Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-20
In BORROWED FEATHERS.

lN DUhhUWED FEATHERS.
1t was rainy evening, and IIattic
hlurray's well-worn blue merino gown
wns literally besprinklcd with bright
crops MS she came into Daphne Walters
room ut the sold Red Housc.n
That was the name by which it went.
although the red paint was long ago
washed oil its crumbling shingles.
1t had been hotel once in the old
post-revolntionary days, when four horse
stages went rumbling by, and cock
hated travellers trotted past with saddle.
bags strapped behind them.
1t was now cheap boarding house,
kept by Mrs. Sandson, where most of
the girls boarded who worked in Lis
combe's Silk Mills, hall mile down the
river.
Hattie Murray did not live there, be.
cause her father owned drcary sheep
1arm on the flats beyond, and she helped
with the houscworll morning and even
Z ing III lieu of her board, and she had run
over IN the rain for nm evening Chat with
hers.
She was uc.cycd, yellow haired
siri, ike French doll, with prcttyf
teeth and simpcring way of showing
them; and slender rs were the waM
shc earned, she always contrived tokTe
SLOWLY attired. She worshipped $tss
ms Parsec worships the sun. ~
Daphne Walters was quite q dAIhcnt
sort OF pcrson-olivc- compIAyoned,
with sombrc, glittcring eyes. a%Hh dim
PIE nesting close to the cokYf Of her
lips. ~
She wore n brown sernc AVN, which
latte was quite sure n%St have be-
longed to "ATrs. Noah;n r. in place of
the cheap imitatisn. II /fclry which
spar l.S n over HatN trim rim, person,
:. o %Dow of narrow broZ ribbon.
pointed TO a wo ap chair close 70 the the
table beside whicIShe was working.
why, lIatii% %s So She you are all
"oh, it's 6tAinng" cried Hattie,
0inging off " hood and shawl. "What
are you wodng at. That old thing2n
with co%mptuous upward tilt OF her
DaplI looked down at the garnet
a,shm,h dress, which she was rcetrim-
n,ingfith bows Of fresh red ribbon. and
smijd little.
IT. may be DID," said she, .'but it is
~ best have got"
|fou are not going to wear that to tho
1usking DANCER
4 "lts that or nothing, Hattie" Daphne
answered, composcdly. "Do you sup.
pose can afford white silk toilettes Or
wlne'colored pushes out of my ten dol
lars week."
Hattic's face cloudcd over.
SITS shame that old Liscombe navs
us such starvation wages" pouted she.
"But that's justw what I've como over to
talk to yon about, Daphne Eve beep
TO New York to-day, in the cheap cx-
cursion steamboat"
81 noticed that you weren't ut tbe
I. room" said Daphne. ''Rosa Bucknor
took it,
'Such time as 7 have had ~ cried
k,ger Hattie. "And such lot of new
ideas as I've picked up Put away that
nowdy old cashmere, Daphne. You
won't look twice at it when you hear
what I've seen. I'vo been to the
Holton Street Bazaar"
"Wel what of that2" calmly oues-
Abned Daphne.
:. "llavc you never heard of it2,
"No."
Hattie lifted her hands and eyes in a
protesting manner toward the ceiling.
TO think" said she, '.that any one
0n be SO Ignorant of what is going on /
Well, my dear, it's place where vol,
Gun buy-or hire, if you like that better
1.-The prettiest, most stylish dresses Won
eTer saw for mere song"
"You must have been into the do.
aains of the Arabian Nights, %; said
Enphnc, drily.
Its secondhand place." explained
Hattie, "where fine ladies dispose of the
things they have worn only a few times.
aid one can get snperb bargains,n
Daphne shrugged her shoulders.
I'VE should look fine, shouldn't we, 81
sud she, Sin dresses that had been warn
by fine ladies2"t8. "
s"We could alter them over.m
mo, thank youn said composed
iaphne. II prefer the old garnet cash.
aiere, with the knots of,new fibbon.n
"Oh, butt" pleaded Hattie, styor
don't knowl There's the loyeliest yellow
? olre-antique--perfect, only for O wine
stain on the front breadth, and that
could be covered up by changing the
draperies at the back. You are such q
brunette, Daphne, you'd look superb in
Yellow And it cost hundred and
twenty dollars when it was new; and YOU
can buy it now forthirtyr five. paid in in
staliments of five dollars week.
Why don't you say thirtyrfiye hun
nredss said Daphne. 81 am asable t.
pay ono. price as another.n
' i;' YOU can hire it for one night, will
2oota ara gloves TO match, for.tcn dol
lars, and you to pay the expressape botl
ways, added Hattie.
Daphne. shook her head resolutely.
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