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“I hope she'll git it,” lamented
Deacon Phlbry, tapping a cream bis
cuit on the head and gazing gravely
at his gray-haired spouse. "Ye see,
it's like this. Either Mellie Peevy
draws that silk dress, or else we ll all
be in the lunatic asylum.”
"I know,” assented his wife in a
weary monotone. She was a small,
faded woman, whose forehead was al
ways marked by three querulous
wrinkles. "She was in here yesterday
and almost prayed she might git the
prize. She's gitting awfully tiresome.”
"Abigail Bunker had no business,”
growled the deacon, “to go to her and
solicit her money. The Lawd knows
she’s hard up enough without paying
50 cents for the chance of drawing a
black silk dress in any Ladies’ Aux
iliary fair.”
For land s sakes, hush: wntspereu
his wife. “Here she comes now.”
And the creaking of the screen door
in allowing a portly woman of wor
ried demeanor to enter drowned the
deacon’s groan. “D’ye think, Mrs. Phl
bry, Number 21 is a lucky number?”
asked the newcomer nervously, un
heeding the salutation of welcome and
fumbling with the clasp of an ancient
reticule. ‘I almost wish now I'd taken
22.2
“The best way,” soothed the dea
con. “is to be prepared for the worst
and not expect to git nothing. Why,
I’ve put money into a dozen of ’em
schemes and never drew nothing but a
bedquilt. And as I wasn’t there when
that was drawn they drew it over
again and the stage driver got it."
“Don't ye think* I stand any
chance?” implored Mrs. Peevy, lock
ing and opening her fat fingers rap
idly. "i dreamed last night 1 was go
ing to git it with 22.”
If you had two tickets you’d stand
liled to detect any possible ad
vantage that might accrue to the La
dles’ Auxiliary. It was her Moloch and
to it she was prepared to sacrfice
even the deacon himself.
“It seems hard,” persisted the wid
ow. as if the drawing had already
been accomplished and another had
carried off the prize. "It. seems pesky
hard that I should live all these years
wllthout a black silk.”
Truth was, Mellie Peovy’s hopes of
drawing the black silk dress had rnf
fled the placidity of more than one
household. It was the second time
she had ever trifled with chance, and
the possibilities of the venture loomed
vast bob re her. Iil prepared to
dabble in even the' Ladies' Auxiliary
stock-market, she was tasting in this
plunge all the zestful anti ipation, ac
centuated with painful in uietude, of
the amateur gambler. It bad always
been her passion to wear a black silk,
and is he had been thwarted from a girl
up.
wot only had s' e air ml her Pars to I
the Phlbrys. but had also lingered,
swamped with apprehension, in the
homes of many another of the mem- I
bers of the auxiliary; until the town
began to discuss the matter seriously
and Jind the chief point of interest ift
the coming fair to pivot on this one
particular prize drawing.
' Thus it was due largely to Mellie
Peevy's ticket and the uncertainty at
tached thereto that the Ladies' Aux
iliary fair was patronized beyond all
precedent on the last night.
r The committee cunningly held back
the drawing for the last event but
throughout the evening the widow s at
bolt upright, oblivious to the program
of recitations and vocal numbers, with
eyes only for the table of prizes. The
large package In brown paper was un
doubtedly It, and she studied it hun
, grily. To think so thin a wrapper
/ could contain so much happiness!
“Will Deacon Phlbry please step
forward?" asked one of the committee,
and the deacon, surprised and tlus
- -tered, squeaked his painful way to the
small platform, where his new boots
caught the rays from two kerosene
lamps and discarded them in halos.
He was informed, after he had stood
motionless for what seemed to him to
be several years, that the committee
wished him to draw front a hat the
lucky number designating the owner
of the black silk dress. The first uunm
ber selected would win. H had be*n
arranged that Elder Tomper was to
pass up the hat, filled with numbers,
and as he performed his part in the
ceremony he looked in Deacon
Phlbry's eyes tc be miles away; ex
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actly as if the dorron u r * gazing
through the big end of a tele-cope.
The deacon grasped the hea l cover
ing mechanically, hut as he glanced
down his gaze was caught and held by
the numerals "21.” They seemed to
fill the w’. - le l i t, to f 1 the \vhole hall
and he knew i.,ey were too heavy tc
be lifted. He panted h r fresh air as he
reai d it was time to • ■ re the ha:
above hi head, am. ins antly the mini
her diminished down to the s ze of e
pinhead—it was bein'; eliminated al
to-ether. The s:i;htrst jar would shif:
it to the bottom.
lint, he reasoned dumbly, if it were
dexu rously 'doped under the sweat
band, iike that;* and the hat sbak
on. like that: and tie free hand raised
and hi pm'i into the receptacle, like
that, .there tl.o ticket invitingly thrus
itself tor h—iike that—it "would all b
very simple.
Then with a jolt he renli *d what h'
had cli no The widow was wee; in
j: asm lkaPy and i.„ i.- txens
*' Cheering wildly, as though a verdict
! of "Not guilty” had been returnee,
with a public favorite in the dock, are
Misa Bunker was snapping her eyes
in chagrin. Th > deacon blindly passed
| the hat and its burden of forlorn hop*
! to the elder and star ■:< red down from
the platform and out of the halt into
| the night.
"Well, she got it.” gashed Mrs.
Phlbry, after running to overtake him
"And we cleared $1S6.”
From that hour life 1st its cheer
for the deacon. As the days passed and
he became used to a. sedating with
his own conacla.me, he had to give
hirnrdf credit for committing his firs’
offers' almost unconsciously. if he
had been familiar with the 'ihecry of
hypnotism he wi ii! l have attributed
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hts deception to the widows nunt,u.
all-compelling eyes. j
At last he decided he must confess
to some one—not to his wife but to <
some one who had known him and his (
wholesome life from youth up. Ih' ,
would tell all to Eider Temper, his (
senior in years, his friend for more
than half a century. It was hard
cruelly hard, and once the disjointed
recital was completed the d eon hung |
his head and kept his kindly, honest
eyes glued to the carpet.
“If she hadn't pestered me so! ' he
groaned in self-de ens\ “I got so I j
dreamed of her drawing that nmasly j
dress. When I was working in t ie hay
field the very swish of my scythe was
a rustle from that pattern, it'll break
her heart if she learns she didn't draw
it fair. It's religion to her. 1 d rather
j buy every woman in town a gown.
But what can I do without etarnaliy
disgracing myself ”
| The elder cleared a curious sob from
! his throat and made a queer noise in
his venerable beard. Then in a soft,
! hushed voice, he belittled the fraud
and explained it as a:i all conquering
impulse, something done in a dream—
there were such things as waking
dreams—and concluded by cautioning j
secrecy. “It won’t do no good to let
anyone know how you—you—”
"Fell?” suggested the deacon, mis
erable In spirit.
"Not exactly that,” denied the elder,
i knitting his brows, “fer you weren’t
| tempted. Can't fall unless ye’re tempt
! ed. I guess it was a little of the old
! Adam in ye that has been waiting for
years and years to peep out, and on
that night, for the first time, found
ye napping. However, don't say noth
ing to nobody.”
As this was in accord with the dea
con's inclination, despite the twinge
; of conscience, he left his friend with
: the load slightly lifted from his heart.
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i '‘But What Can I Do Without Etarnallj
Disgracing Myself?”
| It was not fully removed, but it
' seemed as if th eider were boosting
on one side and easing him of its
weight a bit.
It was not until two months after
Elder Temper died, when tin* deced
ent’s son had returned from abroad,
that the will was opened and read.
Deacon Phlbry was designated as ex
ecutor; but it was two codicils that
created the comment—for their pro
visions were unusual even in unique
•harity. Codicil one, dated the day aft
er the auxiliary fair, provided:
1 herewith instruct my e.\»eutor to set
'■aside from my estate such a sum as will
provide yearly, for a period of ten years,
an income that will be sufficient to pur
> base one black silk dress pattern, said
pattern to be the property of tile I-adles'
\ us Hi ary. the said auxiliary to offer
aforesaid pattern as a prize by such
methods as may be deemed best by said
auxiliary's committee in holding its year
ly fair.
But codicil two caused even a great
er ripple of pleasant speculation, for
this read:
1 hereby rhanKc codicil one of my last
will and testament bo as to read that the
term of the black silk dress trust fund
shall terminate <>n the death of my ex
ecutor, Klruithan Phlbry, and shall be
sufficient to provide only one-half of a
black silk dress pattern, on condition
that my said executor shall provide for
the other half. If he should refuse to
provide for one-half of said pattern,
codicil one is hereby revoked
“And here is a letter for you, Dea
con Phlbry, found in the decedent's
effects and marked ‘Personal,’ ” said
the lawyer, passing over a missive.
The deacon opened it jealously, and
found scrawled therein:
Dear Elnathan: That woman drove me
crazy, too. I prepared the tickets for the
hat and slipped in Ilftcen extra ones,
numbered 21. After you called on me and
told me all, I drew up codicil two, as I
thought you would want to divide the sin.
It will cost us about ten dollars per year,
each. JET HP EE.
"I shall be pleased to carry out the
urovi.ions of codicil two,” observed
the deacon, with a great sigh of re
lief.
As he walked home he met the black
silk, rustling louder than ever, but no
n".duration emanated from its folds.
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will have an open winter?
Woodson—My wife has Just pur
chased an expensive set of furs.—
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