Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-01-16
BY ADELINE SERGEANT.



ness 10 call her by her proper title.
Her mother objects very much to her
being called Frances by all sorts Of
common people. Remember your
rlace."
At this moment little Lady Frances
came running back into the room and
her quick eyes noted at once the signs
Of an encounter,
What are you saying, Constance2
won't have Madeline Despard interfer-
ed with. She lis going to be my es-
pecial friend and | give notice to you
All raising her clear yoice--"that If
any one DULLES her that person viii
have to deal with me"
And as Lady Frances was power
In her own little world, the rising tide
Of contempt for poor Madeline was
stayed.
But In private, il not in public, she
was laade TO feel herself the inferior
Of Constance Esler. who never lost an
opportunity Of haunting her with her
fathers position and poverty. Lady
Esler had not taken Constance into her
confidence on the subject. out she felt
too strongly about it to be altogether
silent and the girl was clever enough
to put two and two together and draw
her own conclusions. She knew good
deal more about Madeline than Lady
Esler imagined and was filled with
jealous dislike to her
Constance was Lady Esler's
great-niece, Madeline was or claimed
TO be-the great-niece of Lady Esler
And IL was Lady Esler who had the
money. II Lady Esler really believed
Madeline to be her near relation and
took any sort Of fancy 10 her, Con-
stances Place In the Hurst household
might be seriously affected. She was
4 worldly minded girl. more caleulat.
Ing and more selfish than most girls
of her age; and she vowed to herself
that she would do everything in her
power to prevent Madeline from ever
becoming the fayorite of Lady Esler.
IF she is ever taken TO Hurst" Con-
stance said to herself, with vicious
compression Of her lips, "she shall
leave It in disgrace. Iii take good
care of that
But there seemed at present no sign
that Madeline would ever be asked to
Hurst For although Gen. Armstrong
acknowledged her as his granddaughter
and paid for her schooling fact
which Constance CONTEMPORARY
Haunted In Madelne's face on every
occasion Lady Esler had made up her
mind TO take no notice Of her And
Madeline, shrinking sensitiyely from
Constarce's taunts and gibes and jeers,
was not sorry If Lady Esler were at
all like Constance she felt that II would
be Impossible to live with her,
But for Constance Esler's presence in
the school, Madeline would have been
very happy She was pretty and clever
enough to win the admiration Of the
other girls and amiable enough TO Sc
cure their love; she was well dressed
and had plenty Of pocket money and
her companions found her both kind
and generous Then 1t was d great de
light % her to learn. She had never
before had really good teaching and
her teachers all pronounced her talent
ga in every way. In music, in draw
Ing, lii language, IN arithmetic even
that bugbear of schoolgirls she made
rapid strides and her grace Of move
inent was 80 remarkable that the dane
Ing mistress could hardly be persuaded
% believe that she was au English
girl
n haze had good deal Of exper-
lenoe she said one day. to Miss
Joyce, as they watched Madeline per-
forming i little Spanish dance which
none o. the other pupils were consid-
cred sufficiently light aud graceful to
learn. and have never seen an Eng
lish girl like that have seen d Po-
fish lady and an Austrian girl, who
could move IN that way OH, yes. and
spanish girls cum 10 II too but a stiff
English girl
OH | nm sure that many of our
girls are very graceful, said Miss
joyce, not without offense.
ooh. ~ course 81 course, But they
have 10 Ia taught Now, this child Il
naturally graceful, She doesn't want
eaehing Mark MY words, she il half
foreign FL blood. whatever her friends
may say
on tho contrary said Miss joyce.
With dienlty s know her to Dc Eng
llsh on both sides
Don't sou believe tt said the dane
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