Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-04-30
ELLIE'S DELAY.


Mrs Langham stood on the veranda,
looking down into the garden. Ellie.
Ellie, where are you? Come here want
you
A merry little girl Of IA dartei out
from under the dropping branches Of the
chestnut trees.
"Yes, mamma, here am. What is it?"
Nnd she Skipped into the pretty little
;it,ing room. with n shower of pink
,.,->tuut blossoms clinging to her hair.
ii have Just received letter from
'-"ur Uncle Frank. said Mrs Langham.
he has arrived from New Zealand e.
KS and is in London.
Oh. how nice!" cried Ellie; "he will
,",t" lown this afternoon with papa,
won't he's
That /, what I should like And l
want YOU to go to the posloffire to tcle-
i,raph to your father not to come by tho
1 - train, but to look up your uncle ut
III, hotel, and bring him down by n la', \
i,rin. have written the message dawn,
.nd all You will have to do is to cuNy it
VA to telegraph form, and if you write
plainly, there can be no mistake"
Very well, mamma, sail Ellie, leav-
inr the room to put on her hat and
Jacket
"And be quick, child, said her mother,
for you have only half an hour to spare,
if your father is to have the telegram in
time"
In a few minutes Ellie was speeding
along the dusty road leading to the viii
Iage, which was some distance from the
Langham House. There were, however,
one or two large houses scattered along
the road and at one Of these dwelt the
Raes, great friends OF the Langhams.
Mary Rae, child of Ellie's age, was the
latter's school fellow and bosom friend.
AS she passed the house now, who should
be standing at the gate but Mary herself
Why, Ellie, you're just the person 1
wanted to see; meant to come for you
in a little while. Ada's wedding things
sre here, and they are so lovely. Do go
and look at them-they're all laid out in
her ROOM"
"rm in such hurry" said Ellie, i've
got telegram to send off. I'll look in
when l come back.
"Oh, nonsense" said Mary, it won't
take you two minutes, and you can make
up for it by running the rest of the way.
Besides, you might not be able to see
them later on. They are just going to
pack up most of them.
"Well, I'll just have a tiny peep" said
Ellie. going in and she followed her
friend into the house.
She dearly loved nice dresses and pretty
things, and the sight of all the wedding
Gnery delighted her beyond measure.
She stood looking first at one thing, and
then at another till she suddenly awoke
70 the unpleasant fact that she had stayed
much longer than she olght to have done.
She never could understand how the tw O
minutes Mary had spoken Of could have
heightened into a quarter Of an hour.
promising to call on her way back and
pass an hour or so there, for she knew
her mother would not be anxious about
her, as she was in the habit Of spending
n good deal of her time at the Rae's dur.
ing holiday time.
Tearing full speed into the village, she
dashed breathless into the postoffice; for.
tunately there was no one else there, &c
! that her business was soon concluded.
allow soon will it got to London?" she
asked the postmstress.
About 90 minutes past 4, miss" an.
swcrcd the woman, and Ellie's heart fell.
f II she knew that her father would he at
tie station by that time, and that l!":
mother would be exceedingly vcXed. no.
u,lIv ut not seeing UncIr Frank arrive
with Mr. Langham, hut also at her care.
| lc',ncss.
i'ut when she arrived once more at the
Races anh BEGAN chatting with MARY IN
the garlcn, she soon forgot all about t.
and never noticed the flight OF time. She
WAS inst laughing at some ronS'Is" %,
Mary. when Tom X ., III, Youngest boy
Ga~!,,d into In" mrlrn.
81 say. wh@i do YOU think:" he called
o!j. hrtat!llr>slv, "th" - rain Inns ""nlf
JOS ,a~;, a iilt. fui' h"i up tn" lin" and
th V s;,y /, orr's an awful lot Of people
kiHrI and injured.
\ GREAT horror came over Ellie Tho
t21 rain: That was the one her deai
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