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don't understand these things"
'Oh, that's simple enough" Evangeline
replied. "You Just write out slip Oh
paper and put down as much money as you
want, and then you write your name on
the back and they give you the money
Business is very easy when you come to dc
it. Only you ought always to 60 TO the
bank yourself, because when they send
you the money by post they cut the notes
in two, and then sometimes | get the
wrong halves"
Miss Short took out her pocketbook,
which her visit to the bank had filled
with notes. Then an idea seemed to
strike her.
81 know" she said, "you are Just real
mad with me because 1 have been round
the city by myself. l am sorry ! didn't
think. If am going TO do anything
wrong, tell me right away. l can't keep
track OF what one may do and what one
mayn't, but Pll do everything just as you
tell me-"
Lady Bagshot kissed her young friend in
enthusiastic forgiveness, and promised the
easiest and gentlest of guidance.
"Girls have great deal more liberty
than they used to have" she said, "and
don't see that they are any the worse for
it."
The next few days were very delightful
to both ladies, for Evangeline, after pro-
longed inspection Of the contents of the
four trunks, decided that new dresses
would be necessary; and though Lady
Bagshot did not see the necessity so plain
" as her young friend, she carefully
abstained from offering any opposition.
Her own relations with her dressmaker
were Just at that time lowing to Sir
Henry's meanness) little strained, and
she was very pleased to be able to intro
duce a customer who ordered freely, was
Indifferent to price, and shared the trans
atlantic partiality for paying cash. And
then the consulting, the choosing the fit
ting, the taking in and letting out, the
reftting and the trying on-all these are
pleasures too subtle and "too sweet for
words" and not even to be dimly appre-
hended by that half of humanity which is
prosaically clad by tailors.
l do not propose to give an account of
Miss Shorts triumphs in society
equipped for conquest, she conquered.
Girls who were envious of her good looks
couldn't help admiring her frocks, and
though she neither whistled nor played the
banjo she was still striking social success
and got almost as much attention as the
Manganese monarch himself.
''She is really very entertaining" said
Sir Henry to his wife. "It is like a page
out of Bret Harte to listen to her-the
Society upon the Stanislow,' heaving
rocks, and all that sort of thing, don't
you know"
Miss Shorts career can be traced by the
curious in the columns of the society pa
pers, and details of her dresses can be
gathered from morning paper which de-
votes good deal of its space to millinery
and the kindred subjects.
"Gettysburgville Takes the Cake y is
the heading of the paragraph which de-
scrlbe's Evangeline's attire at the very
distinguished garden party l have al
luded to.
And through all these splendors Miss
Short bore herself with tact and dexterity
which won the en- :husiastie appreciation Of
her chaperon. And even if she was some
times a little unguarded in her talk, this
very indiscretion seemed to have It's pur
pose.
For example, one Sunday she and Lady
Bagshot were sitting for a little while in
the Park, and Sir Englefeld Green had
come and secured the next chair. A young
lady passed and bowed slightly to Miss
Short, who returned the salute.
'fYou know Miss PhippsY queried the
Baronet.
81 met her last night at Lady Bounders.
She didn't seem to know a soul and sat in
a corner. l thought she must be Just TAX
ing root"
she could get in there at all. She is rich
you know, but bad style. Her fathers in
the city, in the tallow business. Her
brother was in my regiment, and they used
to call him Dips, you know"
Miss Short didn't laugh.
"Well," she said, 81 suppose it's very
funny; but then my father was in business
too, and there is not mighty much differ
ence between tallow and oil"
The Baronet looked very serious.
"Oh, but, Miss Short" he said in an
anxious tone, 'you know you are an Amer
lean, and that makes all the difference,
you know"
"Why does it?' she inquired.
"Oh. I don't know why it does, but it
does. YOU know. Ask Lady Bagshot. Be-
sides. most Americans have made their
money in oil"
Miss Short did not reply, and after some
cogitation Sir Engle6eld continued:
"You see, Miss Short, if you had been
in business here you wouldn't have been so
charming as you are. You would have
dropped your Hs and talked about your
mar p
81 did not notice those peculiarities in
Miss Phipps," the young lady replied with
an entire change from her usual manner.
Lady Bagshot rose, and reflected, as she
walked home with her young friend, that
she had managed difficult point with the
greatest dexterity. For Sir Englefeld
Green was after this more attentive than
ever to Miss Short, as if anxious to show
that the oil of her deceased parent did
not in the least diminish the admiration
which her charms had excited in his
bosom.
CHAPTER II.
When the London season began to draw
to a close Miss Short spoke of returning to
America.
'Pve had very, very good time" she
said, "and am not going TO forget it,"
But Lady Bagshot protested against hel
departure; she ought to stop longer, she
must stop, she couldn't let her go. And
again the young lady yielded. A yacht
was chartered-AIiss Short insisted on pay.
ing for it as she had suggested the idea
| and they had a fortnight in the Solent
Then they set off to Homburg, Sir Henry
Bagshot, released from his Parliamentary
duties, accompanying them. And then Sil
Engletield Green, who had been at Cowes
arrived at Homburg, and day later th'
visitors list included the name of the Mar
quis of Hammersmith.
at is something for Sir Englefeld tx
come, my dear" said Lady Bagshot to hel
friend-''to miss the grouse, you know; h'
has one of the best moors in Scotland"
Two days after his arrival Sir EnglehelC
called and asked to see Miss Short. Theii
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