Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-17

.
 There was q masked bah coming off,
 and the Miss Towards wished to go
 unbeknown to their father. entered into the spirit of the joke. procured
 them two blue dominos and each sprag of yellow holly so that they
 might know one another. They went to the ball thus disguised.
 T went also in the same dress | had got a third blue domino, and also
 wore sprig of holly. In my pocket I took a stiletto. Why did I do that? Because I was determined to kill any
 one who tried to make love to my Per
 cy. knew that Jenny Howard, the little cat, would try to get him to love her, and would have killed her with pleasure had she become Percy's bride. As was masked, had no fear of being discovered should stab any
 one, and, moreover, were there trouble, the Misses Howard, being dressed as was, even to the sprig of yellow hol- ly, might be accused of any crime that
 might happen Moreover, even if I killed Jenny knew that the two sisters quarreled and that on the evidence of
 the holly and the domino Violet might
 be charged with the crime
 About the stiletto. I received that from a low shopkeeper called Velez,
 who was in love with Percy. She and her husband kept an oil shop, and her husband was very jealous of her. She was madly in love with Percy, as I
 found out when buying something at her shop, and I got to know her in timately.
 T heard Percy propose to marry Jenny, and was minded then to kill
 her. drew the stiletto from my breast and would have rushed for
 ward, hoping to escape in the con-
 fusion when killed her. But my
 heart failed me; even when she was l left alone my heart failed me. Jenny took off her mask, and left her sit ting waiting for Percy's return. Then followed Percy and saw Violet join him. knew 1t was Violet, owing to 1 the nnmasking of Jenny, and, more over, had seen Violet listening, as was. She loved him also-the cat! l However, saw that she wanted to l get Percy out of the place by making him think she was Jenny. She did, I l followed. He took her home to the | gates of the hotel and left her there l When he was coming back to the ball stopped him at the bottom of the l parade. There was no one in sight, | it was late, and clear moon was shin | ing.
 Percy thought I was Violet, whom | he mistook- for her sister He ad- dressed me in such endearing tones as 1 Jenny and remoIistrated so gently about what be called the rashness of
 following him from the hotel that lost my temper. I snatched off the mask and poured out my wrath. Percy burst out laughing when he recognized me. He said-never mind what he l said-but it was an insult, and my 1 Italian blood boiled in my veins. drew the stiletto and rushed on him. 1 At that moment my hand was caught from behind, and fell. It was that man Ireland, who was then at San
 Reno, and great friend of Percy's. He had wrenched the stiletto out of
 my hand. For moment no one said 1 anything, and arose to my feet. Ire land addressed ne as Miss Howard
 Miss Violet Howard. Percy laughed Aagain and corrected his fnistakes' say
 ing that was lovesick nursemaid whom he had discharged. Then lost I my temper.
 Stop! I must say exactly how it
 happened. Percy was leaning against the parapet of the parade in a careless
 attitude He did not oven move when
 I rushed on him with the stiletto, and
 had Ireland not caught my arm should have killed him. Ireland said
 that he had followed me, thinking
 was Violet Howard, to ask me to re
 turn to the hotel He talked some rub
 bish about gentle born English girl i being out at night, but when he found
 that was only servant there was no more Of that talk Poor Eliza Stokes 1 could have been out till dawn for all
 these gentlemen cared. They laughed
 at me, Percy leaning against the para pet, Ireland beside me, holding the
 stiletto carelessly in his hand. As
 said, lost my temper, and I told Percy what thought of that fool Ro-
 sina Lockwood. He lost his temper al
 So, but that only made me more an-
 gry. At last he dashed forward, and
 I believe he would have struck me but
 that Mr. Ireland interYened
 T don't know exactly how 1t hap
 pened but in moving Mr. Ireland eyi-
 dently forgot how he held the stiletto
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