The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-19

come on. Tnursday, wrote her mother ! Aunt sJemima and the children are here and there is 8 good deal for m,
 to do. You have had a good vacation and we think you must be rested" Oh. but her father did not know | Her mother did not understand! Cnly few more days might make such a difference. If only she dared to write back that she could not come now, that she could not be spared from the play | that was to be given next week. But in truth she knew that she could be spared now. Josephine was well enough to take her part back, and only too glad to do 1t. What could she sayi ' Nothing. It would be unmaidenly But yet = The other girls said enough. They exhausted every method of persuasion and indignation when her decision was made known.
 Don't think of such a thing. You'll lose all your chances" said plain-spok- en Reba Lane. and romantic little Ge- nevieve added Ehyly:
 This one week might. make a differ- ence in all your life. Mamie.' Do you think care? Do you think I'd stay for any such reason as that?' cried Mamie, fierceiy; but in her heart she knew that she did care very much and that she would give everything she possessed to stay.
 Well, If you wouldn't, Josephine would" said Reba. You may be sure that when she gets him into her clutches you'll never have chance at Harry Gray again. Write to your mother that you can't come till the play is over."
 But Mamie shook her head, smiling. and with very sore heart beneath | kn rrRu hnr part to Josephine. whose rejoicing no polite regrets could conceal, and to pack into the trunk her pretty gowns, which might stay there long, for there were no gayeties at home.
 On the last night she went to the rehearsal to see her Prince Charming go through the well-known scenes with all his accustomed fervor at Jose phines feet. Tt will not hurt so bad l ly If I remember him so.' she told herself, proudly.
 "whither art thor bound, fair Prin- cess Lovelylocks?" said Harry to her in the words of the play.
 "A cruel ogre has plotted to shut me up in the grim old castle" an- swered Mamie. lightly. Then Jose- phine called him away and those were | the last words she heard her Prince Charming say--Josephine saw to that l And so the true princess went away
 and left the prince in fu.I possession
 of the false princess. How hard a test
 1t was for her she never told She
 moved quietly about her home on the
 farm. tidying rooms, washing dishes,
 entertaining small cousins and doing the thousand and one things that the
 daughter of the house may do to make
 the wheels of home run smoothly. | The home talent play was a great
 success. They repeated 1t three times
 and made $1o0." wrote Aunt Mary. and
 that was all the news that came to her
 from her fairyland. All until one day there came a square white envelope
 with writing that Mamie glanced al
 once and then fled to her room to read
 with cheeks flaming as they had not
 famed since the day she was called home.
 1 Dear Princess Lovelylocks," she
 read, Twill you let me come and make you a little visit in the grim old castle
 where the ogre has spirited you away
 Yours sincerely, l Harry Gray" 1 For the dear old fairy tales had come
 true again and the false princess had
 not been able to deceive the prince l twice. while the real princess, after
 she had stood the test, received the re-
 ward she wanted most.