Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-05-27
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uliue lO reply 10 ucf SISTER
ESssssss;ssss3 speech. Instead she sat Their,
lxaGsy with her eyes fixed upon
Miss Prissys face and her thin fingers
picking nervously at her dress.
Haven't got any money! she re
peated after pause. Haven't got
any money left? Why, then-why
then, Wen have to take it out of the
sayins bank up to Boston. OF course.
Bradley must go to college. You
know he must. Prissy."
But Miss Prssy shook her head +
You don't understand, Tempy," she
said. Il ought to have talked with
you about it long ago. l can see now
that ought to; but, oh, dear, father
always said you was too delicate to
bother with money matters, and I've
been used to takin' all the care my
self, and so I've jest gone on and on.
worryin' and plannin' and layin' awake
nights until / can't go on any fur
Their. Oh, Tempy," she cried, and the
tears rolled down her cheeks, you
don't understand. The money in the
Boston bank has all gone too. We
haven't got more than $500 left in the
world, and when that's gone She
waved her hands despairingly.
But still Miss Tempy did not compre.
bend.
why, all Of it can't be gomez she
said. "All of the insurance money and
everything! Why, it was 5000" She
mentioned the sum reverently and in
an awestruck whisper,
Yes said Miss Prissy, trying hard
not to be impatient; yes, twas $1,000,
and father died over ten years ago.
and we've been livin' on it ever since"
"But $1,000, Prissy. Five thou
sand
'Oh. my soul and body! Anybody'd
think twas a million. Jest think now.
jest think! We've lived on it for pref
ty nigh eleven years; paid for our
clothes and livin' and havin' the house
painted six years ago and
"But il needed paintin'"
Needed it! I should think it did
But it cost more'n we'd ought to spend
Jest the same Oh, it's more my fault
than anybody's. Longs father livet
the place was kept up. and you and mt
was used to havin' things as good as
our neighborS. and | went on and on
never thinllin' we was too eytravagan
until Ill at once the money that W
first put in the HARNESS bank was use
~. And then it come home to me, as
you might say, and | realized what
we'd been dom. Oh, I've tried and
tried scrinlped here and pinched there.
What do you s'pose | sold the wood lot
for? And then the cranky swamp"
why, you said we DIDN'T need 'em,
and it was too much trouble to run
EN-"
said! Oh, | don't doubt l said all
sorts of things to keep you from know
in. But / sold 'em to help pay the
bills. And then you was took down
with the typhoid, and there was that
big doctors bill, and then Bradley
came, and he had to have clothes and
a little money to spend, like the other
boys. And noW.'
Miss Prissy choked, tried to go on,
and then broke down and cried heartily
and without restraint.
In all the years since the death of
Captain Allen Miss Tempy had never
seen her common sense, practical sister
give way like this. The sight alarmed
her much more than the story of the
financial situation had SO far done,
she didn't fully understand the latter
yet, but every one of Miss Prlssy's sobs
was to her eall for help that needed
an immediate answer
"fhere, there, there, dearw She said
running to the other rocker aud putting
her arm around her sisters neck "1au
poor thing You mustn't cry Ike that
You've jest worried yourself sitk,
You're AN worn out, | shouldn't pol