The Elbert County tribune., 1903-04-30

I'm so glad you've comel heard
one OF the children crying. and I'd
gone up Just for n moment. thinking
| should be sure to hear II you came
In"
"Yes, cherub. here we are safe and
sound Eleanor. Silas. Hal. this is
Jour aunt Emma"
How d'y do. my dcarsg I'm very
glad to see you." said Mrs. Stags.
Kissing Eleanor on tho cheek. and
leaning kindly on the boys, who. be-
tween the butler, the electric lights,
the spacious hall and this new splen-
did relative stood confoundcd. -You
must be tired out. and well go right
In to supper
What do you suppose, Emma.
caught this young woman doing Just
nowy Beautifying herself in the
glass! It's New York air. | wager
that within a week she'll have been
inside OF every dressmaker.s and
miliiner's shop In the city" Where
upon Harold Stagg laughed gleefully.
IL imagine you have discovered by
his time that your uncles sad
tease" said Emma. who was leading
the way. having already, in single
rlance. the capability of which poor
Eleanor realized. comprehended the
primitiveness of her niece's Ideas on
Clothes. She reflected that had Har-
old been a malicious man he could not
have thought of anything more in
,idious than to call attention to the
poor child's toilet. to say nothing OF
the fact that Eleanor was, and must
remain for the present. In deep black.
Such lack OF perception on. the part
OF her betterhalf prompted her to
turn and link her arm sympathetically
IN the young girls, while Harold, to
whom 1t had suddenly occurred that
his allusion to millinery was the re-
verse of well-timed. followed behind.
cndeavoring TO conceal his self-con-
sciousness by vigorously rubbing the
shaggy heads of his two nephews, and
trolling a blum glee the burden OF
which was that his heart was true to
Poll.
An hour later. the Baldwins were
comfortably ensconcod in the blue
suite, and Emma was hearing from
the lips of her husband an account OF
the journey. Although she had
mapped out In her mind n probable
programme. she had waited to see the
children. before giving her imagina.
ton full swing: but now that they
| appeared to be very much what she
had hoped. all sorts OF thoughts were
churning in her brain regarding their
adaptation to her household and the
proper eAertions to be made in their
behalf. The boys were OF just the
right age for Mr. Sampson, as she
had expected, and in the autumn
after summer by the seaside, they
could be packed on with brand-new
outfits, and she be saved from further
responsibility. except In vacation
time, for several years to come. As tc
Eleanor, she was ngreeably dlsap
pointed. To be sure, Harold had writ
ten that she was quiet. unobjection
able sort of girl. but she had not beer
able to dismiss from her mind
haunting idea OF SNOWY, slangy
young person with gushing manners
and mourning bedlzened with Jet, un
til the real niece stood before her
Emma congratulated herself that shs
would have very plain sailing; Flea
nor was dowdy, ursooh,-.,cated ant
retiring. but single saason In soci
ETY. would work the necessar,
changes. She was rather pretty now
and she would be very fetching. in
deed, when she learned to hold her
self properly and to dress her hail
with some regard to what was becom
ing How preferable to have to dea
with an unobjectionable child whe
had no preconceived ideas, than witt
a bumptious coquette whose bad man
ners we're already formed.
ITO be continued)