Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-03
KITTY'S VISIT.


Ted" cried Kate Medwin, brightly, as
her cousin helped her into a second
class compartment of the up train from
Doncaster. DO come, if you can,
won't you, Ted?"
The young man smiled indolently,
showing q row of not very ornamental
teeth, wide expanse of mouth, and a
reddish-hued mustache.
'I'Il try, Kitty" he promised oblig-
ingly. IF Uncle Peter can do without
me a week. But | can't promise, you
know"
And after helping his cousin find a
seat in the carriage, and depositing her
rugs, basket. etc, at her side, Ted AL
lingtOn gave her = parting nod as the
train moved off and went his way home
wards.
Kate meanwhile sped rapidly along
on her way to London, whittier she was
going on visit TO her cousins Caroline
and Harriet, who, finding it convenient
10 spend their summers at the old
Yorkshire farmhouse, had invited her
with a SHOW of cordially to pass the
winter with them in town.
"Of course she'll never come,
cheerfully.
And now here she was, and what to
do with her was the question. For
Kate was quite too pretty, with her
yellow tresses and Hebe-like complex
ion to be introduced among the eHgi-
bles of their set.
The Misses Fleming would cheer
fully have hidden her under q bushel
if they could.
81 met friend of yours on the
train, - announced Kitty, dimpling and
blushing in an aggravating manner.
''That Mr.. Jermyn who came to visit
you once at our house last summer"
The sisters exchanged chances of dis
may.
what did he have to say, dear?''
asked Harriet, sweetly.
"Oh, nothing much. He called for a
cab for me. And he-he said he would
call tonight
And Kitty blushed pinker than ever
as she thought of the look which had
accompanied the words.
Horace Jermyn did come that night
and admired the little Hebe, as he call
ed her. more than ever
But after that, though he called quite
frequently, he never had the luck to
find Kitty in.
The sisters were so sorry but really
their cousin was a sad little gadabout,
and Of course they did not pretend to
control her actions.
And thereupOn they redOubled their
own destinations to make the visitor
forget, if possible, all thoughts of the
little rustic, as they dubbed her between
themselves.
For Horace Jermyn was an eligible
Of the Il @iLles," and Caroline and
Harriet Fleming had resolved that he
should succumb to one or the other of
them before the winters campaign
was over.
A bitterly cold, dark afternoon in
January, the streets and pavements
were covered with carpet of snowy
white, its tleecy pile softer than the
choicest velvet of Turkeys loom, and
in the drawing-roOm at Rutland Square
sit the Misses Fleming, respondent in
new dresses. their pale tresses care
fully dressed and frizzed, and their
faces pearl-powdered till their natural
compilations would never have recog-
nized themselves in the gas-ighted
mirrors in which they were reflected.
Il do hope Kate won't venture to
show herself, " remarked Caroline anx-
iously, as she shook out her train and
took last glance ut herself in the
dresslngroOm mirror.
mo danger" laughed Caroline, 81
settled that matter. She'll wait q long
time before any visitors call for her. :"
'But that gawky, oyergrown Ted
Arlington, you know" persisted Har-
riet. kitty expects him to call to-
night
Ted indeed! I'll soon settle that.
came near forgetting it though"
And calling Susan, the girl who at
tended the Goor-bell, Caroline showed
her a photograph recently purloiRed
for that purpose, from Kitty's little,
velvet bound album.
Susan, would you know thatperson
if he should call to-day?"
Susan took a good look at the pho
tograph.
Sure, an l would, men," she re-
sponded. I'D know the big, yaller
mustache, and the wide-open black
eyes anywhere, men,"
Very well, Susan. If he calls to-
day, | want you to show him into the
little workroom where my cousin is sit
ting. She will receive him. And, SUI
san, don't on any account, bring him
to as"
Every well, men,"
And Susan retired, to answer the
first peal of the door-bell.
For an hour or more callers came
and went, and gossiped in drawing
tones over the news of the day, while
they slipped the tea dispensed to them
by the fair hands of the Misses Elem
ing, while poor Kitty sat alone upstairs
waiting vainly for a summons to the
drawing-room.
Susan had brought her refreshments
but refreshments were not what she
wanted.
At last just when the street lamp:
were being lighted, gentleman called
who Attracted Susan's especial atten
ton.