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

Joined in order TO reappear in splendid
toilet of Gala lilies and ivy leaves. All
these attentions might have given him
hint of Miss katherines open secret if
Mr.. Jet1reys had lent any thought to the
language, and had not been too we'll used
TO ladylike attentions. In fact, it was
due to this amiable weakness on the part
of Miss Katherine that the house was
filled only with elderly widows and anti
quated spinsters and clergymen who had
outiyed their usefulness, and that they
had been induced to take Miss DreXel
merely because Mr. Jeffreys had urged it,
and had proposed giving up his own
Dom nd finding lodgings at the hotel in
| order that they might accommodate her
OF two evils they naturally chose the
lesser; it would be possible to rid them
selves of Miss DrcXel if she proved
troublesome, but if Mr. Jeffrcys depart
ed il might be for years, and it might be
forever.
Miss DreXel, having but Ally at school
began to make acquaintance with her
new home. Mr. Jetireys brought his
friends To call, others followed suit; the
Misses Sparsley were surprised to find
her quite the fashion in ciques from
which they had long been omitted.
There were new, rich people in Marathon
who knew not Joseph, who made much
of Miss DrcXel, and little of the Misses
Sparslcy, because Mr.. Jetireys had in
troduccd her, and because they had
found out her talent and wished to en-
rich their fetes with her musical skill
The Sparsleys were not prepared for any
such awkward situation, though they
could have borne it had il not come
about through Mr. Jctireys' influence.
Why had he not lent himself to their es-
Enlistment in society as well as TO that
of this stranger? Had she already be-
witched him? Perish the thought!
Your parlor looks like an oasis among
the sands of Sahara" Miss Katherine
overheard him say to her, as he left it
one day. "lbelieve you've appropriated
every atom of sunshine there is in the
house. | always thought my own room
was charming till you came and Olsen
chanted it," And indeed Miss DreXcl's
parlor deserved his cncomiums. 1t over
looked the country through four broad
windows whose embrasureS were filled
with Towering plants; here and there
were little treasures saved from the
wreck of "A once luxurious home; a writ
ing-Stand of English lacquer work, an
antique chair, a few family portraits of
ladies in satin and jewels, and a grand
father by Copley; an Ormolu clock
with a chime like a distant cathc-
dral bell; a Dresden china vase;
and Pompeian lamp which ilu-
minated the ordinary clearinghouse fur
nituring, and lent the room an air of
quaint picturesQueness The sun heaped
great bars of gold on the dingy carpet
which made amends for its depressed ex-
preston, and touched and intensified
every bit of color with its magic, till the
place made one dream of painted win
dows and the flash of tropical wings,
while the flowers in the Dresden
palpitated like gems, and the old figures
of the lacquerwork seemed starting out
from their dull background and the
gcraniums and fuChsias burned like
torches in the acknowledges. Miss HUI
dab suggested that she should shut out
some OF the glare after this, palpably
hintlng an injury to the carpet. Too
much sunshine is bad for eyes and car
pets Miss Drexel,' she said. She did
not care a farthing for Miss Drexers eyes
she was merely afraid of the effect on
Mr. Jefireys'. The room was getting too
pleasant to him. 1t was aggravating
enough, no doubt, to hear Mr. Jetircys
and Miss DreXel chatting on the stairway
going up and down, and in the hall; to
know that the conversation sometimes
dropped into such an undertone that it
was impossible for the bcst-rcgulated ear
| to catch the import; to find that when
they went out in different directions they
! almost invariably returned together, as
if under the influence Of some magnetism
hardly understood by their landladies.
1t was surely Il little annoying
that Mr.. Jetfreys should spend evening
| after eveningin Miss DreXel's parl0r at the
whi.t-table, especially as he had excused
himself from the game on previous win
! ter evenings on the score Of ignorance
"Oh, thought you didn't play whist"
essayed Miss IIuldah, with feigned sur
| prise.
I've been learning" he answered,
with the help of Miss DreNel, Pole and
| CayendiSh I'm a partner fit for a
/ queen"
Then come down and play with Kath-
| crime and me sometimes, And perhaps
Miss DreXel will favor us, too? I'm
1 about tired of dominoes."
! They consented, to he sure But the
scheme did not work. Miss Huldah be
came so entangled in the branches of the
family tree that she trumped her part
ner's trick. Katharine was Mr.. Jcf1revs'
. partner, but he saw nobody but Miss
DrcXcl. Miss IIuldah began to doubt if
he understood that grandpa had kept his
/ carriage and span, had entertained Com
modore and had built and lived in PIN
leo place, at the court end of Marathon,
where She and Katharine had first seen
the day She forgot that all this was an
old story TO Mr. Jetlrcys, Of which he was
already weary, and which affected him
not nearly 50 much as if they had been
born i'm hOvcl and reared on mud pies