Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1904-03-24

>se,N ELL, did you find OUT!
5Wg next TN month. e''- And 'a1S yous" rsS~
4 M + Il can have week as
zc~ soon as like.
Della Freeman and Cora Gregory
stood looking at each other in the New
York elevated railroad station where
they had met with such utter delight
in their faces that the boy at the news
table stared, and the man at the ticket
box. as he lowered their tickets with
jerk of the handle, concluded that
something remarkable had happened.
1t was nothing very great, after all,
which the two girls discussed in ami
mated tones all the Way up town, III
most missing their station in their alb
>orpti0n. and which they were still
talking over sc eagerly us to forget to
take eff their wraps when they stood in
the plainly furnished little third floor
back they called home-nothing very
great. only the prospect Of Il weeks va
cation
Rut 10 two girls. who had bent over
aTpewriter and stood ut Il glove cOun-
ter for year without q rest; who had
cot NJ early every morning to prepare
their breakfast over the little gas stove,
taken sandwich or two for lunch for
tcon0my'S sake. and come home to get
their dinner wearily, with the help of
the gas stove again, and who had
somehow managed to make ali their
dresses between the1n--tO these girls
Wees vacation was a great event.
y week S rest. Il weeks freedom from
The toll CT the glove counter. 4 week S
1orsetfulness of the purple ink Of the
Typewriter.
w I'll go as far into the country as
our money will take us, Dell" said
'ora, raising her bright eyes to tne
lace u the elder gir:. as they sat pOr-
IHS over column Of country board
ADVERTISEMENTS after dinner won /
>am be lonesome. thougn:'' she added,
"Ha a laughing glance at photo
graph on a mantel-the pleasant face
VI the young head Of the dress goods
4'paHtment-and ut the ring on Della S
hanG.
presume he'll live through it.
lei!a laughed. "Oh. Goa! won't it
'e nee: | don't know how to waitn'
1hCHes the buggy, Burt said Mrs
,""T>h, Joining her stalwart son at the
'Fo'tI window: they've Gomez
'Ae spoke i'll an aweG tone, and
,''Hea apprehensively 1T the two young
''oaeS who stepped down from the
,o>'y vehicle. looking about delighted
- '' The pretty yard before them. with
,M scattered maple trees and it's bloom
"- fower beds.
something Oh her tlistrust was shad
po IN the face Of the young mar
.> h@ Went out to help his father. who
'd driven the newcomers from the
@I'1,'ad station. to carry i'll the small
"''hN they had brought
aont know but we've done
'i'sh thing" Mrs Marsh had oh
'>To III troubled tones. when it ha(
we fairly settled by letter that th
~" young ladies from New York wer,
ming 1or week. Whatever we'r,
''ls 70 Go with ,em is more than
''''N. Nothingll be good enough TO
'''- hothing'll suit 'em; they'll jus
1T "Found with their hands folded an,
',Al'ialn of things between them
'teS' [ rather guess we've under
'A more than we can manage
-Nilo that had come to be the genera
way 'ction of the family.
huft Marsh. however. forgot hi
;e'"nce ~, for moment. as he locke
r oora Gregory's blue eyes-Dell
n,,la .'gillan had tripped up the gray
Nt "iA' and was talking pleasantly t
~ fn Marsh i'll the hall-forgot it S
w. l "s to take her little travelling ba
:'l oip her hand and walk up to the doe
W., mi'h ner, instead of helping his fathe
g. t'n 'ne trunk-forgot it 50 far as /
49,, ~ Aext to her at the dinner table, an
's on lively conversation mig1