New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-11-06

to take refuge with my old blue-satin
friend.
The next evening there was a ball
at Mayor Wentworth's. Tom
Woods was going to take me. He
was an old friend Of mine, the only
one of all the many men with whom
| had tried to ''be friends" who had
not made love to me. I liked him
heartily and we had grown intimate
y friendly. DR.. John would not be
able to come until late in the even.
ing; but though he did not dance, I
had promised, a long time ago, to
save a dance and sit it out with him.
At last he came and smiled in a.
happy and contented way, when /
showed him the dance that I had
saved; it came just after a gallop
with Tom Woods. Tom was one of
those splendid but violent dancers
who always manage to get some
thing about them unhitched or dis
ordered. We had not gone around
the room twice, when I startled him
with a burst of uncomfortable
laughter.
ooh, Tom, for PHYS sake, come
outside. Your cravat is skating
round on your collar, to inspect the
back of your head"
"Oh, bother! never mind though,
that's all right. "We'n just finish
this dance, if you please, and then
you can fix it for me. [ mean. you
must, because, my COATS SO tight I
can't raise my arm two inches.
Vanitas, vanitatum, TIA ra TIA, what
ever it u.s.
The dance was over and we looked
about for some place where we would
be unseen. Tom knew OF little bal
cony outside one of the little windows,
and we quickly made our way there,
passing by DR.. John as we did so.
Give me pin. Now, put your
head way over on the other side.
Look here, keep your hands to your
self! Now, Tom, no cheating. The
pin bent and l had to get another.
The band struck up the next
dance. I put both hands up and
had almost put the pin securely
through the stiff, starched linen, and
we were laughing softly, when a
figure darkened the window and DR..
John stepped out. For an instant
his eyes met mine, and then the hand
some face was distorted by an ex-
preston of the bitterest scorn. In
the semi-darkness he could see that
my arms were appraised to Toms
neck and that our heads were very
near.
Il beg pardon. It was not my in
tention to intrude Or interrupt. [
merely came to claim this next
dance. Under the circumstances Of
course, [ waive all rights
Hang the man. burst from Tom
as soon as DR.. John had stepped
back into the room. "What can he
mean? He-oh, ha! ha! ha! that's a
good joke. The idea of our spoon
ing, Percy you and I. He was in
dead earnest, too. Well, come in
side. There's one good thing about
itanyway; there'll be some poor fel-
low the happier for it,
No, Tom, | am a little tired and /
think I'll stay here. Tell my next
partner where to find me-
/ danced as much as ever and was
very talkatiVe going home. [ did
not cry at all, but lay quite still and
wide awake all night. The next
morning I did not look tired, either.
/ had a glorious color and my eyes
were unusually bright. Two days
later I lay unconscious with a con-
summing fever. Those were sad times
for mother, and there were days
when she held nay hands in hers and
breathlessly counted the beatings of
the vacillating pulse. 1 had not
BEEN delirious at all, only one night
| had sighed continually, and kept
repeating, "Good-by, Percy" in a
soft, monotonous voice until day
break. For the rest the time 1 was
simply unconscious. When Twas get
ting better, mother told rae DR.. John
had been kind as only such a dear
heart could be, and had kept her
courage up unfaggingly with his
hopes and reliance ON my strong con-
stitution. She also told meincident-
ally that Silver Brooks air did not
Seem to be agreeing with him, he had
grown SO pale and thin.
AS for myself, I was shocked when
| SAW the changes disease had made
in me. Everybody called me the
prettiest girl IN Silver Brooks, and,
though far from being vain, still I
found a good deal of satisfaction in
the bright, rosy, image reflected in
my looking-glass. But now my skin
was of a dazzling Whiteness, and my
eyes seemed to be all over my face,
while the light played almost mys-
teriously on NY yellow hair.
ssThe purity dear" old Mother Ger
kins had said, wiping the tears out