Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-01-12
Short Stories For Evening Hours



Early on Monday morning Aunt Jane
took her departure. When she was
really gone ELLA aud | waltzod around
the breakfast room once OF twice and
then few To interview Mahaly Brown
She fell in with our plans at once.
Mahnly Il q delightful old creature
when the cat IL away the mice will
play" she remarked philosophically
II guess you'd have your own way any
way. 81 I'll help YOU all | can and hold
my tongue
We went down to see Mrs. Wallace
and coaxed her and Sara Wycth. Nell
sons aunt. to chaperUne MS. We sent
our invitations out, and by Thursday
might, by dint of working tooth ani
nail" as Mahaly said, everything was
I In readiness
| We had taken up the carpet IN the
yellow parlor, bundled out all the old
/ horBehair chairs. crocheted nightmares
and hideous old family portraits decor
| atcd walls and windows with ever
greens and waxed the floor until we
could sec our faces in II.
! In the breakfast room we laid the
supper table. all beautifully adorned
with carnations and ferns. 1t really
looked too lovely.
Thursday night was fine and every
body came. Ella looked positively rad
liant that evening She was far and
away the prettiest girl In the room.
AS for me. never came go near look
ing pretty In my life before the un-
usual excitement had flushed my duh
skin. my dress. a pale yellow crcpcy
thing, became me. aud the lovely roses
Max had sent up and which | wore in
my hair quite ethcrealized It's monde
script coloring.
What have you been doing to your
self, Kitty" asked Max admiringly. as
we danced together. you're stunning
tonight. You girls know how to give a
party when you set out to-"
Max was right-our party was a sig
nal success. At IL we all nutter
down to supped; We had just got nice
~ settled In our places when the cat
astrophe came.
Mahaly Brown appeared In the door
way with an agoniZed face. and beck
oned to me 80 omniously that I felt
sure some dreadful thing must have
happened. I wondered, as | rose. Il
she had spoiled the coffee or let the
cat get at the cream.
Then Nahaly disappeared as sudden.
ly as II she had been jerked away
| hal ,hn hnl 10
, doomed up In tho doorway a carpet bag
! in one hand ard her atrocious green
, veil streaming back from her bonnet IL
the draft of the hall door; and hei
, face-but that is beyond words.
y Mrs. Wallace was the first to recov
y er her presence of mind. She rose viii
II nervous smile.
: You have Just come in time. m!
: dear Miss Weaver"
). 80 It seems" said Aunt Jane grim
Il y.
Il ELLA and Kitty" went on Mrs. Wal
n lace. wanted to give their friends ;
, little party. as of course you know
n and as you were summoned away the!
1. asked me to chaperone It. Since yol
u have returned, OF course"
Mrs. Wallace got no further An,
n woman would have quailed before tn,
/. glare of Aunt James eyes. She way
I cred helplessly down on her chair al,
looked at Ella and me.
: | could not have said word had 1
n been to save my life, and Ella seemed
n likewise stricken dumb. Aunt Jan
n pumped her carpet bag on the foo
~ and sat squarely down on vacan
chair in corner OF the room.
n PRAY, don't let me interrupt you,
70 she said stoutly. 60 on with you
" supper by all means"
v pulled myself together and Mahal
l. came In with the coffee. her big fac
II us pale as II could possibly be. | shaI
h never forget that terrible meal! VIII
could eat with that rigid figure sittln
Of holt upright In the corner?
g. Il seemed century before II wa
at over Then we filed miserably out. |
D. the hall everybody suddenly discoy
or al once. We did not try to proven
T. them. Never In my life have | spe
.e parting guests 50 gladly. Mrs. Wa
d. lace and Sara Wyeth tried to cOmfoI
Mt us, but we were beyond consolation.
at When the door had closed behind III
last subdued guest Ella and fled
at our room. cast myself on the bed. n
nd gardless OF creme and roses, and erie
go desparingly.
OF Ella didn't Il feel as badly as 20
IN no." she snapped, but do YOU suppo!
am going to let Aunt Jane have Il
| satisfaction Of seeing me cry? n
indeed oh, what must 'everybod
think! And how people will tall
ia Kitty. for goodness sake, stop cryin
I'm going to write to father tomorro
and tell him we simply cannot live he
any longer,
She was to be spared the troubl
ah Just then Aunt Jane marched in ! su
pose she had been disposing of po,
Mahaly. which accounted for her d