New-York tribune., 1901-09-22
HIS FRIEND WALLER.
From The Tatler.

GU are to come up tomorrow by the 3 -
train, wrote DollIe's married sister and dine
Win Us and stay the night. for We are going 10
% theatre, and We viii take no excuses
Alul!i5Ie can spare you, and you have got
frock The little white silk which you wore at
my wedding VII! do perfectly well. and / can
LEND you cloak and anything else that YOU
want ana We are not going TO dine at home
because Mr. Chlsholm is coming. and cook is i'll
but at the Cecil. which viii be great fun 50 Just
buck up and get ready
The Cecil?" queried Doie neditatively
That's hotel, isn't il Numsie? How heaV.
enly TO dine al q hoteI,'
Dollie sat breakfast with her mother while
she read this letter aloud. and the French Win
dow stood wide open upon the garden. and just
at the end of the garden was the sea; this
morning a serene sea Of greeny blue with
wonderful violet streaks. \ turquoise blue sky
above il paled gradually as it approached the
sea line until it melted into the exquisite color
less color of a pearl.
4 have never dined at hotel" said DoIlie's
mother, except at a railway hotel when trav-
eiIng with your father but II seems 10 DE the
fashion in these days. 1t seems to be the ex-
ception when Kitty and Hugh dine at home"
But then poor kittys cook IS always Ill,
said Dollie. burying her nice little nose in the
great bunch of lilac which raised pinkish
scented. green-leaved clusters in the centre of
the breakfast table. she is always i'll else
her aunt is dying OF 'harmoniums' at 'Berrysin
Tedmunds.' her sister has met with 'hacci-
den in Ollerway.' Poor Kitty is very unlucky.
on, Mumsie. do you think my white frock will
really do. and 10 what theatre do you suppose
Hugh VIII take u.s."
7 wonder who this Mr.. Chisholm is said
Dollie's mother Kitty writes as though NE
knew all about him
But Dollie absorbed in anticipaticns and prep
aratons. could not pretend to take any interest
in a strange man
Some friend of Hughs I suppose" she con-
Jectured vaguely, ana thought no more on the
subject.
Sure you don't mind my going. Mumsie?" she
asked anxiously next day she and her mother
walked TO the station together. Her box. with
the white silk dress carefully packed in il. had
gone by the omnibus, which rumblins
round the little town picking UP scattered pas
sengers and luggage. II was far pleasanter -
walk, taking the short cut across the fields
May-deep with buttercupS and daisies. Be
cause I'll stay even now if you mind the tiniest
weeniest bit, and we'll just wire Kitty from
the station TO say So
You're a conceited monkey" answered
DoilleSs mother DO you really imagine that / 7
can't exist four and twenty hours without you?
Besides you've got to notice everything you see
and remember all You hear TO amuse me with
when you come back
IN just keep my eyes and ears open the
whole time cried DOe. and then she and her
mother kissed each other with rapture. although
with some difficulty, on account of the wide
brims Of their pretty hats. However, there was
no one in the field to see them except the hur-
rledIy munching sheep, who never raised their
heads. and the already not very young nor
very playful lambs. for lambs attain their a
1orlly before babies are out of long clothes.
Notice what the savOry is like cried Dol
lies mother, the train moved out of the sta
tiOn, for / want recipes"
And Oh. heavens Dollie called back her
Il forgot 10 give Dick fresh water. DO it.
like dear. the moment you get in"
There some other ladies in the carriage
who looked up with thin disapproval at
conventional railway parting. Where We're
the Now you'll be sure to write and Don't
forget give my love Emily"
But Dolie had no idea that she had done any
thing a.niss, and she returned the gaze of her
fellow travellers with the utmost friendliness
and interest.
Everything was intensely interesting to her
because she was only eighteen, and had not
taken more than dozen short railway journeys
in her life before.
Each Of the three other ladies in the carriage
became though they little suspected il. per
sonage Of absorbing interest to Dollie, who
cOvertly studying each in turn from under
long lashes, could have given a perfectly ac-
cUrate description Of the appearance, could have
enumerated every detail in the dress OF each at
the journeys end She likewise fitted each of
the ladies' with purely imaginary and highly
sensational history which amused her for long
time.
delighted in the green spring landscape reeling
past She noticed a most enchanting copse of
young ash trees, with yet never a leaf upon
their bare branches, but lifting their slender
trunks out of carpet Of blue. carpet COM
posed Of wild hyacinths growing so closely to-
tether to make the earth look blue as the sea
or the sky. And she made her choice of the
snug little farmstead tucked away between
trees. where she and Mumsie would 60 when
they should have let their house for July and
August to pass the lovely summer days
And now after a of two hours. the clean,
sweet green country began to be SCARED witt
lines Of mean little brick houses. and finally
nothing was left Of il but stray !aburnum bush
or so in a back garden or ragged, discOnsolate
looking field which had lost its way among acres
of ugly brick. Then even these dying memen-