St. Landry democrat., 1888-06-30
j" Thank you, Miss Capell.n

"Thank you, Miss Capell."
ENTIRELY welcome, am sure"
Mollie turned her back, and they both
studied vigorously.
| "She blames me-" said Judy to the
widow, dropping her book, "because
stood between her and what frightened
| her?''
"Did you speak, mademoiselle?"
g Yes, l did, mademoiselle. You called
me Miss Capell twice hand running, and
wouldn't stoop to call you Miss Close!'
"You said was a scrawny dyspeptic."
"You said f1irted"
"Well you did hirt-you airted scandal
ously."
'And you know you're scrawny. And
don't you have to take pepsin after every
meala-and the whole school knows how it
| acts on your temper"
II should like to have few undisturbed
moments to myself this morning." said
Mollie Close, holding her book in tremb-
| ling claws. II shall 20 into the bedroom,
and if you try to follow me shall lock the
| door,
"Follow youi wish I might never set
eyes on you again"
$50 do I. Heartily Our friendship is
at an end"
Miss Close walked into the bedroom.
I shall ask to have my room changed at
noon," she observed. "And Pm going to
take down my dresses and fold them right
away"
When she had been engaged in this i'm
proving labor long enough to be Modified
by recollecting the successful recitation
she had made in the blue dress, and dis
covering some forgotten caramels in the
pocket of another, pecking began upon
the door, which increased to pounding
Miss Close heard it not. She continued
folding her wardrobe ready for departure.
MAY l come in, Mollie!'
I" l said if you tried to follow me l should
lock the door,
90 don't lock the doorl It's all my
fault We never quarreled in our lives
that it wasn't my fault
Well, Judy, you are to blame. And
you annoy me more than can endure"
g know l do. I'm so horrid! Do for
give me. ache more than can stand"
"Come in, then," granted Miss Close.
II really havn't any right to keep you
out of the bedroom"
Judy came in downcast, with glowing
lips and eyes, and gazed at her chum
81 wish 1 wasn't SO hungry to be
liked" she said, suppressing sob.
''There'll never be any body that likes me
enough"
1--WE bring our troubles on ourselves in
this world" observed Miss Close, in that
didactic tone which always chilled the
opine of her more ardent friend.
At that point the presidents pert little
daughter, who, sometimes, condescended
to carry cards, rushed in with a bang, and
projected an oblong bit of white at Judith
Capeil.
'Miss Capell, Colonel Montgomery's
been waiting in the reception-room to see
you this long while, and if you don't
hurry in Sally Smith will begin her noon
practice hour there, and you can't hear
your ears for the noise''
just after the simultaneous thunder
which the entire boarding school produced
by drawing their chairs to sit down to din
ner, Miss Close said to her friend:
"And what did the wild buffalo want in
his to-be-continued?"
He wanted to enliven my deadly vaca-
tion here by taking me to Newark to see
the Fourth of July parade
g suppose any proposition he makes will
be agreeable to you,' said Miss Close, sit
ting upright with the tlisapproval OF anoth
er's admirer, which even pattern girls will
sometimes manifest. She shot plates past
herself like shuttles as they came from the
carver's hands"
!" You judge from your own former
anxious standpoint replied judy. And
she added with the passionate pessimism of
Judith, |" but Pm with Hamlet myself
Neither man nor woman will ever be any
thing to me again. And will never. never
worry any more about any ones frame
work or digestion or engaged affections"
Still, when commencement hustle was
over and the lonely ache of vacation had
begun in Judith's solitary heart, when
empty rooms echoed, and she dared not
practice in minor chords for fear of sobbing
herself, it gave her throb of unconfessed
delight to sit beside the Colonel on the
Fourth of July morning. He drove slender
limbed, black horses from the blue grass
region His entire turnout was an orna-
ment to the landscape, and that landscape
was an ornament to the State. There were
green hills melting against the sky and
valleys downy soft with verdure. Dense
ranks Of dewy fern brushed the carriage
wheels, and bits Of wood views opened to
and receded from the eye like enchantneapt.
Judith's gloved hands were folded on her
white lap. 1t was the year when hats of
cactus braid were introduced, and she wore
one with peoples punched above her face.
The brilliant and defiant young face kept
its side curve toward the Colonel.
8 put the question to you now because
can't wait any longer" said the Colonel.
aId don't want to be engaged = said Ju-
dith. Engagements reduce the sum OF
human happiness. !"
The Colonel laughed.
aMy roommate got herself engaged to q
man, and it spoiled her have seen the
folly Of such things and I am going to
carve out my future
s.You dear child, you couldn't carve a
good-sized roast. And future is a tough |
thing to tackle I have great big heart |
for you, my darling, and its lonesome like |
you are
8 Oh, I'm not lonesome" said Judith,
lifting an Indifferent chin. ~ always feel |
myself in good society with Miss Capell.n
The Colon Ell laughed again.
2 Well, Miss Capell, you know consider
able about me. And.I have every thing to
give you that woman could ask for.''
ssAnd you think you have nothing to do