Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-05-08

values peace and kind words above every
thing, and that is just what one can not
get at The Holms."
do you mean that this sort OF thing
goes on daily?" exclaimed Alison. turning
her flushed face to the governess. do
you mean," bringing out her words with
difficulty, that papa often gives Roger
all this to bearY'
well, my dear, one must not exag-
gerate. Things are not always going
wrong at the mills, of course; and some
times we can eat our meals in peace I;
but your poor dear father-one hardly
likes to blame him to his own child
is very often hard on Mr. Roger. 1t
seems to me as though nothing Mr.. Roger
can do pleases your father and as if
Mabel can do no wrong in his eyes. You
can see for yourself, Alison, the infu-
ence she has over him"
"Yes, l see; but l can not understand
it. When | was last at home Missile
was only a child, and yet, though she is
not seventeen, and ought to be IN the
school room and under your care, she
seems completely mistress"
''She is never in the school room now"
returned Miss Leigh, leaning back wear
lily in the armchair. Sometimes she
comes in to interfere with Poppie and find
fault with some of my arrangements. But
she has coaxed your father into giving
her French and singing lessons with her
friends, the Hardwicks, and for months
she has refused to open even a history
and yet you have no idea how ignorant
she is. Nothing but mischief has result
ed from her intimacy with Eva Hard
wick. l have spoken to your father over
and over again about it. but he listens to
Mabels version of her friends character,
and only the other day be told me | must
be mistaken, for Eva was a bright, high
spirited girl, and it was all nonsense what
Mr.. Roger and l said about her."
Roger dislikes her, then?"
"Oh, yes; he never speaks to her II
he can help it. She is a fne-looking girl
older than Mabel. but vain and empty
headed, thinking of nothing but balls and
hirtations: and you know how dangerous
a friend of that sort is to a girl of Ma
bells age. To do Mabel justice, she was
not half so vain and fond of dress and
hnery until she went so much to the
Hardwicks. They have completely turn
ed her head, and. worst of all. Eva has
taken dislike to Roger because he re-
fuses to pay her any attention and laughs
at all their nonsense; and that sets Ma
bel against her brother. Mabel always
had temper of her own" went on Miss
Leigh, feeling a sort of relief in pouring
out her feelings into Alison's ear, but
she was never so aggravating as she is
now. You see, my dear, If a girl does not
hold her own home as sacred. if she
chooses a giddy young companion for her
conhdante, and retails to her all that
passes in her own household. finding fault
with her own people, and listening to her
friends estimate of them, she may end
as Mabel does, in thinking her brothers
rough and unmannerly, and Poppie dis
agreeable little girl"
DO you mean Missile Is so dishonora-
bic as 70 repeat to Miss Hardwick all
that passes al The Holmsg" asked Ali
son, Indignantly.
They do not think IL dishonorable,"
returned Miss Leigh, with q quiet good
sense which Alison had never credited
her. you see, Mabel calls Eva her
bosom friend. and refuses 10 have any
secrets from her If Eva comes this af-
ternOon, all that passed al The luncheon
table between your father and Mr. Roger
VII pc retailed, as a matter Of course.
Even If Mabel were disposed 10 be-
ieiicent for once, Eva. who Is Of an TO-
qnisltiYe nature, and who completely
dominates her would soon worm the
whole thing from bier. She has % grudge
against Ar. Roger and nothing would
please her more than 10 hear of fhis hu.
initiation ] have reason 10 know. Ali.
son, mar y - by EYas advice that Mabel
intends ~ Keep your room. ! haYe heard
per say myself fhat " course, AS your
home y Nith Mlss Darlington, son have
resigned your privilege here as ihe eldest
daughter and tlai There ls ~ need for
mabel % knoai under completely phose
hfff pe very words"
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