Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-07-26

| it was not easy to say at once within nifty
pounds of what he had spent.
The girl seeing his hesitation, misinter'
preted it. TO be poor without shame, tc
discuss ways and means openly, to try and
save pounds and shillingS was the custom OF
those amongst whom She lived; but she
knew there were some of the outside world
to whom such a confession brought shame
and discomfort, and she spared her compan'
ion the possible ignomy with woman's
tact
ooh, we'll! I am afraid your expenses
would be no guide to us. Men spend in
some ways so much more and in others SO
much less than women, that one gets little
help from hearing the costs of their travels.
I cannot have enough money TO do it fo1
| another two years, for we could not dO 1t
under twenty pounds apiece"
"Twenty pounds!" he stammered.
"You think that extravagant? ?" gravely
"Well, we might manage with eighteen,
but then we must never have any food IN
the middle of the day, and that makes one
tired before evening""
Tom did not protest, for minute, ne
thought she might be laughing at him, but,
when he looked at her he saw that she was
lost in thought, and that her gray eyes had a
clouded look or disappointment. He won
dered for the first time in his comfortable,
rich, sleek life if there really were women
who talked like ladies, who looked like Ia
dies, who were ladies, and yet who seemed
to think it was a possible thing to 60 hungry
for many days to see q rather dull foreign
town.
"After ALL" said the cheerful voice which
was as pleasant to his ear as familiar sound,
cit is foolish to complain. Here, or no.
where, is our America"
i b. s,,1y !, 1ocf
matical sentence and to admire the curly
rings of short brown hair which lay upon
her white forehead and almost hid it from
view, for she did not speak again the ut
terance of her wish had brought back in a
resistless tide her yearning for the land she
hardly hoped to see.
The two oddly-assorted people whom
chance had brought together for the nonce
stood side by side as widely separated in
hopes and sympathies as if they had been
born in different hemispheres. But there
are touches which make the whole world
feel it's kinship. And at this moment the
door of the other room opened, and mys-
terious voice cried:
"Pen, milk"
"The yonng lady started The young
man looked guiltily at the picture in front
of him.
"Oh we have run short of milk; we al
ways do" she said, smiling. "I must go
out and get some. I wonder if you would
mind, my partner, Miss Burton, is so busy,
wonder if you would mind letting me in"
Letting you in? should be delighted,
but"
"You see we are four stories up, and it
takes good while to go up and down.
Will you come down with me and wait by
the hall-door until return?"
She putting on her gloves and buttoning
them carefully as she spoke; then snatch
ing up hat in one hand and milk jug. in
the other, she went out of the room before
her companion fully realized the fact that
this young lady was going out unabashed to
fetch milk.
He followed her, without attempting to
frame any theory of life which should tit in
with her extraordinary conduct. The stair
case was very dark, and he stumbled some
what as he went down, on which the young
lady apologiZed.
81 ought to have brought light, for |
shall have to leave you without one whilst L
am gone. hope you don't mind the dark"'
II am very nervous and l am afraid L
shall scream directly your protecting pres
ence is withdrawn" he made answer, at
tempting joke now that he was relieved
from the oppressive effects of art.
"You will have plenty of practice, then"
said Penelope, ''for you may scream for
hours, and no one up stairs will hear you"
"Perhaps, then, l may leave you to face
these dangers, and fetch the milk for you?"
They were by the hall-door now, and his
hand was on the handle, 4 single ray from
the gas-lamp outside falling on her smiling
face.
"You don't know the shop and you would
spill the milk to certainty" she replied:
"Besides / am used to fetching milk, and
probably you are not. You see there is no
bell. l shall rattle the letter box when
come back"
So saying she went out into the street and
left tbs young man to think out the situa-
tion at his leisure.
The milk tasted none the worse for the
way in which it had been brought in, and
Penelope poured him out cup of tea with
pretty, apologetic hospitality, when she
found he had been neglected, and he drank
it in the showroom where the peacOck's
feathers adorned the mantelshelf. Whilst
he slipped it slowly he recognized with that
delight atperceiving a familiar object which
is the rudimentary stage of art criticism,
one or two water-cOlOrs on the wall.
"YOu know Cambridge, | see?"
eyes; do youw
81 was at Caius some years ago. Have
you been there often %
81 used to 60 rather often when my sister
was at Girton."
"Girton? Ohw
The sudden blank expression Of tvce, the
sudden fall of the voice, were familiar eX-
periences to Penelope when she spoke of her
sister, but she had her own amusement out
of the situation, a private source OF never
failing amusement in comparing her sister
as she was with the speakers probable idea
of her.
Laura" she said to her partner, as soon
as the guests were gone, "who was the man
you called Mr.. Brown ?"
'"There were two Browns" said prudent
Laura, raking the Goals out of the fire, lone
a rich man, brother of Mrs. Burlington, and
the Other-n
"My one isn't rich"
"rhe other writes for the papers,"
81 wish L wrote for the papers then. tie
makes it pay, he's been to Venice. won.
der what The Times will send me if | remit
them an account Of my travels, illustrated J!
"Been done too often," was the laconiC
answer.
"I always knew was born fifty years toe
late. Everything has been done already!'
"Not everything, for the tea-things want
washing up. Don't be lazy, Penelope;
am sure. it is time to be going home"
PART II.
If Tom had some difficulty in reconciling
his companions. social position, general ap
pearance and evident culture with the terri
bic actions of which she was guilty, Pene
lope experienced no shock of incongruity in
oo,, no rintr his SIlDDOSad OrcuDatiOn with hi,