Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-23

| my chin on Vivace's ear, which felt like wall flower, and kept quiet.
 Cheek of Doremus," remarked MT. Parker. Hes josher from way back How does he know Lady Betty likes dogs? should send the little : brute off to the dogs home"
 If Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox makes me : do that, shall have to go with him and stop with him, too," said l. And : almost hated MT. Parker for min ute in spite of the walking stick roses and the snowstorm of gardenias up- stairs.
 Of course, you shall keep the dog, If you want to-" said Mrs Ess Kay, ''unless we find out that he's been sent by some one undesirable, and then of course the duchess would expect me to see that you gave him back"
 "I feel somehow that we shall never find out" said, and hugged Vivace so hard, without meaning to, that he gave tiny, grunt. But he didn't mind bit and licked my hand with a tongue that was like sweet little sample of pink plush.
 I was suddenly so happy with my surprise present that forgave Ameri- ca for having imaginative reporters and wasn't homesick for the pony or for Berengaria and her puppies or any thing.
 vivace went out with US in the cleo trio carriage, and even Mrs. Ess Kay had to admire him as he sat straight < up in my lap, like a bronze statue of a dog. He's thoroughbred, any :. how" she remarked. He can't have cost penny less than $500, so who- \ ever the anonymous giver is, he must be rich man."
 I'm rather hay about dollars still, but when I heard that. I felt myself 20 red. I knew well enough that the giver-who wasn't Adam-was vtry far from being a rich man. and l couldn't bear to think that he had per haps squandered some hard earned savings on buying such an extrava- gant present for me. But the more l thought of it-which I did all the way down to the shops-the more thought 1t impossible that man who had been obliged to cross the Atlantic in the steerage would even have hun dred pounds in the world. Somebody had perhaps given him the dog from good kennel, when it was wee pup py, said to myself. but this, though it eased my mind in one way, made the gift seem all the more pathetic that that poor handsome Jim Brett { should part with something he must have loved (for who could have Vivace and not love him9 to please me. l should have liked to write note to s the Manhattan club, where he had told me he was employed, to thank him. But he had sent the present anony- mously, and I felt somehow as if he I hadn't meant or wished me to ac- knowledge it.
 While I was wondering what l < should do, the brougham stopped be- T lDT6 Sltp SNtu SVl thub il"iApd ' : or the Army and Navy stores. There were lovely things in the windows, < things that looked like American wo- men and not like English or even French ones, though I couldn't define the difference if I were ordered to with a revolver at my head.
 The petticoats and stockings and belts and lace things and parasols and :, especially blouses, were so perfectly \ thrilling that my heart began to beat quite fast at sight of them. I felt as k If I must have some immediately and when Mrs. Ess Kay said that this was ! ''quite cheap store" I said to myself that I would do something more in- !. feresting than watch her shopping,
 She had to buy handkerchefs to be- gin with, for most of hers had disap- peared in the wash at foreign hotels; ? and Sally wanted yelling. Those were necessary, and necessaries. like your daily bread and such things, are so dull. I said that I would just wander about little, as they thought they would be some time. and we made an appointment to meet in half an hour at what they called the notion counter. hadn't an idea what it was. and didn't z like to ask because I had asked so !, many questions already, but I knew that I could get some one to take me there when the half hour was up. When you want everything you see, but ayen't sure which things you want enough to buy and how many you can . afford, it's less confusing to prowl feeling of independence In strollinG about unchaperoned in a shop as big as a village ina strange foreign city.
 I really did need a sunshade to go :. with a blue dress of mine, because my snly light one If I don't count rather :, a common white thing is pink. I saw some beauties, and I wanted to ask the price, but the attendants-who were girls with lovely figures and their hair , done in exactly the same flop over 2 their foreheads-were so interested in talking about a young man they all 3 knew that it seemed cruel to interrupt them. especially as I mightn't buy the sunshade in the end. However. did venture to speak, in quite humble voice, by and by. but the girl couldn't understand a word until Id repeated everything twice. "A sunshade? Oh, you mean one of these parasawls,' she said then. Excuse me. it's your Eng fish accent I didn't quite catch at first That ones ten dollars and forty nine