Nevada County picayune., 1891-01-15

berg apples and some homemade current jelly. Would Katie try the jelly. do you think: Wouldn't it dc her good! I'll send my sister around if"
 "'Oh. thank vou, Joel This even ing, pleasc!' said Pearl; and she SO. cretly registered VOW that she would somewhere or somehow beg or borrow peck of coals, so tha, these kind people would not find them absolutely iireless. And Katie thought Joe Vail had entirely forgotten her." thought she. "As if anyone conld forget Katie"
 Miss ThorburI was very cross when at last Pearl reached the store. Her best customers carriage had i been seen across the street at Mad emoiselle Lavigny's rival store, and the new Paris fashion plates were de- layed in their arrival more than a week.
 "Late again, Pearl Playfair!' v said she, sharply.
 "It's only one minute past seven, Miss Thorburn,' pleaded the girl.
 And 1 wish you to distinctly un- derstand," snapped Mrs. Thorburn, who had been peering through the windows, that l don't allow my young women to gallivate through the streets with young men on their way to and from the store. It isn't respectable, and"
 Pearl colored vividly.
 "It's friend of my sister, said she. "He only"
 Miss Thorburn glared at her.
 "Oblige me- said she, "by re- membering that 1 do not permit my young women to answer me back. Here's Miss Densel's bonnet. Take it at once to No. 60 Caravan square. l Shell be furious because it wasn't sent last night
 Sixty Caravan square was a state. i lv brown-stone house, with vestibule doors of gorgeous stained glass, and floors of Mosaic marble, covered with rich Persian rugs.
 Miss Densel 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 cashmure tes gowns, their flowing gold hair and dainty red-heelcd slippers encircled with gold cmbroidery-how wistfully 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, anc her poor little knitted Tam O'Shan ter cap!
 "How nice it must to be to b, rich :" thought she.
 "Let's have look at the hat Flo," said Paula-'right here in tho dining-room, where the beveled mir TOT is. Audrey never lets us set her pretty things"
 Florine opened the box.
 "Oh, isn't it exquisite!'' she cried "All rosebuds, with strings of pint faille, and the sweetest jeweled pon iard stuck through the side! Art they real diamonds, Paula, or onl, Rhine stoncs?"
 "Rhine stones, of course ' saiC sage Paula. "Who ever heard o real diamonds with thirty-dolla bonnet! But isn't it beauty? Le us try it on, Flo. Oh, take care "
 For in handing it across the table Florinc had dropped it. The cffor, to recover it only succeeded in over turning a tall flask of Bordeaux salad oil upon the rosebuds and pink fallle
 Flo and Paula looked aghast a each other.
 "Hush !" cried the former. "Somt one IS coming. Put it back into tho box, Paula, Take it up to Audrey room, She'll think it was an acci dent. Oh. how could you be SC oareless?"
 II wasn't careless" sputtered in dignant Paula. "lt was your faul as much as it was mine. What vii Audrey say?"
 Two hours later the reception bon net was brought back to Miss Thor burn by Audrey Densel herself in al olive plush-lined carriage, attended by a French maid, and Pearl playfaiI was summoned at once,