The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-04-14
Her Birthday
V0Iets.
BY NELL SPEED


Y Naturally the new boarder had been
seated beside the landlady's favorite,
Miss Imogene Goldberg. Mrs. De Lam
esy firmly believed that Miss Gold
bergs high blond pompadour and rhine
stone dog collar lent eclat to her estab-
lishment.
Butt oddly enough, jams Williams
whose hair Was parted demurely IN the
middle and who wore her grandmoth-
sr's old fashioned locket under her
plain poneee shirt waist, realized that
the fne gray eyes OF the new boarder
were looking her way frequently and
.ntently.
she tried to anslyze her feelings with
the salad. and when the coffee such
thick. yet spiritless coffee-was served
abe decided that It was embarra ssment
and not memory which stirred her
whenever the gray eyes glanced her
way.
Still at the conclusion Of the meal
she climbed three uncompromising
tights OF poorly carpeted stairs to her
hall room and drew from her trunk her
small but treasured box Of photographs.
There they were; the father who had
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..Never mind about the coffee. rye
oversight but I'll be down in q few
minutes"
She Was undoing the box with trem-
bling fingers. and the maid. all unno-
ffceds fingered scuriously. Out came
great bunch Of California violets done
M In the most approved fashion-pur-
pie foil. cord. tasseT and all.
sFor me? Impossiblei And there ~
no card"
She turned to the lid of the box.
Gabrielle"
The florist around the corner!
oh. it had been cruel mistake. No
one in the great city knew It was her
birthday, and none would care If they
knew.
Nov. Jane williams. she said as
sternly as was possible with a mouth
half full of .hairpins, fright after break
fast you'il take that box back. 1t be-
longs to some other Miss williams"
And it went back, the excited girl
rushing right past the new boarder In
her haste-and, yes. in her tiny heart
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