Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-05-25
JEN|FER.
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lis nothing but a pack O falsehoods,


81 tell you it's true-the real solid
TRUTH Old Mamie says twas the talk
Of the parish at the time. But there, I'll
not speak another word till you've taken
off those horrid clothes and made your
self fit to be seen! hate to see you in
them!"
"Now, now, Sis-don't bother so! The
clothes are well enough for mason"
Eyes. for a mason, maybe. But my
brother mason?"
"Well, an what better would zee have
than a nnason?" broke in third speaker,
busting abruptly into the room. "Passle
o. nonsense! I'm ashamed to hear zee
talk. irving to make your brother out O.
heart with is trade, when he's got moth
ing better to get lis Twin byl Better fit
YOU were to go out into the shop an
serve Mrs. Paddy's little maid, an let me
get Philip his teal"
Tossing her head defiantly, Jenifer
slowly retired, doing her mothers behest
with the air of countess condemned to
some humiliation.
Don't zee take any notice G what
,Jennifer'd say, Philp-'tis nuthin' but
her fullishness, as / told zee just now
an come an have your teal" said Mrs.
Truell eoaxingly. as soon as Jenifer was
out of hearing.
We'll, but, mothers there any truth
In what old Mamie Polwarth has been
telling herr" the young man asked, paus-
ing in the preliminary stages of his toilet,
which he was performing in the semi
secusion Of the back kitchen.
How do / know if there's any truth in
it. unless you'd tell me what Nannie's
been stuffing her WITH" said his mother
cautiously,
why, she says that grandfather-old
Grandfather Truell-had a brave lot O
land, but he lost pile O. money in the
cattle trade; SO he and father-they were
partners-did something; Jenifer under
stands what it was, she's cleverer than
me-'cut of the entail she calls it. Any
how. all the land was sold to pay their
debts, and l that was born to the proper
ty got nothing. She says tits the land
the Lowrys have got now. Part of it is
covered with houses; and a fine thing
they've made of it. The rest young Da
vid Lowry has just turned into nursery
grounds, and is making money like wa
ter"
We'll, and what if he is? He's right
TO, if he can. If your father and grand
father were fools enough to ruin them
selves, 'twasnt young Iowry's fault"
"Then it is true, mother?"
What is true?"
That l ought to have been a rich
mani'
Il don't know about that Maybe, if
your father and grandfather had "a had
any sense. / don't know much O. law,
y but I've heard old Aunt Martha say that
q they should a. come to some arrange
ments, an paid their debts gradually
like, an saved the land. l don't know,
Pm sure; I've no head for such things.
All / know is that when your dear
father died | was left as poor as Job;
an if I'd done nothin' but cry over split
milk we shouldn't "a had bread to put in
our mouths. AS for Jenifer-"
What about me. mother % Jenifer de-
nanded imperiously, as she re-entered the
room; but her mother, with shrug of
her ample shoulders and plying smile,
betook herself to her customers.
That's much better, Phil" said Jeni-
fer approvingly, as her brother reap
peared, the obnoxious working clothes
having been changed for a dark cloth
there was a great deal of admiration
mingling with the love in Jenifer's dark
eyes.
We'll, 1 don't know, Jenifer, that it
matters much, as Pm never likely to see
ha'penny of all this money you speak
of, and am likely to live and die a ma
son. What's the good of pretending I'm
gentleman or trying to look like one !?
Besides, if grandfather did have land, he
was only cattle dealer after ALL"
But grandmother was a lady. Mamie
says So and says Pm the image of her;
and she was called Jenifer too
That's all rubbish, Sis! If we could
get the land back, we'll and good as to
the rest, that's no good to you or me.
never did like David Lowry though!
lie was always a stuck-up, interfering
ehap'-and q sullen frowD~ clouded the
Youths brow as he gazed gloomily into
the fire. II shouldn't wonder" he re-
sumed, but what the LOwrys cheated
our folk when they bought the land
Ihey got it for song, l expect; and
now they're CROWN rich while we do toll
and drudge from weeks end to weeks
end! It's hard, Jeniferl"
lis hard-'tis cruel!" responded Jeni-
fer passi"rately. Mother doesn't care
bit-on'y laughs at me and shrues her
shoulders when try to make her under
stand what we could have been if we
had had the chance Look at met
And an uncommonly fine girl you are
Jenher!" said Philip, glancing up at the
glrl on the other side OF the fireplace
And so she was-tall and slim, with
dark hair and white skin. Her features
were delicate, her dark eyes flashed under
level brows, her well-eut mouth and chin
spoke of determination, yet here and
There were shy dimples, which, when
Jeniier was happy, made her face be-
El'chng. She could not refrain from
I9Fi1ve glance at the crooked little mirror
@ooFe the mantelpiece, and her mind
slTayed off to the other Jenifer-her
grandmother, who was a Gladly" "The
very image of her!" Mamie had said;
9ot then. she thought, that Jenifer could
s gre, IN fine clothes Jenifer sighed dole
i1-ly and turned away.