The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-06-18

Ser had carried "her" bouquet of
roses from Boston.
"Tom, You wretch!' said Miss Halo
well, stamping her foot. "7om!" how
dare you9'
Tom, with n sweet, tired little smile,
put his hand into the pocket of his dark
blue silk dress, and took out one of his
sisters lace pocket handkerchiefs, which
he held to his eyes, and then rose slowly
and walked down the long parlor with
short step and most effective sweep of
his long skirts, caricaturing the young
lady whom he had SO skillfully repre-
scented until then. He paused mt the
door and said, "Good-by, boys" in his
natural voice, which sounded strangely
grum and unlndylike.
II was 80 absurd that even Jack Spenser
laughed till he cried, and said he never
had seen anything 80 capitally done in
his life.
He was very good tempered about it,
and said he had had no suspicion. tho
there had been some things which had
surprised him which he had supposed
were owing to "Miss Hallowell's" being
SO much with cher" brothers. We
had stood for minute on the piazza be-
fore breakfast, and "she" had made q
SNOWFALL and thrown it ut n bird in II
most boyish fashion. He had thought
"her hands rather large, and had come
to the conclusion that the photograph
was somewhat tlattcring, tho he liked
cher" very much. We all liked him all
the better for owning up so bravely. !
do not know whether he bribcd Tom to
linz xtyl.t al,
had taken place, Mt any rate that young
person had the grace to be silent.
He came down stairs presently, wear
ing his own clothes-a slender fair
haired boy of fifteen, with wonderful
likeness to his sister. He was at home on
vacation from his boarding school,
where the chief pleasure had been get
ting up plays and he had distinguished
himself in the young ladies' character.
He had always been capital mimic
since he was little fellow, and il was
surprising, after we had seen n little
more of the real Miss Holloway, to see
how cleverly he had initiated her ways.
The cold was reality, and had been Il
great help to him-for one could not
have any suspicion about his having lost
his voice and being obliged to talk i'll a
whisper when he coughed 80 much.
must confess we found the true Miss
Alice infinitely more entertaining than
the false. The rest of our visit was SO
merry and we were 80 charmingly enter
tanned, that we went back to college the
most sorrowful persons imaginable, and
were homesick Mt intervals for month.
The storm which began on Sunday was
80 violent that we were obliged to stay
over until Tuesday, and of course we felt
great satisfaction and only wished that it
had lasted longer. 1t seemed that n
friend whom Miss Holloway had not
seen for long time was to spend Sun
day with another friend who lived ten
miles away, and they had persuaded
her to stay with them until Sunday even
ing. When the storm came on she had
started sooner, fearing she might be
abs nt another night, and dare say not
feeling quite easy at the thought of leav-
ing her brothers and thcirguests to their
fate. Tom had not gone with his father
on account of his cold, and when his
sisters absence had been decided upon
he had laid his plan.
Jack had not much to say about his
confessed to me that he was sure that II
fellow needed to go into society, but he
had rather Overdone the thing. He and
Hallowell and L were fast friends through
our college course and are fast friends
still. Jack and / made other visits at
the Hallowells, and perhaps il is no harm
to tell you that he and Miss Hallowell
are engaged and will he married i'll the
fall. You see all this happened several
years ago, and jack will be through the
law school this year.
Hallowell suggestcdthc other day that
they ought to ask Tom to be chief
bridesmaid. That young man is in col
lcge himself now, and il is needless to
say that he is one of the brightest lights
of a class which is highly distinguished
for its array of talent for music and the
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