Middletown transcript., 1907-08-03

awoke with her cap an askew and |
her glasses on the fioor.
Ny dear, she demonstrated.
I've got it. I've got i'll cried
Peggy dancing round the room
and waving the picture gleefully
aloft.
Yes, ] know you have, though
I can't think why yoal didn't send
| it back with Harold's other pres
ents. said the wondering old lady,
thinking her niece bad taken
leave of her senses.
I forgot about it. Providence
guides the widowed aad the
fatherless. Then Peggy descend
ed to the depths again. ! do be-
lieve am too late. This Tuxedo
has been in The house for ages.
A hurried look at the first page
reassured her, and she explain
ed her project to Miss Harvey,
who, when she grasped it, was
perfectly horrifed.
My dear child, everybody will
know you. It is dreadful! You
I e
will be on every news stand in
the country.
Well, well, said Peggy, with
sublime Indifference. people who
know me will just say, How like
Peggy Travers! Rather two nice
looking, of course, and people
who don't know me will say.
What a lovely girl! Besides,
perhaps I shan't get it.
What will Harold say? said
Miss Harvey family. Peggy
Mr.. Harold Densmore will not
be consulted, neither now nor on
amy future occasion, observed
Miss Travers sweetly. Help
me to get it out Of this frame,
i Auntie, like an old dear. for To-
morrow is the last day for send
| ing in.
i For o week Peggy lived in .
state of semi-snbdued excite
ment. She had accepted the in
vitation to go to Newport with
her friends, and had twice been
in town TO admire covetously the
blue linen dress. She had met
Harold Densmore in fifth Avenue
as she came out of a shop, and
vouch safed him a frigid bow.
Afterward she felt little sorry
she had not tspoken to him. After
, all, they might be friends,
though she could never marry
him now. A man who could show
himself to be SO horribly jealous
ard selfish about a thing like
THAT well, it is a good thing she
had found it out before and not
after marriage. Her proud little
heart would not let her acknoWl-
edge even to herself how much
she missed the splendid young
fellow, who had been her sweet
heart from childhood. However,
she met Wilfred Macklyn direct,
" afterward, and he filled up the
afternoon nicely.
AT the end of that week she re.
ceiyed communication from
the editor of the Tuxedo Maga-
zine.
He would like to have an inter-
view with Miss Travers, and
hoped that four o'clock that after
noon would suit her.
The old dear! she exclaimed,
as she threw the note across the
! table to her aunt.
My dear, he doesn't say that
you have won the prize, said
Miss Harvey dabiously.
No, of course, he doesn't say
it, but what else in the wide
!, world could he want with
me? Don't you see the dear man
! wants to pay me the money into
my own hands. Perhaps he
will ask me to design all the
q covers for his magazine in future.
! Isn't it o joke?
AT three o'clock, arrayed in
: her best and looking her sweet
est, Peggy boarded q train for
i town. Many admiring glances
i we're cast on her by the way,
for her dainty little figure in the
] neat white serge gown was truly
j q pleasing picture.
TO occupy the time, she plan.
ned out the spendings OF that hun.
dred dollars, and had laid it out
to the last cent BY the time she
, reached the editorial Office of the
Tuxedo Magazine.
4 dohope the dear man Peggy
had q rooted conviction that
/ all editors are old) won't take
!, long to give me the money, for ]
would SO like to get my shopping
done this afternoon.
ii She smiled sweetly on the Office
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