Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-01
1T WAS AWFULLY MEAN OF ALICE.
But After All She Only Happened to Bs
n Little Ahead.

81 haven't seen you with Alice late.
IT," remarked the girl whose roses
matched her cheeks. as it that your
street gowns do not harmonic, or can
il be a matter of temper"
you have not seen us together nor
will you" firmly replied the girl with
the velvet sleeves, iii is not n matter OF
gowns, but of principle. Alice is q cat
"a mean, spiteful, malicious cat"
"Humph! Her fur seems TO be in
very good condition, Judging from what
| saw"
Don't tell me what you saw unless,
you met her in Il high wind without a
veil trying to be q Gibson girl. You
didn't? Well, then, just listen while l
tell you what she did"
Dear me, | hope it Is something very
bad" lluttercd the girl whose roses
matched her cheeks. IL haven't been
very well of late and the doctor says my
system needs toning up.
at is. You know that Jack Bitter.
sweet has Tilted Julia? | never could
understood what he saw in her anyhow
myself, but he kept her from poaching
on other peoples preserves So"
shes taking II very hard, too. The
reason | know il is that she is making
desperate efforts to secure jim, and no
girl who had not suffered q keen disap-
pointment would"
"M'hm. Well, / was at Alice's when
the news came that it was of. You
know, before he became engaged TO
Julia, Jack used to divide his attentions
pretty evenly between Alice and my.
self. Well, | knew Alice, so told her
plainly that | thought we ought to
punish him for treating poor Julia so
badly, as well rs for having engaged
himself to her in the first place. She
demurred at first, but | talked her round
by arguing that ONE should stand
by each other-she is always talking
about the sympathy of sex, you know, so
she had TO agree. We made n solemn
compact then and there to snub Jack rs
he deserved"
And did you?"
"Well, it was this way: After / got
home | fell to thinking it over, and !
began to feel sorry for poor Jack,
especially as he might not, after all,
have been to blame. Besides, papa told
me that he has been making a great
deal Of money lately. You know, a man
with plenty of money is more apt to he
led astray, and there was no knowing
what he might do If ! snubbed him
severely. Finally, l decided to send for
him and give him q little-a-sisterly
admonition."
"Of course"
$50 the next morning l wrote him q
note asking him to drop in for a cup OF
tea and n chat att o'clock, when | would
be alone"
"And did he Gomez"
mo; he replied that a previous en-
gagement would prevent, but that he
hoped to have the honor soon. Some
how, | felt uneasy, SO | went over to
Alice's-I wanted to have her under my
eye. 1t was about 4 o'clock and the
housemaid said she was out. There was
a queer look in her eye, however, so ]
just told her that ! would step in and get
a book had left on the library table the
day before"
"WellP" breathed the other girl,
"Alice was there and Jack was on the
sofa beside her."
20, well, perhaps she was only giving
him n little sisterly lecture"
"Humph! From the looks of things il
was very different from the ones she
gives her own brother; at any rate she
fairly covered under my look OF
righteous Indignation"
"But-but you had written for him to
come to see YOU"
"That was a very different matter, "
firmly replied the girl with the velvet
sleeves, Il feel that l shall never be
able to trust Alice any more