Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-02-23

night" and She runs up the stairs on
uptoe, that she may not awake Carrie;
but. futile precaution! as she passes
down the corridor, the door next her
own is opened and a wideawake voice
from behind It calls her name,
You wicked child" exclaims May,
as the young lady thus adjured springs
into bed again, and sitting up with the
clothes drawn around her, holds out
her arm.
"Oh, May. what time you've been,
| kept awake as long rs | could. and
then fell asleep and slept for days.
Isn't 1t morning yet? and YOU don't
look a bit sleepy, Tell me all about
1t, May. Sit there, where can see
You Was it a nice-duite nice
halle and did You enjoy yourself? Now
its no use saying YOU didn't, because
can see your face How beautiful
yen look, And where's your flower,
May"
My nowerS must have lost It."
Never mind the flower, May" says
Carrie lmpatiently: tell ME all about
the BALL What shame II Is that.
just because l am few years younger
than YOU, couldn't so! Nobody
would have noticed me, and would
have kept quiet in corner; but never
mind, yod must tell me all about It,
Who was there? All the people we
know? And did YOU dance much,
May?"
Very much"
And did you have good partners?"
Some good, some bad. and some
very Indifferent" answers May, smil.
ing, as she thinks of the perfect waltz
with Nane, and the very imperfect ones
with Sir Heron.
And were the I.etchfords there?"
Yes" says May, they were there;
but | mustn't stop talking any longer
or youM be Ill tomorrow, There, lie
down, child!"
"Oh. don't be cruel, positively cruel,
May | shall be awake all night
shah! And the Letchfords were there
old Lady Letchford, in black satin,
and the beauty! Oh, May, what was
she dressed in--and didn't she look
lovely?"
Lovely is the word, She looks
too beautiful to touch"
And that handsome gentleman, Mr..
aNNasour-did you see him?"
"les; he was not quite too beautiful
to touch, nor even to dance with. II
ever there was perfect dancer, Car.
RE, his name is Vayasour"
"Oh, May, you're not in love with
him already?"
quite irretrievably," says May,
and who else was there? Not Sir
Heron--he wouldn't go, Of course. Mrs,
Godfrey Turner said that It was quite
unlikely that he'd go, even II they car
ried him"
"Then they possibly carried him,
for he was there"
WAS he2 And did you see him ?
OF course you didn't speak to him
after-aftor--"
Eyes. spoke to him-more, I
danced with him"
Danced with HIM" exclaims Car.
ries, and her blue eyes open their
widest; danced with him! And
how did he dancer"
"Atrociously," answers May
ooh and was he very agreeable?"
NO" says May with n subdued
laugh, mot remarkably SO, but look
here" and she lifts the torn satin to
carries gaze.
ooh, May! and did he do that?"
He did; and he went on his knees
TO stick these pins in, and his lady
mother came up and found him In that
abject position, with Miss Vayasour at
her back, and--if II be n proud distInc.
ton to be hated, as Byron says-then
ought to be proud Carrie, for If ever
Lady Letchford condescended to hate
any one, she hates your affectionate
sister," and she laughs.
OH And Sir Heron--what did he
say-what did he do? He was quite
ashamed, | suppose and walked away"
On the contrary" says May. "he
chung to the wreck he had made, and
look me down to supper"
''To supper--oh, May And Miss
Vayasour- shouldn't he have taken
herr"
Il have a shrewd suspicion that
amounts to n conviction that he should
have done So" says May, with n smile
playing about her lips; but he did not.
1t did not spoil her supper, however,
for she sat opposite me, carefully keep.
ing her eyes to the right or left, on
ker plate, and the ceiling 1t did not
spiol her supper. but It did Lady
Letchford's."
oh, May! and-then?'
Then after supper danced twice
with Sir Heron, and then we came
home BY the way, he put us into the
carriage which Mrs. Godfrey as.
sured me most solemny was a most
extraordinary attention on his part
and that's all.
rarrt, ,pgr, ,stygI