Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-05-26


One gentle sentiment. however, she
did feel, and her kind eyes said SO.
Tnis was pity.
al am afraid Eliza has not proved
the treasure you expected her to be,
said she. "You look as If you were
worried"
81 am worried" answered poor
Cameron frankly "But it isn't Eliza.
She's a queen, a divinity. But you
can't expect divinity to do the cook
ing"
Annie shook her head regretfully.
"No," she said, Il knew she
couldn't cook
"But sho might have triedr' said
Cameron ruefully. Il did all /
could to persuade her to, but she only
smiled in that rather irritating way
she has, and said she hadn't been
used to it."
His pretty neighbor laughed out
right
"She has an irritating smile, know.
But she is not so self-satished rs she
seems. She is not, indeed"
"She need not have giggled all tho
time just now though, when she took
up the tray with tho luncheon! had
cooked it myself as well as | could;
and though | don't say it looked quite
as trim and neat as a chicken does
when it is done by n proper cook
and an anxious expression crossed his
face-"still it wasn't for her to criti-
else me. And besides, | had every
thing to do myself, for l was so late
in getting it that ] couldn
wait at the shop to have tho
feathers taken out; thought could
do it quicker myself at home"
Annie began to look apprehensive.
Dear me-" she said, IL wish / had
known"
"But it's all right" And Cameron
tried TO assume little chez .fulness.
"For if there had been anything so
very wrong with it, you may depend
| should have heard about it from
that wretched colonel before now"
Alas! He spoke too soon. At that
very moment the sounds of q COM
motion indoors reached their ears,
and Cameron, glancing apprehensive-
| ly behind him, saw Hildred burst
! open the door and run out to him
with pale face. He was followed
| by Lizer, whose irritating smile had
now become a maddening grin. She
bore in her hands a dish, in which lay
a formless something, at the sight Of
which even the gentle Annie could not
repress her laughter. Cameron cast
on the thing savage glance of rage.
at didn look like that when
sent it up" he said. Hes been pull
ing it about. l tucked away the
head"
"But-but, said Annie, looking
contritely out to sea, and trying TO be
grave and calm, 'you ought TO have
cut off the head and taken out the in
side, and-and it would have been
better Tiff you admit left on it quite
so many feathers"
Cameron pushed away the dish,
which Lizer was holding close for his
inspection, and turning sharply to
his brother, told him that it was no
basiness of his, and that he had bet
ter go indoors.
But the matter concerns me and
all of Us as much as it does YOU" pro-
tested Hildred. II was coming down
stairs, and the colonel burst open his
door, and showered abuse upon me.
He said that when he ordered a
chicken he did not expect to be
served with q set of bag-plpes, and
that he would not stay another week
to be treated in this manner"
well let him go then-,at once il
he likes"
"But consider-Cameron"-
Il do consider Cameron. And
Cameron's the only person I'm going
to consider. II he wants q French
chef at two hundred year, let him
go TO the Grand hotel"
And leaving his brother abruptly,
Cameron ran down the garden, and
unlocking tho little door in the wall
at the bottom, went for a walk to cool
his ruffled temper.
He was too much ashamed Of his
mishap to glance back at the mex;
door balcony, or he would have seel
a pair of sweet gray eyes watching
him remorsefully.
TO BE CONTINUED.