Show A wedding gift t a by MARTHA WILLIAMS 0 1823 1923 by mcclau e 0 newspaper oate cate 0 oh h de shanghai chicken be he dewed flowed so dhigh high C coulden couldn t elt git er quarter tween his back a an n ile do sky 4 a case why t hab de quarter terl this la Is tte tle lay caroled by thomas mcbean grady as he leaped the party wall vall cepla separating rating his home domain from 21 that of the eldores Eil mores he was in a way t 7 a cl el lid of the house there the LI ll x mores being childless vet et avidly fond ssi SS i of f youth it was the bouth Irre pres sible of thomas mcbean that had made captives of them in his very first day at with all the nice college stan and songs and things said madgee eanore ein ore he was just the sort she had bad hoped and dreamed little gustavus might be at that she had sched tenderly her husband the while j looking far above her head little gustavus the child of their hopeful canev who mho had never existed M was as real to both as though they had 4 him to manhood sing on tommil I 1 like that shang hal hat chicken madame entreated after a quick look bel bet ind her and then eing sing something irish las I 1 in music hungry today she shan t be bless her heart I 1 thomas mcbean half cli anted drop ping the gl ost of a kiss upon her r still smooth brow but instantly he started upright stooping he had seen in the A window behind a girls girl s face of merry misel let lef tai ahing of eye with a mu tinous small mouth and the dearest of aw all chins he ile looked reproachfully f down at madame saying loftily bo so youve you ve broken sanctuary here at least a I 1 felt safe from snares and pitfalls pitfall all the hidden perils tl ti at lurk in the i path of innocent youth oh iw I 1 why did you turn peeping tom I 1 wanted vieve to 4 I 1 ear you before you saw her so she d 1 know the love v 3 ou on re so good at sing 1 ing had nothing personal about it N ho hov v do you vou know thomas me t bean dean demanded who gave you leave to think to say I 1 in not the victim of hopeless passion I 1 did I 1 me ile ma myself self mr elmore called from within then advancing through the door it stands to rea eon son a bov with so much love in I 1 is throat can t have any left in his heart get tl it ee behind me pap elmore thomas mcbean intoned madame chuckled calling over her shoulder comenout come out kievel tommy Is a gentle lunatic harmless that Is if not crossed thomas mclean supplemented striding bovard IM nieve taking both her hands and star F F ing down in 0 her eyes a long silent minute dropping the hands he mur aured as though to himself the substance of my dreams I 1 say oh say where do sou come from ah ali ha I 1 kne v sl e d take your breath madame elmore cried in de 1191 g t wh re she comes from doesn doean tr matter nor her name nor anything 4 except that she Is here I 1 will mill not be a mystery vieve ir e cried I 1 am very material an every W r day workaday or kaday working girl a little 14 reduced in circumstances to be sure but ready and willing villing to prove prone my worth aa as a maid which these good people von wont t let me be no more than they will lei let me be sarah lou kelley here I 1 am genevieve Genev leve deforest for life or good behavior dont you tell anybody else I 1 tell you only because I 1 kno inov v N bouie ou I 1 e in the family doa does sit it happen that you know new A orleans orlean s thomas mcbean asked it r the ehl girl nodded I 1 was bom born there she said I 1 wish vish I 1 had grown up in a world so quaintly beautiful you see we v e took her back to a convent school there after we found r her mine mme elmore explained that thit 4 Is how vou ou I 1 lve ave not seen nor heard V of her we v wanted anted you two to meet wholly without prejudice ra I 1 am arn the soul of tl il on as 89 mcbean commented ir madame trailed bri tiled but your people oh they simply bristle with them tl TI ink of them spending so much r money noney i to trace descent from irish I 1 ings and finding themselves cheek laby by joal jo N I 1 v with ith the prettiest girl in the v 4 who a single ancestor 0 what i 1 lovely jolt they would f T have thomas mcbain ejaculated V mr limore abiol aiole e ir it seriously A noti NOLL ing arong about our girl tommy nf her father was v as lost at sea in a cicat storm coning over oner her mother died wien uteri she he haq va born so tie gool sis tool of her she was vas adopted t afore sl e could valk alk N bv v wealthy peo 31 pie v who ho give her tl air flame oame and gad no ad 1 1 11 1 to 10 ml ed her le lly ily they wele i isil 1111 tiled ed in an alto aito teel before ley hid made moie mote tl alan an it tie e scantiest 4 pro Nison for our girl TI tien en comi g fourteen sl SI e v ent in a sl op cash 4 g rl it is iq there we found and I 1 lescuer escue I 1 I 1 er ll 11 we e told nobody changed her name I 1 t rna ma ie le her our legal heir after a beir air now nov we sl Q ill sl st av her t ur v rl if I 1 as a ve va ing relative e it wll mill doubtless doubt leg accept her for what sl si e Is but we me wanted vou to know it tte e truth blank tl ank ou on both more than vv cords can siv av thomas mcgean replied not taking Us its eves from vieve 8 face 1 I hope I 1 isra rm worthy your trust I 1 sl SI ill all try to I 1 ie e v worthier before I 1 ask you for a greater one thus the stage was set for a lovely idyl of s immer thomas mcbean and I 1 iene played at nt the game of love making like adepts I 1 ut somehow ma ila dame lame almore was nas not sure there was anything thing real aa under all the froth and sparkle for a full month mouth then corn com ing upon the young pair locked in each others arms with eyes that seemed to be looking straight into heaven she was vas happy indeed even enen though tommy suddenly coming to earth said in lofty reproach now see what you have done fairy god mother turned a poor young but into a family mani man 1 furnish the famel III see it handsomely enc endowed loved madame said roguishly though her eyes v were ere dim little gustavus seemed to hover in the midst her husband coming behind her laid his hands upon her shoulders and moved her gently aside so he might seize thomas mcbean and shake him hard fitting sating game in spite of en sonny now the rest Is easy he lie thought he spoke truth but the wisest may mav be mistaken next adgy diy the course of this truelove trulove true ove ran plump on the rock of family pride the grady pedigree had grown into an ob session with its possessors since by much liberal spending it had been anchored to alid king of clonmel back in the vear 1000 and on the way downward donward got itself so plated with coat armor and enriched with newer never roal rosal crosses it was vas an avi awesome esome thing thomas mcbean sole son of the house needs must match with a person of descent said his elders though he might not hope to find one matching his own I 1 vieve mas V as they admitted utterly lovely utterly de but they had the future to consider N with so many millions to prop and shield it that family tree must flourish as though it were vere a green bay truth would be fatal but how evade telling it mr elmore N was nas as in de when nhen his wife took the helm oddly enough by asking down for a weekend eek end a N enterable en erable bachelor friend alose wl ose hobba was genealogy A fort night later he wrote a letter that ought to have won him an ambassador ambassadors s post in III effect it ran that vieve s beauty had so go impressed him he lad 1 ad ventured to look up her family his tory and research had confirmed his suspicion that s e was vas nearly related to the highest aristocracy english and irish and notably the beautiful ladles buncome one of whom had become duchess of leinster thus encouraged he kept on his delving with a result of discovering that few american girls had clam s to boig descent he ile in closed his rough notes allying her to eminent fam lies elti er through cadet branches or main lines unhappily pil now extinct sl SI e was not to know any thing about it but his v e id ng pres ent xv be the full pe I 1 gree v ith crest and lo lozenges albeit as a good american he held such things far from cital there was a certain satis sails faction in 0 nning them he ile kept I 1 s word vord the wedding waa wag something i nd erful but after it the I 1 balth drink in strict privacy by bridegroom and fairy godparents was to the kindliest liar in all the world |