Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-02-01
he pushed his plate away, with a laugh

he pushed his plate away, with a laugh
he could repress no longer.
"lf she took your diamond. Well
my darling, l am glad you have arrived
at the diamond once more / began to
think 1t had been lost again. But
don't tell me about the inconsequence
OF a woman's mind. Its workings are
labyrlnthine, hut the thought always
comes out at the place it went in.
Now, let us be business-like, If We can.
Janet. What makes you think this
pretty Mildred OF ours took the lia-
mondp'
pretty MildredI Well, perhaps be-
cause she Is pretty" said Mrs. Tor
rance, looking like a satirIcal sparrow.
mot at all impossible" said her
husband, graveIy.
Il ou don't mean TO imply that |
would denOunce a person as a thief
because you said sne was prettyP,'
cried Mrs. Torrance, half rising to her
feet I've as good a mind to leave
the table as ever I had to eat.
would, II the buckwhe4t cakes had
come up"
MY dear chndr'
You treat me exactly as II 1 were
a child" cried the outraged wife.
Wv hat do care whether my maid Is
pretty or not? Being pretty, apparent
ly, doesn't keep her hands from picking
and stealing. l know she stole my
diamond just as well as if had seen
her do 1t. ="
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. l wonder il Patricia Is
never going to send those cakes up
How in 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 1 utterly detest
and wasn't gong to have ringing in
my ears all the time. And she is so
tall and erect she justiieS Patricia
Don't you think so?''
''All right" said MIR. Torrance,
thinking it best to make no refeI ence
to the Noras of a few minutes since.
But we were speaking of Mildred"
Il did think very we'll of Mildred,
will confess, before this" said Mrs.
Torrance, with judicial calmneSs.
"Sne is educating her sister, who has
a voice-Such a voice-for a church
singer, when she Will have a salary
that will be wealth To them, and give
some lessons. besides. And she was
wrapped up In her. And / took an
interest in them myself, and gave her a
silk dress to make over and got a new
cloak that / really didn't need so as to
give her my old one land saw she had
the good taste 10 take off some of the
trimmingl, and lots of my old music.
And out of her own wages Mildred has
to hire a room and a piano and pay for
her lessons, somebody gives her her
board till she can pay the debt, and II
takes every cent Mildred earns; and,
you see, IL IS quite natural that she
should look about to lind where she
can turn a penny"
IAN honest penny" said Mr.. Tor
rance "A girl who 2 da,ng q t54t i,-s I9E
to turn any other sort OF penny"
"How you do love to interrupt me,
Mr.. Torrance! Ii really seems as if
You couldn't bear the sound of my
voicel l WAS going on to say, before
you took tue words out Of my N Outh,
that recently this sister of hers has been
advised to take lessons OF another mas
teT, who asks all creation, but is really
worth it. And he says he can make
her voice 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 its
value her sister Mabel can take her
lessons. And her voice is delicious
Just perfectly deliciOusl" exclaimed
Mrs. Torrance, forgetting the diamond
h.ar- NJ
sing To me. Aud l can't describe it to
YOU. | never heard a lark nor a night
ingale, but a bobol nix isn't a whistle
to il. \ flute, a trumpet-weu, it WAS
sweet and satisfying and penetrating as
the oior of some flower. and yet as soft
as the velvet side OF the petals of the
flower. Angels would sing so, maybe,
il there are any. And L was Just car
ried away. / forgot all about her sister
being nv maid. / cried ami 1 laughed,
and / felt as If 1 had found her. And
now | will solemniy tell you, Archy,
dear and she bent across the pretty
china service, tranStXed him with Ter
radiant eyes-"I looked at my ring,
aud | turned it and turned It, and L
SAID to myself had had the good of It
ever since Grandfather De Peystsr
gave It to me, and everybody knew |
had it, and my position was pretty well
established, diamond rings or not, and
when YOU were able to afford a real
grown-up butler you would probably
get me plenty; and If l sold It now. and
give this poor dear girl the money TO
secure her career, what a blessing 1t
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 a church choir in that case,
and if she were, in what heavenly
fashion could those tones OF hers swim
out over a prayerful audience, and Just
lake the prayer on thei- slvery
strength, and lead II up, up; and any
body who IS the means producing more
of them, and so brings down the price
of prlma donna in the market. IS pub
lie benefactor, to be sure, anyway and
| was lust on the point of saying that L
would speak to you. anu II you app
proved as 1 knew you would, would
nave 81 900 or thereaboutS Tor them
t,-day. when Mrs. Veasey happened In,
and SO. as L didn't want Mrs. Neasey
To know anything about II, anu oe
taking the wind all out or my SAILS,
inst told Mabel to come again to-day
and l would have something further 10
saw to her. And so l SHALL" cried Mrs;
torrance, taking breath with renewed
yigor. II shall have to tell her ln1'
her sister has been arrested for tntei'
and she NAV 90 sing to her in prison
Taat's what I'll tell her, the wicked,
ungrateful girli''
SWhlchP" said Mr. Torrance.
Il don't know how anybody can ~
90 unfeeIinp.' cried his wife; 1T really
seams as if YOU were interested In TIE
troubles of two beggarly girls base
enough to rob your wife than in YOU
wIfe's troubles. Bothr'
"But robbery is a very harsn 'eIul
Janet, darling. where careiessi'eS' III y
be the whole thing ,.ss
..There it is again. My carelesSness
not their dishonesty. When L went tl
the washstand L turned the ring on ~,
finger again, and there was the sIoh'
gone" toll
land how many times have L toi'
,.>,, ,tat tba caralasS habit OF WdSuIus