The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-11

anu he m Fatty quarrel. Lazy
Muriel vainly advises Patty to live
under Mrs. Marks's care.
Continued From Ycsterday.)
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That Patty was an Objectionable adj
dition to the Arundale workers Lady
Muriel had decided when she first
caught a glimpse of her that Sunday
afternoon; for Lady Muriel, grande
dame though she was, was jealous of
every pretty face, sven though the gift
of beauty had been bestowed on one
in all seeming so utterly out of her
life as a poor work girl. When she
had had a little conversation with Patty
she wal more inclined than ever to
mark her dangerous" especially since
she had been told that Mr.. Schippheim
elected to patronize her.
"She is a pert hussy.' she said to
Bertha as they toiled up the hill to the
house. their visit being over. II think
you had better not go there, Bertha,
without me; an impertinent girl like
that may be very rude to you"
II am not afraid of her, cousin Mu-
riel, and perhaps 1 might. be able to
humanize her a little. She is not the
first of the Arundale people l have
got an influence over. I'll go If you
wish it,"
"Humphl" said Lady Muriel; as she
remained lost in thought for a few
minutes.
The result of her cogitations was to
the effect that Bertha was to go and
see Patty, find out all she could about
her and report it to Lady Muriel. She
did not put this in plain language, be-
cause there vas a quiet loyalty about
Bertha which Lady Muriel respected
without even quite knowing it. That
loyalty she more han half suspected
would have made Bertha resent being
sent as a spy eve on lowly Patty, and
Lady Muriel did not wish to lose one
shred of Bertha's high esteem. She
merely told her, as she habitually did,
what she wished her to do, without
giving her any reasons or even limiting
at what she believed would be the re-
suit of her doings.
Having got leave to visit Patty, Ber-
tina looked quite radiant. She had
taken a great fancy to the lonely girl,
and she resolved forthwith to make a
humble friend of her. If there were
hard strong bits in Patty's character,
Bertha trusted that by means of gen.
tleness n soft words she might be
enabled to smooth them down.
This was not exactly what Lady
Muriel wanted. She wanted an eye Kept
on Patty in case .of future mischief,
but she generally looked on Bertha's
sketchy schemes for moral reform as
the mere harmful crotehets of a vision
airy, and so troubled herself very little
about them.
Just as this subject was settled so
far, n they were quite near home,
the two ladies were overtaken by some
one.
Good gracious. Mr.. Schippheim, you
up here at this hour" cried Lady Mu-
riel, in some surprise.
Good gracious, Mr.. Schippheim, you
up here at this hour" cried Lady Muriel
in some surprise.
You think 1 ought always to have
my nose well to the grindstone, L sup
pose, and there is no work to be done
so near Dale House. You are mistaken
for once, Lady Muriel."
How SOP"
Il am going TO nave a new painting
room built on the ridge yonder. The
light will be SO good. I have been
choosing the ground"
why did you not ask me to Gomez"
Because 1 thought you were better
engaged, and that / could manage the
affair with the assistance of M. Bru-
meau. And now, having given an ac-
count of my actions, pray tell me where
you and Miss Bertha have been, since 1
find you toiling in the sun up from
Arundale this hot morning"
Lady Muriel cast a ~siIencing glance
~ partl. kI1 ..1--ws.~ - --t.szI. H.
girl in NJ wise understood, and said
quickly:
"Only seeing one or two of our poor
neighbors and buying some ribbon for
a sash for Eric. My brother and his
wife, the Auchinlees, are coming to-
morrow. you know. You'll come and
dine. won't your
Lord and Lady Auchinlee are much
too grand folk for me. I never know
what TO say when I am in that sort of
society"
What nonsense, Mr.. Schippheim!"
at is quite true, my lear lady. l am
a man of a certain amount of means,
gained, I hope, by honest labor; but 1
came of the people, and to the people
l still belong. L am not one of those
who care for a mixture of classes"
II suppose you think Herbert made
q mistake when he married me, or I
made a mistake when 1 married him;
which was it, Mr.. Schippheim?"
II should not attempt to give any
opinion on such a subject. Folk are
the best judges for themselves in such
matters"
But o gave your sisters son,
Christian Meyer. a good education, you
put him in the army and made a gen.
tleman of him"
IT do not consider that / have any
right to keep another man down be-
cause I do not care to rise. Christian
wished to go into the army, so he went.
He hated pots and pam he said; If he
had liked them he would have been a
rich man by this time; now. he is a