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"THE FORTUNATE MARY {| By ELEANOR H. PORTER. . Part II, Downstairs on the porch the cat jumped to the table and upset an empty flower pot. Upstairs Mary Ma- honéy thrust the money into her bag, leaped to her feet, and stobd, tremb- lingly alert. Then, stealthily, she crept to the window and peered round the edge of the shade. & "Land's sake---if it ain't only, Toby!" she murmured. For Mary Mahoney, and for all con- cerned, there hegan that day a reign of terror. Carefully arranging the bills into compact parcels, Mary stow- ed then about her person--and lost fromi that moment every vestige of peace. She paid no more neighborly visits--~she might drop the bills. She refused to go trolley riding or sight- seeihg--some one would surely eteal the money. She talked of nothing ex- cept thieves and burglars "dnd she dodged out of sight 'whenever man, woman ov child looked toward the hotise fromthe street. «She could not evgh enjoy the phorograph now--the noisg of it might cover the sound of the robbei's footsteps...' Nor did sleep bring vest." She dreamed of burglars and' dwoke In a cold sweat of terror, whieh, sent her pattering into Mary Ditto's room for comfort and protec. tion, % "I declare," sighed Mary Diito, at last, in. mild rebellion, "I can't for the life of me see why you care if some- body does break in and get the money. You said you didn't need it when you first heard you were going to have it! And now--look at this!" "This" was Mary Mahoney, wild- eyed, drawn-faced and shivering, sit ting on the edge of the bed clutching at hidden wealth and peering into the darkest corners of the room. "Why do I care?" exclaimed Mary Mahoney, with chattering teeth. "Do you think I want to be murdered in told blood in my bed? Besides--it's my money. As if I wanted to lose my money!" This could not last forever, of pourse, but it did last a month before Mary Mahoney was finally persuaded i trust most of her money to others' eeping. Then ghe consented only on condition that it should be divided and pat into four different banks. "Ye see, 'tain't likely that all four'll blow up to once," she sighed; "and if I see one bank begin to start, meb- be I could catch the others." With the money once out of the house; the only unrest of the day was 'when'the newspaper was being read. If no bank was reported to he in 4rouble, Mary - Mahoney breathed again, "And now," said Mary Ware to her cousin one day, when conditions had become nearly normal once more, "now you must begin to live." "What do you mean?" . "Why, travel--saee things." "Where to?" "Oh, anywhere, everywhere. There Are 80 many places to see!" Mary Wars's eyes grew softly luminous. "Once 1 saw a picture In a magazine ~1T cut it out, too--The Temple of Kar- ak by moonlight. I'd give anything the world almost to see that--the real 3 "Where is it?" asked Mary Mahoney. "Egypt. And there's the Nile and fhe. Pyramids and the Sphinx there, snd ~~ y "Mary Ditto, I should like to know it you think for a moment that ¥d jeally risk my neck in such a place as ot! Why, that was in the Bible, 'they was somethin' awful--them 1 remember right: i Wasn't 1t there the pl 'Wasn' o 8 Dp! 68 Was-- usts, and toads, and al that? Mary Ware. laughed softly. ~ Her pe Still shone. "Rut they aren't © How, Cousin. Mary. Besides, there are other places nearer, right in oup gun country, if you'd rather see + Nia and the j,.and the Aunapolis*Valley, and --" ~~ "I don't 1ike car ridin' ity } ° CIRETEY "Humph! Dead now, ain't they "Why, y-yes." : "Well, Tim and Nellie and the baby and Jim ain't. I'd rather hear about: lve folks--than read about dead ones." It was in June that Mary Mahoney began "to realize that she was not meeting the expectations eof her neighbors. Sly jokes were constantly being made and broad hints dropped; but they served only to puzzle and to confuse her until she asked Mary. Ware what they meant. x "It's. that yon arén't doing. what folks expect of you," explained 'her cousin, "How? What do you mean?" ; About the money. You are rich now, and they expect you to live up to it---wear fine clothes; move to a better neighborhood. They want 'fo be proud of you---proud' that they know some one so fine and rich," Mary Mahoney fell back in her seat with a rueful sigh." "I never thought of that. I s'pose --'twould be more polite-like to Uncle Simon's memory. to show I appreciate what he's done, 1 ought to put on mournin', "too, of course; and-I never even thought of it. 'Sakes dlive! '- No « wonder the neighbors talk. I'll tend to it to-mor- rer." Mary learned many things the next day, ome of which wag that "swell mournin" "--what she asked for--was not designed for a figure of such generous and ample curves as hers. However, by a process painful both physically and mentally she struggled into 'd black gown; ' and she also bought shoes, --with. pointed - toes; -- gloves, and a black bonnet. She took unbounded pride in her image in the mirror; 'and she- tried to think she was still happy when she found that stooping: wag almost impossible, and a little worse than sitting down. "After all," she confided to her cousin, "I s'pose I will get used to 'em in time, and I do look pretty slick. Be- sides, it ain't as if twa'n't just as well, ye know--I'm mournin' for Uncle Simon." ~ Every afternoon Mary "dressed up" and sat in state, mourning for Uncle Simon. During the forenoon she wore: her old clothing, and attended to her housework, Mary Ware had suggest- ed that a maid would be desirable, but Mary Mahoney had flouted the idea. Mary's next move was to look for the house "in a better neighborhood." She did this very reluctantly. She liked where she was very, much. Still, undeniably .her fine garments were out of place trailing over her shabby floors, - Besides the {nappropriateness of the house to her new finery, there were also: those fearful expectations of the neighbors that must be met. So Mary Mahoney went house hunting; with her she took Mary Ware. It was not a success. Imposing en- trances and lofty ceilings that filled Mary Ware's soul with ecstasy brought forth only shivers of apprehension from Mary Mahoney's. Wide streets and spreading lawns that meant meant only dread lonesomeness to the other, Mary: Ware, when the day was ! done, came home with reluctant and vision-filled eyes. ~ Mary Mahoney, if the truth must be told, came home with aching feet and a sour temper; ~ moreover, she flung off all her torturing garments, clothed herself in a friendly wrapper, and later visited fn turn each ome of her werk all there, 7 ' ary Mahoney did not sélect a new dwelling just then. ert In July she went away for a vaca- tion, Not that she needed ono but she found that if. was expacted of her. Mrs. Jones had told her tha to do g it der luxurious privacy to Mary Ware io 'Delghbors--as if to make sure they Wore prodigal extravagance al- ready a source of real embarrassment to their father. He did not like to talk about money, and always gave them what they asked for. He even allowed them to charge what they wanted at the stores. hl Fite I began by talking over with them the family finances. They were im- pressed and symp; them what amount 1 to be devoted to each of them; : could - be spent for their clo school books, health conservation, church = and Sunday-school dues, amusements, and vacation ips, doe. ket' money, 'incidentals and They were delighted, being under the impresgion that the sum allowed was lager than theéy had been accustom- ed to have spent upon them, although the reverse was true, Gro I explained to them that we were trying to carry out a system that was for the good of the whole family; that was, to 'ineredse our happiness and. prosperity and to ald in preserv- ing the peace and satisfaction in the Then I showed them that any kind of system must be kept perfect at every point, or the whole thing becomes worthless, 5 Sh TS They were interested, and looked actually thoughtful: They asked what they were to do if things they "had to have" cost more than I had allowed for them; , how about pocket money it "it happened so" they had to do a lot of treating? "Or suppose," said John triumphantly, "prices went up and up and up? Locked like they were going to." ~ 7 $ I had my answers all ready. Things that cost more than one can pay, must be done without; inthe matter of treating one must decide how far one can go, and accept only the limited amount of hospitality that one can re- turn; and if the prices go up and up, tastes and requirements must go down and down. In case of great necessity, exceeding of the budget in one direction must be met by a cor responding cut in some other. For in. stance, if a friend had to be treated to-day, one could cut out thé expected trip to the movies to-morrow. I finished by saying that if John's or Mary's books did not balance at the end of the quarter 1 would have to make up the difference by taking something out of mine, At this they protested vigorously. ; \ They found in the system a new game to play, They liked it--liked it immensely. Of course, from time to time they backslid." Who does not? now, at the end of a year, our boy and girl have learned, among other things, 'the value of a dollar; they have learned how to keep their own ac- counts, and keep them straight; they late Bimon Tibbets; 'and that it was M: Tibbets 'Ware, -daughter of Thomas Tibbets, that the bequest was made, instead of to Mary Tibbets Ma- 'honey, daughter of Horace Tibbets. And he did hope she would understand' that they really were not to hlame for 'there having been two babies christen- ed "Mary Tibbets." - With that the lawyer stopped and were As it happened, bowever, 'he was not Prepared for "what really did oc 'her toot Sh towered over him: in her right hand she flourished a tack hammer that she had forgotten to lay he trying to prepare for the -- down," oc _ "Do tic. 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