Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-02
mIGHAELIS 3 ROBERTS. Lancaster, Wis.

.'Un, I'm not going TO marry. I'm
not. - cried Mrs. Marnont, with even I'M
necessary fervor. You ought to know
that. You know, / wasn't very happy,
and-and / want to be deaconnessr ~
"A what?''
"You know, the order of deaconnesses
they have in the church, papa. They
give their lives to good works. 2
Lord, Lord 1t sounds as if they wore
boomers. They don't, do they?"
The costume is very becoming, . said
the widow, with frosty severity.
''Well, that's something to be thankful
for"
Papa, you must treat me like grown
person for three minutes. / want to tell
you that l have made up my mind I'm
going to enter the novitiate. I'm going
to be deaconness. /"
She stood in the middle of the ROOM her
hands clasped before her and looking ter
ribly formidable for such slender young
beauty in good clothes. tits my one res
olution for the new year, . she went ON
very quietly, but her breath coming in ir-
regular pants. II thought ought to tell
you as soon as 1 had made up my mind,
and | made it up today, on this last day
of the old year, and it's the last, too, of
my old life. I'm tired of the frivolity and
emptiness of the old life"
She moved toward the door; as she laid
her hand on the knob she turned and said
to the silent man:
Sim not going to the ball tomorrow
night, but don't let my movements disturb
yours"
81 trust you have not at this hour con-
cluded to throw over your Aunt Sarah S
dinner, too, he said. with sarcastic into
nations.
mo, was the answer 81 don't know
how Aunt Sarah's dinners could ever be
looked upon as festivities I'm only try
ing to sober my mind, and expect that
10 be very SOLDERING function
Aunt Sarahs dinner was to be eaten
that very evening, and the guests were to
dance and play whist and watch the old
year out. 1t was to be a family party with
sprinkling of such other people as could
be brought to join family party-cer-
tainly not likely was it that they would
be very gay members of society
II don't care what you do with it,
said Mrs Marmont, when her maid was
doing her hair It's not important how
look"
'Why, madame it ees not LADIES'
luncheon you dress for There will be the
gentlemen. Is it not so2'
The mistress laughed and answered that
it didn't matter.
Mrs. Marmont went to the despised din
ner looking uncommonly imposing and
handsome When she entered her aunt S
drawing room, little admiring hush and
then little admiring murmur greeted the
softly draped white figure, such as was
hardly to be expected from company so
familiar with the sight of her. But all
We're not equally familiar with it; an ath-
letic, bronzed young man who was talking
to Mrs. founders This hostess, Aunt
SARAH contributed to the hush, so to
speak, by stopping short in the middle Of
his sentence as his eyes rested on Mrs.
Marmont and then calculating, Is tit
is
Linda, interrupted Mrs. founders.
''of course. Didn't you expect to sec her?n
II had heard she was abroad-she hasn't
oha.g ed 50 much as / first thought
Oh, no, woman doesn change much
between "A and 20, Mr.. Lester. The fash
ions change, but you mustn't talk to her
as if you We're snrDrised--she ism I decrepit
nor 70 me either: its not aattering e
woman Of my aas z