The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-17

| great effort, | began to talk about some
| thing else, the way the leading lady does
on the stage. Mabel stopped signing and
looked at me and thought a while, and
| pretty soon she said she would tell me
| hers if l told her mine. So | said all
right and asked her to tell first, and she
| leaned back and closed her eyes and
sighed again and said, II love"
My, but | was excited. for you can
see how thrilling it must have been ]
| cried out: so do l. Who, who, who ~
And Mabel kept her eyes shut and said
| very family, Sister Irmingarde," and
drew the word out so it lasted long
time. 1t was we'll indeed she had her
eyes closed, for had she but turned them
on me she would have been surprised.
felt my face grow stiff, and | got away
! from her as far as | could into my cor
ner of the carriage, and | didn't say a
word. l don't think / was ever so much
annoyed. OF course a Generals daugh-
ter must be strictly honorable-but
! wouldn't anybody feel angry to have her
very best friend pick out her very own
Sister like that?
Finally Mabel opened her eyes and
asked why | didn't say something, and l
said coldly that l thought she might
, have chosen some one else. Mabel was
too much absorbed in her own selfish
emotions to observe how disappearing
my manner was, and she went on to ex-
plain that it all happened at Christmas,
and that she did not know it herself till
she got home and saw how she missed
Sister Irmingarde
Then / saw that it was Fate, and that
we were indeed poor human souls helpless
in the relentless grasp of destiny. So
told Mabel my secret, and she was mad
too, at first, but when we talked it over
we saw that it was going to be fun. OF
course l don't mean that exactly, but
we could lean on each others heart and
talk to each other about Sister Irrnin-
garde. And each of us promised the
other then and there that she would tell
all that happened and everything Sister
Irningarde said and did We shook
hands on it.
When we went into the Academy
through the big main entrance the first
person we saw was Sister Edna and the
second was Sister Irningarde. Sister
Irmingarde was saying good-by to some
worldly friend who was with her, SO she
merely bowed and smiled at US as we
went by My heart was humping just
as hard, and Mabel's was tool She said
so. But Sister Irmingarde looked per-
fectly calm, and the delicate pink flush
in her cheeks did not deepen, as real
writers say. She hasn't any pink flush.
Little did she know as we walked by
that our hearts were wholly hers. Later
we went to her classroom, but she was
very busy and there were lots of girls
around, so nothing happened She kiss
ed Mabels cheek and mine, and asked
us a few questions, and we answered in
we1l-chosen words, and our manners
were so dignifed and so elegant that
she seemed a little worried. Finally
she said: What is the matter with you
two girls? Have you been quarrelling ??
And I said: mo, Sister. On the con-
trary, our hearts are now knit together
by a tie no bond can break, and you
are it"
She looked at us in kind of puzzled
way, and we withdrew and left those
enig1natic words ringing in her ears.
When we got outside the door Mabel
simply Rugged me. She said she thought
l had expressed the most delicate sent1-
ment in the most beautiful way. | re-
minded her that TINS is indeed the pro-
vince of the artist, and that she must