The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-10-14
VOL. XXVIII.-NO. 80.

followed her down stairs, and boldly went
out into the street with her, found herself
a cab, and bade the man drive quickly, for
it was now after one Even then she did
not dare to take her cab up to the Della
ney's door, lest she should be heard or
seen.
So three doors off the chaise was stayed,
and she got out.
How late she was, and how terrified, for
as she alighted from her cab she saw a
carriage, which was in all probability the
Delaneys, entering the short street in
which they lived If they reached the
the house first, ssthey would let themselves
in with their latchkey and bolt her out
If on this particular occasion her latchkey
was not as manageable in her hands as was
usually the case, they would find her
struggling with it when they alighted.
She gathered up her white silk dress and
ran. In her haste she dropped one Of her
white satin shippers, but did not dare to
stop to pick it up. Key in hand she
scrambled up the steps somehow, and was
then hidden by the portico. Happily for
her, the key worked smoothly in spite of
her trembling fingers, and in another min
ute she was inside the house and the door
was shut just as the carriage stopped out
side. She few up stairs to her own room
to put on her ordinary apparel. Never
again, unless she should happen to have to
marry Miss Alice, must she venture to cut
it so fine.
The white satin slipper, which might
have been her ruin, saved her. Itdelayed
them,
"What is that lying at. the bottom of the
steps?" exclaimed Alice as soon as she got
out of the carriage. "Why, do believe
it is white satin slipper Anybody
would say that there had been wedding
here since we went away
"What absurd nonsense you do talk r.
said her father, who was tired, having been
standing in the Reltons crowded rooms
for two hours and a-half, and who had a
steadfast conviction that girls talked and
thought of nothing else but matrimony.
"But it is white satin slipper, main
tanned Alice "Pick it up, Dolly, and let
us have a look at it," Alice always liked
other people to DO the active duties of life
for her.
81 do declare it is my shoe !" said Dolly
as soon as she had it in her hand and saw
the embroidery on it, "What very curl
Gus thing!"
"What nonsense you do talk, Dolly !
Why is it so curious?" said Alice impati-
emily. 81 suppose it got caught in your
dress somehow or other, and you dropped
it when you came out What a lucky
thing it is that you are the one to find it T.
"You mean that it is lucky for any one
to find white shoe?" said Dolly dremaily.
She was in mood to find luck and happi-
ness in everything.
"Don't SILLY, Dolly said Alice; "lucky
ifyou don't want to have your pair spoiled
alt has got rather dirty outside here"
said Dolly, who was brought down at last
to common earth,
''Come, girls, go in, and take your preci-
Gus shoe with you, cried MIR. Delaney,
and having obtained hearing, he shut
the door. There were number of letters
and invitations lying on the hall table, and
each girl gathered up her own letters and
/ took an interest in the invitations, and
then turned into the drawing to slip
little Apollinaris, so that when they
reached their bedroom, Glenton had quite
easily been able to get there before them,
arrayed in the apparel her service demand
/ ed.
Dolly had the white satin slipper in her
hand, and held it out, saying, "LOok, Glen
ton, what l have found lying outside our
door on the steps.
Glenton seemed amazed, and said "0n
the steps outside? Good gracious me, Miss
Dorothy, what a very singular thing How
could shoe have possibly got there?
That's one of the pair that laid ont for
you when thought you were only going
to the masked ball, and when wanted to
put them away could only find one IF
haven't sought that shoe both high and
low y
at must have got caught in one Of oRr
dresses somehow" said Alice calmly.
II suppose SO, remarked Glenton
thoughtfully. "Indeed, what other way is
there of accounting for it?H and then she
did her best to conceal yarn which had
no existence.
"You are tired, Gleutou," said Dolly
kindly
"Oh no, miss, thank you, not so very
tired
"You are a good soul, Glenlon You
sit up till any hour we like and never say
you are tired.
"Oh, | shouldn't like to do that, miss
Have you had pleasant party!"
There was no need to ask the question,
for the girl looked simply radiant.
every pleasant, thank you. 1t was de-
lightful.'
'eThen you didn't regret Mrs. Glendinn-
ing's ball, miss?''
"Well, no; do nit think did
dolly" said Alice in French (she did
not know that Glenton understood it),
''now that at last we are alone, what was
it that Cosmo Glare said when he met you
on the stairs as We were leaving2'
''He said, 4 am going to see your father
tomorrow to say something about you, .
replied Dolly in the same language.
sRather cool, taking it all for granted
kind Of thing to say and do; but you know
best. Dolly
"No, he is the one who knows what's
best | think he has at last learned to
understand me and my ways, said Dolly,
"and am awfnlly glad he said that, and
shall be still more glad when he does it.