The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-08-27
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THE ROZELLE DIAMONDS.

1t was an April evening, with the
warm rain dropping softly in the
strawberries and Il scent of growing
datfodIls in the air-just the magic
hour between daylight and dusk
when there is nothing to be done and
nobody wants to do anything, and in
the big saloon parlor, where the satin
damask hangings rustled mournfullv
and the carpet was faded to dull
dust color, fair young girls were play
ing "blind mans buff their voices
and footsteps hushed into a sort of
semisilence, as if they feared to dis
turb somebody.
Light and quick they rushed to and
fro, smothering their merriment,
cutting short their tinkles of silvery
laughter in the gathering dusk, uu-
til the sharp, sudden peal of Il bell
sounded in an adjoining hall. Then
u blank silence fell on the rejoicing
four.
II knew it," gesped Kate Godfrey.
Its Margery Dixon VIII spered
Emily Hardwick. She does giggle
so dreadfully."
But it was you knocked over the
footstool, Katen' retorted Margery,
the giggler. You know it wasn'
Girls, hush"' said Mary Mellen,
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