The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-22
TAKEN BY SURPRISE.
A Pretty Little Love story That
Doesn't Mean Anything Else.

From HIrpers Weekly.
at seems good, after all-now don't
II PattyI-to have the house lighted up
agin, though its made ideal Of work and
a considerable fuss and trouble for Just a
day. But folks will have their whims;
and il isn't often my folks Is whimskul,
40 / don't complain,an and l know you don't,
Patty"
"No, Mrs. Dobson," said g%ood.netured
Patty; "Pm willin' to work, and ! take
pride in f1in' up for Mi.s Dolly: its hG
party, you know. And Jacques tells me
all the young ladies is TO bring their own
pardners. Therell be a sleigh ride to.
morrow morning, for they do say there
never was such sleighing as there be this
year; and in the evening the German.
And what time is the supper tonight,
Mrs. Dobson?"
aHali past TO-" replied the house.
keeper; "and here it 10 : quarter OF 8,
and the train due at half past. Well,
they'll have a good supper, not but that
we could have done without that French
cook sent with Jacques, for don't hold
TO French cookery, and never shall; its
INV idee that frogs and crokkits and my.
neice is del'terious to Americans that
was brought up on the Mayfower, and
baked beans, and good stuff pumpkin pie,
And they'll have an appetite for 1t, ridin,
across the cold hills through the drivin,
wind in that great straw.ride sledge oil
Gafers-the only thing that could be
pitched upon to hold sixteen; and there's
sixteen comm, all told"
"Dear mel' said Patty. "And l won
der who Miss Dolly's pardner IL? Ii its
that pretty curly. headed Mr.. Ned Bertonr
I dom. blame her for goin' agin Mrs.
Derwent 4 little. Now what does make
Mrs. Derwent hate Mr. Ned?-and abe do
hate him in dead earnest"
"I can tell you," said Mrs. Dobsoni
"'tis because che has got another husband
in her eye for Miss Dolly. But Il she
has, what biEuess is't Of mineI What
bizness is't Of yours, Patty? You ought
10 know better than be meddliug with the
affairs Of your betters-a young thing
like you"
Whereupon the gossips parted, Mrs,
Dobson &c go down stairs and watch the
salad.dressirg-in which even to her sat
isfac.ion the French cook played the pre-
acribed third part Of a%"madman TO stir
Il upland Patty TO go up stairs for q
last look at Miss DolIy's room, which
was ali in order, and I" Ikea baby house."
so Patty thought, Z" for cunnin' things:",
Areal girls room il was, though Dol.
ly was a young lady grown, eighteen her
last birthday, and "out" this winter
As Patty fitted around the room, feather
du.ter in hand, and fingered fondly at
the "~duchesse," a. Mrs. Derwent called
the lace draped toilette whose mirror was
bestuck with cards and photographs, =
card dropped from somewhere and light
ed upon The blue pin cushion. Patty Ill:
ted it, somewhat troubled, Tor che had
been ordered not TO touch the mirror,
and she knew by one transgressiou oi
that order that II the array came tum
bling down like & card house, there was
no putting it up again to cheat Miss Dol
ly.
She looked at the memento rusfully,
Il was = large card, with 8 gray crest IN
the corner and 4 few written lines. She
turned Il over. On that side TOO there
was writing, but In different colored Ink
and much fuer. Patty could not read
handwriting, but she said TO herself
a This card Is Miss Dolly's; shall l Try &c
put II back In the mirror, and perhaps
push down the others, or perhaps put \
10 the wrong place, so Miss Dolly vii
know I have been touchingi No; III
Just stand 1t up, this way, with the crest
side outward, right in front Of the pin
cushion, and she'll see it and know 1T
her'n.n
net room, and turned down the lights,Ant
shut the door, and went with less enthu'
siasm, through the other guest chambers
And before long the great sledge, with IL
six horses and It's hundred bells and IL
merry people, came rushing and iipglinl
and singing and shouting up 10 the door
And supper was ready and the younl
people Just flew TO their rooms TO droI
their wraps. And then at the last mo
ment il was discovered, that there vert
seventeen guests instead Of the sixteer
provided lori ana MLss
bliss Dolly, with her eyes shining n
bright as stars, and her aiken yellow
hair iutipg up around her forehead snC
falling in glitiering streams upon her fur
lined cloak that she tossed back like whit
wings, until she looked like an angel in
picture, only more Io-stood In the pas
age and said, "Well, then, Patty, Civ,
some one my room, and l will go viii
Cousin Emily" And Patty with a nat
ural instinct Of attraction for the "pret'
~ curly-headed Mr.. Ned Burton wen
straight to him frst, and said Woult
you please, sir, take Miss Dolly's room
and III show you the way" And Nj
Ned Bertop, without uttering a word,bn
looking, a. Patty said aitsrward, sjus
caught up and uttered" did a. be va
Then there was supper; and BY III,
time the clock struck II, good night