Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-02-27
CHAPTER w,

In spite Of her tears that by her plain
speech in the morning she had offended
her cousin and the other ladies. Phebe
found them all as affable and pleasant in
their name toward her as usual, when
she met them downstairs at tea-time.
She had been in her own room most of
the afternoon, 80 had not seen Annette
since; and her cousin Charles had but
just arrived from the city.
1t was Friday, and DIR. hurry, with a
number of other husbands. fathers, and
brothers. had come up to spend three OF
four consecutive days; usually they re-
manned one Sunday only, leaving Their
families to the care of the genial host of
La Mer during the week.
1t being her husbands birthday, Mrs.
hurry had invited a party of her ''inti.
mates to celebrate the occasion in a Lit.
tie fete, to be held In a private parlor op
the second floor. She had gayly prom.
ised them champagne and poker and q
supper from Delmonico's."
Mr.. hurry had arrived by the late
stage, with an array of mysterious and
d~clectable looking baskets and parcels,
and accompanied by a very elegant and
handsome young gentleman, with whom
all the girls fell in love at first sight.
His name is Louis Archibault,' re
piled Mrs. hurry, when besieged with
the thousand and one questions, with
which young girls ply a matron who pre-
SCENTS a NEW young man. lie is Mon
eyed. and Manageable, but as 10 the
other capital NJ To be considered in Mat
rimony, the most important matter of
all, Moral, / cannot say. Don't lose your
hearts, therefore, until someone indorses
him in that respect. girls. only present
him TO you rs a charming talker. He
has travelled all over the world, and is in
telligent. He often drops in on our re-
ception evenings, and is a delightful ac-
QUESTION as an entertainer; that is the
reason, l suppose, DIR. hurry has brought
him up here tonight"
Strange to say, this somewhat ambigu-
GUS, not to say doubtful, recommendation
seemed to add a certain charm to the at
fractions of the newcomer, and it was
with no little surprise that Phebe noticed
that the girls Immediately began to vie
with IA another in their attempts at q
Irritation. Mr.. Archibault was certainly
handsome. and undoubtedly agreeable
and fascinating; for before the evenings
festivities had begun, he was the lion Of
the hour.
The ladies were all In grdnde toilette
for the occasion. and such exquisite
dressing Phebe had never before seen. 1t
was not, perhaps, that their costumes
We're any more expensive or more fash
ionably made than those she had seen at
the sea-shore near home, where she had
spent one gay week, the summer before;
but they were SO incomprehensibly and
''~Parisian-ly conceived" they fitted SO
exquisitely, and were worn with that
ar disfingue," which q New York
woman alone possesses. Altogether, the
dresses of all the girls were very different
from her own modest wardrobe: the ele-
gance of which she had felt 50 proud Of
when she packed her trunk.
Phebe went into the parlor and paused
before the long mirror tocontemplate her
own costume. II was somewhat severe
in It's somewhat prim simplicity; = white
surah combined with tulle. She took of
her flowers, some lilies Mr.. Standish had
sent up to her room. just a. she was
Gysssing. and made . new arran9emant