Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-06-19
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YFEY0I glass at her window. The
C&J window gave upon a back.
ground OF serrated mountain and olive
shadoWed canyon, with faint addi-
tlonal outline Of a higher snow level,
the only dreamy suggestion of the
Whole landscape. The foreground was
a glarlngly fresh and unpicturesuue
mining town, whose irregular attempts
at regularity We're set forth with all the
cruel uncompromising clearness of the
california atmosphere. There was the
straight Main street, with it's new brick
block of "stores," ending abruptly
against a tangled bluff; there was the
ruthless clearing in the sedate pines
where the hideous spire Of the new
church initiated the soaring of the SOL
emn shafts it had displaced with al
most irreligious mockery. Yet this fore
ground was Cissy's world-her life, her
sole girlish experience. She did not
however, bother her pretty head with
the view just then, but moved aner
cheek up and down before the glass
the better to examine by the merciless
glare of the sunlight few freckles
that starred the hollows of her tenn
pies. Like others of her sex, she was
poor critic of what was her real beauty
hnd quarreled with that peculiar tex
ture OF her healthy skin which made
her face as eloquent in her sun kissed
cheek as in her bright eyes and express
sion. Nevertheless she was somewhat
consoled by the ravishing effect Of the
bowknot she had just tied and turned
away not wholly dissatisfied. Indeed
as the acknowledged belle Of Canada
City and the daughter of it's principal
banker small wonder that q certain
frank vanity and childlike imperious-
ness were among her faults and her at
fractions.
She bounded down the stairs and into
the front parlor, for their house pos
sessed the unheard of luxury of dou-
BILE drawing room, albeit the second
apartment contained desk and was
occasionally used by Cissy's father in
private business interviews with anx-
1ous seekers Of advances" who shun-
ned the publicity of the bank. Here
bosom friend, Miss Piney Tibbs, girl
only a shade or two less pretty than
herself, who, always more or less i'll at
ease in these splendors, was awaiting
her impatiently. For Miss Tibbs was
merely the daughter of the hotel keep
er, and, although Tibbs was a south
erner and had owned "his own Mig
n hn fofa h0 of INF
position and a protegee of Cissy's.
''Thank goodness you've GOMEZ ex-
claimed Miss Tibbs, ''for I've bin sittin
here till I nigh took root. What KEEP
yep
"How does it look?" responded Cissy
as a relevant reply.
The lit" referred to Cissy's new hat,
and to the young girl the conference
was perfectly plain. Miss Tibbs looked
at ut" severely. 1t would not do for a
protegee to be too complaisant.
"Hem! Must have cost heap O.
money"
1T did," said Cissy. "Came from the
best milliner in San Francisco"
'"Of course" said Piney, with half
assumed envy, when your pepper runs
the bank and just wallows in gold!'
"Never mind, DEAR" said Cissy cheer
fully. "So'll your pepper some day.
I'm going to get mine to let your pepper
into something-ditch stocks and such.
Yes! True, 0 king! Popper'll do any
thing for me" she added little loftily.
Loyal as Piney was to her friend,
she was by no means convinced of
this. She knew the difference between
the two men and had a vivid recollec-
ton of hearing her own father express
his opinion of Cissy's respected parent
as "gold shark" and ''quartz miner
crusher." 1t did not, however, affect
her friendship for Cissy. She only said,
'Let's conner caught Cissy around the
waist, pranced with her out into the
veranda and gasped, out of breath,
"Where are we going frst?
"Down Main street." said Cissy
promptly.
"And let us stop at Markham's store.
They've got some new things in from
Sacramento" said Piney.
Country Styles" returned Cissy,
with a supercilious air. "No. Besides
Markham's head clerk is getting too
presumptuous. Just guess! He asked
me, while I was buying something,
if enjoyed the dance last Monday
"But you danced with him." said the
simple Piney in establishment.
'But not in his store among his GUS
TONER'S" said Cissy sapiently. ''No.
We're going down Main street past
secamp's. Those Scamp girls are sure
to be at their windows looking out.
This hat will just turn 'em green
greener than ever"
you're just horrid, Cissw said Pi-
ney, with admiration.
"And then," continued Cissy, well
just sail down past the new block to
the parsons and make call"
ooh, see," said Piney archly. 'It'll
be just about the time when the new
engineer of the mill works has a clean
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