The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-08

WHEN OUNCE PEARL came
IA north to visit her cousins, the
W Pelham Potters, she was p years
old and i'm black for an uncle. Besides
having rwo-nnty in her own right she
was a sfnguI7rly winning little girl,
with big violet blue eyes and the sweet
est manners III the world.
T6e Pelham POrteTs made much of
her. and she would nave been quite
sDoi!ed with social petting from all of
their very smart friends had she not
treated her mourning with a certain
oId-fashiOned respect. Eunice's grief
was mitigated by the fact that the
uncle. whom she had rarely seen, had.
for "a sentiments sake. left her his for
tune, and when the end of the season
came and she ordered fresh sartorial
tokens of woe for the summer. JO-
sephiue Potter demonstrated.
Its most unusual my dear child 8"
she said. nowadays the very best
people bolt out of black the first
chance they get. to say nothing of
going every place while they are i'm it,.
STILL she added, reflective y, its very
effective on you The only pity is that
you won't go whore you VIII be seen %
This is where the story really be-
gins and It EuniCe had not still been
wearing soft IN urning things in June.
when Barclay Bronson gave his mem
CTH1ia mousse party, ii is doubtful
whether here would ever have been
any story at all.
Bronson had built down on Long
Island, and starting off with a. house
warming that the ennuied HemphuTst
SET sun recall with enthusiasm. he was
CI+Uchl1g his Teputa ton as a royal host
by asking the most agraeabIv made up
little parties down for the week end.
Men liked Bronson for a dozen big
qualities, and there was a certain at
tractveuess about him that no woman
under 81 could resist
This may explain the Wailing and
crashing Of teeth which reignet under
The rOOf-tree of the Pelham POtters
when at the very last moment Mrs
Hal Smith, who was to chaperOn the
girls for three DAYS at The Mount"
which was the name of Bronson $
country place slipped and sprained her
ankle.
And the riding and everything"
moaned Natalie. who was a bit of a
baby, IF we could only make a
cnaperon."
Here Louise who had been gazing
with an expression of disgust at the
boxes which stood strapped and wait
ing in the hall, suddenly sDrang TO her
feet with an all-Is-not-Iost CLEAN in
her eye Il have it, she cried. Eve
VIII make one Eunice must chaperon
us
EuHice looked up from her book and
uImpIed at Cousin LOUIS joke. Why.
she had not even thought of going in
the first place.
Is that the best you can do?"
asked Josephine. with sepulchral sar-
cdsm, "EUnice isn't married -
No, but she is in mourning, which
is the next best thing to it," replied
the younger sister eXcitedly. that is
mean-why could not Eunice go as
a widow"
The calm. beautiful nerve of this
proposition had a bOmb-Iike effect upon
the three Nobody spoke
1T would be tine easiest thing in sEe
world, the insane Louise went on
with convincing assurance: "Eunice
mas gone GU so little that neither
Barclay nor any of the men have met
her What could be more natural
than mat we should ask young.
WIDOWED cousin staying with US to
leip MS out in an emergency? I.orrv
IS there now, and he IS the real
chaPefGn after all. Euni,e would do