The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-02-01

pretty crepe head, "but you girls had
better look out what you're about.
Mr. Hilton likes that 'violet-by-a n.
messy stone sort of thing Did you
zee him hanging over the pianostool last
night when she sang that remarkable
effort?"
Nonsense !" cried all the girls, with
one accord
"Gracious me ' said Miss Belford.
Where is she? When did she go out I?
Lulu Howard. you spoke too loud"
"No. she didn't" said Audrey Ais
ton. with third yawn. "The girl
has been very i'll with typhoid fever
or something. her father said, and she
has to rest herself good deal. Prob
ably she's gone TO lie down."
"Poor thing" Kitty Everdale's
dimpIel face peeped in among the
group. why didn't You tell Inc SO ?
| would have talked to her little"
Talked to her?' Aubrey opened
wide her glittering blue eyes, "What
for? She has no business here. She's
quite out of her sphere in place like
this, and I can't see how Uncle 10 over
came to ask her here. A good, sharp
lesson will 10 her good And as for
Mr.. Hilton, I'm not in the least
troubled about him.
Miss Ponsonby shrugged her shoul.
dcr,.
"Dou't be too sure about that, ."
said she
While poor little Barbara, shut into
/ her own room. relieved her surcharged
/ heart by passionate burst of tears.
Yes. Miss Audrey Aston was quite
right She had no business in "A
place like Aston Grange. The little
brown wren should never venture
near the Jungle Of radiant birds of
paradise aud glittering paroquets
How cool md Indifferent all the ladies
wrr"i How little notice they took of
hcr. beyond the merest requirements
of pplitpucssi
KITTY Eyerjale was the only person
who had spoken kindly to her--poor
Barbara
She took out her white muslin frock
for the evening party. smoothed its
folds aud pulled out its cherry satin
puil',.
How beautiful she had thought il
when her father ordered it down from
New York, and yet--and yet it did
not look like Mrs. Frank Howard's
dead-white silk dinner dress, nor Miss
Brlfords tulle gown, all dotted with
golden stnrsl
"a wonder il Mr.. Hilton likes
white" she said 10 herself; then she
looked mp with blush us scarlet as the
satin bows.
II was only Miss Alston's maid, with
her lady's compliments, and lunch
would be served an hour later than
usual.
eyes, thank you, I'll remember" )"
huttered Barbara.
And then she grew moro crimson
than ever AS she saw thu reflection of
b. '.~- 3; a.
II = do-believe = if's 'ei-one-
side - she gasped, putting both hands
to her hair. 'I wonder il the girl
roticed it? think not, She would
have looked surprised"
But Barbara Hay had no idea Of the
capabilities OF Miss Alston's maids
face.
"She's pretty young lady enough
If she only had II maid rs could dress
her decent, sniI Maria TO herself. as
she tip-toed down the stairs; "but rs
sure a, live and breathe, she wears
wig
I5Sard nightlall the party of mis-
tletoe hunters arrived, laden with
glossy leaves and spectral berries, and
then came the fun and frolic OF hang.
ing them everywhere.
The twilit rooms were full Of
laughter when Mrs. Howard glided up
to Audrey AlstouS side.
"Aha, Juliet she whispered.
"whcrc is your false Romeo move"
In the soft red glow of the freight
stood Barbara Hay, her hazel eyes
lifted to Mr. Hilton's face, one solitary
sprig of mistlctoe i'll her hand, and her
lips all smiles
Andrey shot one glance at the pair,
then barst into II hard. mirthless
laugh
Turn about is fair play" she said.
My inning will come next"
Barbara looked very lovely in her
white gown that night, with one sprig
of mistletoe iu her bosom; but she
shrank back from the threshold at the
sight of the softly billowing crowd of
eXqulsitely-dressed girls.
More aud more she felt that she was
out of her element here. Yet Alaric
Hilton aud Kitty Eyerdale managed to
make her forget all this shy uneasiness
in time.
''How nice You look ' said Kitty,
smilingIy. "Mr. Welles and are to
dance Sir Roger de Coverley' oppo.
site you two, Mr.. Hilton. Oh, won't
it be fun"
Miss Aston was, however, by no
means So well pleased rs dimpled
Kitty. Her brow had gloomed over
her eyes corruscated angry blue light
and lust at the moment When barbara