Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-04
By MARY PARKER DEANE

ctlpapIy we Won even hePp up 10 Will
we're doing now. let alone putting on
airs"
DO you mean to tell me there's moth
Ing in uck:''
s "MiShty little. At any rate. 10 great
piece of luck like an unexpected wind
fall will ever halpen to more than one
person in a million"
But haven't we got inst "a good q,
chance to he that one person as all the
restT ....
Dan 1'lum shrugged his shoulders.
but did not reply to this argument. lie
went to bis, work every day. as usual.
and bis Wits 2lnchPd and saved. One
day when he came home IN the even
ing. he found Der In wild state Of op-5
dmism.
'.0h. Dan." she cried. ibid you ever
have a grandmother by the name Of
TrendegastT !
mot 10 my knowledge" was the so
Der sided reply. "N'hT do you ask s S
"Because there was a man here this
morning whoaasked4 me II you had" 3 Z
..What did ypu tell himr Il
THAT didnt know a
Did he say why be Wished to.
knowT'7 !:.:. -
no. but I'm sire your. era ndmother
is dead and has left us lot Of money
"Oh. sMaria;; you make me tired: 1
couldn't haven grandmother much less
than n. hundred years old. and women
Of that age don't often have fortunes:
II they have their descenda nts are
spread out like i fan and none OF, 'eni
gifts more than a few dollars"
II don't earet u believe We are on
the verge Of some great blessing"
I'll tell you What III do. Marie. III
make Il bargain with you. Whatever
this blessing ;is:. I'lr turn It all over to
you on condition that you never say
the word 'windfatr TO me again" i,
"Rememben ! gire you az that comes
In This case..crd II nothing .coInes you
are; still hound by your side OF the
agreement" -. !
That's right .,
They had scarcely struck this. bar.
gain when there was ring at the
bell. Mrs. Blum went. to the. door and
ushered a. man INTO the sitting room.
rThis Is the conference.-the, called
this morning" said Airs. Blum. :
| iT.'Your Wife" said the visitor
couldn't answer the questions I asked
her. 10 | concluded to itne hack when
you were at home. Did, you have u
grandmother named PrenGegast?'
Not that, |, know Of. And didn't
have a grandmother by the name Of
Foote or Stednan or Williams or Hun
kins either"
did Won ever hear Of, any. OF sour
progenitors named McDermot.f'
! McDermut? Why. yes. Ny grand
mother on py fathers side w's named
McDermot. F~r 81
Her name was sarah She mar'
ried Enoch Frentlrgast. Tb"y h'Ht
one daughter wbo married Thomas
! Folla nsbee. and they had daughter
who married Daniel Spooner rl"m.
Mr.. Ptum's eyes were. growing large,
I've got this by searching the rex
| ords of some property owned tT q
| Mrs PrendegaSt. VIII" had recently
died In the John Brown bUspltaI. aged
| ninety-two years figure 1t that she
| was your grandmother.
IF I've had a grandmother living !
didn't know it,
Nor she. She came to the hospital
before YOU were born to be treated for
some disease. When she got we'll her
memory had left her. She didn't know
! who she was or Where she came from
She was allowed to stay there and
lived more than fifty Years there ana
in that condition Just before she died
her memory came lrlck to her. She
said she was Sarah McDermOt Prem
degast. Deeds to property were found
| where she had kept them In trunk
The hospital put them into the hands
of a lawyer. who says they came down
TO Daniel Plum through Ellen Fol
lansbee and Julia Plum
How much IS it," Gasped Mrs
Plum.
Its q base and lot that 01tF years
nco was on the outskirts Of the town
1t is n4E-on the biggest shopping
street ga y worth a mill
You. DSn," cried Mrs. Pium-"you
make a deed Of that property TO me-.
! And within six months be did Bat
he says they must have dreamed It NIL
Thus far the optimiSt has the hette'
Of the argument A. hundred thousand
dollars was dumped down upon th'
couple. but it remained to he seen how
much happiness was to be added t
the Plum family.
Mrs, Plum had always desired to as
sumo some social position. She hat
some friends whose incomes were chou
sands to her hundreds. They took he
up and introduced her. 1t was the oil
story Of the earthpn and iron pot IN {
stream. The Plun!s were soon bank
rupt.
Il told you So" said the pessim!st.
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