Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-12-10

should say. She's widow. Sir An
drew knew her husband, and for the
fast three or four years she has been
one OF the party at Sir Andrews place
when they go up for kthe grouse. She
came up to Edinburgh directly SIZE
heard Of my engagement to her old
friend She's,a thorough woman 81 he
world and has been Invaluable TO me >
You're altered. Maggie" Sholto
said, looking at his sister critical y.
Il never knew before that you we're
the happy possessor of one Of the pref
test figures | ever saw. Your hair is
brighter gold, your hand0 and feet are
smaller, yoll-gou are yes, | vow you
are, absolutely pretty"
TIN the same, only diffefen 4
dressed Its the well-made boots, and
clothes that make me the good looking
girl l am now, Sholto. Ny hair Is no.
brighter gold, my feet and hands are
not better made or smaller than they
have been all my grown-up life. Blu.
give 2 guineas for my boots now, and
my fingers are covered with diamond
and sapphire rings, Dress is beauty
Sholto, when the art Of 1t is under
stood and | understand it,"
She stood there erect and almos
deffantly before him, as she chal-
1enged his fraternal criticism, and he
surveyed her from the top of her
golden head to the tip of her well-shod
feet, with the eyes Of hawk who has
been accustomed to note the toilets OF
the smartest women in Park and Bond
/ streets. Everything about her was
faultless. Yet he found himself wish
ing that she could be the old Maggie OF
her homespln and cotton blouse days
for an hour Or two.
Until she had left him to return to
Mrs. Cumberland ard the packing, ii
did not occur to him 10 feel yexed that
she had made no inquiry for Patrice
no remark about his engagement. She
was going TO be such powerful factor
in the family life that he would not
permit himself to think that she had
of fortune had taken such a favorable
turn for her He treasured himself
with the reaction that she had never
seen Patrice, and therefore under the
circumstances could hardly be ex-
pected to grasp the latter's existence.
Then he thought rather vlndictive'y OF
Mrs. Cinnberland-the woman he 0.d
now know and whom his sister eulo-
gized so absurdly. It was rough on
Patrice" and on himself, that one OF
Sir Andrew Gwenap's faction should
usurp that place of first friend to Mag
gle which he had designed for the girl
he meant to marry. He made up his
mind to dislike and hold aloof from
Mrs. Cumberland, as he installed
Patriee's photograph in a place OF
honor on his bedroom mantelpiece and
prepared to dress for dinner.
Meantime his sister Margaret had
gone back to the room where Wilson
the maid, was actively and deftly pack
ing, while Mrs. Cumberland looked
on and made suggestions.
"Sholto has come; he's hand some
and dearer than ever; he made me
allude in the most distant way to the
girl he got entangled with the othes
/ day" Miss Graham said, rapidly, as
she flung herself into the depths of an
armchair opposite to the one occupied
by her friend.
"Entangled When you told me
about 1t at first you said your bro her
was engaged to her." Mrs. Cumber-
land replied, az she lifted a pair oil
/ lovely arms from which rich lace fell
hecomingly and elapsed her hands
above her mead. At the same moment
she stretched her daintily slippered
feet out on the fender-stool, for
though 1t was May the atmosphere was
chilly in the north. Maggie Graham
felt momentary pang as she recog-
nized the fact that her friends feet
were nearly II not quite, as tiny as her
own. It annoyed her that any one
should presume to rival her in points
of whose value she was rapidly becom-
Ing cognizant.
"If 1t We're a proper, wel-author-
lied engagement and he felt proud OF
it he would have spoken about 1t to
me naturally. Probably she Is what
you suggested when first spoke "a
you about Sholto 'Westbourne
Grove young girl whose dreadful
neople asked his intentions after some
slight attention ON his part AT any
rate, he has evidently come here my
dear. unfettered brother Shulto still.
You are to be congratulated on hav-
ing such a talented brother
II hope YOU will like him, Lena. My
brother and my dearest friend don't
get on together"
Perhaps he won't like met the
dearest friend laughed out, mockingly
"and If he does not l shall reciprocate
by hating HIM.
"Sholto and I have very similar
tastes. He will adore YOU, mosi
likely
Pardon me, Maggie, but l think II
extremely improbable that a man who
admires the type OF girl who takes &c
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