Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-09-13
Faithful and FaithlesS.


in the attic of a second-rate boarding
house, these two sisters. Madeleine
wrote stories, painted photographs, and
sewed, doing whatever else came within
the way of her deft fingers. Cecile was
anursery goyerness.
Tonight the weary lessons were fin
ished. the villain in the last story dis
posed of by a dose of prussic acid, and
the pretty toilers, lonely orphans though
they were, sat enjoying the simple COM
forts of their poor little rookery.
Il was Madeleine whose voice inter-
rupted the musical performance of the
tes-kettle.
''It is rather strange, is it not, Cecile,
that have never seen him ?" she said,
thOughtfully.
Cecile looked up quickly, with a
startled blush. But she required no
explanation, perhaps because her own
thoughts had been treading the same
path.
"You will see him tomorrow, Made
line. He is coming particularly to see
you. wanted TO ask him not to do so,
but it would have been of no use-he
must come some time Everything
here is $50 different from what he
likes"
Madeleine laughed soft, satisfied
laugh, as her sisters head dropped,
that was very sweet and pretty.
1T is like a fairy story" she said.
"To think you are going to marry some
body as rich as prince, and live in one
Of those wonderful houses, Oh, Cecile
are you going to forget me quite? l
expect some day your carriage will 60
whirling past and splatter the mud over
apOOr old beggar-woman at the corner
selling peanuts. That will be me, you
understand. Yes; it's quite like a
story. / shall write it, / believe, and
call it 'The New Cinderella Only if i
d." She added, with reflective disgust,
"Philip Abinger Will have TO be turned
into duke in disguise, half killed in q
duel, and you will be made a rope
dancer who nurses him back to life, to
make it picturesque"
Cecile laughed in her turn.
Madeleine" she said, admiringly
watching her, 'syou certainly have the
lOyeliest eyes in the world, but am
afraid of them. When have my car
riage, dear, you shall certainly sit be-
side me; and we will make Philip take
the front seat, to hold the parcels, when
We go shopping"
The next day was day of Importance
in the eyes of these two. Fortunately
it was a holiday, and Ceciie could re-
main at home; and Madeleine, with
many a remorseful but stifled sigh as
she thought of the untouched quires OF
blank Bath post lying in her desk, gave
herself up to unwonted idleness, and to
the discussion of Philip Abinger's visit.
He was not to come until evening, il is
true, but there was much to be done.
After many consultations as to pro-
priety, and the commendable conclu-
sion that there could be not much in
correct where nothing was wrong, il
had been decided to receive their guest
in their own room rather in the stuffy
boarding house parlor filled with gcs-
siping bOarders. The pretty plants in
the window were disposed over and
over again, they went to the expense OF
an investment in new ribbons to tie
back the muslin curtains, and the few
engravings--reminisc of other days
were hung and rehung. 1t was I'm
ished at last, and the sisters contem-
plated the effect of their labors with
entire satisfaction.
Philip Abinger sauntered down the
streets with somewhat the sensations OF
man who walks in a dream-land. He
regarded himself with a vague aston
ishment as he left the stately precincts
oi the avenue of palaces, wandering on
through the various and so perceptible
shades of respectability, till he reached
block of brick buildings that bore the
signs manual of boarding houses In every
square inch, from the grimy upper
windows to the unwashed steps and
Uttered areas. He paused a moment
before he touched the bell. She lived
here, The woman who was to be his
vile lived here, and plodded a weary
uaiiy round, teaching his younger bro
thers and sisters their letters for hel
bread! And then a generous emotion
giowed in his heart, and gave another
'ufn to his thinking. The woman whit
was to be his wife! The brilliant-eyed
and lifeful beauty who had promised
herself to him-she would grace th'
gueenliest of all the crowns. HEAVIER
oiess her! How different would hel
NE be, how heaped with happiness
Nhen once it was given into his keep
ing!