The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-22

written book"
Then she wrote to another uncle as
follows:
Dear Uncle Joe; / want trip pass to
Cleveland and back for Cousin Emily, for
boat after next It's all right.
KATHERINE DENHAM."
"Tben it is all right, since katherine
says So" said Uncle Joseph. at must
be quite awhile since Emily has had
boat trip. l don't remember sending
her pass. She deserves Dozen"
Next Katherine wrote to the most
promising of the three railroad men:
Dear Uncle Peter: want passes for
Cousin Emily from Cleveland TO Buffalo.
New York, Washington and Boston, and
any place else you can think OF. and back
TO Cleveland again. She's going down by
boat. It's all right.
CATHERINE DENHAM"
BLESS her soul, of course it's all
right" said the railroad magnate,
making out passes with his own hand.
Her Cousin Belle wrote IL pages
when she asked for pass from Mil
waukee to Chicago, and | had to get
her letter typewriter before l could
read it,"
Katherine displayed such deep and
mysterious interest in the postman the
following week that Cousin Emily be-
gan to fear that the chaperoning of a
young woman of II was position of
no light responsibility.
The mystery was explained. however,
when Katherine appeared one morning
in Cousin Emily's doorway, with RAJ
diant countenance, numerous slips of
paper and a work-basket.
''There!" said katherine, with dane
ing eyes. "These are all yoursl"
"Minel" exclaimed Cousin Emily.
'What are they?"
"a little of everything" replied the
plotter "a lake trip, railroad trips,
jazz. TO Washington, trip to the sea-
shore, run to Boston, another to New
York you're to stay month if you
want to-"
katherine, you told"
Il didn't! never said world"
But /. Il explained"
Nothing" said Katherine. "This
family's too large and too honest for
explanations. Here, If you must cry
take my apron. But you haven't time
You're to go the minute the others
get back. I've come prepared to sew
on buttons by the quart and braid by
the mile. You'll have to have some
clothes, you know. It's blessing
your spring suit is so newt"
The day of Cousin Emilys departure
dawned. The relatives that went to see
her off formed scattered procession
that reached from one end to the other
of the long ore dock. Now that their
attention was called to the fact, all
realized that quiet, unobtrusive, help
full Emily had lived all her life in the
little village without a glimpse of the
word beyond.
"Really," said Katherine's mother,
waving a handkerchief theoretically
after the departing boat. I'm afraid
we've all been abominably selfish
We've given Emily half dozen homes
among us, to be sure, and we've pro-
vided her with all she could eat and
wear; but I'm afraid we haven't been
quite as thoughtful as we should have
been about her pleasures. Now
come to think of it, she has always
been the one to stay at home; and nc
one has ever heard her complain"
Katherine tipped her hat over pair
of telltale eyes, and grabbed a small
nephew by the arm just in time to save
the boy from disappearing over the
side of the dock and herself from the
necessity of a reply.
With Cousin Emily gone the family
seemed singularly incomplete, No
one else could put the Perkins baby
to sleep. No one else could battle the
Denham baby to his satisfaction. For
no one else would Grandfather Den
hams Cruel attain the proper con.
sistency. And it suddenly became evil
dent that no other member of the fam
lily was competent to make buttonholes
in the Denberry twins shirt-waists.
When, therefore, just five days after
her departure, Cousin Emily walked
in unannounced, she was greeted with
Joy, as well as with no little astonish-
ment.
How in the world" gasped Kath,
crime, almost dropping the Perkins
baby in her surprise, did you get back
so soon2"
"Soonl" cried Cousin Emily, Selling
! the baby and shedding tears of JOY
down his neck. "Soonl It's been the
longest week ! ever lived. / was so
homesick for this baby, and the Dem
ham baby, and Grandfather Lenham
and the twins, that left the boat the
moment it touched the dock at Cleye-
land and came home by rail on the
very first train
But you had no pass"
II had money!" said Cousin Emily,
triumphantly.
do you mean to say that with a
pocketful of passes 10 Was hington and
Boston and Buffalo and New York. and
everywhere, and boat pass, besides, .
gasped Mortified katherine. that you
bought and paid for ticket, and
wasted all those passeS?"
Eyes, l dol" said Causin Emily, hug
ging the Perkins baby eestatically ia
have come by telegraph If could"
"Well," said Katherine, in tone OF