The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-12

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try the wine, do you think? Wouldn't
it do her good? I'll send my sister
around if
ooh, thank you, Joe! This even
ing, pleased" said Pearl; and she Sc
cretiy registered a vow that she
would somewhere or somehow beg
or borrow a peck of Goals, SO that
these kind people should not find
them absolutely fireless. "And Katie
thought Joe Vail had entirely for
gotten her." thought she. ''As if
any one could forget Katie!"
Miss Thorburn was very cross
when at last Pearl reached the store.
Her best customers carriage had
been seen across the street at Mdlle.
Lavigny's rival store, and the new
Paris fashion-plates were delayed in
their arrival more than a week.
"Late again, Pearl Playfair' said
she. sharply.
cts only one minute past Z, Miss
Thorburn!' pleaded the girl.
"And l wish you distinctly to un-
derstand," snapped Miss Thorburn,
who had been peering through the
windows, "that l don't allow my
young women to gallivant through
the streets with young men on their
way to and from the store! 1t isn't
respectable, and
Pearl colored wildly.
cts a friend of my sister," said
she. He only"
Miss Thorburn glared at her.
"Obliged me-" said she, "by re-
Numbering that do not permit my
young women to answer me back.
Here's Miss Densel's bonnet. Take
it at once to 60 Caravan square,
She'll be furious because it wasn't
sent last night"
Sixty Caravan square was state
ly brown-stone house, with vestibule
doors of gorgeous stained glass and
floor of mosaic marble, covered with
rich Persian rugs.
Miss Densd was not in, but Paula
and Florine, her younger sisters, ran
to receive the hat.
"Audrey will be so angry because
it didn't come in time for Mrs. jays
musical breakfast" cried Paula.
These two pretty young maids, in
their pink, and blue cashmere tea
gowns, their flowing gold hair and
dainty, red-heeled slippers encircled
with gold embroidery-how wistful-
ly Pearl looked at them as she crept
quietly away in her patched boots,
her faded cloth jacket, which had
come down to her from Katie, and
her poor little knitted Tam O SHAN
ter cap.
Chow nice it must be to be rich!''
thought she.
Lets have a look at the hat,
Flo," said Paula-"right here in the
dining-room, where the beveled
mirror is. Audrey never let's us see
her pretty things"
Florine opened the box.
ooh, isn't it exquisite!" she cried.
Cali rosebuds, with strings of pink
faille, and the sweetest jeweled pom
lard stuck through the side! Are
they real diamonds, Paula, or only
Rhine stones?"
"Rhine stones, of course!' said
sage Paula. "Who ever heard of
real diamonds with a $50 bonnet?
But isn't it beauty? Let us try it
on. Flo. Oh, take carev'
For in handing it across the table
Florine had dropped it. The effort
to recover it only succeeded in over
turning a tall flask of Bordeaux
sallad-oil upon the rosebuds and
pink faille.
Flo and Paula looked aghast at
each other.
"Hushp' cried the former. "Some
one is coming. Put it back into the
box, Paula. Take it up to Audrey's
room. She'll think it was an accident.
Oh, how could you be so careless?"
Il wasn't careless" sputtered in
dignant Paula. cit was your fault
as much as it was mine. What will
Audrey say?"
Two hours later the reception bon
net was brought back to Miss
Thorburn by Audrey Densel herself
in an olive plush-lined carriage, at
tended by q French maid, and Pearl
Playfair was summoned at once.
She came, innocent and eager only
to be angrily dismissed from the es-
tablishmeut. In vain were her pro-
testations and entreaties.
eff you didn't do it, stopping at
some of your grocer and baker
friends Places" cried Miss Thorburn
s'who did? Do you suppose Miss
Densel poured grease over her own
reception hat? Silence, I say! Leave
the house at once, and do not pre-
sumo to ask for either wages or ref
erence from me. I consider that
am treating you with extreme kind
ness in not sending for a policeman"
Pearl went home, feeling as if she
were in dreadful dream. Her situ-
alton was gone, and without reference