Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-09-03
By CHARLES GARvIcB


and peeping out.
| Emmeline laughed.
How delighted papa would be,
! The thought of these two dresses has
made him miserable for the last four
days. Nobody about the place will
get civil word for the next month,
and ten TO one Jane will give notice.
What a charming affair life Is for US
all, | don't know hich is worse, be
+ ing the daughter of retired officer
/ with a small income and an enlarged
/ liver, and two daughters On his hands,
who, like the pistols in amateur
theatricals, persistently decline to go
or"
! Julia jerked the curtains as close as
imitation tapestry, at twenty-nine and
six, could be expected to go across a
window twice too large for them, and
/ began to collect the litter
Better tidy the room up" she said
complalninely. He will be here di-
rectly. and there will be a scene.
wonder where Joan is. She might do
! this"
Emmeline shrugged her shoulders.
II don't know where she is; wan
dering about the huts on the beach,
shouldn't wonder. She generally is
at this time in the evening"
"In weather like this" remarked
Julia. CONTEMPORARY.
The weather makes no difference
to her. | believe she rather prefers
wind and rain. She is always out of
the way when she is wanted Now.
If she were here we might ask her;
Joan has some sort of taste"
The taste of savage" sneered Miss
Oliver.
Emmelne yawned and drummed
on the table
II don't know" she said, slowly and
reluctantly; "she always manages to
| look nice, though how she does it"
and she stopped short and shrugged
her soulders.
She looks what she is--half Wild"
said Miss Oliver. Poor papa! He
has some reason to complain; two
daughters of your own are not enough,
without one of somebody else's."
Emmeline yawned again, then
! laughed.
Joan doesn't cost him much, Jue
She saves him the price of a servant.
and gives him the opportunity to
/ figure as a benevolent guardian.
don't suppose he spends upon her more
than the hundred a year she has got!
All the same, / wish her father had
been considerate enough to make her
/ somebody elses ward! Three unmar.
ried girls are two too many for one
| house"
Julia REDEEMED angrily-her younger
| sister could always succeed in
'hoisting her flag" as Emmeline
called it-and, snatching up bundle,
was starting with offended dignity, to
the door, when IL opened almost upon
her nose, and a young girl entered.
She had come from the darkness
Outside, and stopped for a moment to
shield her eyes from the light land as
she stood. straight as an arrow. with
her small. shapeiy hand before her
face, she looked like vision of youth
and grace. dismayed by the ugliness OF
her surroundings,
Standing there, she presented cen
trast to the other two girls which
was marked and conspicuous.
The two Miss divers were thin and
padded" with carefully made-up
faces and artfully arranged hair: their
clothes. of the aesthetic style, fitted
them to perfection and yet lacked
that nameless grace which ig all i'm
portant.
The girl who faced them was slight
ly but 1.-the and graceful as
young savage, with the undulating
lines which promised even greater
things when girlhood should ripen in.
to womanhood.
Her face was perfect oval, with
the clear complexion of a true bru.
nette, She was dressed in a plain
brown merino. which had by long
service grown 50 familiar with her
figure as to cling to it lovingly: as her
NA''S iANNNNtANh against the Nuln
October evening. she had thrown on
"a rough cloak with hood. which she
had turned carelessly over her head
and which served as an outer frams
, for the beautiful face framed inwardly
by the mass of dark golden.brown
I hair.
/ Her eyes were clear gray. soft yet
brilliant with light, and emphasized
hrows Of dark brown which lent
serious expression to the lovely eyes
/ beneath.
+ The two girls looked at her with
that half'concealed expression of
envy with which plain. ill-natured wo.
men regard the wellfavored of thel
sex.
Where on earth have you been
Joan?' demanded Julia, querulousy
eve have been waiting for YOU thu.
half hour and more"
~" said Joan. and her voice
chimed in upon the hard. unsympa,
thetic tone of Miss oliver like a strain
of music after a discord; Il have been
On tho cliffs