The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-03

then awaited the result with an excite
ment which held in II the more and NOR
otrepentance as the days went by.
Early In the afternoon Of the third, al
express wagon, man and an enOrnou
book appeared Of her door. She ran t
open i. She took the precious parce
which bore her name and placed II care
fully within the sanctities Of the parlor
while the man was iumbling for the bill.
"Thirty.tour dollars, maam."
She had the exact amount In her hand
She had the exact amount within reach
for the last two days.
Write your name Just there" And
Mrs. Fay wrote her name where the pur
pie and black finger pointed grimly,-ir
characters a good deal like the trembling
ones with which she had written, dyes
dear John" two years before, in reply &c
q certain letter which need not be men
toned here.
"And dollar for the express"
I'll thought It was fifty cents"
both ways, mR'am you know, G. o. D.
No, she did not know not at the moment
certainly, but she slipped q tiity.cent piece
back into her pocket and paid him the
dollar demanded.
She did not open the parcel at once.
She sat down to do O sum In mental
arithmetic. Thirty.fve dollars from $50
fett 10; andthere were the linings ind trim.
mings, the dress-maker and Susan James
10 be provided for. And Aunt Maria's
cloak! She had entirely forgotten the
cloak! There was no impatience in the
fingers that united the string as she pre-.
pared to inspect the new dress. She had
lost her enthusiasm over Il already.
Horror OF horrorsl Conld this be her
silk? as o broad ray Of sunlight struck up-
on i. II was by no means Of tho same
shade as the dress? Could the dealers
have made mistake? But no; she com.
pared scrap Of the sample which she had
withheld. II was the same. Was Il pos.
sible that Il could appear so differently
when seen In the piece?
But there was no help for II now; and
with that reflection the last ray OF pleas.
ure in her new purchase vanished from
her mind; Not even Johns commenda.
ton could enliVen hOr. "Why, YOU arc
pretty as q picture" said he, the same
night when she had twisted the soft wool.
on stuff about her figure and stood waiting
under the gaslight for his inspection. The
silk she had prudently and thankfully
banished from sight The dull maroon
hue had brighted to a rich crimson under
the light.
And did the money hold out?"
Yes. But the reply came family
and Mrs. Jupe running in next morning
found her friend pouring over the supple,
ment to fashion paper, her smooth fore.
head drawn into two dreadful wrinkles,
while she studied with despairing eyes
this sheet OF lines and angles, bicycles and
insane paralleloGrams, hopelcssly con.
fused and inextriCably ontangled.
"They arc patternsw said Mrs. Fav, as
though she would have added, Gould
you ever believe it," 81 thought perhaps
! might out my dress myself"
Goodness, child! Did you ever do such
q thing?"
mo; but people do"
They don't begin with handsome
suit, however. Do you want to spoil it,
to ruin the whole dress, besides wasting
the material and the money You have spent
for it2" Wv
The last was an argument, and Mrs. Fay
laid by hor sheet OF hierOglyphIcs with q
sigh, and prepared TO list0n 10 reason, as
Mrs: Jupe called it, by arranging to take
the latter's dress.maker oil her hands for
one day, which Mrs. Jupe desired to spend
out OF town. Perhaps she could make IN
for this expense by cutting Off two or
three OF Susan James DAYS.
The day end the dress. maker came,
"ltis q good heavy piece Of silk" said
the latter, testing it between thumb and
iorefnger.
twas. It weighed like load On Mrs.
rays mind. The dressmakor laid 1t
against the WOODEN goods, opened her lips,
then closed them again prudNntly, IIut
Mrs. Fay saw the movement. No, Il did
not match. Had not Mrs. June already
remark cd 1t? And was not the maroon
turned TO a purple by the promixity Of this
silk, az any one could ses?
81 should have thought that Won would
have bought American silk. They usu.
ally offer 1t OF Morton 4 BrlOr's to make
up with these heavy goods. 1t wears so
much better and costs less, YOU know, BY
good deal; being Eo much wider too, It
NNAN w bNNNNl ulNAuluEG0
at came from New York." said poor,
CrestfalIGn Mrs. Fay. But there was no
pride In hOr voice
Miss Nudge was measuring II of from
her nose to the ends Of her fingers. eight
yards! That will never do it. Not il YOU
take off thrce'quarters for o bonnet and
face the skirt. It will not trim II hand.
somely."
81 thought it large pattern" faltered
Mrs. Fay.
swell, yeS,-oi American silk. But a
couple Of yards more will do; and you had
better send for it at once. PERHAPS YOU
may az well say three while YOU are about
i; a scrap over Ia never out OF place.
This is very pretty basket.Cloth," she
went on automatically, for Mrs. Fay's face
revealed her chagrin. II saw the same ut
Morton'H, two dollars and half was Il
notY
Two dollars and half. 1t was three.
And il cannot be the same. | sent 10 New
York for this Mrs Fay could have cried
with vcxation.
You sent to New York; The dress.
makers sharp eyes measured Mrs. Fay
and the plainly furnished bedroom where
the cutting was going on with one, keen,
calculating glance. But she said nothing
moro. And Mn. Fay sent to Now YorE
for three additional yards Of silk. Her
heart sank as she broke her last ten dollar
bill 10 pay for this and the necessary lin.
ings and fAClngS, buttons and cord, with.
ont which no feminine garment can be
brOugh 1t into existence. And Aunt Maria's
cloak shrank more and more in its proper.
tons until It entirely passed out Of sight
81 shall do the rest myself" she said to
Susan james as the latter laid by her work
at the end Of the third day.
do you think YOU CAM There was
disappointment In Susan's faded ewes.
THAT blind stitch is hard to do nicely il
one is not used to it,"
PoorSusan! Even one more tav would
10 something, II would earn the price Of
a New Years dinner Work was no, east.
~ found in these dayh and she Lad dc.
pended upon at least n week here.
- am sorry; and know il isn't easy to
do" The tcars were In Mrs Fay's ewes,
was she not worn out with it already;