Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-05-16
ROXIE'S FILTRATION.
"Roxie, Roxie, childlr

who called her.
well, auntie?" she said, with a
backward toss OF the softest, bright
EST curls, and a look of saucy defiance
out OF arch hazel-brown eyes.
What was that | heard you say
Just now?"
Roxie colored, but looked saucy
still, and laughed.
"ldon't care, she said, pouting very
becomingly the next moment; ~ do
like Frank Thorley, although he is
papa's clerk. ! shouldn't have said
so, only Ellen Richmond was making
un OF what she calls his assurance in
dancing with me so often tonight. "
Il wouldn't dance with him again,
my dear"
why not, pray?" Roxie excl aimed,
slevating her graceful eyebrows.
Because you are pretty girl, and
he is very handsome, impressionable
young man. You may do him much
harm"
"I?"
"such flattering preference as ySu
are eyincing for young Thorley's So
eiety, is enough to turn any young
mans head; and coming from a girl in
your position, to a man in is, is cal
culated to do harm. Takemy advice,
Roxie; he already sees no one in the
room but you. Lavish your witcher-
les on some one less liable to lose his
wits in consequence of them"
Roxie turned away from her aunt
little pettishly, and stole from un-
der her thick lashes furtive glance in
young Thorley's direction. He was
indeed watching her, with his heart
in his handsome eyes; and the vain
little beauty flushed with pleasure.
1t was not long before Frank Thor
ley asked her to dance with him
again.
"He is so handsome and graceful,
and so entertaining" Roxie unused
during the instant's hesitation before
she put her little white gloved hand in
his, Il will dance with him-therel"
And away she floated in airy circles.
at can't do any harm, = she continu-
ed with some inward misgiving, as her
e-ss met auntie's mildly disappearing
lSok, or fell beneath the impassioned
and almost too frankly admiring
glance of her companion; "of course
he knows l am particularly kind to
him, because he's papa's clerk; and he
can't be so ridiculous as to fall inlove
with me really, and il isn't likely we
shall ever be together this way again.
Miss Roxie, however, was mistaken
in her calculations. She had INDUCED
a momentary whim, and had insisted
upon his attending her party.
As a consequence, somebody else in
| vited him. and then somebody else,
and he was so handsome and enter
taining-such a graceful addition to
any circle-that before the winter was
over, he had become very popular,
and received more invitations than
he was able to accept. Roxie was sur
prised, but secretly pleased at this
and at the continuance of his undis-
guised and almost romantic devotion
TO herself. Roxie accepted this de-
votion with occasional reluctance, oc'
casional misgiving as to where it was
to end; but she liked it too well to
lose, and was perhaps moreinterested
at heart than she realized herself
Imagine her CONSERVATION, wher
Frank Thorley asked her to maRrry
him.
'I-Tm sorry, Frank, she murmur
ed, almost incoherently, as she drop
ped into seat.
Thorley's eyes flashed momentarily
"You've done a wicked thing, Mis-:
Roxie Lyle" he said, "lf ever WON
an led man to believe she loved him
you did me.
Roxie stopped him, there with
naughty gesture, and an angry \ OF
forget yourself, Mr.. Thorley;" anC
she swept imperially past him, back tC
the drawing-room she had quilted
moment before on his arm.
Mr.. Vincent Lylewas at the head o
one OF the oldest firms in the City. III,
was n man of sterling integrity anC
uprightness himself, and sternly sever
upon any dereliction in another, Hi
clerks were all literally paid; and ,
Young man who could obtain stu
alton, be it ever so subordinate, will
LYLE and Co, was considered to hav
secured an uncommonly good start il
life. Dishonesty or unfaithfulnes
among the clerks of the firm was rare
partly because of the discrimination
exercised in engaging them, partly be
cause of the severe and summar,
reckoning exacted from the few offend
ers.
Mr.. Vincent Lyle was not incline'
therefore to deal leniently with tn
author of some small but DARN
speculation that had been going on c
late. Woe to the guilty one, when h
discovered him; andfrom thesearchin
investigation he was making, he wa
likely to do that soon. The matte
worried him so long as it bafiied hin
and he was sitting in his luxuriou
library at home, bordering it, whe
Frank Thorley sent in a note to hin
The merchant started, as he reat
muttering:
"Sharp fellow, Thorley. WASN'T d,
ceived in himl Show him up, John,