Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-03-27

|, | notOuOuS HE rrOm MOnOay morning
until Saturday evening she was Gabri.
: ellie, a hard-worked girl, whom madame
scolded and Miss Stoll worried and the
customers ordered to do this or that, to
pull to pieces or to construct, with a
complete disregard Of the possibility
that fingers which were flesh and blood
like their own might grow weary.
But on Sundays behold her Mile.
De Kernion, clad in her best, walking
gracefully to church with her mother,
and exchanging mods. smiles and cour-
teous greetings with the creole aristoc-
racy of the ''Old Quarter" Most of
her friends were as poor as she, but
no poverty nor humble toll could i'm
pair the refinement of manner and
courtiy address which they had inherit
cd, with their names, from their French
ancestors.
Gabrielle cared nothing for past
grandeurs and aristocratic ancestry.
but she would have liked money enough
to dress prettily. She had excellent
taste, and that taste was affronted by
her threadbare dresses and well-wOrn
gloves and shoes.
"Ah," she said to herself, as she
gazed at the famous spring hat, II can
make one just like that! There is
mammals old point lace scarf which she
gave me! No old lace is handsomer
than that. 1t is ragged, but l can get
out more than enough for hat
have a piece of green satin just that
shade, and Christine Beaupre will
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hardly tell her flowers from those ex-
pensive French flowers. &sh, l will
have a hat as pretty as lille. Rose
Lambert's; but she will never know.
and madame will never know, and it
will be as becoming to me as to Ia petite
Lambertr'
| She smiled at herself in the mirror
opposite. No doubt Gabrielle was vain,
and knew quite well that she was
pretty. She made pretexts to examine
the hat in order to initiate it exactly,
and when Miss Lambert, summoned by
madame, arrived, Gabrielle, to her
great delight, was selected to try it on
and make alterations, il, any were
needed. OF course Miss Lambert
bought the hat. When did the astute
Madame Louise fail in dispOsing of her
| CONNECTIONS according to her plans?
There was n slight alteration to be
made in some of the loopings, which
| was intrusted to Gabrielle's def
| fingers.
BE sure, madame. to send it to me
Saturday." Miss Lambert said as she
was leaving. Don't allow your press
of work to crowd my hat out Of your
mind"
But certainly mott" madame
screamed, gesticulating a vehement
denial ''ro forget! All! dat would be
impossible! Mees Rose, you will sharm
all eyes on Easter day, and if re young
demoiselles would give one tousand dol
lar dey could not get hat like yours
in re city. 1t is unique, sharming, as
it is re most sharming young lady in re
city who will lend grace to it."
Miss Lambert smiled and bowed to
the compliment. 1t was really pleasant
to her to know that she was the owner
of something not attainable by her
Thousand and one dear friends
Gabrielle hurried home that night
and was soon deep in lace and satin.
Her friend Christine happened to have
on hand a spray of ilacs similar to the
flowers in the Paris hat, and for small
sum Gabrielle secured it. 1t was mid
night before she completed her task,
and then she laughed with delight as
she placed on her pretty yellow hair q
hat SO like its model they could hardly |
have been known apart.
1T is a good thing Miss Rose does
not come to St Anne's chapel and that |
madame does not set foot in the French |
quarter" she laughed, merrily. ''Miss !
Rose would burst with rage to see her |
forty-dollar hat ON the head of Mime. |
Louise's workwoman. Why, it is pref |
tier than hersr'
On Saturday there was such a rush of |
custom at Nine Louise's that Gabrielle |
did not have time even to get her din
ner About noon Miss Stoll had been |
taken ill and was obliged to go home.
1t was very unfortunate, for it threw a |
a heavier burden of duty upon the rest,
who were already greatly overworked.
During the rest of the day the shop was
in great confusion.
''TIensr' cried madame, in good
French, just as the shop was to be
closed, and she clapped her hands to
her forehead as if torestrain from wan
tanned; 81 believe l have lost my mind
in all this uproar. Here is Nine. Ernest
Lauve's bonnet, and she lives in the
French quarter-miles from here!
Gabrielle, it is near the Rue D.,
where you live. Take the bonnet to
her, and then you can go home, since
by that time it will be dark, and you
have had no dinner"
Poor Gabrielle, exhausted and hungry,
was only too glad of an errand that
would release her from the shop even a
few minutes earlier than the others.
When she reached home after dark she
was too tired even to look at her Easter
hat.
Nine. Louise hustled hither and
thither, for there were many hats and
bonnets to be delivered to her custom
ers that evening.
''And Mile. Lambert's hatv she cried.
.'You must take it to her, Victoire, and
tell her we were too busy to send it be-
fore"
Victoire went to get the hat. She
returned after several minutes absence
with troubled face.
Madame, the hat is not there.
made the alterations this
afternoon Did you not send it by
her?"
Nor madame cried, angrily. ''She
took Nine. Lauve's hat. You are all
can find nothing unless it is
under your nose. Get that hat immedi-
ately! Do yOn hear? immediately!'
The frightened workwoman ran here
and there, pulling down boxes and
ferreting in every corner of the large
room. II
Nine o'clock struck, and the missing
hat was not found. But all agreed
that Gabrielle wasthe last person seen
with it It was then too late to take
further steps, and madame, over
and nervous, became hyster-
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