Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1905-06-15

the detected figure beside
@0Sl her. Now just have il
I9l g2!lj out. Jessica." she said.
You wan, to tell some
body"
% Miss Hepsey-' The blue eyes
filled with tears. Perhaps I ought
not TO speak of it. but L am worried.
The money that father left us is melt
ing away so fast-the lawyer says IL
wasn't we'll invested-that the interest
won't keep us any longer. though !
try to be as economical as-oh. as any
thing! Mother is so nervous and weak
doctor says she mustn't be worried
about anything. so I dare not let her
know how poor we are. But I am
frightened, and don't Know what to
do"
You don't say it's come to that al
ready! The horn trimmed spectaclas
lag on the broad beam of the loom and
ahere was nothing to hide the kind
eyes. How old are you. Jessica-
seventeen"
mot till next fall"
Isn't there something you can do to
earn little and help along? Girls Of
ten do"
Miss Hepsey. I don't know how to
do one thing we'll but housework. and
tcouldn't earn anything at that. You
know 1 can't leave mother long for n
time, and as for my going out to SER
VICE. mother would never consent to
that"
How about your music!"
oh. that's what Just breaks my
heart! I love it and I rather be a
music teacher than anything else in
the world. but I don't know ii thor
oughly. I've just wandered along and
picked up good deal by myself. and
had an occasional term of lessons with
teachers who were not particular. and
Il couldn't conscientiously attempt TO
teach even beginners"
How long would it take Won to
learn so you could:,
"A short time with n really good
teacher would help me out so that I
could begin, and then could enrn
enough to pay for more lessons after
ward. But good teachers charge enor-
snously. Miss Hepsey."
Mrs. Brown tells me that Miss De-
fancy. that teacher from the city who
was here last August. is going to board
with Mrs. Smart again this summer"
She s: Ada Smart told me so. But
she won't teach during her vacations.
and i couldn't study IL she were ever
SO anxious to teach"
Miss Hepsey turned square!y around
to look into the discouraged free close
10 her own. "Jessica. don't look on
the dark side OF things. I've heard
say that Where there's will there's n
way, and L pretty much believe IL.
with you and Miss Delaney only n
mile apart. it's queer to me IL the sun
ply and demand question can't be nan.
aged. How much time do you have
every day that you can do what you
please withT'
Two or three hours. I spend most
OF 1t practising and trying TO study
out OF my music books. but I don't
make much Roadway alone"
shouldn't wonder IL the day would
come when you'd and the time you've
spent studying alofe hadn't been vast.
cd. Can you spare me an hour every
day?-
GLADLY. What can do for you:-
TEND to my garden. It's suffering
Tor care. and my backs so stiff this
rprin2 I can't get down 10 IL rightly.
won't make any bargain with you
Just nov"
80 s0ve TO do H." said the girl
NYoull teach me how: then I'll know
why our garden never amounts 10
anything. and maybe can make Il
do better. I don't want any pay: |
should think not. after your Kindness
10 us"
Miss Hepsey picked up her specsa.
cies. We'll begin tomorrow" she
said. and moment later the heavy
loom was ciacking noisiIy. while the
web OF the rag carpet rolled slowly or
the beam.
Jessica walked slowly across Oh.
yard TO her own home next door
thinking wistfulIy OF Miss Delanc,
and sorrowfuIIy Of her own helpless
ness. i've got the viii all right. bu
4 don't see a scrap Of the way" sh.
murmured. II wish there were NOR.
people like Miss Hepsey. I will be 3,
glad to do something for her. even /.
IL Is only wedding onions.-
That was q busy afternoon for Mis-,