Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-11-28

| invitation had not arrived. but she had
no doubt it would reach her in due
season. She felt the Importance of the
occasion demanded her best personal APP
pearance. aGd as none of her own
dresses were fit to wear on such an
eventful occasion she got out an old
fashioned black silk that had been her
mothers. Putting it on. and fussing up
something to wear in the neck of it, gave
her a. strange feeling in keeping with the
anticipated events Of the day.
Il wonder when they will have din
ner," she unused, but by II O'Clock was
all ready and watching for the return
| of the Eyerell carriage, which had rolled
| off to the union Thanksgiving service,
| too great a distance for her to walk,
and she had no car fare.
/ There it comes she exclaimed out
! loud in her excitement. And she has
! brought back the Rev. DR.. Thayer and
! his wife of the Seventh Avenue church
/ My. My. I've always wanted to know
| them, and now | am going to, sure
enough"
After a while Miss Amber began to
| football on the stairs. She even went
to the length of stealthily leaning over
| the railing at the sound of voices be-
| low. thinking it might be someone en-
/ curing the way to her room. Then
a door perhaps would open somewhere.
!
At length she began to feel uneasy.
Mrs. Hone, whose invitation she had de-
| cllned caught her tip-toeing to the stairs
| to listen, and with disagreeable smile
exclaimed, Not gone yet. You must
| be very fashiOnablet'
But Miss Amber made no reply and
hurried into her own room. Her heart
| beat as if she had been badly frightened
! Her head began to ache, and Il red spot
| burned on her cheek.
She put her feet in the oven of the lit
| tie parlOr cook stove to warm them. 1t
occurred to her that she had eaten moth
ing since her breakfast of crackers and
/ tea, but though faint the thought of
more tea and crackers was intolerabe
The clock clicked for five minutes of
! 4. 1t had not struck the hour when
there was a. knock on the door.
1T is that prying Mrs. Hone. to make
sure I'm here yet she thought, and
! was of half a mind not to answer it.
| but presently relented and opened the
| door. Col. Everelrs colored coachman
with a large white napkin. She took it
mechanically, and stared at him in a
! daze.
Il am to call for the dishes tomor-
row. he explained, and as she did not
speak or move, he bowed respectfully
and turned away.
She carried the basket in, set it on the
!
was large plate of mashed potatoes,
squash, slice or two of chicken, a
spoonful of dressing, one of escalloped
oysters and a very large, tough-looking
turkey leg, all stone cold.
A smaller plate held a piece of pie,
some cheese and a sprig Of celery
Miss Amber took plates out of the
basket, covering them again with the
napkin. Then she began to unfasten her
mothers, best dress and hung it away
! in the closet. She put on an old wrap
per, and a shawl around her shoulders.
then went into the bedroom and laid
| down, drawing the shawl up over her
face.
! The. clock licked noisily The teaket-
tie simmered for a long time then
stopped. The rooms grew very dark
After while the ray from gasjet in
the Eyerell house was reflected on the
window of the little sitting room and
from it a corner of the table, revealing
the edge Of a plate and a turkey leg
! sticking out from under a napkin.-Ger-
trude V. r. Wickham in Cleveland Lead