The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-10-19

NVOu ttON' tllis, ne Salu presently,
with appreciation KNOCKS billy ana
damper hollow. But you're not eating
muchv'
"Oh, I've plenty. thank you" she
stammered, but Uncle Mac silently
noted that the meat had been served
to Ted and himself, while her plate
made brave show with little else than
potato.
Nearly a week passed and one day
Nellie was just wondering whether she
would have an egg or her lunch now.
or wait till 8, when a ring came to the
door, and she ran up TO find Uncle
Mac.
"Bit surprised to see me so soon, ali,
my dear?" he says eheerfully. but the
fact is, Eve run out of cash. so |
thought | would drop down earlier and
have bit of lunch with you"
Have lunch with me- cried Nellie
In a horror-stricken voice. I'm afraid
! have nothing in the house, Uncle
Mac"
"Oh, anything VIII do" he replied,
carelessly, land if you have nothing in
the place, give me two bob, and I'll run
down TO the butcher round the corner
and get bit of steak ehf"
Pm sorry, Uncle Mac hut-but Ted
die went off in a hurry this morning
nnd-and he took my purse away in
his pocket"
"Silly boy! SHY boyl And yet he
doesn't know It," replied Uncle Mac
ruefully. For when / called at his
office to borrow Eve shlllings off him
he said he had left all his money at
home. But there" he added cheerfulIy,
II have sovereign. and we must
spend that My lucky soy. must go"
Your lucky sovereign querled Mel
lie.
well, call it my lucky sovereign"
said Uncle Mac, because it was the
first sovereign ! ever earned, and it
happened to have the date on of the
very year | started TO work as a boy
of fourteen. I've kept 1t all these
years"
"Oh, you mustn't spend that" cried
Nellie. Tonight Ted will be paid and
we shall be all right again. Come
down stairs and have some more ba-
con"
Uncle Mac said he had never enjoyed
any meal so much as he did that bacon.
and after he had finished he proposed
that they should so for walk to-
gether.
"As we can't afford tram ride" he
said. laughingly, I'VE will Just walk
round and think we are milllonaires.
Nothing like building castles in the
air. my dear. when you are down in
the dumps. If you can't actually en-
joy the things wealth would bring you
can look round the shops and see all
the pretty things, and then by little
imagination just consider they are
your own. Now, as moneys no object
where shall We say we live?'
"0h, at Highgatc," cried Nellie.
'Why Highgate?" asked Uncle Mac
| seriously.
Because there's such a lovely house
there to be let. 1t stands in its own
ground. and I've often looked at it.
long before we were married even.
think l told you about ii one day"
Finding the gate of the house open
they ventured TO look over it, Nellie
waxcd quite enthusiastic, and as they
went from room to room she furnished
them sumptuously in her Imagination.
The drawing room would be in gold
and white with, Louis NV. style fur
niture.
"Never heard of him" said Uncle
Mac. with conviction. "You must
show me some of that on the way
| home"
Nellie replied with laugh that she
would show him the very thing she
meant in Dormans & Browns Empo-
rum. and on the way back she pointed
out many things she would like and
have, "if only they had plenty of
money"
When they got back Ted was waiting
for his dinner, and while the chops
were grilling Nellie told him the ad-
ventures Of the day. During dinner
| Uncle Mac, amid many bursts OF laugh
ter described the wonderful home in
which Nellie would in Imagination
live.
Uncle Mac started off early next
morning to get work, or, as he said
die in the attempt" Toward the end
of the second week Uncle Mac OBJ
tanned lob" "Of course. it isn't ex-
actly the thing l wanted he ex-
! planned. but then. beggars can't be
choosers. I'm to get thirty-fve shil-
lings week. so I thought. Nellie. 1
could pay you 4 pound every Wednes-
day toward the housekeeping ex-
penses"
Matters were so arranged. and Nellie
began TO feel quite rich. 1t was sur
prising how much help that extra soy