The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-01-30

I her hands from the start entirely. Look
I at Miss Somers' gowni There she is over
I near the door. Imagine, II you can, that
mine was exactly like hers four hours
agor'
Il suppose It's all right. because you look
I particularly WELL" replied her brother,
I with masculine insensibility to anything
I but general effect. Il hope you won't
/ forget what she did in such a rush. There!
/ Don't mess your face up with that kind
/ OF look. | want 10 bring up Count Won
= Stulz and introduce him. / have no doubt
/ he knows more about women's clothes
/ than l do. and don't want him to find
nothing In you to admire except that pref
/ ~ girls good taste in your gown"
The next morning Borden was tooling
/ ms tandem through the park when he
saw the pretty girl sitting on a bench
/ with a middle-aged sweet-faced lady by
/ her side. She caught his eye and he doffed
/ MS nat wiep quiet but pronounced cOuy-
] tesy. She returned the salutation by
slight bend OF her head and then careless
/ ly turned her eyes away.
"Sne Is a proud girl, whatever else she
IS, thought Borden He liked her the
/ better Tor it. Just then the leader got a
tfiiIe fractions dE3 demanded his atten-
/ ton. He did not drive very far I'D the
road and came back through the same
+ part OF the park, where he had seen the
F two women. They were not there, but as
/ he was driving out he saw them walking
slowly along the path, the elder woman
leaning on the arm Of the other
/ As his gaze was fixed on them and he
was commenting favorably on the nretty
girls figure and the grace with which she
] paV I'd h.
/ falter, Her daughter helped her 10 a
seat and anxiously regarded her. She
i had quite the air of being about to faint
Here, Benton" said Borden sharply to
his man Get up here and take the trap
home. want TO get down. I'll walk
back"
He dismounted and strobe rapidly along
the walk till ne reached the seat where
the two women were sitting. The elder
one was very pale ard had a fragile look
He approached them and said in his
honest, hearty way: Your mother seems
10 be Ill. ! hope il is nothing serious. Can
/ be of any assistance?"
The dark eyes darted a glance at the
strappng young fellow who had halted
in front of them, and the most subtle
shade of annoyance swept over the young
wOman's face. But his words were so
sincerely respectful and earnest that
there was no installing his course for
anything but a very cordial act of good
nature.
Thanks she said, with her contained
air MY mother felt little faint. / am
afraid she overtaxed herself. 1t will prob
ably pass in a few moments. Pray do not
trouble yourself about it,"
but if your mother Las far to go, had
you not better take a cab?' he asked,
with the same pleasantly deferential man
ner. one ii was impossible for a thor
oughbred woman not TO appreciate
"Shan't 1 call one for you?"
The girl hesitated. The thought had al
ready occurred TO her own mind whether
it would do to let her mother try to walk
to the Sixth avenue car when she had
already so miscalculated her strength
There was no doubt about the cab as a
desirable thing. The fare was the re-
straining consideration. 1t was such
matter of course for this young swell to
think of cab, and it was such a serious
thing TO her. However, she replied af-
ter moments quick reflection:
Thanks. | think il may be better If
You will be kind enough to get us one"
Borden imperiOusly raised his hand to
The driver of a hanson and helped the
! mother into ii with the greatest care
The young girl hardly availed herself of
! the extended hand to spring in after her
Where shall 1 tell him TO go?" he
asked
e. East Nineteenth street." replied the
= young woman.
He dotted his hat, and as he stepped
back TO give the "eabby'. the address ne
slipped the fare into his hand.
q They talk about Glasses he ,,o,,t
tered 10 himself. as the cab rolled down
the road. No girl could hold herself
] better than that one, and-she makes
} dresses for Sally"
5 The next day Borden received a short
note in a firm, charactered handwriting
quite unfamiliar to him, with a 81 bill in
D closed:
Thank YOU for your kindness about the cab II
was very thoughtful in you to spare me the trouble
Of paying the driver then.
MARGARET SWIFT.
"By Jover' said Borden. as ne thrust
the bill into his pocket "How she got
! out of that! This is no common dress
, maker"
Once or twice during the day when he
found his mind running on the pretty
A., girl" he had smiled TO himself at being so
=. engrossed with her. He had asked his
sister that morning II she had paid for
the extra trouble with the gown. Not
yet" she had answered snubbily. and
then suggested that he should pay his
: own bnls and let her pay hers. 81 don't
know that / shall give her anything. Her
prices are pretty good for a common
dressmaker, and / shall give her enough
work to do 10 make it pay for her 10 be
: careful"
ne got the Disguised conviction that
t-Ia 10 he
trouble. That afternoon he found him
self heading for East Nineteenth
| street The Swifts, on the fourth floor
. front, and Bord\n was pleased with the
: coy, sunny, and refined feeling of their
apartment IL confirmed MIN in his idea
| OF Miss swift
Il thought | would call and see how
your mother was to-day" he said cheer
fully.
MY mother Is much better to-day"
, replied Miss Swift, with some GOODNESS.