Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-10-03
Glorianna closed the door gently

the door of the cellar. This saw
that she had already unbolted; she
began to descend the stairs.
Come back, Glorianna," said T.,
come back" in as loud n whisper
as dared give voice to. "You know
L told her that no one should enter
her room but myself, and going into
the cellar was very particular part
OF the promise. Come up, do you
hear? Come up!"
"You wait" she replied. "Ye don't
deserve no garden angel, but We gut
to hev one all the same. Whut dive
think O. thet?" She reached out to
a beam which supported the flooring
and unlocked something from it.
"There!" she exclaimed. "Wnz We
took in, or wuzn't YEP"
My eyes fell upon coat, waistcoat
and trousers; indeed, there were two
pairs, one made as knee breeches,
and the other pair the long cover
ings of young man of fashion.
AN I'll bet yell find the counter
pats of 'em in them boory draws"
said Glorianna.
Perhaps it's a bicycle suit" said
I. "She may like to ride so in the
evening. They tell me that in Paris
the women look almost like men. I
know she's lived abroad" / stopped
short. This knowledge l had gained
from the letters; l must not divulge
it too soon.
can whut say to this?" and Glori-
anna began to remove from the coat
pockets some cigarette stumps, and
those little books that L have seen
young men take out and tear up to
roll their tobacco in.
well, it's all the same thing. She
acknowledged that she smoked. I
spoke to her about it. Many women
do it. It's considered rather
stylish accomplishment, I believe.
She may smoke and wear boys
clothes to ride in, and still be a
young woman. Don't you think so,
Glory?" q
asked Glorianna, ignoring my humble
plea. She had pulled letter from
one of the pockets, and was holding
it to the light.
Dear JIM" she began. "'Isn't
it about time we got on to some
thin'?'"
stop! Glorianna," said I, ssthis
is really too much! She could have
you arrested for that
"Oh Lordy!" said Glorianna as she
dropped the letter and skipped up
the remaining steps.
"Now go right back" said l, land
place those things exactly as you
found them. She told me about her
brother Jim, and about his being
plead. These are evidently his
clothes, and we have been laying
bare her dearest secrets. Come!
Hang them up quickly, and come out
of the CELLAR
"9es'm," said Glorianna Towner,
meekly.
"Now don't ever let me hear of
your going into that cellar again
through this room," said 1, en-
boldened by the change of front.
"No'm," said Glorianna. 81 wun't,
fer I'm a-goin' home this noon"
Thus was my soul torn with con-
slant warnings from GIorianna, with
constant anNieties about money mat
tiers, and, l must say, with constant
suspicious about my lower-front
1t was dreadfully wearing. and 1 was
relieved in mind when Aunt Jane
Mary began to thump. Glorianna
did not go at noon, nor for many
Moons after that. l think now that
she was quite conscious when she
was well off, but at the time 1 feared
her departure with every day that
dawned, and L was in dreadful bond
age to her, to Baldwin Towner
through her, to my lowerfront, and
not the least to Aunt Jane Mary.
My lower-back did not worry me at
all, and my upper-back, DR.. Wynne,
was delight and JOY. His cough
began to desert him now, and he
grew steadily better Marmaduke
Smith came out to see him every day
or two, and they often walked in the
flower garden ,of an afternoon, or
sat in the arbor conversing in low
tones. He said it was about the col
lege taking his volumes on "The
Lost Tribes" as textbook. l knew
that President Smith would help him
out if he could. He said that if
that were settled he would go on to
Washington at once, but that Mar
maduke must apply to the trustees,
and that couldn't be until the next
Monday.
Sometimes they came in and sat
on the piazza as the sun was set
ting, and their talk was always of
books and the higher education, un.
til l really got rather tired of hav
Ing SO much learning about me
Sometimes it happened that Miss
Dacres would come home while they
were sitting there. She never seemed
to like it, and usually she rode on
and came back when President Smith
had left and DR.. Wynne had gone up
stairs. If they were still there when
she came past the second time, she
would go on again, or else stand her
wheel against the tree, open the
gate, and walk swiftly round the
house, ] told her once that it
wouldn't do any harm to be intro
duced to two of the most learned
men of modern times, but she al
ways replied that she had come fol-
rest, and not for education, and she
meant to get it if possible. Why