Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-01-08

tries Monty. / ought to do much I'm
vour friend through thick and thin.
Won have only to command me-"
at was precisely to get your help
tbo+ 7 came I'm. I'm tired of those con
founded dinners. You know yourself
hot they are all alike-the same peo-
,,la the same flowers, the same things
a. cat and the same inane twaddle in
tbe shape Of talk. Who cares about
them anyway
.Ueu I like thatr' she interrupted.
after all the thought put into those
dinners, After all the variety 1 so care
frllv secured, My dear boy, you are
frightfully ungrateful."
"Oh. you know what l mean, and
,-o,, know quite as well as do that il
e nerfectlv true. The dinners were
haast1v bore. which proves that they
zero n loud success. Your work was
NOT done in vain. But now l want
something else. We must push along
thfs hall we've been talking of. And
The Yachting cruise-that can't walt
I very much longer"
aTbe ball first" she decreed. 'TH
/ 500 70 the cards at once, and in a day
/ or two I'll have list ready for your
I gracious approval. And what have you
done"
/ "Pettingill has some great ideas for
doing over Sherry's. Harrison is in
. communication with the manager of
/ that Hungarian orchestra you spoke
! of. and he finds the men quite ready
1 for a little jaunt across the water. We
have that military band-I've forgotten
I the number of it's regiment-for the
promenade music, and the new Paris
! sensation, the contralto<is coming over
! with her primo tenore for some special
numbers"
! You were certainly cut out for an
/ executive, Monty" said Mrs. Dan.
But with the music and the decora-
tons arranged you've only begun. The
favors are the real things, and if you
say the word we'll surprise them lit
tie Don't worry about it, Monty. It's
a go already. Wen pull it off togeth-
err"
"You are thoroughbred, Mrs. Dan, "
he exclaimed. you do help fellow
at PINCH"
That's all right, Monty" she an
swered. "Give me until after Christ
mas and I'll have the finest favors
ever seen. Other people may have
their paper hats and pink ribbons, but
YOU can show them how the thing
ought to be DONE"
Her reference to Christmas haunted
Brewster as he drove down Fifth ave
nue. with the dread of a new disaster
Never before had he looked upon pres
ents as q calamity, but this year il
was different. Immediately he begaI
to plan a commandment of his friends
with costly trinkets, when he grew sud
denly doubtful of the opinion of hi:
uncle's executor upon this move. Bu
in response to telegram .SwearengeI
Jones, with pleasing Feasibility, in
formed him that 'any one with drop
of human kindness in his body would
consider it his duty to give Christmas
presents to those who deserved them. y
Montys way was now clear. If his
friends meant to handicap him with
gifts he knew way to get even. Fol
two weeks his mornings were spent al
Tiffany's, and the afternoons brough
= Joy to the heart of every dealer in an
! tiquities in Fourth and Fifth avenues
He gave much thought to the matte
in the effort to secure many small ar
ticles which deliberately concealed thel
{ value. And he had taste. The result o
his endeavor was that many friend
:. who would not have thought of remem
} bering Monty with even a card wer
< pleasantly surprised on Christmas eVe
e AS it turned out, he Jared very we
8 in the matter of gifts, and for som
II days much of his time was spent /
reading notes of profuse thanks whic
a were yet vaguely apologize. The Gray
% and Mrs. Dan had remembered hill
with an agreeable lack of ostentatiol
II and some of the Little Sons Of ii
Rich who had kept one evening
If fortnight open for the purpose of ''u
N ing up their meal tickets" at Monty
v were only too generously grateful
Miss Drew had forgotten him, an
70 when they met after the holiday h'
"A recognition was Of the coolest. He ha
70 thought that under the circumstanc,
=. he could send her a gift of value, b1
N the beautiful pearls with which he as
:, ed for a reconciliation were returne
with Miss Drews thanks" He love
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