Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1902-12-06
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CINDERELLA :
By fugenle UhIrlCh ;
Copyright. 1901. by Eu0cnte Uhlrfch 4
Copyright. 1901. bg Eu0enfe Uhlrich

You don't mind do you? You are
always so Jolly and chummy."
She smiled little deprecatingly.
There were times when somehow she
wished Hethcrington did not find her
so Jolly and chUmmy. though these
times had nothing to do with the brier
wood pipe The comfortable house IVES
hers in effect. and she. the friendless
and kinless kindergartncr. must of
course have felt it good fortune to be
saved the lot of the boarding house and
given the companOnship of pleasant
and well set up people. All the other
young women she knew told her over
aud over again and reminded her that
she ought to he grateful for her mer-
ricS
1t is true that if Mrs Hetherington' 8
gone. to live in distant city and her
youngest had not died she perhaps
would not have felt the need of a girl
ish presence in the house enough to
take in Winfrcd
Winifrcd watched Hugh llcthrring-
ton lift his fine length and move across
the room after II light for his pipe. AS
tlir match fare hickcred on his clean
features; she thought. rs any woman
must have what Il handsome fellow he
waS But Winnie thought also that if
her own mouth had not been so big. her
tendency to frcckle so hopeless and the
tint of her hair SO uncOImprOmisingly
red Mrs. IIctheringtOn might not have
liked lrcr quite so well. Moreover. she
looked bit older than Hugh. too.
though she had carefully figured out
that she. in fact. waS II year younger.
But. then. Ilugh's childhood had
passed in the flush of pleasure and the
sunshine of affection. and hrrS!- She
was too humble to be sorry for herself
and too wise not to see in the worst
that had ever happened her the posi-
blitirS of still worse and thus be
thankful for the Providence that had
kept her in its hand,
But yet this evening she thought
NOR" sharply than usual of another
girls Synml, try. her GOWNS her ac-
colnpliShn"ntS. her opportunities. all
the things that are dear to the heart
of woman And why not: Venus her
self waS not Irresistible until she put
on ihr ri"ht girdlc. Hugh had asked
her to E"ip in comparing some lists,
and Sh" knew very we'll that every
minute of help she gave him this even
ing was an extra minute for the other
g'rl
She bent her head over the papers
before her for the things she was
thinking must steal into her face in
spite of herself.
Are yor very tircd!' said lIcthrr'
ington kindly. but yet altogether i'm
personally Sh" raised her head and
smiled What WAS the use: Ii ii were
not this misery. it would he something
else Cor waf such as she. "Oh. not
at all" she said.
IL do not believe there is another
girl who would be as patient as You
are with all my tirrSomr stuff and
with me too. Even mothers endurance
gives out once in Il while. and she
scoldS about my den. Ii it weren't for
you. | don't know what would happen,
over these lists with you now. and then
I'm off for the Kendrick reception.
Gertrude Stevenson will be there he
said, IL happy little smile playing about
his lips Seems to me she is getting
more beautiful every day. Don't you
think so:''
Hethrrinyton did not even look at
hnr hi Ia inIpnI H.
sisting on being even chtmmier than
usual this evening. and Winifred bent
her head close over the papers once
more
"Of course" IletherinGtOn went on.
"Gcrtruhc is popular, very. SillinEton
has Il mint of money, too. but | don't
think she's the kind of girl who would
stOop to anything like that"
Winifrcd had to listen to that and
much more in snatchrs and mono
logurs. and she was glad when at last
Hethcrington left. There are times
when it is sngularly harder to he
"chummy" than at others.
The next morning llctheringtOn had
gone when she came to breakfast,
ulOSt i'i hiih. III
the evening he did not ask her help.
fIe talked very little and Mrs. IIcther-
ington later said To her husband, Can
1t he that Hugh is not well!''
IlrI husband looked up retrospective
iy over his glasses,
"Mayb" he's in love. Maybe he has
proposed to some girl. and she's turned
him down. Every young fellow has tO
have lesson or two. Ii won't hurt
bm. suppose"
"Oh. how can you talk so: am sure
Hugh would not propose to girl with
out talking to me about II first"
Whereupon Mr.. IIetherin"ton senior
smiled behind his paper and went on
reading. = long and comparatively Sc
rene matrimonial voyage had taught
him that arguments only fill the sails
with head winds.
Winifrcd herself neither questioned
nor seemed to take heed of Hugh's
moods. After several evenings he came
down and asked her once more to come
and help him.
"What do you think, Winifred," he
said abruptly after awhile. "ought to bs
the test OF love?"
81 should think II some one loves you
all the time. whether you are fresh oil
tired. pleasant or not pleasant. success
ful or NOT"