The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-04-05

TIE UNHAPPY GIRL SAID NOTHING.
Kitty OlwlTt made her unexpected Gp-
pCarance-
Here you are, you little truant,
I've come to look after your she said.
playfully, rs Lucy admitted her.
Mrs Ross, anxious to explain mat
ters in her own way, interrupted the
words that trembIed on her daughter
lips.
Lucy nigh about crazy. Miss Kitty,
over what happened this afternoon TO
her physiology l sent her to onkiver
the rain-bar'I, an instid o layin' her
book down as she'd Ort 70 she took II
along; an, somehow, in workin'
aroun' there, she dropped it inl''
Lucy gave 4 start of painful sur
prise at this direct falsehood from her
mother. and her pale, expressive face
became pathetically asitated- The
children stared blankly from one to
another, but all remained silent
"Of course it got soakin' weti''
went on tho conscioncoIcss woman.
Lucy dried it by the fire, but she
couldn't make it fit TO look at Git it,
Lucy, and show it 10 herr
Lucy did as she was hidden, but shl
gave her mother an appealing, re-
proachful look that would have melted
heart less hard
Kitty saw the look and wondered
at it
Don't feel badly about it, dear" she
said, taking the book. You couldn't
help it, and will have a new one to-
morrow"
'Oh, don't get another onei'' plead
ed Lucy. II never can take it"
And then, completely overcome by
a sense of the wrong her mother had
done and of its injustice to herself. she
abruptly left the room, sobbing con-
Vulsively.
Kitty, not little bewildered, was ON
the point of following her. -
I'D ruther you wouldn't say moth
in moro to her to-nightI' interpo5ed
Mrs Ross She'll git over it quicker
by herself"
Very we'll will go home" said
Kitty, as she moved toward the door.
Don't be mad!" whimpered Mrs.
Ross. You don't know Lucy like /
do. 1t always makes her cry worser
TO talk 10 her. Come back agin to-
morrai She'll be all right by then"
Kitty passed out, without deigning a
reply. -
Mrs. Ross had always been proud of
Kitty's friendship for Lucy, and. al
though infinitely below the Olwirts in
social standing. she had often OBJ
truded herself as a visitor in their
home on the strength of her daugh-
ter's preferment
This evening she had tried, as was
her wont, 10 make the best possible
appearance before Kitty. But she dis
covered, when too late. that she had,
TO use her own expression. "overdone
the thing"
'.Ain't you pretty thingr' she ex-
claimed. going into the bedroom
where Lucy sat, a picture of the deep
est detection. '.Kitty's gone home
mad an it's your fault fer leavin' her
the way you did"
Il couldn't help it, motherr' Lucy
answered. sorrowfully. al couldn't
stay and see her so deceived. and /
couldn't tell on my own mother =" =
You'd better never tell. eitherr'
was the threatening rejoinder Il
didn't do no harm, anyhow. II I'd
a-told her one o. the children split
yer book she'd blamed me fer not
learnin' 'um better. But when told
her you done it accidentally she
thought nothin' Nv it, an knowed
she wouldn't"
Lucy made no attempt 20 combat
this characteristic logic, realizing that
it would be useless. And her mother
ended the conver5ation by reminding
her that the supper dishes were yet to
wash.