The Sunday morning news., 1891-12-06
/" 1T IS THE sAME.n

"I fear it would scarcely be appre-
ciated here" said he. 'sThe boys have
the spaniel, and don't think they will
cut his tail any shorter. Then, there
are the sparrows, if they desire variety.
A gift should go where it will do most
good-look at our flower missions, our
seashore week for the poor. Mrs. E.
Platt Clayton loves beautiful things, be-
ing artistic; she shall have this concen-
trated song"
So the three little cherub faced boys
carried away the concentrated song, re-
solving to have some fun with it before
they gave it up.
'sBless his thoughtful heart" said Mrs.
E. Platt Clayton when Cachette was
brought to her as she dozed over her
boudoir fire, tired out from yesterdays
FIVE teas, dinner and ball. '"There's
good man for you! He shall have that
plaque for Christmas present if get it
done in time. 'Ariadne' does not look
quite right; I'll make her frock higher in
the neck, and call her sRebecca at the
Well.'"
Just then her brother came in.
"Halloa!" he said. "Where did you
get your locomotive whistle?-for Ca
chette was not only buoyant, but fam
boyant.
sit is rather gritty" she assented.
"And l think / know somebody who
would like it. John, do you remember
the Compte de Boncour's sister,
"Was she at the ball last night" asked
Tohn with arrestad attention
cat the ballw she said. "She is not
going out. You know whom mean,
the little girl who did that preposterous
thing of coming to America to earn her
own living rather than marry marquis
with pedigree yard long"
"What about herr" asked John, with
foreboding quietness. "She's not sick?-
and all alone here
"Well," and his sister told him of
Natalie and her sorrow over the loss of
the bird she thought she must give away
to some one to whom she felt indebted.
"You were at ball in Paris where
she was" she concluded. "She remem-
bers you quite well. She knew you at
once when she saw you here that day
| you strolled in when she had brought
some embroidery home to me-"
! II remember her." he answered dryly.
"And she remembers me, does she?
| That's not bad taste in her. Tell me a
| little more about her, I'm quite interest
ed in her bold proceedings. like bold
proceedings-that's what like about
that plaque of yours. Washington at
Yorktown isn't it?"
| And now it is time to make q confes-
sion, w',ich has been held back till the
| last moment
It is worth while to say that Natalie,
in her admiration of the ways of these
United States, had out-Americaned the
Americans For a year ago in Paris she
had seen at a reception in the colony a
| New York man. He was not presented
to her, and apparently did not see her
| the truth of it was that he was q plain
man, and did see her and admire hel
vastly, but declined to know her, be-
cause her brother made much Of title
and family pretensions, and patronized
the newness Of America.
But after that evening strange feel
ing came to Natalie. She knew little
about America, thought the combined
forty odd states about the size of Paris
and New York small corner. She came
to New York in search of the man wht
refused to be presented to her Had sh'
not heard how American girls chost
their own husbands? And how can yor
choose husband if you do not go afte
him, especially il he will not come afte
your
At any rate, she came to New York
and the man was John Arlington, Mrs
e. Platt Clayton's brother, who was no
society man by any manner of means
though his sister dragged him to goo'
many places Nataaie became shy whel
she found herself ear him and saw tn
foolishness of all she had done. Whel
she was in her poorest fiat she realizet
that she could never be anything to him
that mints of money and the like divides
them, though he had become factor il
her life by this time, and
Well, Natalie's duplex was faring AM
doing its best to burst its chimney tina
night when some one knocked upol
her door She thought that Cachett
had done nothing for her, and that M
Cumbersome Brown had sent a gen
, darme (policeman) to set her out in tn
street. She saw Cachette in a cage be
fore she saw who carried the cage. AM
her fears were confirmed. Then sh
looked at the man who had the cage, an.