The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-12-04

Pm glad you've come! I heard
one of the children crying, and I'd
gone up just for a moment, thinking
should be sure to hear if you came
in
Yes, cherub. here we are safe and
sound. Eleanor, Silas, Hal, this is
Jour aunt Emma
How d'y do, my dears? I'm very
glad to see you,'' said Mrs Stagg.
kissing Eleanor on the cheek, and
seaming kindly on the boys, who. be-
tween the butler, the electric lights,
the spacious hall and this new splen-
did relative stood confounded- You
must be tired out, and Wen go right
in to supper
What do you suppose, Emma, L
caught this young woman doing just
now? Beautifying herself in the
glass. It's New York air I wager
that within a week she'll have been
inside Of every dressmakerss and
Tnilliner's shop in the city Where
upon Harold Stage laughed g1eefu1Iy-
Il imagine you have discovered by
his time that your uncle's sad
tease said Emma, who was leading
the way, having already. in single
glance, the capability of which poor
eleanor realized, comprehended the
primitiveness of her niece's ideas on
Clothes. She reflected that had Har
old been a malicious man he could not
have thought of anything more in
| poor child's toilet, to say nothing of
| the fact that Eleanor was, and must
remain for the present, in deep black.
| Such lack of perception on the part
/ of her better-half prompted her to
turn and link her arm sympathetica1ly
/ m the young girls, while Harold, to
| whom it had suddenly occurred that
| his allusion to millinery was the re-
| verse of well-timed, followed behind,
| ondeavoring to conceal his self-con-
=
| shaggy heads of his two nephews, and
| trolling a bluff glee the burden of
| which was that his heart was true to
I Poll.
An hour later. the Baldwins were
| comfortably ensconced in the blue
| suite, and Emma was hearing from
| the lips of her husband an account of
| the journey Although she had
mapped out in her mind a probable
programme, she had waited to see the
children, before giving her imagina-
| ton full swing; but now that they
| appeared to be very much what she
had hoped, all sorts of thoughts were
churning in her brain regarding their
adaptation to her household and the
proper eNertions to be made in their
behalf. The boys were of just the
right age for Mr.. Sampson, as she
had expected, and in the autumn
after a summer by the seaside, they
could be packed off with brand-neW
| outfits, and she be saved from further
| responsibility, except in vacation
time, for several years to come. AS te
Eleanor, she was agreeab1y disap
pointed To be sure, Harold had writ
ten that she was a quiet, unobjection
able sort of girl, but she had not beer
able to dismiss from her mind
haunting idea of snowy, s1angy
young person with gushing manners
and mourning bedizened with jet, un
til the real niece stood before her
Emma congratulated herself that she
would have very plain sailing; Flea
nor was dowdy, unsophisticated anc
retiring, but a single season in soci
ETY. would work the necesSar,
changes. She was rather pretty now
and she would be very fetching, in
deed, when she learned to hold her
self properly and to dress her hal
, with some regard to what was becom
. ing How preferable to have to dea
with unobjectionab1e child VIII.
, had preconceived ideas, than will
a bumptious coquette whose bad man
ners were already formed.
Go be cOntinued-l