The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-14
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as well as if had seen her do it.
But what would she do with it?"
What question: As if that sort
OF person didn't know where to dispose
OF things easily and take care of the
proceeds / wonder if Patricia is never
going to send those sakes up
How ia the world did our cook
come to be called Patricia?'
81 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 justifies Patricia. Don't you
think sop
"All right, Z" 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 well of Mildred,
will confess, before this" said Mrs.
Torrance, with judicial calmness. "She
is educating her sister, who has a voice
such 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 a silk dress to
make over, and got new cloak, that
didn't really need, SO as to give her my
cid one (and / 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
quite natural that she should look
about her to find where she can turn a
penny
San 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"
"How you do love to interrupt me,
Mr.. Torrance! It really seems asif 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 says he can make her voice a
fortune to her. And they have been
dreadfully 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 it's value.
her sister Mabel can take her lessons
And her voice is delicious just perfect
ly deliciousp exclaimed Mrs. Torrance,
forgetting the diamond again. s.Mil-
dred had her come here and sing to me-
And | can't describe it to you. [ never
heard lark or nightingale, but a
bobolink isn't whistle to it. A flute,
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 pe5al OF the flower Angels
would sing so, may be, if there are any.
And was just carried away. / forgot
all about her sisters being my maid. I
cried and | laughed, and felt as if
had found her. And now I will SOL
EMMY tell you, Archy dear and she
bent across the pretty china service
transfixing him with her radiant eyes =
81 looked at my ring, and | 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 a career,
what q blessing it would be to her, and
what Joy / 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 were, in what a
heavenly fashion could those tones oil
hers swim out over a 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
public benefactor, to be sure, any
way; and | was just on the point OF
saying that l would speak to you, and
if you approved, as l knew you would,
| could have q thousand dollars or
Whereabouts for them to-day, when Mrs.
Veasey happened in, and so, as / didn't
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 1 would have some
thing further to say to her And so /
shalt" cried Mrs. Torrance, taking
breath with renewed vigor. II shall
have to tell her that her sister has been
arrested for a thief, and she may 90
sing to her in prison. That's what I'll
tell her, the wicked, ungrateful girlr'
"Whichg" said Mr.. Torrance.
81 don't know how anybody can be
so unfeeling," cried his wife 'It
really seems as if you were more in
terested in the troubles of two BEG.
carly girls base enough to rob your
wife than in your wife's troubles.
Bothm
'But robbery is a very harsh term,
Janet darling, when carelessness may be
the whole thing
''There it is again. MY carelessness,
not their dishonesty. When l went &c
the wash-stand I turned the ring on
my finger again, and there was the
stone gone. i" -
"And how many times I've 1 told
you that the careless habit of washing
your hands in your rings wears off in
tinitesimal fractions of the gold till
the stones are loosened in the setting,
and drop out without your being
aware of itp"
'You are always so wise after the
act! How do you know l wasn't 90.
ing to take my rings off? You are Sc
ready to find me at fault! But
thought at first the stone must have
washed out"
so it seems you did wash your
hands with the ring on?" said the turn.
ing-worm.
Eyes, did. Therel And sent fol-
the plumber immediately, for 1 knew il
it had washed out, it must have caught
in the first trap; and he took up the
pipe, but it wasn't there. And he said
if he made real job of it, and went
down to the main something, he might
find it there; but | thought that would
cost more than the diamond itself"
''Wise woman" groaned Mr.. Tor
rance
0And so Won see T didn't acouse