The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-06-01
= Capital Storv,
THE CORAL BRACELETS.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.

Ii was "the coldest day in the season. ="
" Put on more coal, Hawkins, said Nina
Pelham, querulously, as she sat i'll front of
the blazing sea-coal CRATE, robed in a blue
cashmere morning dress, lined with quilted
satin of the same color, and her small feet
comfortably ensconccd in blue velvet slip
pers, edged with snowy swans-down.
Hawkins, solemn and somewhat conse-
tucntial-looking servant in sober black,
obeyed his young mistress rather petulant
behest, but paused a moment after he had
heapea the blazing coal upon the red-hot
bars Of the CRATE.
If you please, Miss Nina there young
person down stairs would like to see you.
What kind of person. Hawkins? ~
questioned Nina, languidly liIting her eyes
from her work, with some slight appearance
OF interest.
"Woll, Miss said Hawkins, hesitatng
little, she $ very gentcclspok ella real
lady, You i'd think, if it wasn't that she is
dressed so shabbily and scant.
: 1t isn't the dress-makcr?
No, Miss Nina, certainly not.
Nor any body come after the lady s
maid situation? --.....
No, Miss ! should say not-she doesn t
look like lady maid.
"Well--show her up! "
And Nina's pretty head settled back
among the cushions of her chair with re-
turning Incidence. But the instant her eye
fell or the sweet, though very pale face of
the slender-looking girl who advanced timid-
" into the room, ushered by the stately
Hawkins, she sat upright with genuine sur
prise depicted in her countenance.
"Anna Wharton. is it possible that this
is you?" -,
'Then you recognize me-, Nina?' said
the stranger, family crimsoning. 1T is SO
long since we were schoolmates together at
Madame Sauriat's that thought feared
you would scarcely remember me.
-." "Sit down, said Nina, rather ungra-
ciously motioning with her hcayly-ringed
finger toward chair. " w hat can do for
you?
Miss Wharton did not sit down, however
it might have been that she was repelled
by the extreme GOODNESS of Nina 8 manner
but went on speaking, in Il hesftating, I'M
certain voice.
"Of course you have heard of our mis-
fortunes, Nina-my poor father failure
and death and my mother subsequent de-
ccaBe?"
Il had not heard Of it., said Nina, con
tempating her dainty slippers. :. People
in society have 20 many things to think and
talk about"
There is no u,u, " resumed Anna, in
trying to conceal tie fact that am compel
= led to earn my daily labor by my hands. -
And, she added, with slight flush on hel
checks, heretofore have experienced ne
difficulty in comfortably supporting boti
myself and my little brother. But since he
. has fallen ill"
II am very sorry that have no fine sew
ing to give you, remarked Nina in a con
strained voice; 'and really my allowance o.
d. pocket-money is so very small that
Anna Wharton colored scarlet.
You entirely misunderstood me, Nina
do not come here to beg,
She drew little morocco box from hel
pocket as she spoke, and opened it.
remember that you used to admire
these Neapolitan corals very much in oul
school days. ] have been 10th to part witt
them up to this time, although it has beer
necessary to dispense with every relic o.
happier times. But my brother is dying tol
want of proper nourishment and the luxu
ries which money only can obtain for him
I wish to sell the bracelets, Nina, and
thought you might like to purchase them ot
sne, rf.3
Nina leaned forward in her chair and tool
the box, her eyes sparkling at the sight o
the beautifully carved bracelets Of Neapoli
tan coral; all streaked and yened with the
softest rose color, that lay in the simpl,
easket She had been endeavoring for the
last year to obtain set of rose coral, and
here at length it was, ready TO her hand. -
But Mira Pelham was woman Of the world
and understood the contemptble art of max
ing "a good bargain 80 she wisely re
pressed her ecstacics, and asked, with colt
Indifference:
How much do you expect to receive fol
them, Anna Wharton @E t9
Papa gave eighty dollars for them il
Itaiy, and they are as good as ever.
Nina shrugged her shoulders.
NOf course you can't expect to get {
twentieth part Of that price for them no,oP
nina Pelham, !" said Anna Wharton
firmly, II am at your mercy III this matter
Whateycr YOU may please to, give i mus
accept, for-I am straitened by necessity; =
" Name 4 price at once---but, Nina. remembe
that you are rich and am poor
II shau give you five dollars, and not on