The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-03
MISCHIEF MAKING.
BY LILY LEE.

Not another word, Caroline Kat
won't care after a little and it wi
teach her to be more prudent, too.
think she is rather coquettish it wi
rive her a good lesson. | wish / coul
see her when she reads it,"
"But, Ellen, we ought not to be s.
cruel | should be heartily ashamed t
have her know | had anything to do will
it,
"WeIl, well, no one will ever know
who did it; 50 now write right away.
will get cousin Edmund to copy il; SO i
will 20 in a gentleman's handwriting.
at will be just to crafty you, then
Ellen but | am fearful
Now give that self-oonceited fop q
hit-good Now for the puissant, mighty
Mr.. Allen, stroking his mustache as he
smiles upon the fair Kate"
Let me see; here is the most obse.
quious Mr.. Browne paying his humble
sdevOir at the feet of Miss Lester; it is
delightful"
"Ellen, if the gentlemen should ever
see this, what would they think How
ridiculed ?"
"l do not are a straw it will teach
Them better than to bestow all their at
tentions and admiration on Kate Lester.
hope they will see it,"
Here goes the last one on the list.
Nov read it, and then we will commit it
IT, the flames; it will be safe from harm
then."
"No, Caroline, not for the world it is
TOO precious for such a fate. But look,
here m Mr.. Edsall, whose likeness
we first drew"
Caricatured, you should say but
quick, put it ought of sight, for he is
coming here"
Ellen placed the sheet in her satchel,
and was taking her leave lust as Mr.
gEdsall entered the drawing room of Mr..
Bowen, whose only daughter, Miss Caro-
fine, we have already introduced. She
was a beautiful girl of eighteen, who had
never Intentionally wronged any one by
WORD or deed, but was too easily infu-
tnced by her gay, u%nthinking friend,
Nliss Ellen Jackson.
In a 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.
rhe read the letter it was the same
fhe and Ella had jointly composed, and
Pun not the same; there was more ma
llgnItly and sarca IN expr sei.
And new, Caroline, can you imagine
where the letter originated | There can
pc no doubt, from the writing, that it
Nas a gentleman and how ~wounding
and notifying to be the unsuspecting
object of such libelous remarks!"
Dear Kate, you take it too seriously;
mere was, l dare say, no mischief in
ended. No one would wish to iniure
'oH there is nothing against you )" but
Ter heart sank within her as she remem-
'ered that she assisted in composing it.
But there must have been malice in
t; no heart could have dictated these
utting sarcasms that was not impreg-
ated with evil thoughts. Andthen the
aragraph concerning Mr.. Allen-to have
appear as if made improper advances;
Is too bad !" and the injured girl wept
very bitterness of heart, and Caroline
cit deeply the injustice she had done,
nj repented deeply but it was of no
vail now. Oh how she wished she had
OF yielded to Ellen's influences.
Kate, dearest, do not ever show the
81 wish | had not; but | mentioned it
Q one friend when | first received it, and
told another and now | cannot stop
the contents have been borne upon
ne wings of the wind and not one indi-
ldual that was ridiculed and criticized
Ut long before this has heard of it.
indeed do, that | had kept it to
lyselt, then no one else would have been
'ounded."
Surmises were afoat as to the authen.
lcty OF the writers of the anonymous
pIstIe, and as Caroline and Ellen were
ISIlhgulshed for superior abilities, as
,el as wit and talent, it was not unfre-
Gentiy limited that they might be the
ri,ginal emenators, but they always re.
elled the insinuation; aud those who
new the kindness of Caroline's disposi-
ION conld never for a moment harbor the
ellet that she had dipped her pen so
eeply IN the gall of bitterness as to
'ound the feelings of her friend.
l wish, Ellen, they would drop the
upJect of that abominable letter; / am
wearicd with parrying off the .
'hes leveled at me. | really dread to see
I meet any one, for some of those hideous
pes are continually sounding in my ears. {
t can you be 50 happy? | am miser-
o.e' ahd IN constant fear OF being found
y, rave you no dread of it 7"
lnueed, care not one iota. Caroline
IKE the sport of parrying off the at
is capital fun ! / should like to
rite anotheri"
only think of those satirical lines
P9n Mr.. Edsall (! How severe they were,
anu uhpro'
oh' by the way, | hear he is making f.;
% DOW TO my friend Miss Bowen surely !
are not serious in encouraging the
port; 1t would be too ridiculous after {
you wrote" :
esteem Mr.. Edsall highly Ellen he
= NOBLE, right-minded man. and happy,
lueed, will that person be whom he hon. I
! with his choice" ,
,co larry smitten, | do believe, by the {
gawkyl But do not throw j
y I;5 away. But how nicely that let /
- 'Iu scatter Hates obsequious lovers {
y ought to thank the writer's of that |
:, mlssive for putting them to the {
rail- mas injured Hates feelings Sc $
ley she is deeply wounded" |
rdi. Always makes me laugh to see the {
baIy Mr.. Allen pass on the other side !
,w ne meets Kate; he is 50 lately all l
:" anu Pollteness it is first rate" |
m ~. s1e feels it too severely /; / never i
united an act for which / was so
40 y sorry and thoroughly ashamed. 4,
90 q Wish 1t could die away" I
re upon such susceptibility 1t is I
capital joke; l DO enjoy it." /