mr.. Horner said
about "sneaking into mans
house.
Jim never sneaks, She said "He
walks up to the front door and rings the
bell. He sees me in the parlor, just as
J man always does when he calls on a
girl"
you've kept it from me, said the
iather. II never thought it Of you.r
"Pa, dear. said the girl. coming aud
kneeling beside him Il never knew
girl to go about telling folks she had a
beau; but you might have seen him
my Sunday night And now we are
talking Of it. pa, viii say That if you
ion't let me marry jim, I'll never marry
my one.
You're likely to die an old maid,
hen, Eliza, said Mr.. Horner; and as
ie spoke he decided that on Thursday,
when he went 10 Wooden Row TO col
ect his rents, he would speak to father
md on-men had more sense than wo-
men. When they saw there was no
Nance Of his money, Jim would drop
he thought Of marrying Eliza. aud then
he girl would see that she had only TO
'orget him.
With her chances, the old man said,
it's doing her no wrong
This was the reason why he was 50
istonishingly quiet, when the women
q scene
On Thursday he carried ont his
,lans. lie had been collecting a good
leal Of money. and came after dark to
he three houses that were his in
Wooden Row. When lac had got his
eat, he vent for the first time in
ears. down to the iinsmith's door and
ooked in.
Jerry lifted up bis eyes; he was read ]
ng the daily paper through his glasses I
" the light Of little kerosene lamp. I
-G.ad 10 see you, Horner,' be aid. I
It is a good while since YOU stopped
d. But better late than never. S
in push up the rocker here Many ,
time you've sat IN It before. And
ow is your health, Jack2- S
Ny health is good enough, aud I O
ope your IS said Homer. but I c
Ton't sit down. What have TO say ] s
an say standing. It's only this. I've {
lund out that Jim has been coming i
verto see Eliza / didn't know Il be- 5
lre. Now I want that 20 stop II d
liza is . fool I'm not You under a
land, JimTs 1
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