The Baltimore County union., 1881-07-09
Ilsposal make of my correspondence,

replled Miss Margaret, with some spirit.
"All important letters l preserve, of
course, but mere chatty notes from my
school friends accumulate so fast that
think it best to make way with them.
Now, Ida Stanly, my chum at Vassar,
who effects this pink stationery, does
not object at all to my using her letter
to brighten my jar of paper lighters.
Just look. Is not the shade lovely? 1t
is just the color ofthe dear girls cheeks. I"
| One morning two or three days later
the young man handed Miss Margaret a
roll of music which he had volunteered
to copy for her. 81 have had no end
of difficulty over it," said he, as he
afaRced impatiently out of the window.
s'I upset my inkstand in my writing
desk, and SO completely daubed over a
letter 1 had just finished that 1 was
obliged to copy it. And at length, in
order to be in season to take a drive
I with your brother at the hour appointed,
l was compelled to hurry this music. 1t
presents much less neat appearance
than l wish it did,"
|
door, and the young man left the room,
drawing on his gloves as he departed.
He had been gone few moments when
Miss Margaret proceeded to look over
the manuscript music. Lying between
the sheets in full view was one page of
young Marshall's blotted letter he had
referred to. AT the first glance she saw
her name, and before she was really
aware that the blotted paper had evil
IDENTIFY been placed in the roll by mis-
take, she had read;
"This is rare old place to visit,
assure you. The Davenports spend
money as though it grew on bushes,
and yet they use 'paper-lighters' to save
matches, and fancy themselves to be
very economical, as we have to be at
home. BY the way, | suspect Miss
Margaret is more than half in love with
me. She refused to pay visit at the
home of her very intimate friend, Ida
Stanly, while l was here. How do l
know. this to be fact, ask you, brother
Tom? Why, thanks to those same pa
per-lghters.' This Ida Stanly's "letter
had been cut up into strips, rolled up
and placed in the economical porcelain
jar over the mantel in the library. l
| just distracted them from their recep-
tacle, carefully unrolled them, matched
the strips and SO possessed myself of a
pretty array of girlsh secrets. Oh, this
is jolly place to visit, and one small
economy is much better than all econo-
my at home so don't know but had
better make love to Margaret, although"
Miss Margaret was very indignant Of
course, but she quietly dropped the blot
ted sheet OF paper into the CRATE and
mentioned the matter to no one at the
time. She treated her brothers. college
friend and chum with her habitual
courtesy, until the vacation was ended
and tie two young men had left the
Davenport residence for college.
1t was great puzzle to Charles Mar
shall why he was never again invited to
visit the Davenports, and why Miss Mar
garet answered a letter he wrote her
soon after he arrived at college, only by
a brief and somewhat curt message to
him in letter to her brother. About
the same time he was astonished to find,
as he entered his room one evening,
that his old friend, Fred Davenport, had
taken his books, pictures, and his part
of the furniture, to another room to
share them with a new chum. Both the
young men subsequently graduated, and
for long time Charles MarShall's path
in life was unknown to the DavenportS.
The other day on reading in the
morning newspaper that Charles Mar
shall, business man in s., had be-
trayed an important trust, Miss Marga
ret, now Mrs. DR.. Lawrence, said 81
am not at all surprised. Any young
man with SO little sense of honor as to
abuse the sacred rites of hospitality as
he did at our home, could not be ex-
pected to prove true in any position" "
and then for the first time she told this
story.-ZRtelHgenter.