Middletown transcript., 1893-09-30

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"Oh, thank you. Joel This evening
please" said Pearl; and che secretl
registered VOW that she would some
where or somehow beg Or borrow |
peck Of Goals, so that these kind peopl
should not find them absolutely fire
less. "And Katie thought Joe Val
had entirely forgotten her," though
she. 'sAs il any one could forge
Katie"
Miss Thorburn was very cross when
at last Pearl reach the store. Hel
best customers carriage had been seen
across the street at Mademoiselle
Lavigny's rival store, and the new
Paris fashion plates were delayed lie
their arrival more than week.
slate again, Pearl Playfairl" said
she, sharply.
sits only one minute past seven,
Miss Thorburn," pleaded the girl.
"And wish you distinctly to un-
derstand," snapped Miss Thorburn.
who had been peering through the win
dows, ''that I don't allow my young
women to gallivant through the streets
with young men on their way to and
from the store. It isn't respectable,
and"
Pearl colored vividly.
"It's friend of my sister," said
she. ''He only"
| Miss Thorburn glared at her.
| "Oblige me, said she, 'by remem-
bering that do not permit my young
women to answer me backl Here's
| Miss Densel's bonnet. Take it at once
to Number sixty Caravan square.
She'll he furious because it wasn't |
sent last night
Sixty Caravan square was stately
brown stone house, with vestibule
doors of gorgeous stained glass and
floor of mosaic marble, covered with
rich Persian rugs.
Miss Densel was not in, but Paula
and Florine, her younger sisters, ran to
receive the hat.
"Audrey will be so angry because 1t
didn't come in time for Mrs. jays
musical breakfast" cried Paula.
These two pretty young maids in
their pink and blue cashmere tea
gowns, their flowing gold hair and
dainty, red-heeled slippers encircled
with gold embroidery-how wistfully
Pearl looked at them as she crept
quietly away in her patched boots, her :
faded cloth jacket, which had come
down to her from Katie. and poe |
little knitted Tam O'Shanter capl
"How nice it must be to be rich,"
thought she.
.'Let's have look at the hat, Flo,"
said Paula. fright here III the dining
room, where the bevelled mirror is. I
Audrey never let's us see her pretty 8
things"
Florine opened the box. i
''Oh, isn't it exquisite!" she cried. Q
San rose buds. with strings of pink
faille, and the sweetest jewelled poniard 8
stuck through the sidel Are they real t
Paula, or only Rhine
siph;na otonas of oouroo >, cold oauo &
Paula. "Who ever heard of real il
diamonds with thirty dollar bonnetP T
But isn't it a beauty? Let US try it r
ou, Flo. Oh, take carel''
For, in handing it across the table, I
Floriie had dropped it. The effort to q
recover it resulted IN overturning q tall
flask of Bordeaux salad oil upon the il
rosebuds and pink faille. c
Flo and Paula looked aghast at each a
1ther. Il
''Hushl" cried the former. ''Some
,ne is coming. Put it back into the I
,ox, Paula. Take it up to Audrey's b
'oom. She will think it was an accident. I'll
Oh: how could you be so carelessp" I
81 wasn't careless" sputtered the o.
Indignant Paula. sit was your fault
IS much as it. was mine.. What will
Audrey sayP"
Two hours later the reception bon
let was brought back to Miss Thor II
'urn by Audrey Densel herself in an o
live plush-lined carriage, attended by Vi
French maid, and Pearl Playfair was
ummoned at once.
She came, innocent and eager, only Sc
o be angrily dismissed from the estab- ht
ishment. In vain we're here protesta- g
ions and entreaties.
''If you didn't do it, stopping at some
f your grocer and baker friends NJ
'laces, who did2" said Miss Thorburn. a
Do you suppose Miss Densel poured lt
'rease over her own reception hat?
Silence, l sayl Leave the house at
nee, and do not presume to ask for
wages or reference from me, consider ar
hat 1 am treating you with extreme st
eniency in not sending for policeman.
Pearl went home feeling as If she HI
we're in dream. Her situation was
,one and without references how could
he expect to get another? And who
would fnd wood or fire for Katie? P
The elder sister listened to PEARLS IL
'iteous tale with dismay, but she put ii
he bravest possible front upon it.
.ssDon't sob SO, PEARL" she soothed.
We shall not starve; something will
happen to protect us, dear; don't be r
fraid. Who is that Mrs. Nippert is di
alking to outsideP'' hi
sits me-Janie VAIL" said a CHEEKY,
ordial voice, with some apples and
omemade jelly. NY brother Joe says W
ou are his friends. I may come in,
naynt Ip"