The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-01-18

seen her, and knew that she was not un-
like other women, as she had somehow
imagined her to be- "rve been all over
half dozen great buildings in search
of you. My aunt, Miss Jemima Thayne
you know her, don't you Z"
"Oh, yes, quite WELL" answered Miss
Studley. "a very fine woman indeed.
Yes; well, she sent me out to find
you, and get her something for the tooth
ache. I've climbed as many as twenty
flights of stairs, and found out where a
host of doctors, lawyers, insurance
agents, and professional men generally,
have their rooms, but couldn't find YOU,
because L lost the address Aunt Jem gave
me. met friend who happened to
know where you were to be found, and
| he wrote your address on card. Even
after l got into the right building, had
to make q blunder, and get into a mans
room-I know it's a mans room, by the
looks. 1t is the one adjoining yours,
and the horridest, dirtiest place you ever
saw"
" It's Lawyer Deans Office explained
Miss Studley, laughing at Miss Susie
Thayne's adventures of the afternoon
"a very nice young man, too, though,
perhaps, not very tidy, so far as keeping
his room is concerned. Men are not apt
to vie in that respect, you know"
Susie got the drops for Aunt Jemima's
toothache, and started home at last. As
she went down the stairs, she met a
young man going up; a very fine-look-
ing fellow, too she decided, as she stole
glance into his handsome blonde face.
lie had clear laughing blue eyes, tawny
beard and mustache, and curling brown
hair-Susies ideal of handsome man
tall and straight, and with peculiarly
graceful walk, that she noticed as he
passed her with polite bow She miss
ed her handkerchief as she reached the
bottom of the stairs, and ran back in
seach of it. On the landing she met the
young gentleman, who had picked up
the article, and was hurrying to restore
it to her.
Il found this in front of Miss Stud
ley's room," he said, holding it up. Il
presume it is yours"
=" Yes, sir" answered Susie, demurely
" missed it, and came back to look for
it. Thank you," with smile and bow
to the handsome young gentleman, as
she took the handkerchief and tripped
down stairs again.
" She's beauty" said the young man
to himself, as he turned and entered the
room Susie had considered such an saw
full dirty place" "By Jove. but didn't
her eyes have snap to them and her
cheeks too ! There wasn't any paint
about them, l know . And such splendid
hair ! all her own, too I'd give some
thing to know who she was"
He flung his hat down in one corner,
and his gloves in another, and seated
himself in the chair Susie had occupied,
thinking all the while about the saucy
black eyes, red, dimpled cheeks, and
dancing curly hair of the young lady he
had met.
What is this!" he exclaimed, after
delightful dream concerning the fair
OF course, young lawyers,
ike other young men, are not exempt
from such waking dreams-as his eyes
alighted on a fiat parcel, in brown paper,
lying on his table. ut isn't anything
left here for me, is it Z"
He took it up, and as he did so, the
string slipped off, and there was a rustic
and culver inside the paper, as though
alive was inside of it, and
something white and airy sprung into
shape and symmetry
"a hoopskirt by all that's good"
cried Fred Dean, holding the Aexile, odd
looking thing out at arms length. ITS
the funniest thing Who'd have imagined |
hoopskirt inside that fiat parcel? l |
wonder how it came here in my office ! |
1t must be some woman left it by mis-
take. | have itw he exclaimed. 1T be- |
longs to that girl met on the stairs. OF |
course it does. It's just about large |
enough for her, should Judge. Such a |
funny thing" and he turned it round |
and round, surveying it critically and |
wonderingly, and, perhaps, little ad-
miringly.
What are you doing with that article,
Dean!" called out a laughing voice at |
the door.
The young man dropped the article
and grew very red in the face,
rs he confronted his visitor.
"Oh! it's you, is it," he said, as a
young fellow entered the Office. Il didn't |
know but some client had called in, and |
didn't fancy being caught examining
I hoopskirt. Hardly the kind of study |
suitable for lawyer, you know" he ad-
led, laughingly, as he pushed the chair
ne had occupied toward the visitor. l
'ound this thing" touching the crinoline
With his foot as he spoke, ION my table.
How it came there don't know. Some
ady left it, probably
"Fearfully and wonderfully made, isn't
t 7" said Lockwood, taking up the skirt
md depoSiting it on the table in much
he same way Il body would handle some
hing he expected would bite. "Quite
N adventure, l declare, and romantic
yithal. If you can only find out the fair
'eing whose property this is, and restore
to her, you will perhaps be able to
lain her as your reward That's the
yay in romances, and l hope this won't
'rove an exception to the rule"
"Tll put it in this closet" said Dean,
Ianging the crinoline on nail in
mall room in one corner of the office.
I'm inclined to think, however, that
hiding a hoopskirt wouldn't be con-
idered very romantic by romance
writer's"
thereafter, it can't be said that you've
10 skeleton in your closet" laughed
lockwood, as Dean closed the door on
lis new article of apparel and took a
eat opposite, with his feet on the table,
fter emptying the chair of pile of
'apers, and tossing the slippers into the
orner where he had chung up" his hat.
X
Here are your drops, Aunt Jemima,"
aid Miss Thayne, on her arrival home, as