Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-01
By Sc w ELL FORD
up against lately.


Jarvis of Belmont who's billed to marry
that English girl Lady Evelyn next month.
Well, Jarvis he was all worked up. Oh, you
couldn't guess it in a week. 1t awful
thing that happened to him. Just he's
got his trunk packed for England, where
the knot-tyin' is to take place, he gets
word that some old lady that was second
cousin to his mother, or something like
that has gone and died and left him all
her R Rs9Pi tBousbtless Of her. want it,
We'll" says Jarvis, 1ookin' kind of
foolish, Il expect she meant we'll enough:
| don't mind the bonds, and that sort of -.
thing, but there's this Nightingale Cot
tage Now, what am l to do with that"
Raise nightingaes for the trade,
Jarvis amt one of the joshin' kind,
though, same as Pinckney. He had this
weddin' business his mind, and there
want much room for anything else
Seems the old lady who'd quit Twin a
relative he didn't know much about
Il remember seeing her only once"
says Jarvis, and then was little chap.
Perhaps that why was such favorite of
hers. She always sent me prayer-book [
Must have thought you was hard on
prayer-books," says |. g She want batty,
Jarvis wouldn't say that; but he didn't
deny that there might have been few
that's what he called her-had lived by
herself for so long and had coaxed up such
a case of nerves, that there no tellin'. t.
The family didn't know she was
abroad until they heard she'd died there"
You see says Jarvis, the deuce
of it is the cottage is just she stepped of it.
full of lot of old truck that I've either got to sell
or burn, suppose. And it's beast1y nuisance"
It's shame. says /. But where is this Night
ingale Cottage?"
why, it's in Primrose Park, up in Westchester
With that I pricks up my ears, You know I've
been putin my extra-long green in pickle for the
last few years ayin for chance to place EN- where
could turn EN- over some day and count both SIDES
And Westminster sounded right.
Say" says |, leadin him over to the telephone
booth, you sit down there and ring up some real
that place. It'll be about half two-thirds what
it's worth. I'll give you that, and ten per cent
more on account of the tixns. Is it go?"
Was it? Mr.. Jarvis had central and was calm III
Primrose Park before l gets through and inside Of
an hour I'm a taxpayer. I've made big Jumps o.
money quickern that, but l spent such
chunk of it SO swift before. But Jarvis went of
with his mind easy, and l was satisfied. In the
evenn l dropped around to the Whaleys
Dennis, you low-county bog-trotter," says
about all I've heard out of you since was knee
high how you aChin' to quit the elevator
and get back to diggin dirt and cuttn grass same.
you used to do on the old sod. Now here's a chance
to make good"
Well, say, that was the only time ever talked ter
minutes with Dennis Whaley without bein' black
guarded. He'd been fired off the elevator the week
before and had been job-huntin' ever since AS fol
Mother Whaley when she chance to shake
three rooms back and tireescape for place where
the trees has leaves EN- she up and cried into the
corned beef and cabbage, just for joy.
IN send the keys in the morning, says I. ''Ther
you two pack up and go out there to Nightingale
Cottage and open her up. If it's fit to live in, and
you don't die of lonesomeness, maybe I'll run III
once in awhile of Sunday to look you over
You see, thought it would be bright scheme tt
hang onto the place for year so, before tries tc
unload. That gives the Whaeys what they've beer
wishn for, and me chance to do the weekend ac
now and then Course, | wa mt lookin' for no com
plications. But they come along, all right.
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