The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-05-18
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Bassett Institute. And fine place it
is ! l was thinklng-if your references
turn out what they should be-we
might make room for you there. We
need a smart young womanin the linen
room. suppose You can do something
else besides companioning and reading
-eh?"
ooh, yes!"
"You'd like a place."
81 must have one.
"Then," said Mrs. Parkhurst, "we'll
think of it. Fourteen professors and
one hundred and ten boys-that's
family to take care of, isn't it? For
the colonel's wife is an invalid, and
don't trouble herself about the house
keeping. I and my widowed daughter
run the whole establishment, and
there are nine of us sit down to din
ner in the housekeeper' room. There!"
as they drove in between two massive
stone gate-posts, into an avenue of
rustling tamaracks. "Do you see that
pretty young lady gathering holly
berries? It's the colonel's daughter,
Miss Lillian Bassett."
you've come back, have Won,
Parkey?" cried a sweet, girlish young
voice. 'Did you bring my chocolate
.caramels?"
"The candy store was shut up, Miss
Lilly"
ooh, how perfectly shameful"
And a cluster Of glaring red ber-
ries, aided by a not unskillful hand,
hustled through the air, and hit the
housekeeper exactly on her nose. But,
instead of evincing ofense, Mrs Park
hurst only laughed.
"Isn't she pretty?" said she, "and
such mad-cap. Well-perhaps mar
[ riage will sober her down"
| els she to be married soon?" asked
Jessie.
/ ''We don't quite know, said Mrs.
2 Parkhurst but one of the young
2 professors admires her very much,
= and we think she don't quite dislike
| him."
; Jessie looked wistfully back tc
e where Lillian Bassett's scarlet mantle
= lighted up the snowy terrace. Why
e were some girls so happy, while Others
; toiled ceaselessly on in LIES shad
S ows? Why was life such problem
For awhile, however, the wheels re
] volved smoothly. Jessie's references
s forwarded from the Wherefore Pro
S tective Agency, proved all that coulC
be desired, and she was engaged t.
,, take charge Of the linen-room.
e During an outbreak of scarlet feve,
t she found herself particularly efficien
as nurse, and Mrs. Parkhurst sool
u began to wonder how it was that sh
had ever got along without her.
V 4"
y married, Lilly! Really married
t And to that handsome young pro
lessor of mathematics !" cried Adel
!, Maurice, Lillian's ex-schoolmate
= "Well, | never expected to see yo1
y Gagged! And he's quite self-mad
It man, they tell me-"
IS 81 tell dear Lillian, said Miss Bell
/ Bassett, the sharp-nosed maiden siste
o of the genial colonel, "that she shoul
G not make too sure of anything in thi
world. The captain is very hand
|, some, and all that sort of thing, bu
n Pm afraid he's inclined to be
hirt. "
( Nonsense !" cried Lillian, colorin
l. wrathfully.
a "Oh, but indeed, I've met hir
s. twice at the strawberries, walking wit
S. that pretty yellow haired girl tina
t. takes care OF the linen-room," per
IN sisted Miss Bella.
?" what" exclaimed Miss Maurice
It Gone of the servants?"
ID "Now, Aunt Bella, why can't yo
rs hold your tongue, flashed out Lillian
Of "when you know very well that oil
Parkhurst says she is areduced lady
le Reduced ladies have no bushes
Y. wandering about the laurel hedge
d. with handsome young engaged men,
as viciously retorted Miss Bassett. San
- l really think my brother ought t
inquire into it, There she goeI
at founcing out of the room. Well, II
really afraid, Adela, that our Lillian
e, temper isn't altogether perfect. "
81 don't think mine would be,
&C. said Adela Maurice, ''if / were bal
ey gered like that.
cit is dreadful trial, isn't it,
e. see your lover drifting off into al
es other woman's snares?" said Miss Bell
wilfully misunderstanding things.
Elf While Lillian, running up stair
V, paused to catch her breath at one
the big mullioned windows on Il
id staircase
re- "How I should like to cram b
W. bath sponge into Aunt Bella's ce