The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-20


house, her mistress addressed her with
a suddenness which showed that again
she had awakened with her wits sur
prisingly well in hand.
Where's Joshua? What's he dom ?
| Answer this minnit!''
/ Lucinda drew herself in through the
| open window with an alacrity remark
| able for one of her years.
| Hes mowin'," she said, raspingly.
"Sewin'i' said Aunt Mary. What's
| he SEWN? Where's he SEWN? Have
| you stopped dom his darnin'?
| Lucinda gathered breath by COM
| pressing both sides with her hands,
| and then replied, directing her voice
right into the ear trumpet:
Hes mowin' the back lawn"
, Aunt Mary WINGED.
MY Heaven Lucindai" she ex-
claimed, sharply. II wish't there was a
school to teach outsiders the use of an
ear trumpet. They can't seem to hit
the medium between either murnblin
or splittin' ones ear drums
Lucinda was too out of breath from
! her effort to attempt any audible peni-
tence. Her mistress continued:
well, you go find him, wherever he
is, and tell him to harness up the
buggy and go and get me Mr.. Stebbins
as quick as ever he can. And hur1y!"
Lucinda exited with a promptitude
that fulfilled all that her lady's heart
could wish. She found Joshua whet-
ting his scythe.
'.She wants Mr.. Stebbins right off.
Then she'll get Mr.. Stebbins right
off, said Joshua. And he headed i'm
mediately for the barn.
II guess she wants to change her
will
"Then she'll change her will said
Joshua And as his gait was a much
quicker one than Lucinda's, and he saw
no occasion to alter it ever. the con-
versation between them dWindled into
space then and there.
Mr.. Stebbins's visit resulted in such
wise that Jacks disinherit1ng became
the star event of his life. With her
brain still enhaloed by the joys just
past, Aunt Mary drew up a new will in
which her fathers namesake reigned
supreme.
IT made a big mistake about the life
that boy was leadin'," she said to Mr..
Stebbins, in the course of their con-.
versation. He took me everywhere
that he was in the habit of goin', an
so far from it bein' wicked, / never
enjoyed myself so much in my life.
There amt no harm in hayin' fun, an
it does cost a lot of money. / can IN
derstand it all now, and, as I'm a great
believer in settin' wrong right when
ever you can, I want Jack put right in
my will right off. 1 want" And
then were unfolded the glorious posi-
bilities of the future FOR her youngest,
petted nephew.
When all was finished, and Joshua and
Lucinda had been called in and had
duly affixed their signatures to the mo-
mentous document, the buggy was
brought to the door again, and Mr..
Stebbins replaced where they had taken
him from,
Arethusa returned late in the after
noon, very warm, very wilted. Aunt
Mary looked over the cotton purchase,
and deigned to approve.
But, my heavens, Arethusa," she ex-
claimed Immediately afterwards. IF
you had any idea how dirty and dusty
and altogether awful you do look, you
wouldn't be able to get to soap and
water fast enough
Upon which mild hint her niece went
away to prepare for tea.
CHAPTER XVI.
JACKS JOY.
About the first of July, Burnett's
father suddenly asked why in the devil
! Bob never came home any more. This
/ action on the part of the head of the
/ house being tantamount to the complet-
/ est possible forgiveness and oblivious-
ness of the past, Burnetts mother (of
I xyb ha haI HlNx
/ tears of joy, and wrote to the youngest
of her flock to return to the ancestral
( fold just as soon as he could. He came
! that Saturday, and the Saturday fol-
! lowing there was a house party, and
| Mrs. Rosscott managed to have Jack
! included in the list of guests. She was
staying under the paCernal slate tiles
( now (having given up the town house
/ July firsO, and the young man was
radiant within and without at the I'M
expected pleasure of spending two
/ whole evenings and the day between in
/ her company. He had worked ire
mendously hard the first month of daily
/ laboring, and felt he deserved a re-
ward. Be it said for Jack that the re-
ward of which Aunt Mary had the be-
slowing counted for very little for him
| except in its relation to the far future.
/ The real goal which he was striving to-
ward-the real laurels that he craved-
All! they lay in another direction.
Middle July is lovely time to get
off among the trees and grass, and lie
around in white f1annels or white mus
Inns, just as the case may be. 1t was
too warm to do much else than that,
and Heaven knows that Jack desired
nothing better. Holloway was there
spending week, and Maude Lorne
was there spending the summer, and
/ countless others We're there spending
/ Saturday and Sunday; but Jack did not
| trouble himself much as to any of them
as long as his goddess smiled upon
him.
1t was curious about his goddess. She
seemed to grow more beautiful every
time that he saw her. Perhaps it was
her native air that gave her thai
charming flush; perhaps it was the JOY
of being at home again; perhaps it