The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-05

Close to her hovered the f'Neapolitan
flower girl" with her shallow wicker
tray of rosebuds and her scarlet sash.
And a stately Austrian halberdier had
attached himself to their party with a
certain pertinacity.
The Spanish maiden said never q word
she hardly dared to trust her voice
but her heart beat high as the halber-
der stopped his plumed helmet to wits.
per in her ear.
eYou are well disguised but / know
you"
She shook her head. The rosy color
flooded the round chin, the curve of the
milk white throat, that were visible be-
meath the satin mask.
For whom did he take her, then? To
what other woman besides herself didhe
dare to speak in accents of such honeyed
softness?
At last came the moment of unmask-
ing. Lefty flung aside the black satin
domino and stood revealed, with eyes
alight and cheeks dyed with angry Grim
son.
In the same second the Austrian hal
berdier dashed his tinsel helmet on the
floor. He was a perfect strangerl
With a smothered exclamation Lefty
vanished in the crowd. 1t was some
time before Lucetta could find her.
"Oh, Lucetta.'' cried the girl, 'swe
have been laughing and whispering Will
q man we never saw beforel This Is
what comes OF masqueradest"
s'Well, where's the harm?' breathless.
ly retorted less punctilious LuGetta
"Don't everybody do the same thing:
Come back, You silly child-we haven't
found Dallas Hall YETI
II don't want to find him." almost
sobbed Lefty. tim afraid to stay hero
alone. That halberdier looked so inso-
lently at mel"
1Nonsense, girl! he can't eat you. VIZ
are all Mrs. Laddon Lloyd's guests. Come
back to the supper room, I say! There's
such a crowd-and everything fit to eat
will be gone directly"
But Lefty refused to stir. In the
shadow Of a group Of monster palms in
the hall she covered, q brilliant bit Of
color, while all the hungry pleasure
seekers were converging toward the sup
per rooms. II it had not been for her
fantastic costume she would have hast
ened home at once.
AS she stood there, perplexed and ter
rifed, a step sounded on the now desert
ed stairway. A tall figure. dressed In
black, came swiftly down, with a roll OF
papers in its hand.
"Oh, Dallas! BALLAST
"Letty, can it be possible that this is
you?'
"After all your advice to me-" she
walled.
CATER your promise TO me, Lefty
he said, glancing with o strong disap-
proval at her rocco dress and clustering
pink plumes.
"Dallas, what are you doing here?"
81 came, Lefty, to receive instructions
for the last will and testament of old
Myron Lloyd, Mrs. Laddon Lloyd's I'm
Gle, who is now lying i'll upstairs, and
who desired the document to be exc
cuted as privately as possible while his
niece's attention was absorbed with her
guests. And you, Letty?"
She flushed to the very roots of her
hair. How was she to tell him that she
had come there to defy his authority
to be a spy upon his actions?
He looked keenly at her.
"Have you a cloak hcre?" he asked.
Eyes" she murmured-''in the dress
ing room"
$50 upstairs and get it quick, before
the crowd comes back to interrupt our
egress. I must take you home.'
AS obedient as n child she complied,
and chung, half laughing, half sobbing.
to his arm as she related the story of how
she had allowed herself to be influenced
by Lucetta Variants oficious tattling, of
her iniudicious resolve and of her own
hearty repentance.
sAnd all the time" she said, 'syou
were only in the path of your profess
sional duty"
81 certainly wasn't attending Mrs.
Laddon Lloyd's masquerade ball in any
historical capacity" said he dryly.
"Dallas," she murmured, twill you
forgive me?'
"My own dear love, there is nothing
to forgive" he answered. sYou have
learned one of life's lessons, that is all.
Now kiss me, and let's forget all this
nonsense"
but / will never disobey you again."
she pleaded.
II wish I could be certain of that"
said he, with a laugh.
And the next day Lefty Ogilvie ripped
the Spanish maiden's dress apart, kept
the black velvet to trim a winter gown,
and sent the gaudy pink satin to old Aunt
Jemima Berryfield, up the street, who
was making a crazy quilt Of the craziest
description.
"For | eve want to see the hateful
thing again" said she.
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