Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-04-25
MYSTERIOUS
MISS DACRES
BY Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield.
Copyright 1901, by ]. B. Lippincott Co.
CHAPTER IV.-CoNTINUED.

"You wait" she replied. eye don't
deserve no garden angel, but We gut
to hev one all the same. Whut dye
think O. thet?" She reached out to
a beam which supported the flooring
and unlocked something from it.
"There!" she exclaimed. "Wuz We
took in, or wuzn't ye?''
My eyes fell upon a coat, waistcoat
and trousers; indeed, there were two
pairs, one made as knee breeches,
and the other pair the long cover
ings of a young man of fashion.
t'An' I'll bet yell find the counter
pats of 'em in them boory draws"
aid Glorianna,
Perhaps it's 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 [ had gained
from the letters; I must not .divulge
it too soon.
AN whut say to this ?" and Glori-
anna began to remove from the coat
pockets some cigarette stumps, and
those little books that I have seen
young men take out and tear up to
roll their tobacco in.
We'll, 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?"
'And whut do We say to this p
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, "this
is really too much! She could have
you arrested for that
ooh Lordy!" said Glorianna as she
dropped the letter and skipped up
he remaining steps.
Now go right back" said I, "and
place those things exactly as you
found them. She told me about her
brother jim, and about his being
dead. 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
"Yes'm," said G1orianna Towner,
meekly.
''Now don't ever let me hear of
your going into that cellar again
through this rcom,'' said I, 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 Glorianna, with
constant anxieties about money mat
tiers, and, 1 must say, with constant
suspicious about my lower-front
It was dreadfully wearing, and I was
relieved in mind when Aunt Jane
Mary began to thump. Glorianna
did not go at noon, nor for many
moons after that. I think now that
che was quite conscious when she
was well off, but at the time [ feared
her departure with every day that
dawned, and I was in dreadful bond
age to her, to Baldwin Towne1
through her, to my lowerfront, and
not the least to Aunt Jane Mary
My lower-baek did not worry me al
all, and my upper-back, DR.. Wynne
was delight and a 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
Hover garden of an afternoon. OF