The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-08-19

I'm so glad you've come! heard
one of the children crying, and I'd
gone up just for a moment thinking
| should be sure to hear If you came
in"
yes, cherub, here we are safe and
sound. Eleanor, Silas, dal, this is
Jour aunt Emma"
How d'y do. my dears? I'm very
glad to see you," said Mrs. Stagg,
kissing Eleanor on the cheek, and
heaming kindly on the boys, who, be-
tween the butler, the electric lights.
the spacious hall and this new splen-
did relative stood confounded. "You
must be tired out, and we'll go right
in to supper
What do you suppGe> Emma, I
caught this young woman doing just
now? Beautifying herself in the
glass! It's New York air. I wager
that within 4 week she'll have been
inside Of every dressmaker's and
milliner's shop in the CITY," Where
upon Harold Stage laughed gleefully.
Il imagine you have discovered by
his time that your uncles a sad
tease" said Emma, who was leading
the way, having already, In single
glance, the capability Of which poor
Eleanor realized, comprehended the
primitiveness of her niece's ideas on
r Inthac Che rnHnofa1 hof hoH uor.
old been malicious man he could not
have thought of anything more in
vidious 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 better.half prompted her to
turn and link her arm alphabetically
in the young girls, while Harold, to
whom it had suddenly occurred that
bis allusion to millinery was the re-
verse Of well-timed, followed behind,
endeavoring to conceal his self-con-
sciousness by vigorously rubbing tho
shaggy heads Of his two nephews, and
trolling bluff glee the burden Of
which was that his heart was true to
Poll.
An hour later, the Baldwins were
comfortably ensconced 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 a probable
programme, she had waited to see the
children, before giving her magma
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 exertions 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 off with brand-neW
outfits, and she be saved from further
responsibility, except in vacation
time, for several years to come AS to
Eleanor, she was agreeably disap.
pointed. To be sure, Harold had writ
ten that she was quiet, unobjection.
able sort of girl, but she had not been
able to dismiss from her mind a
haunting idea Of a snowy, slangy
young person with gushing manners
and mourning bedizened with jet, I'M
til the real niece stood before her
Emma congratulated herself that she
would have very plain sailing; Flea
nor was dowdy, unsophisticated and
retiring, but a single season in soci
ETY. would work the necessary
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 hair
with some regard to what was becom
ing. How preferable to have to deal
with an unobjectionable child who
had no preconceived ideas, than with
bumptious coquette whose bad man
ners were already formed.
| Ito be continued.)