The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-21

TO say TO nefSeII: OH' BOuci
Not really" and then a whole
troupe of smiling, vital Jakes
stepped before her.
She heard him often as that
moment when he said: 'Now
wait-'tis the first time, begorra,
your friend Mr.. Munson, ever
spoke of marriage"
One night she went home for
dinner. Jonathan took Jake's
death much to heart: THAT was
the friend of friends, Chickie
girl. That was one Of Gods own
: noblemen-"
And Jennie, with her old fash.
Toned ideas, wished to visit the
grave-why, yes, when Thanks
giving came let them all go down
and I'LL their arms with flowers.
You don't know--the dear ones
gone away may like a thought
like that. There they are up
behind the golden benches looking
down to see If one forgets or II
one holds the memory warm and
most beloved.
This night Chickie wanted only
Wilde with her-wanted a long,
long walk.
Five years there had been walks
with the dog-just. five years
since Jake had brought him
since the night he stood in the
hall so tickled to find her glad.
Yet, when she stopped, enrap'
tured, and kissed the dog, Jake'S
face grew white and he said with
a sharp breath: Here! Don't
you do that again! Not while
I'm around!'
She hadn't trusted Jake a great
deal in those days. How wrong
ones vision often is!
There was that old hill on
Sanchez street where she could
see the water and the many,
many stars. The last night she
had ridden with Jake there had
been moon like this. That was
the night he took her to the bluff
above the old stone crusher-the
bluff that crowns Ninth avenue.
The ocean was all mystery and
cloud-then he stopped down, the
rich eyes touching hers with
exuberant fire, to ask: do go
alone" And then to say that
he would be the one to bring her
all the wondrous things life owed!
And now-gone from her-he
reached out to drop more gifts in
Chickie's lap-it was of these. that
she must think. The seven dol
lars he had left her in his will
not seven only-a sum that stag
gered Chickie's thought.
Jake left to Jonathan in trust
for her and she was to have it
when she was z6-she was to
have $4,000 and to do with it
whatever she might like-just
anything. The lawyer told her
Jake said that very thing
1t filled her heart with an odd
fear. Oh, not for her was all this
wealth. He meant she must do
we'll with it-something to make
him proud-she wondered what
CHAPTER LxXXI.
Widening Vista.
She felt half sad that Jake
had given her all this money.
She had told him he must send
her 81 and quick. For she was
to open a founding asylum
where every child would be
Gods blessed child no matter who
1t was nor that it had but stolen
passports.
In a whimsical bitterness she
wrote this-that night she felt
SO certain love and sweetness
were not for her, so she must
have a mission in her life. That
was the time David went to
Stockton and she dreaded so what
he would hear; the time Jake was
coming back to say that she must
marry him-a thing she could not
do.
1t was quite in jest she wrote
and to hide her panic at the
vision Of long. empty years. .. {.
But now the money would be
in her hands. She was bewildered
with a sense of it's responsibility.
Wilde brought her sticks. for
he wanted notice. She threw
the sticks so listesslly he paved
and gave sharp, inQuiring yaps
as though to say: "Wake up.
will you! Make 1t worth my
while to fetch them!'
But he was an understanding
fellow and resigned to a pretty
lady's moods. So finally he
stretched himself forth at her
feet, reaching up now and then
to lick her hand, or rub his moist,
sleek nose along her arm.
A lot Jake would care what
she did with the money! Why,
he would be the very one to say:
Take yourself to town, my dear.
and deck yourself in pearls and
laces!" He didn't like old ruins
wrapped with the flowers of May.
The sweets Of life were for the
young and for the beautiful and
1t Is suicide to kill the Joy that
should be ours. That was Jake's
creed.
He Knocked when she said so
fervently that she was done with
asking gifts Of life; her turn had
come to serve. Ho-she meant
to climb q ma rfyr'S vIyro ond