Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-08-20

| always comes out at the place 1t went
! in. Now, let us be business-like, if we
| can, Janet. What makes you think
that this pretty Mildred of ours took the
| diamond?'
Pretty Mildred! Well, perhaps be-
cause she is pretty" said Mrs. Tor
rance, looking like satirical sparrow.
mot at all impossible" sad her
husband, gravely.
"YOu don't mean to imply that l
would denounce person as thief be-
cause you said she was pretty?" cried
Mrs Torrance half rising to her feet.
'I've as good mind to leave the table
as ever had to eat l would, if the
buckwheat cakes had come up"
"My dear childn'
| "YOu treat me exactly as if were a
child" cried the outraged wife. What
do care whether my maid ia pretty or
not? Being pretty. apparently, doesn't
keep her hands from picking and steal
ing. know she stole my diamond just
as we'll as il l had seen her do it,"
"But what would she do with it?"
"What a question! As If that sort
of person didn't know where to spose
of tn ngs easily and take care of the
proceeds! wonder if Patricia is never
going to send those cakes up"
"How i'm the world did our cook
| come to be called Patricia?''
II called her so myself when she
came. Her own name was Hannah, a
combination of sounds utterly detest,
and wasn't going to have ringing in my
| ears all the time. And she is so tall and
erect she iustities Patricia. Don't you
think sop
''All right" said Mr.. Torrance, think
ing it best to make no reference to the
NOras of few minutes since. "But
we were speaking of Mildred
81 did think very we'll of Mildred, !
| will confess. before this" said Mrs.
Torrance. with judicial calmness. "She
is educating her sister. who has voice
such a voice!--for church singer,
when she will have salary that will be
wealth to them, and give some lessons
besides. And she was wrapped up in
her. And l took an interest in them
myself, and gave her silk dress to
make over, and got new cloak, that
didn't really need. so as to give her my
old one (and l saw she had the good
taste to take off some of the trimming),
and lots of my old music. And out OF
her own wages Mildred has to hire a
room and piano and pay for her les
sons. somebody gives her her board till
she can pay the debt, and it takes every
cent Mildred earns; and you see it is
| anita ,,of,po1 fhof Shn chn1,1l lnnl-
about her to find where she can turn a
penny"
IAN honest penny" said Mr.. Tor
rance. "a girl who is doing that for
another is not one that would be likely
to turn any other sort of penny"
show you do love to interrupt me,
Mr.. Torrance! 1t really seems as if you
couldn't bear the sound of my voice! |
was going on to say, before you took
the words out of my mouth. that re-
Gently this sister of hers has been advised
to take lessons of another MASTER who
asks all creation. but is really worth it.
And he saws he can make her voice q
fortune to her. And they have been
dreadfulIy cast down because they
couldn't do it. And now you see where
the diamond comes in. If she can get
for that stone anything near its value,
her sister Mabel can take her lessons
And her voice is deicious-just perfect
ly deliciousr' exclaimed Mrs. Torrance,
forgetting the diamond again. emil
dred had her come here and sing to me.
And | can't describe it to you. never
heard a lark or nightingale, but a
bobolink isn't whistle to it. A flute,
a trumpet well. it was sweet and sat
isfying and penetrating as the odor Of
some flower, and yet soft as the velvet
side of the petal of the flower. Angels
would sing so, may be, if there are any.
And l was just carried away. l forgot
all about her sisters being my maid |
cried and / laughed, and l felt as if I
had found her. And now will SOL
EMMY tell you, Archy dear''-and she
bent across the pretty china service.
TRANSMITTING him with her radiant eyes =
Il looked at my ring, and l turned
it and turned it. and said to myself
| had had the good of it ever since
Grandfather De Peyster gave it to me,
and everybody knew l had it, and my
| position was pretty well established,
diamond rings or not, and when you
were able to afford real grown-up but-
Ter. you would probably get ME plenty;
and if sold it now, and gave this poor
dear girl the money to secure career,
what blessing it would be to her. and
what JOY l should be giving to the
world in her, too; for OF course she
wouldn't be confined to church choir
in that case, and if she We're, in what a
heavenly fashion could those tones OF
hers swim out over prayerful audience,
and Just take the PRAYER on their silvery
strength, and lead it up, up; and any
body who is the means of producing
more of them, and so brings down the
price of prima donna in the market, is
a public benefactor, to be sure, any
way: and l was just on the point OF
saying that would speak to you, and
if you approved, as knew you would.
| could have thousand dollars or
Whereabouts for them to-day, when Mrs.
Veasey happened in, and so, as didn'
want Mrs. Veasey- to know anything
about it, and be taking the wind all out
of my sails, l just told Mabel to come
again to-day, and l would have some
thing further to say to her! And so /
shall!' cried Mrs. Torrance, taking
breath with renewed vigor. - shall
have to tell her that her sister has been
arrested for a thief, and she may go
sing to her in prison. That's what I'll
tell her, the wicked. ungrateful girl!''
.Which?" said Mr.. Torrance.
II don't know how anybody can be
| l.; II