The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-10
MISS BEECHER'S
 JOURNEY TO CAMP

made q large number of photographs
 If Miss Beecher had fad 1t was thu
 adornment of her own stylish person
 especially with jewels, of which she haC
 a rare collection.
 The two cousins did not find them
 selves very congenial and Maud soor
 tired of wheeling through the historic
 parts of Massachusetts in search of thu
 most tumbledown houses there. Sht
 got on better with Tom Holland ant
 often begged him to take her wheeling with the other fellows" Tom wa
 seventeen and he found his cousin very
 amusing.
 At last Tom and the other fellows
 went to the Maine woods for hunting
 trip. Mrs. Holland and the younger
 children left for their seaside home, anc
 Maud and Teresa were left alone in the
 great city house. Teresa had almost
 finished an article on historic housas
 and Maud generously offered to remain
 with her till it was completed.
 She repented her rash offer as the hot summer days came on but Teresa pro
 tested that it was cooler ill the library of the big city house than on the piazza of the beach house, where the glarins sand reflected in one's face, or Tn the Maine woods, where mosquitoes and black flies made life miserable.
 When Teresa announced that she had decided to write an article on photo graphic art studies before going away Maud walked out of the room without a word.
 Teresa was surprised an hour later when Maud appeared with her travel | ing bag in her hand She wore cov- ert cloth skirt and a silk shirt waist. She had fastened costly diamond pin in her hair, and another in her breast, to hold in her watch with it's jewe!ed pendant On her fingers were many rare gems.
 Well" exclaimed Teresa, where now?"
 ITO the Maine woods, to see Tom" Maud replied gayly. Teresa dropped her pen in dismay.
 Going to see Tom" she ejaculated and wearing all those jewels. Really Maud, I shall have to telegraph mann ma if you insist on this wild prank Come, I will give up this article and go with you to the beach if you wish. thought you were quite contented."
 No, Teresa, I will not let you sacri- flee your precious article. l am quite determined to go fishing with the boys. Don't be goose. Teresa, let me go. Mrs. Burridge is up there cooking for the boys. I shall be ehaperoned all right. It's not worse than wheeling with them all over Massachusetts,
 Teresa gave 1t up and went back to her article after renarking that at least Maud ought to have sense enough to take off her jewelry if she didn't want to get robbed.
 Maud protested that it was safer on her person than anywhere else and that she had a chamois bag around her neck with all her stones in it. Then she started off down the street and Teresa soon forgot all about her, remaining ab- sorbed in her work till the dinner bell rang. Then she remembered with a pang that her cousin had done very uncircumspect thing and felt bound to write Mrs. Holland about it.
 Maud enjoyed her journey immensely and was not at all alarmed to find she must spend the night in Portland and leave at an unreasonable hour In the morning. She accomplished all her ar engagements without difficulty and was treated with respectful courtesy by all the railroad and hotel officials.
 As the train bowled along north- ward in the early morning she was congratulating herself and thinking with scorn of timid young maidens who never travelled alone, when she became conscious of a pair of eyes riveted on her face. Wheeling in her chair she them They were gray, eyes, and they did not drop before hers, but their owner smiled boldly.
 She turned quickly away and buried herself in newspaper. The eyes still her and she ventured to turn toward them again and pretended to fall asleep. thus gaining an opportunity to study the offender through half-shut eyes He was a well dressed man, though Mauds mental comment was that he was cheap"
 Probably wants to flirt,' she thought angrily. Well, I'm not that kind, and she einvoluntarily tossed her head. Again the man smiled
 Just then an older man with a hard face joined him. and both began to talk earnestly, frequently across at Maud as though she were the subject of their talk At last she could endure it no longer and beck oned to the conductor.
 Those men pointing directly at harr, 'inra nrlD1yOo ma very n1nph by their boldness.'
 q am very sorry" returned the polite conductor \ will see that it does not happen again" And he moved toward the young man.
 The elder man arose as the conductor crossed the car and engaged him in which Maud could not hear, but the conductor glanced back at her several times, and she knew there was some mystery. She would have aloud could she have heard | what the cool stranger was saying about her.
 'The young lady is my niece" he l said, and this young mans sister. She | las been insane for some months, | .hough quite harmless and quiet. At ! asst her mind became so deranged that | we decided to take her to quiet little i amp in the woods. Her mother IS here already waiting for her She ikes to fancy herself travelling alone, { 10 we humored her by getting seats l yer here and letting her pay for her 1 eat. IL is one of her fancies to pro , end not to know us. Her brother has