Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-01-22
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1 Written for the Iaaependent.]
PINkIEsS PLOT.
BY b. 5. c.

e would never have left US here
bne y
rhe tones ofthe girl were indig-
ut and slow, albeit fast tears
oded her eyes, and the lips quiv-
ed as she added 81 am so disap-
inted in you Trudie.n
Trudie throwing aside her ball
ppings, wonderful combinations
gauze and silver, and dashing
he withered hare belle on the
slab of the dressing-bureau,
ghed radiantly, into her sisters
Il am happy: Are heartless
bile ever that Thistar ?n
Yes,n said Thister with acer-
y. they are so recklessly selfish
1t they feel no troubles save
Dse that touch their own tenn
raj welfare"
IN not stay to argue, here
mes Pinkie shape your lecture
suit her if you please" and
ldie caught up her trailing
rts, closing the door noisily be-
bd her.
EOh +! Tbister, Mr.. Maxwell is to
married, and Trudie has lovely
mond, did you see it ?"
Whistler, sitting on the low bed
ined wearily-"Who told you
hike ?n
L 500 the diamond Trudie
ia her hand conspicuously all
! evening,an / heard Mr.. Max
Il say to her over by the balla,
ben we are married'-I lost
rest; then Trudie laughed in his
e deliciously, you know Tru-
5 way, is not she lovely ?"
DO you think Trudie has promi-
to marry Mr.. Maxwell ?'
II don't know / am sure, Tru-
plays fast and loose | fear. Go
bed Thister, it is too late dear"
Thister" Intercepted Pinkie,
er she had commended herself
the goodness that never sleeps,
eye on the Throne of Grace,
! other in mental retrospect of
that had befallen her on that
Fous evening-"Thister who
es Mark Elcott come see of us
rec ?"
sWho knows Pinkie, is he max
love to you? have no re-
rd for his character, he is
brougbly unscrupulous-"
Aud yet he has divine eyes
Ay are PROFOUND in their sad
vs."
sProfound! Pinkie how foolish
to sleep child"
Miss Landsing "Thister" by
lrsery corruption, "Eleanor" to
kr friends, got to bed slowly.
She was a very fascinating
Dman of twenty three or four,
e special pride of her family, for
e was good to look upon, be-
Hes, being a wonderfully rare,
te piece of humanity, what the
prld call a "lovely woman"
hat her family knew to be the
|ncretion of womanly strength
Id spirit. Thister had much de-
living upon her just now the
Their dead long years ago, the
other seeking health in the far
sunny regions of the south, she
as left the moral head of this
ddy world-loving little family.
5Trudie, capricious, beauty and
belle, gave her trouble, from the
parent, superficial crust that hid
lovely and womanly attributes
bm this exacting older sister ;
nike, the baby, and spelled
e at that, was fond enough of
miration and dissipation to
I'VE appalled, a well brought up
alden, and keptsThister' cQntin-
klly on the alert lest the entire
mily should be undone by the
whiting, mischeivous, merry
pgue of the little gossip. Pinkie
Us the only one of the family,
no, in vulgar parlance "put OH
IS" Trudie knew that "artless-
s. is the perfection of art" but
nike not quite eighteen, and Civ
to affiliating with very gushing
lis, was a very different person
society from the tender, saucy
inning child at home, who petted
d coaxed "Thister" alternately,
ii who secretly admired Trudie
ID her resistless charms more
an anything earthly, although
secretly envied them also,
bugh to be quarrelsome with
udie after an occasion when SHE
b come herself to be signally
Mpsed.
s'Thister" was a long time get
ng to sleep that morning.
Had Mr.. Maxwell given Trudie
e ring? She had never conceiv.
Trudie to be the attraction that
ew him so frequently to Durray
i'll, Trudie with her shameless
ouetries, her heariless dalliance
bly, last summer Mr.. Herbert
l.