Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-10-12

~N%w. mother. let's make = hsrgofu.
sonor bright IL 4 undertake ~ cure
Nell with heroic treatment. viii you
nd. sbct and encourage my ncfarious
schenacs9 Ton needn't do much; just ;
stand by me. For instance. i didn't 1
tell her. but have received word that l
the Ellis boys viii ges hero late to-
night instead OF tomorrow afternoon.
I want 10 smuvvle them in 50 that
Nell won't know they are here viii
you help neS~
Mrs. Howard looked AZ him serious
". tom. 1 do not wish You to dc
ANYTHING 20 iuniliate Nellie. AZ least
unnecessarily. still. 1 think you are
right. Ii hurts me 10 think ~ caus-
ing her pain. but do think II WIT ce
the best thing for her. I have tried 20
speak with her gently. hut I know she
merely thought I was carping and un-
/ Kind and that we do not quite under
stand her. She does not realize how
careless she has grown Now be care
( ful. Tom
~An right said Tom. chec-fully,
and he was OF like whirlwind.
Nellie was not quite So late as Us
nal 90 breakfast on saturday morn
ing perhaps because she was expect
ing Jean FairlaN. and had awakened
with more lively interest in her
+ everyday Irs. Hex hair vas a trihe
r,ckless and She wore the short. pink
drcssinr-sack rs she came into the
dininr-room. At the door she started
4 ruiitilv. and wave 81 warmer pink
swept over her face and neck and
tinCled in The very edges OF her hair.
Two strange young men sat az the
table. laughing and chatting with her
, father and mother and Tom. They
were tail-Nclic particularly admired
tau rucn-uue 81 them slim. with
riaSseS and shrevd. twinkling eyes
behind thcm. and the other broad
and heavy. with a head Of hair which
proclaimed him 80 he none other than
-Gilly~ Ellis. Toms football hero.
Tom looked MP innocently as Nen
90 crucl necessity. came forward and
, { took her place. giving an apprehen
4 sirc twitch 10 her spreading drapcrie'
and wishing fervently that she wcr'
50 TIE north pole. with that wretchel
: Tom and his friends at the south polo
. Tom apparently WAS utterly Oblivion
. / that anything was wrong. ard cheer
fully introduced his friends with M
/ / explanatory. They came last night
, YOU know.
Nellie s1t through her kfas
! En- a far from happy frame Of mino
Torn was horrid not 20 ten her, an'
s. she hated that drcssinc-saCk Tn
Ellis boys were nice. though. and So
o. Frightened and tried 20 talk. but q
some way Tom kept the conver~ario
= going so rapidly. only including hi
/, parents. that she found 81 difficult 2
say anything. Billy Ellis though
Toms sister ~joliy pretty only h
: / didn't care for shat loose thing Sd
= wore. and he wondered why she wa
Z. 80 Quiet HiS brother Preston watche
! her reficctlvely from behind hi
y glasses. and concluded that there W.
= some electricity ia the domestic a
!. mosphere. and that Tom WAS pro-
~ ably the cause OF g.
i Breakfast had never been SO Tor
,r 20 Nell. and o. soon afterward
r 1 she could End her brother alone. 81
r. cornered him Indignantly.
RI Tom Howard. I think il was pc
- I fectlv horrid 81 you, WHY didn't y,
y. tel me. instead OF letting me con
=. down 10 breakfast looking like this
There we're volume OF scorn in Il
tone in which she Designated her e
~ er.l nnrsarance. Tom looked "a n
m IN injured surprise
b. That Why. I thought you liS
- e. although ] must say don't TN
- much 81 81 myself Of course ! cor
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