Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-07-23

room; she had seat in his carriage
whenever he could leave business for
pleasure; and Huldah did not know that
Katherine's drives and pleasures had
been increased at her rivals suggestion,
nor would she have thanked her for her
trouble. All this, however, was not at
all to Huldah's mind, She saw that OPP
portunitv would make Mr.. Jetireys the
lover of Miss DreXel unless something
should happen TO interrupt their too easy
intercourse Mr. Jetlreys was indolent
enough in his social nature; she had
never known him to go out of his way to
cultivate the young ladies, and she had
argued that once in the house and under
his eve young girl could make easy
prey of him; indeed, she had built her
hopes for Katherine ON this popularity
of his, and she arrived at the conclusion
that she had been a fool to admit Miss
DreXel to this opportunity She ought
to have known that a plain woman
was more dangerous than pref
ty one, inasmuch as man is
not on guard against her, while the
pretty woman is so well pleased with her
self that she takes little or no pains to
please another. Huldah straightway de
cidcd to get Miss DrcXel out of the house
as soon as possible OF course this could
not be accomplished in direct way; she
could not tell Miss DreNel up and down
that her room was better than her com
pany, and the only other alternative was
to resort TO little filings of temper and
pin-priCks of discomfort, which, if Miss
DreXel was anything of an epicurean,
would render her boarding-place highly
distasteful.
Now Miss DreXel had counted upon
making a home for herself and Ally out
of these sunshiny rooms; and although
she was no epicurean and not much of a
stole, vet it was essential to her happi-
ness to live on good terms with those
about her A quarrel was as disagreed
bic as the neigh borhood of infection; and
Miss Huldah undertook to quarrel with
her, lectured her. advised her about the
management of Ally, interfered with her,
and made the girl dread to go down
stairs to her meals In truth, Miss HUI
dab did not care farthing how obnoX-
ious she made herself provided she could
put opportunity beyond Miss DreXeps
reach, and keep Mr.. Jetlreys for Katie.
rine. SO, when Ally was convalescng
after a juvenile illness, she refused to
have the cook prepare her dinner Mt an
earlier hour than that at which the house
hold dined, and Miss DreXel was forced
to 90 to a restaurant and procure a light
dinner already cooked for her little sis.
ter. Miss Drexel's means not being
bountiful, and laundrywork high,
she proposed to herself the care
of her own and Ally's muslins,
and requested to be allowed the use of
OF irnn N ar. hos I'd in, hn han l. hon
where she would have been in no ones
way; but this favor was declined; Miss
Huldah couldn't have ladies pottering
round in the kitchen and spying out the
poverty of the land; and the greatest
concession that Miss DreXcl could wiring
from her was the privilege of toling up
and down two long flights of stairs with
hot iron to do the work in her own
to picnic Miss Huldah's cake was just
out and her bread in the oven, and the
chickens unpluckcd When Miss Drexel
she was warming the square outside.
Miss DrcXcl endured everything patient
ly for six months or more, thinking Miss
Huldah was overworked and made fret
full and fault-tinding by the friction of
unhappy circumstances; but at last she
fell into Miss Huldahs trap, and went
out to hunt up a new boarding-place one
day, but without contiding in her land
lady. Mr. Jetfreys had been away a
month on business, and the house was
less like home than prison. She directed
her steps to the Soberleys first, who kept
boarders under protest, having had n
baronet among their ancestors who con
siderably interfered with the arrange
ment. Mrs. Soberlcy had quartet of
daughters to marry, however, and took
only gentlemen boardcrs, she said.
Besides" she added, lit would be so
unneighborly in me to take away the
Sparsleys' boarders; we are good friends
and they are needy women. If you
weren't the Sparsleys' boardcr, now-but
YOU see how it isl II would be taking
the bread out of a ncighbor's mouth,
now wouldn't it,
Dishcartencd, Miss DreXcl pursued her
quest TO the Steers door; but Mrs. Sli-
Ger, having brace of gay sons, enter
tanned only middle-aged, respectable
women
And am I not respectable, and TWEEN
ty-six?" cried Miss DreXcl.
If YOU are, | could never reconcile it
to my conscience to steal away the
Sparseleys' boQrders," answered Mrs.
Slcer, with holy horror Il should feel
like thief and a robberm
Miss WaXworks house was full. You
are the Sparslcys' boarders, ] believe ~
she said; and though two of her best
rooms would be vacant in month she
shuddercd at the prospect Of
harboring the Sparsleys boarders as
if She had been "A burglar. 81
had one of my highest-priced board
crs wiled away from me once myself, and
| said then I'd never take other folks
away--no, never-so long as my name is
WaXwork"
Mrs S1insbod had room puourh con