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BEAUTIFUL BUT POOR at. : Scrimp, snatching up the hand-lamp lie had left on the hall table. “Does that look like a joke?”’ asked Hattie, aaa she placed the thousand-dollar check which Mr. Le-_ gare had handed to her after tea, right under ese = 1 Scrimp’s cross-eyes. ‘‘Mercy on me! You'll never go to the piney no more, will you?”’ “Fos, I shall go there to my work in the morning, © just as I always do,’’ said Hattie, and she was off up stairs before Miss Scrimp could ask another ques- tion. ws ‘ * “Well, well! Wonders will never stop a- comin ejaculated Miss Scrimp. ‘‘If I hadn’t seen her go in the carriage and come in the carriage, and.seen Mr. W—— help her- out} I wouldn’t have believed my eyes. One thousand dollars—in a real check, too—l knew it soon as Isawit. Aren’t I dreamin’ ?’’ She actually bit her finger to see if she was awake or not. Then she Wad . “Tt’s luck. Some people are always havin’ luck, 3 7} 2 she said.. ‘‘Here have I been a-makin’ and a-savin’, a-scrimpin >and a-studyin’ all the time for forty years or more, and I haven’t had a bit o’ luck. It’s all been hard, stupid work. And that baby-faced thing will jump right into a fortune, I’ll bet, and like as not marry that handsome book-bindery man right before my face and eyes. Sakes alive! it chokes me to think of it. If I wasn’t afraid of what might hap- pen I’d spoil her beauty for her. I’d put arsenic into her tea, or pison her some way. She a- ridin’ ~ around with my man;that ought to be, in a car- riage, while I stand here a-shiverin’ like a thief in a corner a-waitin’ for her, But I mustn’t make her # eke : é& /~ —— > =. 4 id a oo : : . ae : —-% Sates - . s a 7 > } =e = > 7 . os . = yi - . - ¢ . , G {oc ee, Rete a ee o Ae eee ee, “= COME DOOK 4 a - +. — < 2. ’ # a a <~ a —— a = F . > . ~ => wes, 3 ~ | ~ . é => r. . té a 7 wi - — ee ge Ae me a ee se ee eee . Ce eh, : a jms ars =e i® = 7 . ll — : ta = : ss Li — oa a= te mined fia x as a. b - 7 of = < 7 ~~ > y « aa ; —e > -_ ‘J +, ¢-=% “awe. - wae om 7 ne , d*i