Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-01
DOLLY'S STORY

the bodice covered with ecru embroid-
cry and the sleeves composed of tiny
puffs. She wore spray of goldenrod at
her belt
Dolly was quite delighted with her
self and the world; that was evident.
Her eyes were sparkling and the dim
piles about her mouth were visible even
through her white lace veil
81 determined not TO tell YOU" shu be-
gan.
"That is why you got up so early and
dropped in" said.
off you are going to be horrid, |
won't; but it is really amusing" said
Dolly as she raised her veil and the dim
Plies stood out in bas-relief. "You re-
member told you about that youth
who was so nice to us last year in
Florida when auntie broke her ankle"
"And you repay his devotion by max
ing him miserable for life, suppose" I
answered.
Dolly made a brave effort to be de-
mure, but the dimples threw down the
barriers and ran rampant over her small
chin. "Let us not anticipate" she said,
with wave of her hand. ITO begin at
the beginning he was quite attentive to
auntie and me"-with heavy emphas
on the anntie-"during hat awful time.
I could not leave auntie to suffer alone
In a hotel sitting room, so / was as
mnch confined as she.
ale suggested getting a hammock
and putting it in a sunny corner of the
balcony, which was shut in by stained
! glass windows. He superintendent the
hanging of the hammock, and every
morning he would see auntie safely en-
sconced before he went to breakfast.
."Afterward he would come up with
! the papers, mail and fruit or flowers and
stay with us instead of hunting or play
ing tennis or attending the morning
german. He knows a lot of nice peo-
pie, particularly in the literary set, and
his mail was usually very interesting
gossip, which his clever correspondents
! WROTE HlIlf anu HhASN -
him, you know"
I could not fancy her naughty aunt
swearing at anything-not even by her
most distinguished ancestor-but I did
not interrupt Dolly.
"Auntie called him quite a pleasant
person." continued Dolly, "and that
was saying a great deal for her. When
he found we would have to return to
| New York alone-since lack could not
come for us-he left two weeks earlier
than he intended because he feared
auntie might jar her foot in changing
cars. We lost sight of him when he re-
turned Of course auntie made 1t
point to invite him to her first dinner
and sent him cards for her regular at
homes.
ale came to dinner, believe, and
called Just before he sailed for Europe
the next week. had forgotten his ex-
istence till I went to stay at the Blank
fords' last week He is a cousin of Mrs.
Blankford, it seems He was there, and
was quite ill-so Ill, in fact, that once
the house party came near breaking up
But he got better soon.
"Now, thought here is the time to
return the kindness he did us. My dear,
exerted myself, and 1 fancy can be
quite agreeable when try, said Dolly,
demurely.
"Ouite," answered briefly, thinking
of the poor souls to whom Dolly had
been agreeable.
"I wrote him little note each day be
ore going on some expedition the host
ess had planned, and marked the new
books and sent them to him. One day
when 1 heard he was worse sent him
my photograph"
| "Could mortal man ask more" [ said
when he came down." said Dolly, 81
tried to amuse him. In fact, grew to
like him as one would dog one feeds.
But on my honor there was not the
yaguest shadow of a filtration between
us, and fancy know what filtration
is with pardonable pride.) l suppose
he based his suspicion on conversas
ton we had about matrimony."
"Ah," l murmured.
Dolly resented the infection.
81 tell you there was no Irritation"
with an impatient tap of the high heel
of the little foot. "We were just dis
cussing in a purely analytic way the
cause of so many happy marriages and
so drifted into our own idea of happy
marriage. He said he would prefer to
marry literary woman. He writes,
you know. but is an artist.
ST said 7 would like to marry a man