smile and a manner wholly natural see succeeded in making a most favorable impression she explained to her guests that she had been living on the north side until recently that her husband mr had long wanted to have a home in park that her father and daughter were living here and that l z i c was the child s she said she hoped to repay all these nice attentions and to be a good neighbor heard about these calls in the evening for be did not care to meet these people came to enjoy it in a mild way she liked making new friends and she was hoping that something definite could be worked out here which would make look upon her as a good wife and an ideal companion perhaps some day he might really want to many her first impressions are not always permanent as was soon to discover the neighborhood had accepted her perhaps a little too hastily and now began to fly about a mrs calling on mrs one of s near neighbors intimated that she knew who was � oh yes indeed you know my dear she went on his reputation is just a little � she raised her eyebrows and her hand at the same time you don t say commented her friend curiously he looks like such a staid person oh no doubt in a way he is went on mrs his family is of the very best there was some young woman he went with � so my husband tells me i don t know whether this is the one or not but she was introduced as a miss or some such name as that when they were living together as husband and wife on the north side mrs with her tongue at this astonishing news you don t tell me come to think of it it must be the same woman her father s name is exclaimed mrs yes that s the name it seems to me that there was some earlier scandal in connection with her � at least there was a child whether he married her afterward or not i don t know anyhow i understand his family will not have anything to do with her how very interesting exclaimed mrs and to think he should have married her afterward if he really did i m sure you can t tell with whom you re coming in contact these days can you it s so true life does get badly mixed at times she appears to be a charming woman delightful exclaimed mrs quite i was really taken with her well it may be went on her guest that this isn t the same woman after all i may be mistaken oh i hardly think so she told me they had been living on the north side then i m sure it s the same person how curious that you should speak of her it is indeed went on mrs who was as to what her attitude toward should be in the future other came from other sources there were people who had seen and out driving on the north side who had been introduced to her as miss who knew what the family thought of course her present position the handsome house the wealth of the beauty of � all these things helped to soften the situation she was apparently too too much the good wife and mother too really nice to be angry with but she had a past and that had to be taken into consideration an opening bolt of the coming storm fell upon one day when returning from school suddenly asked mamma who was my papa his name was dear replied her mother struck at once by the thought that there might have been some criticism � that some one must have been saying something why do you ask where was i continued the last inquiry and interested in clearing up her own identity in pet why said i didn t have any papa and that you weren t ever married when you had me she said i wasn t a really truly girl at all � just a nobody she made me so mad i her s face grew rigid she sat staring straight before her mrs had called and had thought her gracious and in her of assistance and now her little daughter had said this to where did the child hear it you mustn t pay any attention to her said at last she doesn t know your papa was mr and you were bom in you mustn t fight other little girls of course they say nasty things when they fight � sometimes things they don t really mean just let her alone and don t go near her any more then she won t say anything to you it was a lame explanation but it satisfied for the time being i ll slap her if she tries to slap me she persisted you mustn t go near her pet do you hear then she can t try to slap you returned her mother just go about your studies and don t mind her she can t quarrel with you if you don t let her went away leaving brooding over her words the neighbors were talking her history was becoming common gossip how had they found out it is one thing to nurse a single thrust another to have the wound opened from time to time by additional one day having gone to call on mrs field who was her immediate neighbor met a mrs baker who was there taking tea mrs baker knew of the of s history on the north side and of the attitude of the family she was a thin vigorous intellectual woman somewhat on the order of mrs and very careful of her social connections she had always considered mrs field a 