Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-12-05

alone for anything"
"No danger" said Marcin, short
ly. What do you snobs in the five
dollar seats know ofus music-lovers
toasting for a dollar apiece in the
top of the house"
"Not even reserved seat? Why
that is nor respectable"
"I think l have got beyond the
point where men and reserved seats
make me respectable"
"Marcia, you don't really mean
TO go. Some dreadful thing will
happen to you," urged her mother.
"Ask one of your brothers."
"What, take a boy of fourteen,
about half as large as l am-away
from his studies, too? And ifI ask
George, he'll be sure to have some
other engagement. No-I have ta-
ken my stand at last"
"Oh dear!'' groaned Mrs. Dey.
81 will talk to her about it," said
Susie.
"Will you?" exclaimed Marcia,
going to the window to cool off,
where in few minutes Susie fol-
lowed her.
The result of their conversation
was Marcia's saying as they went
up stairs:
"I'll do just as you say this time,
and you'll see it will be just as l
told you"
The next evening as the family
gathered about the table for dinner,
Marcia exclaimed:
"This is Lucca's last night in
Faust; l do so want TO CO."
A silence followed this remark,
Edith lifting her eyebrows in re-
membrance of Marcia's declaration,
but being too Indifferent to say any
thing. The door bell rang and
George sprang up, saying:
"That's Boxer! Pm Off"
care you going out, father?" said
Marcia.
"No. Pm too tired to 60 anywhere
tonight. When man has been
out all day. he wants to rest at
home sometimes"
Marcia made no reply, but her
black brows seemed to form a bar
ricade, behind which some kind Of
a battle was to take place. She was
ominously silent during the evening,
hardly civil to Mr.. Thornton when
he came for Edith, and sat long
time in the dark in her own room.
There was something in the steady
energy of her face that haunted Mr..
Thornton, as he looked at the pretty,
silken woman at Lis sido, and he
remarked:
"Your cousin Marcia must be a
person of considerable character"
"Marcia is peculiaf," replied
Edith, with tone of artificial pity.
"You must excuse her roughness."
ooh, l rather like it. Sometimes
the best gems have the most unpre-
possessing exterior, but the skillful
hand brings out uutold beauty"
Edith softly murmured eyes,"
for her feminine ear had detected a
note of feeling in his tone which
she seldom heard, but her mind was
occupied with the wonder what he
would give her for Christmas.
"Susie," said Marcia the next day,
81 am going to the lecture tonight,
and if you want to 60, I'd like to
have you."
81 don't like to have you go alone,
Marcia, so if you insist on this
course, l shall always accompany
YOU"
81 am glad of it, for you don't 60
out any more than do, and we both
need it,"
~ think so" said Susie. And here
the matter ended-with them.
A fearful domestic storm ensued
when The girls announced their in
tebtion. r. sa-
"You are not going alone" assert
ed George.
EYES,"
"No; I'll take you up, and come
for you."
"It is not at all necessary"
Pm not going to have my sisters
run over to New York in that way
in the evening"
"There's no use in talking about
it, George"
"There's no question about the
propriety of it?"
ayes, there is. Put it in this
form: Can women who have no es-
cort quietly 60 about in New York
in the evening, or can they not?
And Susie and I, like Miss Emily
Faithful, with her type-setting, will
prove in person that they can"
"You have an escort"
"How oftcn?" And the girls left
the room.
George had his way in so much
as he attended them to the hall, and
when the lecture was over they
looked for him among the gentle
men about the door. He was not
there, and Susie thought they had
better wait. So they did, until ev-
cry one was gone, and the janitor,
looking suspicicusly, came to lock
up. AS they walked to the cars the
few passers in the street glanced at
them, for they fingered and looked,
expecting George every moment.
Looking for any one, miss?"
asked man, putting his face close
to Susie's.
She started back and clutched
Marcia, who sternly said: