Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-01-31

NO not All, Jeremy inter ppNSH, see
ing signs of storm in his sisters face.
"ODe or two are OPEN
He wants TO sneak out of getting the
| ribbon. l declare, r-pnshing away and
taking refuge in the window recess TO
hide few tones of vexation-"smal
boys are just unmitigated nuisances! Or
COURSE he'll go back"
Glow about big boys?" Jeremy in
quired, following her.
''Oh, big ones like You are very nice,
indeed"
Thanks. / must be nice since you al
low me TO escort you and turn your back
on the comet and 6xed star" These
were the nicknames Jeremy had bestowed
on his sisters two chief admirers. "Was
1t because you couldn't go with both you
wouldn't go with eitherSn
at was because | wanted to go with
you. And you're very
"No, I'm not. I'm Your humble ser
want. You know its the first time you
wanted to go with me sinoe you put on
long dresses. l was little surprised.
And I'm afraid Mr.. Marston may lie in
wait to assassingte and that Walter may
challenge"
Don't be nonsensical."
His sister flushed thinking of the Grim
son in her pocket. But at that moment
came a crash from the direction of the
kitchen that drove everything else out OF
her head. Arriving on the scene she
found fragments of orockery and g
deluge of milk on the floor. TIE Swede
was surveying the ruin with her arms
akinbo.
81 har upsided it," she remarked in ex-
PLANTATION.
Unfortunately her mistress temper
was also 'upsidedn She proceeded TO
give Inga soolding, which made no
more impression upon the recipient than
it did on the wood-box she was filing
Seeing this, Lou desisted "a abruptly as
she had begun, turned her back on the
offender, and went back 70 the dining
room just in time to see figure dash
down the garden path and out the gate.
Il was Bob who Was thus dccAmping,
having stuffed his pockets with eatebles.
No second walk to town for himi
What was TO be donel There was no
use in pursuing; no use in getting angry.
Everything seemed against blue; for that
reason, if for no other, my heroine made
up her mind TO have ~ even if she had
to 20 for it herself. There vas not time
enough for that, however and she did not
like 70 ask Jeremy, who was enjoying ii
cigar on the piazza before dressing, But
there was Inga; she could go.
The Swede was not perceptibly aston
iShed at her mistress sudden change OF
tone when she came back to ask her TO
leave the dishes and 90 on an errand.
She made the unfailing rejoiuder, "yess.n
and was ready In two minutes. Thinking
TO be quite sure this time, Lou wrote
what she wanted on slip of paper.
The Swhde departed, holding this in one
hand aud the money and the door key in
the other. Having seen her on her way,
Lou was at liberty to commence her
toilet, 1t was already past 7, and dark
because OF impending storm. There
were ouinous muttering5 of thunder
Going through the process Of dressing
mechanically and hastely, my heroine in
| half an hour stood before the mirror
fully arrayed. Now, indeed, the time
for decision had come. IDga would be
back soon, and there would be plenty of
time TO knot up this blue ribbon should
she wish TO wear il. Or she might begin
nov on the crimson lying on the bureau.
Which should it be-
How foolish! How like the traditional
donkey between two stacks OF hay She
laughed, then noticed with vexation that
eyes were heavy and her checks rs white
as her dress.
"Tkis will never do" she sOliloquized.
| shall have to try the crimson to light
myself mp. III make the knots anyway"
Fate surely favored crimson. She was
a long time about arranging the bows,
but Igna had not returned when ihsy
were finished. So just to SEQ the effect,
she pinned thsm in place on breast and
hair and belt, and then stood looking at
herself with pardouable pride in her own
beauty. What was she thinking, as she
gazed at her reflection with the light in
her eyes and that flush on her cheek?
She saw herself, in fancy, Roger Mars
toms envied and congratulated fancee.
She saw his eager, dark, triumphant face,
and then she turned away and put up her
hands to shut out another Vision-a
vision that caused the flush to fade and
the gaze to waver Only pair of blue
eyes that suddenly seemed to look from
mirrors pths, first in wonder, then 10
pain, reprosch, despair, and tinally-yes
finally in soOrn, scotn of Z he girl who was
about to make the most brilliant match
of the season.
The gate fell together. Inga was the
last coming, and the noise of voices told
she brought with her her "man" Carl,
who usually spent his evenings in the,
jennings kitchen. Lou hastily unpinned
the crimson bows aud threw them Oh the
sable. Her cheeks seemed to have Dor.
rowed the ribbons vivid color as she
answered the Swede's tap at the door and
eagerly extended her hand for the little
paroel the latter rendered
Pm so very much obliged, Inga."
"Yess."
mo matter about change. Keep it
for your t,ouble."
"Yess."
Lou had opened the package Sudden
ly, with au exclamation, she fetreated to
the gas jet TO examine what she held
more closely.
"Why-why, this ribbon-this ribbon is
yes, it is-it's green!' Even the stolid
SWede recoiled a little before the indig-
7 ant glance that accompanied the next
words. How could you make such a
mistaken
Inga forgot her conventional response