White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-12-13

left side of the pulpit The brides
maids were to gather In the primary
room, just inside the main entrance.
Helen decided that when all the
invited guests sat silently waiting
within the church. she, with her IA
Their, would walh quietly across the
intervening space from parsonage
to church-such very little way
and while Ellen took Tim on around to
the pulpit room on the right of the
altar, she would join her attendants
In the primary department.
For fully week. although but ten
days had elapsed since the forging OF
the first link that was to grow into
an endless chain OF silver dimes. Gin
ger had logged the steps of the post.
man.
Letter for me7 There's not7 That's
funny"
But on the very day before the
wedding, as though to ill her cup to
utter overflowing, the postman deliv-
cred three letters addressed 10 q.
Tolliver. all In strange handwriting
"Well, that's funny" stammered
Ginger, and held out trembling hand,
and with the guilty consciousness OF
the evildoer. sure the very postman
must be suspicious Of such sudden
burst Of correspondence, she added,
Bunch OF ads, suppose" She was
so excited that she fell off the ladder
three times before she finally got her
self-and the three letters-in,o the
attic studio under the dormer-window.
She was trembling nervOusly. Her
chilly fingers tore uselessly at the
stiff paper, she had 1t open n, last, a
dime rolled out upon the floor. She
seized and kissed 1t.
you're my nest egg" she whis'
pered. "you're my lucky piece. you're
what some dumb farmer would call
pay dirt"
She opened the other letters, three
dimes resulting. sort OF stiffness
came over her. She sat, huddled
into small bunch on the old stool
and read the letters-pleasanf letters
sympathetic. "Tt is a Joy TO help In
such good work." "God bless the
cause" "Plensure to add my mite
"The darllngs." said Ginger. 1.-THE
dear, sweet, generous, Christian
souls" Ginger had significant habit
of Judging ones Christianity. not by
his thoughts but by his contributions
Three dimes to her represented three
devout Christians. Very still she sat
on the old STOOL very quiet, enveloped
In sweet and grateful gladness. Her
mind leaped swiftly on, 10 expensive
curative treatments for her rather
new rich !, furniture to replace their
threadbnre shahbiness, coal and steak
and chickens
She kissed the letters, one after the
other. and crumpled them In her hand,
to be burned.
"Little white angels she called ten.
derby.
Then she cast about for proper re-
ceptable for this incipien' fortune.
Three dimes, of themselves, did not
require much treasuring, but the
highly imaginative eyer Of Ellen TOLL.
yer looked already upon the thousands
and thousands, In neat little stacks,
that we're to come. In another part
of the attic she ferreted out an old
dolls trunk, very dusty, very shabby.
but stout, well made. with q strongly
hinged top. and best OF oil. with the
old lock still intact and the key
dangling from string. Within It,
side by side. she laid the three dimes.
and turned the key fT the rusty old
lock. Then she moved everything
else of her desk. and directly In the
middle OF II she placed the trunk.
royalty alone. The key she thrust I'M
concernedly into the table drawer
She was not afraid OF thieves.
Her sigh was great and glad one.
AT last fortune smiles upon the par.
sonage, and all the Tolllvers In It,"
she whispered joyously. "Perhnps moi
much of smile 80 far-just little
giggle. but q nice little giggle. The
poor little church mice are going to
surprise folks one Of these days"
She wished grently to tell her sis
tiers OF this sudden turn In the tide
of the family fortune, but that little
inner monitor, which Ginger most I'M.
scripturally called bunch. warned
her against this confidence. and she
buried herself and her seethng emo
lions as well ms she could In plans
for the following day.
Long before the high hour OF noon
ON Helen's wedding day, she was
daintily arrayed in her blue organdie
pirOuetting up and down the hall from
room to room. hnrrying everybody
criticizing tile general appearance Of
her sisters. CHEERING endless pert sug-
gestions and always melting them to
greater haste.
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