The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-02-25

life, at any rate. You will keep my Sc
cret, won't youP" she said coaxingly.
"Oh. certainly. But what will peo-
pie think? You are certain to be found
out, Clara. Any one who had ever seen
you before would know you at once, no
matter what you wore"
81 don't know about that. | don't
look like the same girl with my hair
taken out of curl and dressed plain.
I've been looking over the advertise
ments this morning, and there's Il fami-
~ neal Chiffon that wants II chamber
maid. OF curse | couldn't undertake
to cook or be laundress, Oh any thing of
that sort. But an body a make beds,
and I'm ure these are people l don't
know. What | want Of you, dear, is to
write me a character"
Marion did as she was hidden, but
she looked di%sapprovingly still.
elbow will you account for your alb
senceP" she asked.
"People can be given to understand
that 1 am visiting some friends at II
distance. That is easy enough"
"What if this Miss Wilbur" CHANGING
at the advertisement Clara brought her,
"shouId not want you? She may have
already hired some one"
81 shall try somewhere else in that
case" said Clara, with decision.
$50 provoking!" fretted Marion
Barclay to her h~alf-brother, Walter
Sloan. "I'vc unanswered so long to
bring you two together, and now to
think that she should get this absurd
whim in her head"
"l say, Marion, "oxclaimeG the young
gentleman addressed, "ii Miss Eining
is chambcrmaid, why can't l be coach
manP"
"But perhaps Miss wilbur don't keep
a carriage
"Ill trust that to my luck, which has
been bad so long it's time for Il change.
ii she hasn't any use for II %coachman,
I'll offer to serve her in some other ca
pacity. I'm not going to be cheated
out of my chance Of the heiress without
. struggle"
"lt's fortunate that she don't know
you. l declare, Walter, if you play your
part well, / don't see what's to hinder
you winning the day. Clara is the most
romantic girl you ever saw. You
mustn't cultivate workmanship at the
expense Of omance and good looks"
Walter Sloan, the s~pendthrift and add
v%enturer, thought his luck had certain
ly turned when he found that Miss Will
bur kept q carriage, and that the driver
thereof was willing, for Il consideration,
to sham sick a few days and recommit
him to his place.
He had few acquaintance in the city,
and calculated on having no diGiculties
in evading these.
Miss Wilbur was an old maid, accord
ing to the most angular understanding
OF the word. She did not look rs though
she had ever been any thing else. She
early discovered that her new chamber
maid was not an adept in her business.
Bridget Malone, as the girl called her.
SELF, could neither make Il bed nor
sweep q room properly, and Clara re-
ceived the full benefit of being "no-
body" once in her life; for Miss Wilbur,
while she would keep her, because Of
her indifference about wages, lecturcd
her unsparingly Tor her ignorance of
the duties she pretended to be able to
perform in fact, Miss Wilbur's tongue
was so sharp sometimes Us to bring the
tears to Ciara's face.
Miss Wilhur's own maid, who was a
very nice, lady-like sort of Il person, but
somewhat ~shrewish, like her mistress,
did duty in q like manner whenever
that lady was not on guard.
Meanwhile Clara, in spite OF her un-
skillfulness, played SO artfully as to de-
ceive even Walter Sloan, who took the
lady's maid for the h~eiress, and paid her
such assiduous courtship as babe fair to
melt that fair creatures %scruples about
marrying a coachman.
81 hope" said Miss Wilbur, sharply,
ore morning, "you'll manage to keep
my nephew's apartments in decent Or
der while he stays. | shall be very much
displeased if you do not; Mr.. Werner is
so particular"
She did not observe the start Bridget
gave, and would have been utterly at a
loss for its meaning if she had.
81 don't care" declared Bridget, as
soon AS she was alone; "Ill stay all the
same, if it is Lucien Werner. If he recog-
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