St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-11-29
CHAPTER TX.

Eoest-
The Saturday matinee at the Audi
forum in Chicago was just over, an
the usual crowd was struggling to ge
to its carriage before any one else TIL
Auditorium attendant was shouting on
Che number of different carriages, ant
the carriage doors were slamming a,
the horses were driven rapidly to the
curb held there impatient by the
drivers, who had shivered long in the
raw east wind, and then let go &c
plunge for few minutes into the river
OF vehicles that tossed under the ele-
waited railway and finally went whirling
off up the avenue.
"Now then, GAL" shouted the Au-
ditorium attendant. "Six hundred and
twenty-fourP' he repeated as there
dashed up to the curb a splendid span
OF black horses attached 20 carriage
having the monogram &C. r. S" in
gilt letters on the panel of. the door.
Two girls stepped out of the crowd
toward the carriage The older one had
entered and taken her seat, and the at
tendant was still holding the door open
for the younger, who stood hesitating
on the curb
Come, Felicial What are you wait
ing for2 shall freeze to DEATH" called
the voice from the carriage.
The girl outside of the carriage hast
lily unpinned bunch of English violets
from her dress and handed them to
small boy who was standing shivering
on the edge of the sidewalk, almost
under the horses feet. He took them
with a look of establishment and n
"Ihank ye ladyl" and instantly buried
very grimy face in the bunch of per-
fume The girl stepped into the car
rage, the door shut with the incisive
bang peculiar to well made carriages of
this sort, and in q few moments the
coachman was speeding the horses rap
Idly up one of the boulevards.
lyon are always doing some queer
thing or other, Felicia, said the older
girl as the carriage whirled on past the
great residences already brilliantly
lighted
Am II What have l done that is
queer now, Rose2" asked the other,
looking up suddenly and turning her
head toward her sister.
"Oh giving those violets to that bowl
de looked as if he needed q good hot
supper more than q bunch of violets
It's wonder You didn't invite him
nome with US. shouldn't have been
surprised if you had You are always
1oing such queer things Felicia"
-. Would it be queer to invite a boy
Ike that to come to the house and get
hot supperT' Felicia asked the cues
hon softly and almost as if she were
alone.
"Queer isn't just the word, of
course replied Rose indifferently. ut
would be what Nine. Blanc calls outre
decidedly Therefore you will please
lot invite him or others like him to hot
uppers because l suggested it Oh
lear I'm awfully tired. -
She yawned, and Felicia silently
ooked out of the window in the door
The concert was stupid, and the
'lollnist was simply a bore | don't see
low you could sit SO still through it
H. Rose exclaimed, a little impa-
iently
II liked the music, answered Felicia
uietly
You like anything. / never saw
lrl with so little critical taste"
Felicia colored slightly, but would
ot answer Rose yawned again and
hen hummed fragment of a popular
ong Then she exclaimed abruptly
I'm sick of almost everything |
ope the Shadows of London will be
xciting tonight.
The Shadows of Chicagoi muir.
lured Felicia.
The Shadows of Chicagol The
hadows of London, the play, the great
rama with its wonderful scenery, the
of New York for two months
on know we have box with the De.
mos tonight.
Felicia turned her face toward her
ster Her great brown eyes were very
Expressive and not altogether free from
sparkle of luminous heat.
And yet we never weep over the
'al thing on the actual stage of life
That are the shadows of London on the
age to the shadows of London or Chi
'go as they really EXIST Why don't
e get excited over the facts as they
'e9"
Because the actual people are dirty
I'D dlsagreeable and it's too much
other, l suppose, replied Rose care
ssly Felicia, you never can reform
le world What's the use2 We're not
blame for the poverty and misery
here have always been rich and poor,
Id there always will be. We ought to
thankful we're rich.
Suppose Christ had gone on that
'inciple, replied Felicia, with un-
'ual persistence. "Do you remember
T bruce's sermon on that verse few
lndays ago, For ye know the grace
our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though
was rich, yet for our sakes he be- !
me poor that ye through his poverty
light become rich 2 6
Il remember it well enough" said
ose, with some petulance "Apd r
dn't DR. Bruce go on to say that there
as no blame attached to people who
I'd wealth If thew ara bind ond ,.;,xs A. n