The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-11-17


pered, generously. and confident In
that lady's ability TO work" things
to their mutual liking, Miss Graham
closed her lips discrectly and votcd
her chaperone more OF a success thin
! ever.
For two delightful weeks the duke
shed the sunshine of his smile upon
this beautiful boutonniere at the sea-
side and II one or two of the buds cx-
banded to full blown roses beneath
his exotic warmth there were no visi-
BILE symptoms upon their faces until
the hour of his departure.
That day Lulu turned suddenly and
smiled into his handsome face: "You
are going" she said quickly, and II
she had added. ''and l am so glad"
no one could have been more amazed
than they were at her expression.
Fiossie Robinson could hardly credit
her own senses as she stood wet-eyed
and bitter hearted, watching the
farewells at his departure.
Belle Graham stayed in her room
that day, and was sadly out of sorts
with her agreeable chaperone. Mrs.
Deuches but it was quite apparent to
them all that the duke had behaved
badly with her young heart also, and
gone away without a single promise
of better conduct in the future.
Lulu alone was happy when he
had gone.
II was positively wretched all the
time" she said timidly. "Just think
of having such dangerous Apollo in
the very house. and not even
chaperone to defend your
Then a strangely sympathetic ex-
preston crept into her eyes as she
whispered family.
THE duke did not try to make love
to any ofyou, did he. girl.?"
OF course the girls were highly in.
dignant at this charge and not one of
them noticed in the nome tary
agitation how much their fluent
denials seemed to relieve their timid
questioner.
For two of the young ladies', at
least, had swallowed, secretly, bit
ter pill that ranlSlci and burned their
tender stomachs. The pills were
sugar. coated, to be sure, but now that
the ''catch'' of the season had gone
away uncaptured they questioned
their methods Of procedure in very
bitterness of soal, and just in the de-
gree that they regretted their own
forwardness they resented Lulu's
adamantins virtues. The more they
thought of it the more mystified they
were at her behavior and finally the
scheme to injure her was set on foot
by those who felt themselves most
shamed by the dignity of her ex-
ample.
Mrs. Donderdecken's ears were as
sailed by many willy tongues before
she had fairly rested from her home
ward journey, and deeds, possible
and impossible, were laid at Lulu's
door by the wagging instruments of
malicious envy.
''She was SO sly, so distant, so I'M
natural, you know, dear Mrs. Donder-
decken; we really were forced to be
suspicious" even Mrs. Deuchcs wills.
pered at the earliest opportunity.
But Mrs. Donderdecken made no
comments on her charges behavior
that could possibly satisfy the dis.
turbcd young ladies, and by the peals
of laughter that manated from Lulu's
chamber little later it was quite APP
parent to the Disguised liste ners that
she was not rating that young lady
in any particularly disagreeablc man
ner.
And the duke did not return tc
ameliorate any of the existing condi-
tions of jealousy among his adorers
or to prove what they had at last
come to believe, that he had secretly
aspired to Lulu's hand. So after
much precocious reasoning the two
cruelty crushed buds decided to for
get their unpleasant failure and con-
jure less dangerous method of cap
expected at the beach.
And it was during the excitement
preceding this arrival that Lulu Van
Gessner and her chaperone took their
departure.
No one missed them particularly
after they had gone, for Lulu was
strangely quiet girl, and her devotion
to the ''disagrceable old woman"
made her but an indifferent comrade
in their midst, but one day, even the
noble Englishman's presence was for
gotten for time, while Lulu mar
riage to the duke was read and dis
cussed in the hotel parlor.
"What became of her chaperone, /
wonder" Flossie Robertson said
YEARLY, when the subject grew pref
ty near exhausted, and quite to the
surprise of every one, the vacant look
ing Englishman took sudden inter-
est in her question.
"They were married before they
came here, you know, young ladies'"
he said, solemnly, "but as her father
was not aware OF her elopement,
they decided to wait until she was 81
before
But his sentimental beginning was
too much for the excited listeners and
the buds interrupted him by Ginning
in eagerly:
"And did that disagreeable old
chaperone really plan for her to see
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