Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-01-18

hope you will be pleased, and-and-"
sWell?" says May, with a smile.
They have reached the drawingroom
door by this time, and May pauses
with her hand on the handle. "WeH,
dcar?"
"Papa-he's very glad that you are
coming, and-and all that old affair
will be forgotten, and-and, oh, May,
you two won't begin quarreling direct
ly, will you?"
May bends and kisses her for the
twentieth time,
NO. dear, we won't quarrel, papa
and /; at least. if we do, it shan't be
my fault if I can help it, Where is he
in here?"
Carrie mods, and the two girls go in
! to the room. Mr.. Dalton thrusts his
bandana into his side hind pocket,
from which it sticks out like fiery
tail, and receives his daughter with a
calm, though noisy kiss.
How are you, May? Forty min
utes late, amt you! That's on account
of the ranch goods train; it's always
just in front of yours-breaks down &C.
casionally. 'Ad your dinner? and ah,
! thought you wouldn't get much more
! than snack on the road, so I've had
something put by for you in the din
ing-room. Better get it over, and then
we can talk comfortably. Find the
carriage comfortable, eh?" he asks,
with a curious little laugh, and a
glance of complacent pride around the
gay, not to say, gaudy, room.
Very" says May. rs it the one
you use as heriff, papa?"
Mr. Dalton's face grows suddenly
red
"Sheriff's carriage" he stammers,
eying the innocent face wrathfully.
What on earth do you mean? It's
my private carriage, and if you think
it's too fine"
By this time Carrie has hustled the
offender out of the room and half way
up the broad stairs.
"Oh, May, how could you? The
first five minutes, tool" she whispers,
reproachfully.
I'm awfully sorry, dear, but didn't
mean it. I did think it was the
shireff's carriage; it was so gorgeous
and shining, and there was a great
coat-of-arms on the door, I'm sure
or I'm very much mistaken"
so there is, but-but it is our coat
of-arms, May"
ooh, is it?" says the elder sister,
carelessly, looking around at the
deliberately decorated corridor, with its
rows of pictures on the wall, and its
exotics and statuary at the sides. "Is
it. I didn't know we had one, dear"
Nor did l." says Carrie. until we
got rich-I mean until we came down
here. Those are your rooms, dear
ami do hope you will like them. L
- but she is stopped by an exclama
ton of amusement from he sister
who standing in the open doorway
looks around her with wide open eyes
that are eloquent of surprise; ther
checking the smile that slowly but al
too palpably curves the red lips, she
says
What beautiful room! but-but
isn't it rather grand, dear?'
Grand" says Carrie, eying the
room for the first time with qualified
admiration. mo. do you think so
really? Well. they are the grandest
in the house, May, dear"
I'm glad of that. It's shame thai
you should give the rooms to me;
why didn't you keep them for your
self, dear?"
ooh, mine are nearly as nice. Nov
let me help you get your things. or per
haps you'd like my maid"
"By no means. So there's maid
too, Carrier"
Carrie bushes and hides her face
over the large imperial.
yes, dear; don't want one, May
but Mrs. Goeffrey Turner said We
should be quite ridiculous without {
maid, and she found one for Us. sh Il,
Frenchwoman, rather nice: she
would be quite too nice if she didn'
talk so much and powder her face"
May looks around and through The
mass of bright brown hair, which sht
has let fall like a cataract over hel
; shoulders.
And who is Mrs. Godfrey Turner
Is she quite-too-nice?" she asks, with {
little stress on the fashionable slams
phrase.
Mrs. Godfrey is the lady who lives
in the big red house in the Station
Lane" says Carrie, dragging out th'
contents of the imperial with botl
hands She's a widow, and quite {
SWELL mean what we used to cal
swell, and it's she who has taken III
E up. you know
81 don't know yet, but you shall tel
me all about it when we go downstairs
And so we have been taken up, have
we. Carrie" she says, with a smile
that would be grim on less youthful
, and beautiful face. 81 wonder where
we have been taken to? don't un
derstand. but never mind. you shall ex
plain directly; I'm dying to hear al
. of the news
And I'm dying to tell you." say
Carrie; "but go down now, dear. Yol
won't be long, viii you? Oh, do Vol
know your way to the dining-room %
NO" says May, laughing softly. "I
/; there a map of the palace hanging NJ
, anywhere?'' and she looks around
. gravely.
Now. May, I'm sure the house ism
so big as all that. And are you going