The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1906-04-04
An Angel
BY MARTHA
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Copyright. 1900, by p. {. Ea-,meuJ

Jewel red apples poised carefully upon
her bare brown head Miss Prudence
Heaihcoie ier aunt and guardian,
frowned II The MhiStllng. hut had 10
smile IN Wien Margaret broke out:
Nov, Prudence. precious. come NJ me
With the saying about WhStling girls
aud Growing hens I know you hate
nay Sult musical accomplishment hut
this day i enough 10 SET craven
image Mhistlmg, even dancing, If ii
MAS ot anything softer than granite.
You ought Ia be ont In it, The orchard
is a place enchanted | didn't know
until now things So prosaic rs apple
gathering and elder making could set
themselves Ia music
III m Miss Prudence said. III IN.
Mal ask il Jimmy Har IS ont there,
As he prpui ,cd 10 bei"
"Of course! \ gentleman keeps his
promises doesn't het" Margaret an
swered tossing her head. but flushing
Ia spite al herself
Again Mss Prudence s.td III m
There apf,e..fed 10 he nothing else to
say Bld after Two hreaths size got up
and moved toward the Kitchen sigh
in ont And al course he'll he here
10 dinner. Thai means cooking things.
Mon dn hive such atrocious appetltes."
l'm LAID they do, Margaret retort
ed shalnelesslH. I've got one to match
any body Ill tnnty prue. do make Il
potato pudding Make it very rich
and have lois Of thick. sweet. real
lemon sauce
't'o WY YIN baggage Miss Pru-
,tencr said over her shoulder "Who
Told You what Jimmy likes best? I've
the greatest mind to make dried apple
pies, just IL see If he would know the
difference, smiling at Margaret NJ she
spoke the last sentence
Margaret binshed very red and be
gan 10 p5lt You mean Jimmy IS SO
gone on ne les not IN his right mind"
she said But yon're al wrong, Aunty
Prue | don't believe he-he cares
FOR me a hit hardly Not that way, at
least vi this week he's been as kind
As could hr. hat distant Us IL he was
4tH ealdn't understand
ia-H thtfe.s mischief afooi, what
sort I've got 10 find OH" Miss Pru-
dencc said Vigorously. her hand on the
door knob for il ever any lad was
clean ont of hls head, clean idiotlc
about q chit of thing, it was Jimmy
about YOU, nh last week and all the
weeks before II. since Won came 10
stay with me
"Mischief afoot, but wheret" she
kept mentally repeating 10 herself az
she whislsea about the trim Kitchen,
her hrows paekcred. her eyes intro.
spectiye. ON the surface she could see
nothing Nobody Ind openly any right
or reason L. he interfering between the
pair. Jimmy was an orphan the same
al her Peggy. Moreover. he had never
had the ltdi,t shadow of an entangle-
ment. True. various and sundry Young
women had been setting their caps at
him pretty caps. modestly set-but he
had overlooked them all 49, unless fl
werc-Mlss pruc gave great start
There WAS The rnpt Of The trouble; its
name Ndclh Bane Jimmy had rath-
er made NJ, - her ia The weeks lust
before Peggy ,umr Now that she
thought of il. ne had squlred bella Ia
church two SUNDAYS running besides
buying maB4 things for her at the
stra4, berry Sltpt,cf aud fair. Aud Del
la. il was Wei hnos-n. wanted 10 mar
rs and settle herself. She had three
younger sisters erowdiny her in the
home ncat. Naturally she would do
what She could To hold Jimmy. the best
chance ia all Easton town
But low She bad done II Miss puI.
dence could not fathoIn, although she
studied the problem almost to the Diet
rimcnt of her dinner She sat down to
II sim puzzled. Jimmy greeted her
and HE dinner iaptlrously and talked
a great deal of his appetite and OF
many other things. but somehow did
not eat with his usual 2est although
he made fair meal. Nobody with II
palate could help doing That with such
things rs Miss Prudence set before
him. IimnR assured Margaret more
than once hat IL such cooking ran in
the family her future husband was The
lucklest fellow alive
Il think 50 too That's why it's SO
provoking not 10 have him come along"
Margaret said at last only think.
Jimmy. I'm almost twenty-one and
have never had IA real business bean!
Isn't 1t shameful when Aunty prue is
going 10 will me all her pretty dishes
and the IIeathcote silver: Fancy an
heiress without Il sweetheart"
'Such destitutlon Is painful so pain
ful | hardly believe 1t exists Jimmy
said, turning away his head, then
breaking inc"hsequenily into talk OF
something else.
Miss Prudence watching him, saw
that his teeth had set before he could |
speak. OF the seeing came enlighten'
ment In part. She meant TO make II |
whole before she was much older. SO
as soon as dinner was over she sent |
Margaret upon an GRAND and herself |
drew Jimmy on TO the D0fn With q pre- |