The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-08-26

worst was to come Fortunately nc
one was in the inner Office but George
and myself.
Twelve o'clock struck and in walked
elder sister. l quailed and George
turned his back on me and shook with
laughter.
"Well, dearie," chirped elder sister,
'has 1t seemed like long morning."
Yes, somewhat, though | have been
interested too. How's mar
Very lonely without you. She sent
me to go with you to lunch so that you
would not think we had forgotten you -
''Oh, that will be nice, said Carol.
"And ma said as it was your first day
we should be little extravaganza in our
luncheon"
That's splendid. I'll see if / can go
now"
managed to get on my feet and blind
ly got to the door, feeling that | didn't
care, and that George could go to the
! deuce.
''You may go now, Miss Walton, for
| your lunch Please be back by /
! o'clock"
Thank you. Yes, sir" So while she
| got on her coat and hat elder sister ex-
planned that she had run in to see how
Carol was getting along. run in! She
certainly wasn't out of breath) And
then they went. awaited George He
began:
Wonder who will come tomorrow.
Mar Wonder how many relatives she
has got to run in? Pity too. She seems
quiet enough. But these girls you never
can calculate what they are
l am surprised that | did not mas
sacre George, but l have always felt
that his unpleasant manner should be
viewed in the light of an infirmity. He
went on:
every businesslike with 'Dearies' and
'Sweeties' and what not Nice talk in
business Office, Ell, Dick? Tomorrow it
will be Darling.
His intonation Of the last word was
positively distressing. | went out for
lunch and left him to take care of the
Office. 1t was my only revenge.
The days came and left as visitors will
do. Our own individuality is the onlv
thing we can reasonably count UPON in
-~-~
For six weeks my little copyist came
regularly and did her work with neat
ness and dispatch. For six weeks her
family came almost as regularly at va
rlous times through the day. Ma would
drop In (ma used to drop in and elder
sister run i'm, and would say, "Wen, |
petite" 1t struck me The first time she |
said that, and afterward, too, what a |
slngularly appropriate name, but ex- |
tremely unbusinesslike.
Then sister would run in and say:
Ma is making apple pies, and can You
get Off quarter of an hour earlier,
dearie, and come home to luncheon?'
And Ccrol would say:
"Oh, wouldn't like to ask"
Then | would speak up and say. You
may go little earlier today, Hiss Vel
ton.
Then another day her little brother
Rob would stamp in with a bag of
cookies ma had made or bit of a rib
bon to be matched on Carols way home.
Ana once an old uncle tottered in and
delayed ME one-half hour while he bah
Oled OF his deceased brother Andrew
and Andrews family-the same that
used my office for family room, [ sum-
pose. And after some particularly ag-
5ravatlng chatter and interchange of
feminine, unbusinesslike epithets
would go III to George, forgetting in nv
his demoniac character, and
7ow wouldn't stand it. Then he would
get up and implore me not to be harsh
fn hn |
unconsciously said, ''Who could be-"
And then he would shake and chuclSle
nd quote, go woman, woman, lovely
or repeat, ''Well, petite, how's :
'lz! or "Dearie, sauerkraut today. |
Jome home with me-" or Carol j
airing, is the boss just as much gone 6
II you as ever?' or some like idiotic re-
mark that he had coined out of his own {
nbecile brain. l
But when ma came in one day about Z
o'clock IN the morning and sat for one 7
lortal hour Crocheting or knitting or 7
ONE such useless feminine idleness. | :
elt that / must speak. My office, a b
usiness place rented by me for business
imposes only, to be thus desecrated was s
DO much. A
80 that evening when the little daugh- v
II was getting ready to go home l 5
'arted out with her, as | had happened G
Go some few times before, and on the
'ay to her home l told her straight ND
nd down that this thing could not con-
nue.. Wefinally arranged that should
ny house in the northwestern part of .
lie city, and that III two months she
ould wear my wedding ring. It has
cen fully arranged, however, that ma
ay drop in and the elder sister run in.
1T they are not to stay in as permanent
mates. n
One strange part of it to me is how =
gorge could ever have surmised that / =;
as In love With her. / aIways ua,I u
ade 1t point to use the most business n
re manner in speaking to her in the Of -
e. He says any fool could have seen in
He ought to know best about the
yht of fools, However, he has bought pe
tidy lot of silver and is coming to pc
e wedding. Dear old boy, it's only :.
way. Carol says it is his high spirits. N
Elder sister says she felt in her in
'St soul what would happen when she
I'd my advertisement. int
VIA wants to know xvbo+ viii a. g. va
other Office girl. 1 certainly shant a.
gage her other daughter. -Josephine -; III
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