Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02

y a : goung lsdy out With III entire
wardrobe; ana vet. oddly enough. i
found that liked the business, too.
staggered, with an air OF being at
my ease. into diapers in Buchanan
street, thinking that the easiest thing
in the world would be to ask for what
l wanted But suddenly, when an at
tendant put herself al my service, it
turned out that l had forgotten every
thing, and could make none of my re-
quirements known until l had retired
to collect my mind and write down a
list of articles on paper.
''All sorts of underlinen," / stammer-
ed at last; .just make up a parcel.
please, with everything of that kind a
lady-small and young-could posi-
bly, need. l will trust to your judg-
| ment; everything must be of the best"
This was after l had discovered the
right department, which had not hap
pened at first; aid then the young
woman insisted on my pronouncing up
on the rival charms of wonderful mass
es of frilling and lace, which she called
petticoats.
Somehow 1 got away from her, but
was no better of. for there were black
silk stockings to buy-and all the feet
looked so incredibly long for those
dainty bits of feminine prettiness
thrust into the furred blue velvet slip
pers.
The frock was even worse, however,
and after looking at so many garments
! that 1 grew dizzy with the desperate
necessity to choose compromised with
simple dark blue serge of the smallest
size obtainable.
1 called up a picture of the little oval
face Qit with great dark eyes, as
walked disconsolately among long rows
of trimmed hats, growing on tall iron
stalks, like giant flowers and at last
| picked out one which would be, /
thought, a becoming frame for the
girls white, childlike beauty.
With the boots the worst was over.
After buying pairs of several sizes, that
some at least might be sure to fit, the
gloves and veil, and such odds and ends,
seemed mere nothings. Last of all, |
purchased a small portmanteau, insist
ed that everything should be packed in
side, and drove back in a cab to the
Elsinore, with my latest acquisition on
top.
At the hotel had the new piece of
luggage carried up to my door, and then
set down outside. l would put it in the
room myself, l said, slipping a shilling
into the porters hand; he need not
trouble to wait until the door was I'M
locked.
The bolt was withdrawn in answer TO
my knock, and delicate profile, that
somehow reminded me of the young
moon shining in twilight sky, peeped
out from the dusk within. My first
words would have been an anxious in
quiry after the health of the girl who
had, after a fashion, become my ward;
but she breathlessly cut me short "Oh,
/ forgot to ask you to get them, and
of course you didn't think of the most
important things of all-hairpins!"
Her tone was almost tragic, and |
dared not laugh. Yet when | thought
of all this tender creature had endured,
her late escape from a CHASTITY death,
there was something between tears and
laughter in this anxiety that her pretty
hair should be properly arranged.
There's a sort of dressing-case, ]
said hopefully. There seemed to be a
lot of things in it-brushes and combs,
boot buttons, pins, soap, and | don't
know what all; but"
'I'll soon see,' she interrupted. Open
ing the door a little wider, she made
room for the portmanteau to be pushed
in. Then, just as | was about to move
away, thankful that she seemed so well
and full of courage, she softly called me
back.
Captain Napier!"
The title that / had lost would have
panied me coming from most lips, but
it did not from hers; for she had said
that she believed in me, and therefore
in my right to bear it STILL
Captain Napier, thank you so very,
very much for all. The hairpins are