Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-03-16

wei, sad Mrs. Macrabbin, "well
seer
And she rubbed away harder than
ever.
young man." said Mrs. PethericlS,
sourly, what do you mean by leaving
q whitc-tullc hat here with water
lily and three sinful plumes on it? Do
! look like person who wears water
lilies and marabou?"
And Guy, who was walking whist
ling away after leaving his last band
box, stopped short at the old lady's
shrill voice.
"Hello!' SAID he. 1--WE left the
Pcthericls hat at st. James, and the
st. James hat at PethericlS's must
20 back"
81 should think SO" said Mrs. Peth-
| erick. In my days, crrand-men at
tended to their business! Nine o'clock
ut night, and my new black velvet hat,
with the satin bows, not come home"
I'm very sorry, ma'am," said Guy.
Much difference it makes whether
you arc sorry or not" said Mrs. Peth-
crick, levcling her blue spectacles
wrathfully at Mr. Moreau. You must
be very presuming young man to
have any opinions at all on the subject
l beg th at you will set this awkward
blunder right at once, and | shall most
assuredly report it to Nine. Dunoycr."
And Mr. Moreau had no alternative
but to trudgo back again through the
/ binding rain to Miss Honora St
James brown-stone residence.
1.-THE milliuer's man again" said
Miss ST. James, sharply well, l
should Think TO leave me dowdy
old blacls-velvet thing, instead of my
white-crape opera-hat! And to come
back at this time of night! shall GER
tainly let Nine. Dunoyer know what
think of it! Here, you, boy Is this
the way you My goodness me! It's
Mr. Moreaul"
Guy burst out laughing-he could
not help it-at the comical suddenness
with which Honora's frown melted into
smiles.
81 beg your pardon, Miss st. James,"
said he, but am really very dcserv-
ing of blame. Here's your bandbox,
and I've left old Mrs Pcthericl's here
by mistake"
as it n joke" said the bewildered
fair one, "or wager, or what?"
Neither one nor the other" said Guy.
"Sober, serious, earnest. And now, if
you'll let mo have the other bonnet. I'll
get back before Mrs. Petherick's rage
wakes any hotter"
He lifted his dripping beaver and
vanished with the bandbox under his
arm, smiling to himself at the insight
he had obtained into Miss st. James
character.
"a regular little virago" he told
himself "a face like oxalic acid and
voice that would do for a fishwoman!
Truly, we are not what we sccm.'"
He went back the next evening to tell
Nelly Knox that he had duly performed
her bohests.
NELLY isn't here" said the pale little
girl, who was wiring the flowers on
stems as diligently as if she had never
left off. "She's gone to madame's. She
goes at seven every morning, and don't
come back till nine at night"
"Ohr' said Guy. ..'And how's her
foot?"
Every lame" said the child, moisten-
ing fresh wire at her lips and twist
ing it around until our hero's eyes grew
giddy with following her motion. But
she leaned on cane and Why here
Nelly now. And crying, tool"
'Hello!" said Guy. whats the
matter?"
"I'm discharged" said the girl, with
a sob in her throat 'Mrs. Petherick
has been there, and"
"Mrs. Pethericlx is an old cat!" inter-
rupted Guy, hotly. "And, it's all my
fault Don't cry You're not able to
work now," as Nelly sank, white and
exhausted on chair
Eyes, know" said Nelly, "but what
are we to do? Fan can only earn q
dollar and n half week, and if l
am without work"
II can get you work" said Guy. "All
you want Loads of it!'
And, vanishing, he presently re-
turned with roll of forty yards of
Wamsutta, which he flung exultantly
on the floor
"But what am to do with it?" said
bewildercd Nelly.
"What? Why, make it into four
dozen shirts, to be sure? said Mr..
Moreau.
"But, that is all nohsense," said
Nelly, with quivering lip. II am
poor-but l can't take charity"
cts not charity" asseverated Mr..
Moreau. II need new shirts, and
hire you to make 'em! Where's the
charityl"
"But-four dozen!"
IF / wanted fourteen dozen I've q
right to order 'cm, suppose. Besides
I've some notion of fitting out a ship
load of missionaries for the San Benica
islands. If you want buttons or needles
and thread, get 'em, and charge cm in
the bill"
: "Well, what now?" lifting his eye.
brows.
"What size am / to make themT
Guy looked little puzzled at this.
make 'em four different sizes, ant
then some of 'em will be sure to suit,
said he, triumphantly.
wedding cake, eh?' said Mrs
Macrabbin. "Put up in watered-sill
D box and tied with white satin ribbon
, Stuck full of plums and citron ant
smelling of spicesl Well, it's very
l good of Nelly Knox to think of me
: now that she's great lady and has ;
4 whole house of her own, with velve
t carpets on the floor and two maid
servants to wait on her; and little Fan
t at boarding-school, too, and going t.
be brought mp like lady. And it al
came from Nelly's slipping on q bit o
+ banana-peel that rainy night I'd e.