St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-22

said to himself. ''That was what she was up
to. Can't fool old Ben so easy. Our young
ladies is very nice but they can't hold can
die to her!'
1t was an unerring instinct which led
Pinkie, On entering the drawing room, to
glide swiftly to her uncIe's side, and putting
her hands into his, almost convu,sively,
say:
"Dear Uncle Silas, wont you make my
peace with aunt, and ask all your friends
here to forgive me for msquerading at your
dinneraH
Before she had half finished speaking the
company had gathered around her, every
face full OF amazemeLS, EXPLANATIONS on
every tongue. II must say,'' began Mrs.
Bent in an angry tone, but Pinkie went OR
resolute; if she did not win forgiveness then
and there on that instant she would never
! have it, she knew well.
81 could not resist the temptation to live
up to the New Workers. idea of Kansas girl
just for an hour or two. You know that I
was exactly the sort of person you all expect
to see from the West.'' She gathered cour-
age as she saw smiles breaking on face after
face. Eyes, you all know it," she said
smiling and embracing the whole group in
her appealing glance, 'and we out West all
person cannot have decent manners nor
even decent clothes! There, forgive mel
You ask them to forgive me, dear Uncle
Silas, won't you2" But Uncle Silas was
laughing too heartily to speak; shaking her
hands in both of his, he bent over and kissed
| her forehead.
II ask them all TO forgive me for kissing
you here and now" he said. ga capital
joke, Pinkie, capital''
| ''The best bit of acting 1 ever saw,'' cried
the Hon. MIR. Morris; ''Quite clever; very
neat, upon my word; though do think now,
really Miss Bent, l should have seen through
it; don't think you could have deceived
me-"
Il should not have tried, replied Pinkie very
simply, yet there was a certain indefnable
| something in tone which made the Hon. Mr..
| Morris change color.
There are no words to describe the embar-
rassment of Mrs. Bent and her daughters.
| Under cover of the general hilarity and ex-
element they managed to seem cordially
| amused and affectionately delighted with the
rest. But uneasiness filed their hearts.
clad Pinkie overheard what they said
about hern'
| They could not ask; they sounded her, as
far as they dared, in various ways, but they
never found out. To only one person did
Pinkie ever tell the whole truth about this
evenings masquerade. That was to the Hon.
Mr.. Morris after she had been for some weeks
| his wife.
II thought it was so unjust in them,
Frank" she said, $50 cruel; I'd just give
them lesson and let them see that manners
may be only skin deep, easily put on or put
off. There are plenty of people out in Kan
| soc yrhn do i,,at ho1 J,- I 4
that night and do speak in just such way;
but they are good, true, earnest, kind people
for all that 1t was only BY chance that I
was educated differently, and it was only by
chance that my cousins were Also 1t is a sin
to act as they do. But I'd never have done
it, Frank, if I'd seen you first, never.
wanted to run out of the room as soon as I
saw you look at mel
''YOu needn't to have,'' replied the Hon.
Mr. Morris, ''for l thought as soon as my
eyes fell on you that 1 had never seen so
| lovely face before
"And was so horribly afraid they would
all be angry at me, when / came down; that
| Carrie and Sophia and Aunt Bent would be
hateful, and then l knew l should cry; and
said to myself then I'd rather die than cry
before that Englishmanl What do you sup
pose you would have done, if had made
scene there, bursting into tears before them
| all?''
''Put my arms round you, perhaps, before
them all,' answered the Hon. Mr. Morris.
sat any rate that is what should have felt
like doing. In fact, that is what I did feel
like doing when you glided into the room in
that long white gown
''Did you. really?" asked Pinkie.
Really" answered the Hon. Mr.. Morris
sit was lucky aunt and the girls did not
know it," said Pinkie solemnly.
every" answered the Hon. Mr.. Morris.
sPoor CarrieI'' said Pinkie.
'Humphn' answered the Hon. Mr. Morris.
''She's a dowdy!''