The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-01-19

forthwith called to see Miss Rarnascoai
and made great friends with her. Also,
he waS presented TO popsy. who sur
vcyed him with calm attention, and. on
accepting Il tribute of tofTee from lis
hand, observed that her grandma had
black hair. but that she Popsy), never
theless, liked him better than her
grandm;l-"granGma'S views on the
subject of tof1ce being probably of Il
narrower and more limited nature.
Altogether Mr.. Warren showed him
self to be so much less stern and Sc
we're on acquaintance than he had
seemed to be on first sight. he displayed
SO genial an appreciation of fun. and
even so great a liberation for mon
sense" that Bell was before long en-
boldened to tell him how afraid she had
been of him, and how she had specu-
lated on the probability Of his wife-as
She then supposed Mrs. Boddington to
be-being very much in awe of him.
Mr.. Warren did not appear Sratitied
by this testimony to his "awfulness .
Il suppose" he said, you wondered
what on earth mad, pretty youllr
woman like Mrs. Bodlngton marry
sun-baked old fellow like me:'
Bells wonder had, it may be remem-
bered, taken Il different direction She
had wondered what made him marry
that lazy, roundabout little woman"
but she did not say SO. of coulse. She
merely replied. demurely, "Oh, no, l
did not, indeed, Mr. Warren"
You know | am twenty years older
than my sister. Jane is only my half
sister. AS long as | was in India busy
and responsible, ! never thought about
my age. But since l have come home"
added Mr.. Warren. quantity, and strok-
ing back his thick white hair as he
spoke, Il seem to be twenty years
older than everybody"
You're not twenty years older than
Barney said Mrs Jack glslvely.
Yes, l am, Fifty years older than
Miss Barnasconi. She has all the fresh
ness of youth upon her. The very roses
in her bonnet Wear the dew OF early
morning. No; the only staid person
OF about my own age with whom |
am acquainted in Codlington is Pop
sy."
1t was wonderful. Bell thought, how
easy her daily task had become in Il
short time. The Children on the whole,
behaved better than she had dared to
hope for at first. Anl whenever they
showed SYMPTOMS OF downright rebel
lion the threat of appealing 10 Uncle
Robert sufticed to bring them back to
tolerable obedience. Bell became rather
proud Of her powers of discipline and
made little boast about them to Mr..
Warren, who smiled and nodded
She saw very little of Mrs. Bodding-
ton. That lady seldom left her room
before twelve O'Clock. But occasionally
she would sarnter into the school room,
magnificently arrayed, u few minutes
before the lessons came to an end.
and her appearance there was the
signal for utter INSTRUMENTATION on the
part of Jimmy and Jenny.
One day, when on entrance into the
schoolroom the children We're making
a more outrageous clamor than usual,
and she had yainly bade them be
quiet. Mrs. Boddington said, .'T.eally,
Mrs. Lilly. l wish you would invent
some method Of making the children
mind what is said 10 them. thought
you would be able to manage them
better.
'They are not usually SO naughty"
returned Bell, with her usual inconsid-
crate frankness, but they seem to be
come disobedient directly they see you
Jimmy! Jenny. Don't you know that
you ought to mind what your mamma
says more than any one else?'
Il shall mind what Uncle Robert
says" exclaimed Jimmy. because,
when I'm good, he lets me ride on the
pony"
"And he gave me n doll with wax
arms and legs and five shillings not to
tease Mrs Lilly" cried Jenny, III q
shrill voice, nodding her head violently
up and down.
There was a short silence, during
which Bell felt that Mrs. Boddington's
languid blue eyes were surveying her
with an amount Of attention which that
nonchalent lady seldom bestowed on
| any face save her own in the looking
glass. And Bell, who was greatly talk
en- aback by Jenny's revelation, began
| to color violently under her employers
steady gaze.
Don't be silly. Jenny" said Mrs.
Boddington, at length, in her usual
lazy draWl, and went leisurely out OF
| the room again. But in few minutes
| she returned holding visiting card in
| her hand. "Oh, look here, Mrs Lilly"
she said, rs this person some relation
| Of yours?"
Bell looked at the card in astonish-
nent
Mrs. John Lilly, Percival House
why that's my mother-in-law"
| oh. really? / don't know how long
the card has been in the card basket.
| l suppose l must return her call N>.lat
sort OF q person Is this Mrs. John
| Lnlyy'
"She Is my husbands mother" an
swered Bell, shortly, and--if the truth
must be told-sharply. For there was
| new tone Of patronage, a little air
OF cool cOndescension. an indefinable
suggestion OF the distance between EN-
nlQYRr and rnYnrIHaSs La Mrs RoA4linu