The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-10-23

better-can be. We were all brought
up with the old-fashiOned ncbIesse
oblige ideas. Ron-you were too
and it seems to me now that there is
hardly any one in society who has q
notion OF honor and dignity, as We
used to understand the terms. So
ciety! Alter all, Pm thankful Pm
more or less out of it. It's just a
herd of people, pushing, struggling,
selling everything for notoriety and
money"
"Hear, hear! Your sentiments
madame, are mine. But | don't
think they should be wasted on the
mere fact that some other woman
has made a hat like yours"
"She HASN'T" cried Nina, indig.
nantly. Lady Loddington was
wearing this very hat! Listen; I'll
tell you the whole story. The same
afternoon you called, a woman came
in, beautifully dressed, and asked to
see some hats. | saw who she was,
though | never met her. | don't
want to meet her." savagely; zone
sees quite enough of her in all the
shop windows"
"One does," l remarked, sottc
voice.
''She wanted a hat the color O.
this one; so | brought it out and
showed it to her, and told her the
price, and explained why it was so
expensive. 'Oh, don't mind giving
that for the hat, she said; it is we'll
worth it. am quite in love with it,
Nine. Destrier, but | daren't buy it
without letting my husband see it,
He is SO very particular about what
/ wear. Could | have it sent round
tonight for him to look at? would
let you know some time tomorrow
whether | would take it or not OF
course, | said | should be glad to
send it, and she gave me the address.
and the hat went round there that
evening. Last night she sent it back.
and said she was very sorry, but
Lord Loddington didn't think it
suited her. | thought it looked a
little tumbled, but one has to run
those risks when one sends goods on
approval. She had determined to
have that hat just to wear for the
one day, and she was too mean to get
it honestly"
"Of course, you'll have it out with
her-you'll expose herr" | said.
| was as angry and disguised as
Nina, who stood opposite me, with
her pretty eyes and cheeks flaming
with honest Indignation.
My dear boy, l would if l dared,
but | can't afford to. 1t would
drive halt my customers away from
me, and | must think of Hugo and
Giles. They don't cost much while
they are such TIMES, but want to
give them every advantage, the dar-
lings, and was left so badly of, and
the business is just beginning to pay
so well. | daren't run the risk of ex-
posing Lady Loddington's mean
ness" ---------- ---- -7--------,----
Il had forgotten your children.
No, [ see it won't do. Trust me to
give her mauvais quart d'heure',
if | get a chance"
Promise you'll be careful. Think
of the boys"
Il won't iniure the dear little
chaps, you best OF mothers
"Well, in that case, l only hope
fortune may favor you"
Fortune did favor me at last, but
she kept me waiting till the autumn,
like the tickle lady she always is. Ny
chance came in this wise. NV uncle
asked me up to his place i'll Scotland
for shooting, and | went. The old
gentleman is a very connoisseur 0.
beauty and every pretty woman OF
note is bound to be asked to D. soon
er or later. | got there in time to
dress hurriedly, aad appear in th~
drawlng-rOOm just as my uncle was
telling every one whom they were to
take in. | was introduced to som"
girl haven't a notion who she was
but gave her my arm, and took hex
down to dinner, murmuring common.
places on the way. The truth is was
half tamIshed with my Journey, and
my one idea was dinner. Itwas not till
l was we'll on with the fish stage that
| looked at my left-hand neighbor.
1t was Lady Loddington herself.
Il haven't seen you since we met
at Ascot" she remarked pleasantly.
She certainly is a most lovely wom-
an, by the way. [ started hianklv,
and she went on, with an air of we'll
acted reproach:
Il believe you have forgotten We
ever met there"
Here was my chance; | seized it,
Forgotten! Why, l remember
every word you said, the color o.
your gown, and even the hat vou
wore; the loveliest and most becom-
ing hat [ ever saw in my life."
The compliment told.
81 don't believe youdo, she pout-
ed.
Upon my word l do. 1t was a
sort of big affair of amethyst velvet
and feathers to match. | remember
it with double force, because | made
a cousin of mine quite angry with
the mere description of it. | don't
know if you have ever met her? She
has gone into millinery, like every
body else. She calls herself Mime.
Destrier.'
| looked Lady Loddington full in
the face, and laid a peculiar emphasis
on the name.
Inever saw any one SO thoroughly
caught in my life. Iknew in a mo-
ment that she knew Iknew, as Punch
would put it. She turned perfectly
scarlet to the roots OF her hair, and
then quite white, and didn't speak
for at least a moment. Then she
pulled herself together as only a
woman can, and adroitly changed
the subject.
But she has been monstrously civil
to me ever since, much to the sur
prise of my friends. am plain and
uninteresting; am not a parsonage;
| haven't farthing--not even ex-
pectations-and they can't make out
where the attraction lies. They had
better ask Nine. Destrier of Oxford
49, L.