Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-09-18

ssraigs EIWcett Salu nc was 10 bring ms and taikd inc back.n
 'sThere's many slip betwixt the cup and McArdle's lip.h
 "I don't believe you like him,' she ob- served. II have noticed you taking him up short"
 'sTalxing him up short onlyi Consider how virtuous that is of me when I suffer to beat and kick him."
 "And he so inoffensive," laughed Phoebe. "He never injured you any way, did hea"
 ''No," replied Gurley, 'I wish he would"
 McArdle, in dress-coat and pumps, was the second person Phoebe greeted on enter ing Miss Fawcett's parlors. He stood talk ing with a young girl, one hand resting on Q chair-baclz, the other hanging gracefully by his side, and self-consciousness radiating from him. No-other member of the class was in evening attire.
 Gurley saw with satisfaction that Phoebe was instantly admired. She moved daunt- lessly into this little social sea, feeling that, like an iceberg, she carried sevenfold of her bulk of cold misery below the surface. Not for her were the timId vanity and cratic carriage of young girlhood.
 'tHow alluring your Miss White is, Gu pid,'' said Psyche, hooking her finger on his arm in the library. "I wish had black eyes and racy color-that moist, peach-like richness of the skin. They are so easily and simply dressed to- She looks as dis tinguished as queen"
 'sI accept your approval as personal com pliment," said Gurley. 'Now cast your eye on McArdle."
 "Why should cast my eye on MT. Nc. Ardlel You know he sets my teeth on edge"
 "Psyche,' said Gurlcy, with gravity, ''hadn't better bring our old engagement ring back to youl There are some subjects on which our harmony is utter"
 "Right there our harmony would break in- to discords. never felt as kindly toward you in my life as do tonight, and it's all because the annoying engaged feeling is of can't see why girls take pride in such dis comfort. And if an almost endurable creat uro like yourself hampered me, Oh, con slider what it might have been with that wrath of manhood wonder as the party of the second partr'
 'I shall always remember gratefully, Swansdown, that you rate me little above McArdle. McArdle denied before the fellows to-day that he had the slightest acquaint- ance with this young girl-when had seen him take money from her hand which she had earned by hard days work He didn't want to identify himself with her or bring of her goodwill"
 "Jack why do you set me to despising people in my own housei It is so inhospi- table. didn't pull you in here to have my temper excited, but to ask you how to break that stiffness. Oh, do all the girls and young men in Greensburg stand up like that i and freeze each others marrow for polite | ness sake when they meet at an easy socialr'
 q am afraid they do" responded Gurley.
 ''They never used to do it," mourned i Psyche.
 HWere trying to be polished" said Cur l Icy. "And when we don't dance we pose 1 and drop an occasional word te each | other"
 "Dance! If they only would. But you told me half the men are divinity students ! and not dancing men at all" "Besides," added Gurley, i've are in some awe of sur present hostess. We be- | lieve she comes straight from courts, and l occupies herself comparing us common clods to duohesses and counts and so op."
 "What shall doi Iwould actually get upon O table and cut a caper if that would make them comfortable"
 'Try it.''
 !.Is this the way you help mer exclaimed l them she discharged her surplus electricity. 'I would just love to bite you like used to when we first fought each other" | "Yes, II carry the engraving of your lovely fngernail under my right ear vel, ;" observed l Gurley, with enjoyment. But was going | to say that when we Greensburgers want | to relax and timber ourselves thoroughly we talxe to charades and tableaux."
 "Oh, how easy," said Psyche, s'Why didn't you say so beforer l And then we end with college songs and | go home blessing our entertainer" The company was accordingly soon divided | in twain, one section chatting expectantly on rows of chairs, the other wpangling and eager in a green=room to which the house | wardrobes were made tributary. Psyche's | aunt, quiet lady who scarcely impressed ones memory, was made manager of stage properties.
 Miss Fawcett and Phoebe, who were to appear as the captive Queen of Scots and one of her Marys, remained together, while the rest of their company went forth to open the act.
 When they had completed their own fan
 tastic adornment they set down to wait, and Psyche smiled Ut Phoebe.
 "These piles of old clothes look like the
 wreck of generations. And that's what
 they are. There's even my uncle's dress
 ing -gown-the one told you about who rar
 away. See," said Psyche, spreading out the
 palm pattern, "he burnt these holes with
 some chemical stuff; they tell that he was
 wonderful at chemistry. Of course 1t was
 I ever had such an uncle. But there's his
 picture hanging over your head" | Phoebe stood up to look at it It was 1T
 olls and showed the profile of young mar | W