Mount Carmel Township High School - Kismet Yearbook (Locust Gap, PA)

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n pr .. '- ' 1 SIX THOUSAND PESOSH In a poor, wretched hut tucked away at the edge of a forest, lived Maria Sansovini and her brother Jose. Maria was a buxom italian woman, aged about 35, and an excellent housekeeper and cook. Jose, poor Jose, as Maria was often Wont to say, was nothing but a bag of bones. In age, he was slightly younger than Maria, but in appearance--ah! in appearance Jose was an cld man. Just now, at the vesper hour, when the twilight shadows were deepening, Jose sat upon the doorstep of his humble home and awaited the arrival of Maria, who held a servant's position in the home of a wealthy neighbor. Ah! Josef, she called merrily, as she walked up the road which led to the cottage, how great the cough today? Do'st thou feel no better? t'Better! snorted Jose, in sarcasm. Sister, I fear not many moons shall pass before thy brother shall lay dead at thy feet. And thou, the only one who could save him, Will not do his bid- ding. ' Speak not thus! answered Maria impatiently, fear enter- ing her heart. What more wouldist thou have me do? Have I not done as much as I could? Ah! and Jose sighed. Again has Pedro Guarino come. He would have thee for his wife. He would send me to the moun- tain country, where my cough would be cured, but again of thy stubbernness to refuse him. After saying this Jose was overcome by a spasm of coughing and Maria had to help him into the house. Soon she was busily preparing their meal. After Jose retired to bed, Maria remained up working on a fancy scarf for which she would receive five pesos the next day. Ah! she mused as she sat knitting. Tomorrow I will give Jose the five pesos so he can go to the village doctor, who will cure his cough. She sat nearly all night, knitting, constantly knitting, but at last the scarf was nnished and she went happily to bed. Again it was twilight, and Maria returning from the Fantini villa was happy, because the kind' senora had given her six pesos instead of five for the scarf. Maria felt well paid for her labor and was hurrying home to tell Jose of ther good fortune when a man stepped out from a tree and accosted her with these wordshzl Many pardons, Senora, for having frightened you, but my need is urgent and I must make haste. My mother is ill almost unto death, and no doctor near. The neighbors will not stay lest they also get the fever. I will give thee six thousand pesos. Wil'st thou stay? FORTY-SIX

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Six thousand pesos! thought Maria-enough to take Jose and her to the mountains, where Jose would become healthy again. They would be poor no longer and she would not have to marry that hateful Pedro Guarino. Ah! thought Maria, how happy they would be. She watched by the bedside of the sick woman for several days, helping the doctor, until the crisis was passed. Then she returned home to Jose, richer by six thousand pesos. Two years had passed joyously for Maria, for Jose had re- gained his health and was now proprietor of a tiny shop fon one of the by-streets of New York in the land of golden opportunity. His temper had improved with his health and he was well liked by his Italian friends. Maria no longer needs to be a servant but is housekeeper for dear, fat Jose, and is extremely happy in her new home. Here we will leave them, Maria at the stove in her immaculate kitchen, an'd Jose pulttering about his tiny store selling this, selling that, and murmuring gratefully, Muchas gracias, Senor. Adios! V HELEN D. HAVERTY, '27 Fun l'Y-Sl'lN,l'lFN