Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-01-13
For Weezy


to its owner. to whom belonged acres
of the forest beyond, but its modern
style cast the humble dwellings of
Edgeville rather In the shade.
Weezy called 1t darling duck OF
a house. but then, the White House
itself wouldn't have awed Weezy. She
had what Sanderson Miller called "a
superior mind" She always ran up
onto the tiny veranda and peered
eagerly into It's fascinating interior
every time they passed it in their
walks. Sandy wanted her to love it.
He had cherished ideas regarding that
house, and Weezy, and there was near
ly enough money in the bank for its
purchase. Everybody but WeeZy sus-
pected this. Meanwhile she accepted
his devotion contentedly Sandy had
always looked out for her ever since
as a forlorn orphan. calling herself
Edelweise Webber. she had drifted
into Edgeville, and he had procured
her a home, helping Mrs. Potter,
wife of the lumber boss. Her future
was foregone conclusion and in
Edgeville, where no social strata eX-
listed, everybody approved. He was
some older. but then she was "way
beyond her years" Weezy, too, sup
posed she would marry him some day.
One morning the Edgevile News
announced that the bungalow was to
be presented entirely free, besides
wages, to the winner of a novel con-
test which the owner had devised for
the rapid clearing of section of for.
est he wished to utilize.
Sandy shouldered his axe with set
of his jaw that meant he'd just got to
win for Weezy. and during the follow
ing summer he saw less and less of
his little friend For every tree felled
ticket was given, and among the
contestants none knew who was
ahead
Now, Weezy knew nothing Of all
this, and Sandy forgot that she might
misunderstood his sudden devotion to
work and an unrealiZed neglect OF
her, so absorbed was he in happy
plans, and so confident of success. The
days were all too short for his efforts
and sundown usually found him too
dead tired to enjoy anything but bed.
Il can't interest him enough to keep
him awake when he calls" thought
poor Weezy; hes tired Of me-
SO when Kenneth McLane, new
conner to camp, fell into the habit OF
playing shadow to lonesome Weezy,
he failed to meet the rebuffs that had
met other ambitious swains at odd
times.
So 1t came about that Ken. who
somehow had not been told about San
dy, decided that he, too, must earn
that bungalow, and having already en-
tered the contest for employment, now
worked harder than ever, except when
Weezy had minute "off" when Ken
needs must have one, too, tree record
or none.
And somehow no one put Sandy
wise
One day the ticket man." who
liked Sandy. whispered in his ear,
contrary to orders, that Sandy was
way ahead" Feel kinder sorry for
young McLane," he said. Hes set
his heart on the house. Amt got a
cent, and just met the right little
maid too"
Sandy's kind heart swelled in SYM
pathy for this boy with hopes so like
his own. He thought the matter over
and over with always the same an
swer. He, Sandy, had most money
enough to build another. This lad
hadn't decent suit to his back.
But it had been for Weezy he had
toiled with aching limbs, skipping
lunch hours and sacrificing precious
minutes when he might have been
with her. all that he might one day
lead her up the steps of this particu-
lar little house and say, ITS yours,
Weezy" Not for this stranger
But way down in his heart Sandy
felt that while his record would give
him the legal right, circumstances
gave Ken the moral right, so seldom
recognized.
To see his way clear with Sandy
was to act Finally placing his hard
earned tickets in a cigar box, he set
out for the section where Ken was
sending flying great chips shaped like
pieces of pie from out great beech's
heart
want these?" he said gruffly.
Heard you were keen on the house.
Going to build on higher ground my
self"
Ken, scarcely crediting his luck,
wrung Sandy's hand and later. drop
ping his axe, hurried to Weezy, to
say to her what he had been waiting
for weeks to say, and to tell her Of
their kind benefactor.
And when Sandy called later to tell
her his story, feeling sure Of her low
ing approval, he was met by flushed
little whirlwind of gratitude. $50 he
knew about her and Ken, and had
helped Ken to win the house for them.
Had eyer a girl sllch kind friend ?