The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-11-13

as very old hand I suggest you will
not yet do better than employ lead
Hastings: and II you wish to give an
extra >fillet to the whole weather corr
ner you can etc, etc.
Then Miss Lizzie received papa's
much-correctcd MS. and fair.copied It
with her ladylike handwriting. AMI
only very rarely slipped in the tran-
scription. 1t was In this very letter
that she slipped badly. Something mad
distracted her. Hill Rise had drawn
her gaze. A sound of horses feet per-
haps caused her to look up. and she
had watched Mr. Jack Vincent ride
home to Hill House on his prancing
bay. Anyhow, she made her dreadful
| mistake Of putting "filiip" for "hllet."
The editor allowed 1t to pass. III
you wish to give an extra filllp to thu
corher'-no sense at all--gibberish.
Mr.. Crunden was deeply mortified.
but not unkind to Lizzie apologizig
profusely.
Don't speak of 1t again. Let's for
get 1t. want to forget it. +. l dare
say no one will not.ce."
And no one did.
One day was very like another. and
! when that can be said OF days. months
soon roll themselves into years. Shell
tered by the thick old walls OF Kings
lyet 1t glided away.
When papa took his second walk Liz
zie usually took her first. In the spring
time and early summer she was Lam
! gu!d. and averse from the long tranlps
across the common which DIR. Blake
prescribed for all young ladies' who
consulted him. She would go out with
a novel from Mr. Mee's circulating IL
brary in Bridge Street. stroll up to the
woods. and there. on bench or bank.
languidly rest and read.
Upon bright May afternoon, as she
strolled upward, Hill Rise might have
I been real hill a mountain almost
she felt so languld. Hill Rise was look
ling its best; the laburnums and chest
nut trees We're in full bloom: SUM
blinds were out at Nos. and 8: this
spring Mr.. Abinger had been lavish
with new paint, pointing. and color
washing on behalf of the Countess
| Dowager. Seen behind the fresh green
OF the foliage, every house looked spic
| and span and smart and clean, as well
as imposing and aristrocrattc.
Out OF No. IL came Miss Granville
and Miss Page, family pattering on
rubber shoes, talking, laughing. swing
| ing their tennis rackets. as they has
I'stared hard at Lizzie as town girl.
who did not please them for walking
! up Hill Rise In a burnt straw hat and
| blue dress which they would not have
been ashamed to wear themselves.
THAT girl fancies herself" said Miss
Page to Miss Granville. Il talked to
her at the Hospital Bazaar, but sup
pose she doesn't expect I'm going to
| nod to her ever afterwards
What neSt?" said Miss Granville.
And they tossed their heads and
laughed as they went in at the club
wicket.
Out of No. II came Admiral Lardner.
red-faced. wy-patcd. carrying a
/ heavy croQuet mallet. FIe was very old.
and short-stghted evidently, because he
Idoffed his high helmet to Lizzie, mis-
taking her for Hill Rise girl.
Out OF No. Is. where the two hired
broughams were waiting. came whole
luncheon party-the eldest Miss Vigor.
the Vicar of st. Barnabas. Mr.. and
Mrs. Garrett, and Mrs. Padheld. Won
dtrful old dame In party costume with
Vast black bonnet, lace shawl. and pur-
pie velvet skirts. They al, stared at
Lizzie. Opposite the white gate Of
\ Hill House she paused before turning
4 into the footpath which runs between
Sir Johns garden wall and Lady Had-l
/, dinghan,'s meadows. and leads you to
the stile that gives entrance-for all
well-behaved persons to the Grown
Elwoods.