The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-28
Mischief Making.
THE RESULT OF rHouaHrLRssNRss.


"Now, Ellen, this is really too bad. How
should we, either of us, feel were we to re-
ceive such sarcastic letter2 Besides"
"Not another word, Caroline Kate
won't care after little; and it will teach
her to be mole prudent too. think she is
rather coquettish; it will give her good
lesson. / wish | could zee her when she
reads it,"
''But, Ellen, we ought not to be so cruel;
| should be heartily ashamed to have her
know l had anything to do with it."
"Well, well, no one will ever know who
did it; 80 now write away. l will get
Cousin Edmund to copy it, so it will go in
q gentleman's handwriting"
at will be just to crafty you then,
Ellen but am fearful
"Now give that self-conceited fop hit
-good.l Now for the puissant, mighty
Mr.. Allen, stroling his moustache as he
smiles upon the fair Kate"
"Let me see; here is the most obsequi-
ous Mr.. Browne paying his humble deveir
at the feet of Miss Lester; it is delightful ="
"Ellen, If the gentlemen should ever see
this, what would they think? How would
they feel to know that they were 80 ridi-
culedi'
II do not care straw 1t will teach
them better than to bestow all their atten-
tions and admiration on Kate Lester. l
hope they will see it."
Here goes the last one In the list. Now
read it and then we will commit 1t to the
fames it will be safe from harm then
"No, Caroline, not for the world 1t Is
too presious for such fate. But look,
here comes Mr.. Esdall, whose likeness we
first drew"
"Caricatured, you would say; but quick,
put it out of sight, for he is coming here"
Ellen placed the sheet in her satchel, and
was taking her leave just as MIR. Esdall en-
tered the drawing-room of MIR. Bowen,
whose only daughter, Miss Caroline, we
have already introduced. She was beau
tiful girl of eighteen, who never Intention
ally wronged any one, by word or deed,
but was too easily influenced by her gay,
unthinkiug friend, Miss Ellen Jackson.
In few days the mischief began to work.
Kate Lester came to unbosom her troubles
to Caroline, knowing that she would find
sympathy in her warm heart. She read
the letter it was the same she and Ellen
had Jointly composed, and still not the
same, there was more malignity and sar-
casm expressed.
"And now, Caroline, can you imagine
where that letter originated There can
be no doubt, from the writing, that 1t was
a gentleman; and how wounding and NOR
tIfying to be the unsuspecting object of
such hbellous remarks J"
"Dear Kate, you take 1t too seriously
there was, dare say, no mischief intended.
No one would wish to iDjure you, there ia
nothing against you," but her heart sank
within her as she remembered that she as-
sisted in composing it.
"But there must have been malice in 1t
no heart could have dictated these cutting
sarcasms who was not impregnated with
evil thoughts. And then the paragraph
concerning Mr.. Allen. to have it appear as
IL made improper advances; 1t is too
bad !" and the injured girl wept in very Bit
ternets of heart, and Caroline felt deeply
the injustice she had done, and repented
deeply, but it was of no avail now. oh
how she wished she had not yielded TO
Ellens influence.
"Kate, dearest, do not show the letter"
81 wish had not but mentioned II to
one friend when first received 1t, and she
told another, and now cannot stop 1t; the
contents have been borne upon the wings
of the winds; and not one individual that
was ridiculed and criticised, but long be-
iOIc tIib uud uCutu VI I've WiohS tuhOcd
| do, that had kept II to myself, then no
one else would have been wounded"
Surmises were afloat az to the authentic
ity of the writers Of the anonymous epistle,
and as Charlotte and Ellen were distinguish
ed for superior abilities, as well as wit and
talent, 1t was not unfrequently limited that
they might be the original emanators but
they repelled the insnuation, and those
who knew the kindness OF Caroline's dis
position could never for moment harbor
The belief that she had dipped her pen 80
deeply in the gall OF bitterness as to wound
the feelings OF her friend.
81 wish, Ellen, that they would drop the
subject of that abominable letter l am
heartily wearied with parrying off the Jokes
leveled at me. really dread to see or meet
any one, for some of those hideous lines
are continually sounding 10 my ears. How