The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-04-27
BY JOHN ELKINS
Copyright, by W. G. Chapman.)

well, why don't it Gomez" asked
the girl starting to set the table.
Perhaps l haven't had enough
faith. But keep on trying" And the
calm, sweet face again bent over the
work with just the faintest shadow
across the patient lines.
Il know mother, you are q dear.
wish too 1 had more faith. But some
day l get just desperate. The little,
mean eight dollars a week 1 earn at
that typewriter only keeps Us alive
And this street is enough to give one
nervous prOstration."
My dear, L thought it was very
quiet and decent"
"Yes--but I'm ashamed to ask any
one here. If we could only move into
better neighborhood."
''But we couldn't afford it, dear"
81 know of some new fats I'm Benton
place for no mere than we pay here"
"How much roomY asked the
mother.
"Oh, two rooms, a kitchenette and
BATH"
DuI we COuiuu 10 WIFI lldl.
I'VE could manage. And it's just
swell entrance"
But here We have a little garden,
and"
and chickens" finished Florence
disgustedly. Chickens that are an
awful bother"
But they furnish us with nice fresh
eggs, and"
And get into the yard next door.
It's all right as long as no one lives
there. But just wait till there's ten
ant, and there'll be q row. Lady
Grey is determined to go over there"
yes" sighed Mrs. Bennett, u
Il know, mother, you like the little
patch of ground and the chickens-but
L do want some of the good times 9TH
er girls have. l could go with the
people around here-but you know 1
don't care for them"
mo, dear, you wouldn't be your ia
theirs daughter If you did,"
A fashionable neighborhood meant
more TO the jewellers in this small city
than cosmopolitan can we'll under
stand. 1t was the sized place where
one calls on the new neighbOr when
she moves into the same block. Holly
street with the small, poor houses, in
which the BENEFITS lived was we'll
nigh reprOach to mention In the good
society of Brentford.
The next morning she turned back
as she was starting out. 'MOthey!"
she called. "They are painting the
vacant house,
"Why so they are! l guess we're
going to have n9ghbors! -
WOrkmen went in and out, and n
mar was preparing the ground for a
small garden.
All hal" cried Florence. "Now
Lady Grey will have TO go into retire
ment, or lose her neck"
"I'll watch her." protested Mrs Ben
nett.
well, l don't want your job"
laughed the girl as she swung off to
the Office
That evening a tale of woe awaited
her.
"Oh, Florence Such dreadful
woman has moved in Just common
Irish creature with q thick broguer
Il told you your own wouldn't come
TO you by way of Holly street"
Her mother being in the joking
mood. went on: "She spoke to me
we'll it was insulting!''
Il fOresee Lady Grey made the first
CALI
'Yes. thought l had stopped up
that hole in the runway, but she got
through, and the way that woman went
for me. / don't know what we're go
ing 10 do"
Two or three days after this, as
Florence was taking survey of their
small grassy plot with it's hardy an
nuals and shrubbery, female voice
hailed her over the fence. She turned
and saw the owner gazing at her.
s'Say. miss she called I'D loike We
10 look afther that hen o yours. or
rs thru as I'm talkin' I'll look afther
her meSilf. Here's the row of phlOX
all mixed up wild the 'sturtions, an
the sticks layin' galley west. It's
enough to be thryin' the patience o
a holy saint, SO il isl"
Florence heard door open on the
other side of the fence.
Yes" she agreed. II should think
Ii would be. Mother thought she had
fastened in Lady Grey. I'm very
sorry. Did she get over there again?"
Whether t'was Lady Grey or Lady
White, she's a divil of hen, an if
she comes over again, I'll"
Here the torrent of words came sud-
denly 10 stop with n masculine voice
breaking in: Margaret, Margaret,
what is the matterf'
well If yer wantin' n garden just
We thry havin' il wild henl"
but the lady has said she was
sorry"
"Yes indeed" said Florence. land
promise you you shall not be annoyed
any more
Here a rather good-looking young
man emerged from obscurity More ex-