The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-10-12
WANTED-AN HE1RESS.
BY EMMA A. HOPPER.

with smiles at an apparently divert.
ing recollection.
"You wouldn't credit the incident
ifyou read it; but as was an eye.
witness. / can vouch for 1t. You'll
be paid for listening; it's really too
good!
II took what 1 called a vacation
after we got done with Asbury Park
and Saratoga last summer. Mr..
Gerry was going. west on two.
weeks business trip. and said L:
"'I've worked hard this summer.
and I'm going to take a rest. I've
talked amiably to five hundred
thousand people 1 haven't cared for !;
I've rowed and sailed all summer.
though 1t makes me sick, and bathed
religiously. when 1 hate it; I've
chaperoned a million girls to doings
Of all sorts. and even succeeded in
getting one or two engaged-aud I've
earned period OF peace. I'm going
to spend the two weeks of your alb
sence, Mr.. Gerry. in q woodland re-
treat"
"Well, It wasn't that precisely,
but 1t was passable. I went to little
hotel in the Catskills. I found too
many people there to suit me,
though. Old Colonel NARROW came
the next day An chronological old
crank, craving his pardon !; he car.
ries trunkful OF dried beetles and
things about with him; and Harry
Fosdick was there with his friend,
Mr.. Pierson.
II had met Fosdick before, and
abominated him for conceited sprig
and an heiress hunter. Mr.. Pierson
was lank young creature. with an
inane smile and middle parting to
his hair.
"They were two of kind, and
most congenial. till the new waitress
burst upon the scene. If the new
waitress didn't stir things mp!
"Polly. her name was. The other
girls were the regulation sort, i'm
ported from the city. 1 imagine. friz-
zeled hair. red Jerseys. pert ways
you know them.
"Polly was an oasis In the desert.
Polly wasn't exactly pretty. but she
was as fresh and blooming as a rose,
as neat as wax, and as bright as a
dollar. I fairly nabbed her for my
table, and kept her; and we got to
be very good friends, Polly and I.
"Old Colonel NARROW was at my
table. He mooned at me three times
day through his spectacles. and
TALKED moths and mosquitoes to inc
till 1 felt like one of his pin.stuck
specimens.
"But after Polly came the colonel
bent the light of his glasses on her
with vivid interest. I thought at
first that the old absurdity was in
love with her.
"But that wasn't it. He followed
me out to the piazza one day; he
looked excited.
"'Mrs. Gerry said he, L have
made remarkable discovery-ex.
traordinary! Do you know the iden.
tlty of the young woman who serves
at our table?'
II know she lives down the road
somewhere said I, in vine.clad
cottage, probably. and that the pro.
prietor Of the hotel. having bought
butter and eggs from her father,
made bold to ask Polly to eli the va.
eancy left by the sudden departure
of a waitress, and that Polly being
obliging and not too proud to turn
an honest penny, came along.'
''The colonel looked sly.
"'That's what the landlord has
given OUT said he. The story is a
fabrication. Listen. Mrs. Gerry
That young woman is Miss Mary
or Polly, as she is called by intinates
Miss Polly Gardner. l am an old
friend of her grandfather's. and 1
have seen her frequently. You have
heard of her? She is heiress to half
q Million
II had heard of her. She was a
friend of the Lemoynes. and the LIE.
moynes are friends Of mine. I
laughed a full minute.
"'The last I heard of Miss Gard.
ner.' said I. she was In Europe. I
dor't think she's returned
"'Thst young person is Miss Polly
Gardner said the colonel. pre-emto-
rily. Il recognized her at glance
at glance. Mrs. Gerry
"'You are short-sighted, colonel
I ventured, and perhaps little alb
sent.minGed.'
"'PossibIy. Mrs. Gerry said the
colonel with dignity, the fact re.
mains that recognize Miss Gardner
beyond doubt strange though the
fact may seem.'