Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-06

Florin5, her younger sisters, ran to re.
ceive the hat.
audrey will be SO angry because it
didn't come in time for hrs. jays musical
breakfast!n 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 embroid-
ery-how wistiully Pearl looked at them
us she crept quietly away in her patched
boots, her faded cloth jacket, which had
como down to her from Katie, aud her
poor little knitted Tam O'Shanter capi
How nice It must be to be rich!"
thought she.
'Lct's have look at the hat, Flo, :"
said Paula-"right here in the dining
room, where the beveled mirror ia. Au-
drey never lets us see her pretty things"
Florino opened the box.
"Oh, isn't it exquisitci" sbe cried.
CAN rosebuds, with strings of pink
faille, and the sweetest jeweled poniard
stuck through the sideI Are they real
diamonds, Paula, or only Rhine .stonesa"
"Rhine-stones, of counsel" SAID sage
Paula. "Who ever heard of real dia-
monds with thirty dollar bonnetf But
isn't it beauty2 Let us try it on, Flo.
Oh, take care."
For, In handing it across the table,
Florinc had dropped it. The effort to
recover it only succeeded in overturning
q tall flask of Bordeaux sadad oil upon
the rosebnds aud pink faille.
Flo and Paula looked aghast at each
other.
"Hushl" cried the former. asome
one is coming. Put it back into the
box, Paula Take it up to. Audrey's
room. She'll think it was mn accident.
Oh, how could you be 80 careless9"
81 wasn't Careless" sputtered indig-
nant Paula. at was your fault as much
as 1t was mine. What will Audrey
says"
Two hours later the reception bonnet
was brought back to Miss Thorburp by
Audrey Donsel herself in an olive plush
lined carriage, attended by French
maid, and Pearl Playfair was summoned
ut once
She came, innocent and eager, only to
be angrily dismissed from the establish.
ment. In vain were her protestations
and entreaties.
eff you didn't do it, stopping at some
of your grocer and baker friends places,n
cried Miss Thorburn, "who did2 Do
you suppose Miss Densel poured grease
over her own reception hat2 Silence,
sayl Leave the house at once, and do
not presume to ask for either wages or
reference from me. l consider that
nm treating you with extreme kindness in
not sending for policeman"
Pearl went home, feeling as if she were
in dreadful dream. Her situation was
gone, and without references how could
she expect to get another2 And who
would find wood or fire for Katie2
The elder sister listened to PEARLS
piteous tale with dismny, but she put the
bravest possible front upon it.
..,~ Don't sob Y + !. s'es I'D;
happen to protect us, dear, don't be
afraid. Who is that Mrs. Nippett is
talking to outsider"
cts me-Janic VAIL" said CHEEKY.
cordial voice, with some apples and
home made jelly. Joe, my brother, saws
} ~" ".e us iiienuS. may come IN,
mayn't II"
And jamie entered, rosy and smiling,
with refreshing mir of the country
about her.
"oh, yes" said ahe, nodding her
head and glancing about the room, SO
cold, SO cherries, so neat, ''nobody can
expect to get we'll boxed up in the city
like thiSt THAT
tells me that the doctor recommends
country air. think, Miss Playfair, that
if you will visit my mother Mt the old
farm for month VIC shan't know YOU
when you come back. hope you like
the country2 Joe does. It's Joe's
highest ambition some time to buy
nice farm of his own. AS for the little
girl there" nodding her head at Pearl.
"shc can come and stay with Inc while
you are gone, if she don't want to lose !,
her place at the bonnet store.n
Pearl hung her head.
~ have no place now to lose" said
she. "Iwas discharged to-day2n
Just then there was the sound of solid
footsteps on the stairs and hard breath
ing, ne if the steep locomotion were de-
cided effort-and in trudged Miss Thorn
burn.
sis this Pearl Playfair's placer" painted
she. "Do people hereabouts live at the
top of all creationi Bless me, where's
the fire2 Is this sick girl your sister,
Pearl2 Why didn't you tell me you had
n sick sister2"
Pearl shrank back, growing very pale.
"Have you come toto arrest meG"
she gasped.
"My dear, it's all right" said the
obese mi!liner, beginning to recover her
breath. sMiss Deasels two little sisters
came right back in the carriage, crying
as hard as ever they could. They had
heard what hard luck you had, and they
confessed-dear little thingsi-that it
was oil their fault. 1t seems they were
looking at the bonnet in the dIning-room
and a cut-glass flask of oil was some
how upset--and they were horribly fright
ened, and meant to keep it secret; but