The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-01-15

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mann, ..broughtup in an English house.
hold, she is, of course, strictly moral
person, and couldn't be asked to turn
herself into smuggler. With free
lances, like myself, of course, it's differ
emit.
Don't BIO ill-natured. said Miss Pen
garven. You'll see me through this
thing. won't your
II won't promise, replied Miss Ruby.
AFTER you've been in America, you'll
find we girls put good deal Of store on
a slim waist. don't know II love you
we'll enough after five days acquaint-
ancc to make the sacrifice" "A
| Then she relapsed into reminiscent
mood, occasions rare with her, and al
most. fancied she could feel a hand
stealing around the aforesaid waist,
and her feet flying over the polished
floor OF Western ballroom.
ITS two years since l saw him.. she
murmured. OF all the concessions to
friendship, the winding OF some fifty
yards of lace around her was the one
she would have prayed most feryently
to be released from. George might be
| there to meet her in New York. Oh,
| the thought was too horrible.
1t grew upon her, and as they neared
| the American shore she broke out in re-
| bellion.
! They were in Miss Pengarven's state
room. The operation OF winding had
commenced. Mrs Mullock had not
| been taken into their confidence. She
was comfortably mapping in corner OF
the saloon when the pilot came aboard.
There! I'm surc I've got my seventy
| Vineyards, cried Miss Pengarven. 'tNow,
dear, got ready, and III swathe you up
to your eyes SO your own father won't
know YOU
You've got nearly ninety yards OF
Ii. remarked Miss Ruby, meditatiYel,y-
SIT just strikes me you may as we'll take
the lot. There's not the slightest dan
ger. and the lace is yours, after all, don't
you know"
why, / can't take another yard, y
protested Miss Pengarven.
"Ob, nonsense, you look positively
sylph- like as yet. Besides it's better
for one to get caught than both. BE
| sides"-and this besides under hel
! breath, but determinedly-" no
going to make fright OF myself, any
how.
Yielding to such cogent and forciblt
arguments as these, Miss Pengarver
surrendered herself to Miss Ruby's def
manipulation of the Honiton, and
! gradually, after she had made herselt
giddy with turning, absorbed the re
mainder.
When, half an hour later, she came
on deck, her breathing was decidedly
difficult, though the buttons on hei
cheviot travelling dress had been SCI
forward at least two inches. She was
distinctly conscious of being red in thu
face.
Miss Ruby Scligmann appeared soor
after. II she felt any pride at her com
parative elegance of figure she was care
full to conceal it. An ample ulstel
covered her from head to foot. She
smiled encouragingly on Miss Pengar
ven. and, as IL fearful OF their beinl
seen together. crossed over 10 the othe
side of the deck.
The Celtic was through tho Narrow
by this time and running up the bay
and soon the flag on the barge-ofiice wa
plainly visible. That horrible Barge
office, where those terrible custom
house officers, the torturers, lay in wal
for their innocent prey.
The tender came alongside, and thu
passengers, with their baggage, were
transferred to her.
Don't be frightened, whispere,
Miss Ruby, as she camo down the gang
way Immediately behind Miss Pen
garven. "Just throw open your trunk
and smile-smile bewitchinglv-thin
OF the second officer"
Then Miss Ruby left her again, ant
Miss Pengarven endeavored to ASSUME
as captivating an expression as posi-
Bile. She had an excellent idea of he
own charms, and was possessed witt
the inward conviction that should tn
officer detailed to examine her trunk
prove to DO under forty. she would b
safe.
4 She went up and whispered this, slyl
and coquettishly, to the American girl
Miss Ruby glanclng at her GLOWING
checks and eyes brighter than eve
through her excitement, cordially in
dorsed her opinion. "But IL it's som
old married tellow,we're lost, "sho added
s'Heayens and earth, hero we are at til
landing. Pinch yourself IN, for good
ness sake. Here we go down the gang
Y way. How romantic, to be sure. Tw
MA
They had filled in their declaratio
papers on tho ship. Miss PengarycI
who wouldn't have wrongcd the meanes