The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-28

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peared to be a place where a dazzling
wardrobe would meet with an intelli-
gent appreciation At breakfast one
morning Esperanza announced her in
tention Of spending the summer there
'All right, Espy," said Mr.. O'Shea
III telegraph for rooms today"
Isl, ST." murmured the Sonora
O'Shea, raising the heavy lids that once
shaded the finest eyes in Mexico, and
casting sleepy glance at her daughter
''Yez, cettanly, of CO.'S" and then once
more she relapsed into smiling somno-
| lence.
| The wardrobe did its work at Nara
| gansett Pier, if its work was to make
its wearer stared at, talked about and
| grudgingly admired. 1t was certainly
remarkable one. In a place of remark
| able wardrobes it made its mark, had
| its own niche with the other wardrobes
and its share in the days talk. Miss
| O'Shea wore it with an impressive front
| and greatly enjoyed the sensation it
created. AS a wardrobe to be stared at
it was brilliant success. On its own
| ground mono of the other wardrobes
could compare with it Arayed in one
of its masterpieces, no one was as con-
spicuous, no one as gorgeous; no one,
truth to tell, despite the powder and
the paint, was as handsome as Esper-
| ANA O'Shea.
| But there is admiration and adInira-
| ton. The unsophisticated Esperanto
had not grasped this fact. That the
| chances and stares of one of the most i'll
bred crowds in the country We're not all
admiring did not penetrate her simple
mind for some time. That people were
slow in extending the right hand of fell
lowship to her she did feel with slow
| ly dawning, hurt surprise. 1t never oc-
CURED to her that any one could possibly
! object to making the acquaintance of
young lady because she had red gold
hair when nature meant her to have
I dark brown, or plastered her lips with
| a criy.fson glue for all the world to see.
= Bls eastern people were not very
| friendly. She announced this with the
! customary condor of the Californian tc
! s, lady who ssas next her at table. The
| lady said, I'M: they are not expan-
| siv9, and then Smiled and drifted out
| CT tho dining roam, and afterward
| proved 80 be one of ere least expansive
Of the people toward M.hom Esperanza
/ made friendly overtures.
Yes, they We're very stifs, She sat in
the casino every evening wlth her papa
! and hex marafna, and nobody came to
!, talk to her Up ia the tower. with its
stone supports black against the hoKizon, :
the red electric lights showed friendly,
cheerful, merry people sitting in GROWS
ana sometimes slipping cool drinks al
the little round tables. Their laugh
ter f1oated down and mingled with
! the faint washing of the waves on the
rocks They undoubtedly were havinga
| good time. So were the people on the
balcony and the paved terrace, drawn
| together in little gay, chattering par
ties, from which the breeze bore scraps
Of sentences and the light, hugh laugh
ter Of women. Esperanza enyied them
| with the pent up intensity Of her is
years. Silent, between her silent par
| ents. she looked at the gay groups around
| hex with her eyes full OF a childish and
| pathetically candid envy.
Don't seem to me, Espy," said her
, father suddenly, las if you were having
such rafting good time
"Wen, not exactly, popper," she
! said, heaying up a great sigh from the
bottom Of Der pensively covetous heart,
hut maybe III get there later.
The next evening the O Shea party
r.s-.st;,1... l4s ~, - - ~ assembled to
+, rss = .'s.s $3.50. -nyel fran us,i-
y. ,.roups sac about at fh6s>sspu,1a Ia
bies. slipping chilled liquids III tall Go-<sn-
blers, in which two blackberries, a rasp\,
berry and slice of lemon lay On the u
top Of the cracked ice. A long steam
yacht, which had run into port few /
hours before, was now only vaguely dis
tinguishabie, but its lights pierced the
darkness, moving with the moving
swells, It's blue coated, white tro,1sered
yachtsmen roanled the casino occasion
ally stopping TO greet friends.
At 10 O'Clock the silent O Sheas pick
ed up their wraps and departed for their
hotel, which was close by the casino.
But as they emerged from that building
Esperanza, who had been struggling
with her long cloak of white silk, dis
covered thae she had carried away ths t
cape Of the lady who had sat next her.
She remembered having seen it on tho
chair beside her and recollected throw
iu:, her own cloak over it. Calling to
her parents to go on, that she had for
gotten something and would join them
directly, she hurried back TO tie tower
But the lady and her friends had already
gone.
Not finding its owner, Esperanto gave
the cape so ore of the waters lettering
about, then slowly retraced her steps to-
ward the corridor. There were only !
few people now left in the tower and
the gallery, and these were mostly cor- 4
pies who had tucked themselves away
in corners and were enjoying murrnursd E
conversation Miss O'Shea. smiling u
herself, looked over the road to ses i
she could catch q glimpse OF her psIe
ents, then traiied her long skirts OF pal
biua brocade along the passage to t,i
stair head.
AS she reached this. q quick step y \
the yerauda outside announced the ~
r,rnacf of q man. Miss O'Shea GrsanLl b