New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-03-22
TWO AIRS
BY Martha
McCulloch-W Williams
Copyright, 1904. by Martha Mccukch- William.

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"a hundred dollars! And her dog
and her cat. call that shame-a
burning shamev' Amy Watts said, hold
ing out he1. hand to Jocelyn, ostensibly
sympathetic, but with a CLEAN of sat
| isfaction in hereye
Il don't" Jocelyn said stoutly.
"Aunty Berintha never promised to
make me her heir. She did all she
said and more-gaVe me my education
with Il lot of frills in the way of ex-
tras-dressed me well and gave me
also a chance of earning her money.
I wouldn't take it,
why. I'll don't understand Amy
began. Jocelyn laughed softly. "The
earning would have been easy-tO some
girls she said. 1T only nessat being
a missionary. You see, aunty felt that
she herself ought to have gone-she
thought she had heard call that way
but her terror of men and water was
such she never could venture to an
sWer it. She wanted me to fill the gap
which she thought she had left in the
i ranks. Then, too the poor old dear
knew I'd spend her money if I got it
without the missionary career in hay-
ing good times. And she did SO hate
i good times! She simply couldn't be
happy unless she was very miserable
You stayed with her nine years"
Amy said in voice of awe. Jocelyn
smoothed out her black gown and said
1 cheerfully: Eyes, and I'm glad Of it.
Toward the last she chung to me pitt
/ fully-called me her comfort, and all
4 that. But it broke me all up to have
her ask my pardon for the will, as
!. though / had right to be hurt over it.
I've lived SO useless, child, l had to do
a little good at the very last she said.
/ So her dear missionaries got everything
but the place, and the family silver.
they went to a Challoner down in Tex
as, the last of the name. She hoped he
would come back to live on the place.
/ Somehow, in spite Of all her cranlSi-
ness, she kept the feeling of race. I'm
not real blood kin of hers, you know
only her stepmother's sgrandchild.'
"When is he coming-this Texan?"
fAAiS
i Jocelyn laughed roguishly. Not at
all, suspect, Amy-Mamy. You'll have
to put up With Frank Palmer after
all, for even if Mr.. Stephen Challoner
should come he is likely to bring a
Mrs. Challoner along. Early and often
is the Texas motto when it comes to
matrimony, and he's all of thirty-fve."
Crank has no eyes now for any
body but YOU Amy said, trying to
mask spite with playfulness and sue
ceeding rather i'll.
Jocelyn gave her keen look. In
wardly she Whistled favorite trick
Of hers in case Of great surprise. "Un-
less you take that back right straight
I'll bundle you out, neck and crop"
she said severely, but with tWinlzling
eyes. Il don't deny grudging Frank to
you. What woman could? But you
have possession, which is nine points
of the law, not to speak of vested in
terests. You two were betrothed in
the cradle, I've always heard, by your
respective fathers"
ooh, that was all a joke!" Amy said,
but blushed and bridled delightedly.
Amy was a pretty enough girl unless
Jocelyn were by to put her out Of
court Jocelyn was tall and twenty,
light on her feet lithely rounded, Il fig
ure of grace, vital everywhere, most
of all in her peach tinted face and
laughing eyes. In the three weeks
since she had come home she had sub
jugated half of Lynnyille-women no
less than men. What wonder that she
had swept Frank Palmer off his feet!
He was a rich mans only child, spoil
ed of course, but a decent fellow
enough, dutiful to his father and ten
derby affectionate toward his invalid
mother. He had intended to marry
Amy on purpose to please his mother,
who was fond of the girl and had
grown to depend on her greatly Now
he had decided she would be much
fonder of Jocelyn before six months
We're out. How could she help it:
While the two girls talked of him he
was saying this to the sick woman
who answered him with only silent
choking sobs and wringing Of wasted
hands. The silence irritated him tc
the point Of action He went out OF
the house far from gently and swung
along the tree sbordered street, eyes
down, SO. intent upon his errand he RAJ
fairly into tall, sunburned fellow wht
stood irresolute upon a corner.
: No harm done, rather good" the
stranger said in answer to his apollo
gies. AT least / reckon so. 1t gives
: me a chance to speak to you without
seeming like a confidence man. ought
to be ashamed to say it, but the fact is
I'm lost-lost in Lynnvlle, where
was born a long time ago The Lynn
vile | remember was another sort o
place used to be public square
where the turnpike went down towart
the river with a market house ane
courthouse"
81 They've gone out to meet the rail
road" Frank explained, smiling ii
4 spite Of himself.
/ The stranger said, HIM thel
plunged into the middle of things with
Say, what sort of proposition is thi