The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-10-08

OF the Misses Sparsley, because Mr.. JEFF
reys had Introduced her, and because the
bad found out her talent, and wished t.
enrich their ietes with her musical skill
The Sparsleys were not prepared for an,
such awkward situation, though they coul'
have borne it had it not come about through
Mr.Jefreys inHneece. Why had he not ien
himself to their establishment in society
~ we'll as to that of this stranger! Hat
she already bewitched him Perish the
thonghsl
"Your par,or looks ike an oasis among
the sands of Sahara" Miss Katherine ever
heard him say to her, he left it one day
81 believe you've appropriated every atom
of sunshine there is 10 the house. lalwayl
thought ny own room was charming, till
you came and di>enehanted ito And H.
deed Miss Dre1el's arlor deserved bis en-
comiums. 1t overlooked the country
through foar broad windows, whose EN-
tbrssures were filed with Towering plants
here ard there were little treasures saved
from the wreck Of once luxurious home
= wrtIngstani Of English lacquer work, an
antique char, few family portraits If
ladies in satin and jewels, and graodfath-
er BY Ccpely; and ormolu clock, with a
| chime ike a distant cathedral Dell: Ores
den china vase; and a Pompeian lamp,
which Illuminated the ordinary boarding
house furniture, and lent III, room an
air OF quaint picturcsqueness. The sun
heaped great bars Of gold on the dingy
| carpet. which made amends for it. der ress-
ed expression, and touched and intensified
every bit Of color with its magic, till the
place made one dream of painted windows
and the fIsh Of tropical wings, while the
flowers in the Dresden vase paIpitated Ike
gems, and the odd figures of the lacquer
work seemed staring out from their dull
background, aud the geraniums and fuchsias
burned like torches in the windowlelges
Miss Hudah suggested that she should
shut out some of the gllrc after this, pal
pabIy limiting an injury to the carpet. "Too
much sdnshlne is bad for eyes and carpets,
Miss Drexel," she said. She did not care
farthing for Miss Drexel's eyes; she was
merely afraid of the effect on Mr.. Jefreys,
The room was getting too pleasant to him
1t was aggrayating enough, no doubt, to
hear Mr.. Jcfreys and Miss Drexel chatting
en- the stairway going up and down, and in
the ball; to know that the conversation
sometimes dropped into such an uudertone
that it was impossible for the best regulated
ear to catch the import to find that when
they went out in different directions they
almost invariably returned together, as if
under tie Influence of some magnetism
hardly understood Ly their landadi-a.
1t vas surely a little annoying that Mr
Jeffreys should spend evening after evening
in Miss Drexels parlor at the whist table,
especially as he had excused himself from
the game on previous winter evenings on The
score of ignorance.
ooh, thought you didn't play whist"
es,ayed Miss Huldai, with feigned sur.
rise.
1--we been learning" lie answered, "with
the help of Mss Drexel, Pole and Caven-
dish. Tn partner fit for queen"
Then come down and play with Kath-
crime and me sometimes Aad perhaps
Miss Drexel will favor us, too? I'm alb. ut
tired Of dominoes"
They consented, to be sure. But the
scheme did rot work Miss Iluliah be,
came so entangled in the branches of the
family tree that she trumped her partners
trick Katherine WAS Mr.. Jrffrey's prrtner,
bat he saw nobody but Mis-. Drexel. Miss
lIuldah began to doubt if he understood
that granirafa had kept his carriage ans.
span, had entertained commodore
and had built and lived in Pin!ica
Place, at the court end of Marath on,
where she ana Katharine had first seen
tie day. She forgot that all this was
an o'i sur w NJ VI "uiCh ile
was already weary, and which affected him
not nearly so much as if they had been
born in hoyei and reared on mud pies. In
spite of Der plain face and common place
style, Miss DreSel was working mischief
for Katharine, Huldah feared; and she
took her work up to that young reprobate's
rom one afternoon, and read her an indi
rect lecture on the improperly of seeing
gentlemen alone in a boarding house, es-
pecally if you were young woman with
no family behind you, in a strange place,
where folks were ready to talk. In fact,
before the summer was hall through, Miss
lluldah was at her wits end. She declin-
ell to give up the cherished scheme Of half
a 1ozen summers for this upstart. Why
should he not fancy Katherine as well as
Miss Drexel. 1t is true, nothing had been
withheld from Katherine which she had
any right to expect. The gift Of concert
tickets continued; she still had an OCCASION
al-ndeed, a more frequent-scat behind
Mr.. Jeferys' nag; when he brought in a
basket of early fruit, katheriue's hands re-
ceived it. But fruits and flowers found
their way almost every day into Miss
Drexel's room, she bad a seat in his carriage
whenever he could leave business for pleas
ure, and IIulGah did 20, know that kath
( crimes drives and pleasures had been in
creased at her rivals suggestion, nor would
she have thanked her for her trouble. All
this, however, was not at all to Huldah
mind. She saw that opportunity would
make Mr.. Jeffrevs tie lover of Mi, Drcxei
unless something should happen to inter
rupt their too easy intercourse Mr.. JEFF
! freys was indolsnt enough in his social ma
ture; she had never known him 10 20 on,
of his way to cultivate the yourg ladies',
AMI she had argued that once in the house
and under his eye yourg girl could make
easy prey of him; indeed, she had built hel
hopes for Katherine on shis popularity o.
his, and she arrived at the conclusion thai
she had been fool to admit Miss Drexe
to this opportunity. She ought to have
known that plain woman was more dan.