The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-03-20

N Awful" answered Dorothy one
whose feelings beyond the trammel
- Of grammar.
At this they both laughed.
"Its curious" Dorothy continued
'how different it is to be hungry wher
you are going to have something to eat-and when
you arent!"
Agatha sighed.
II don't see,' she reflected, chow we were both SO
crazy to carry all our-our all the novelists
say in bags. And then to lose both bags! OF
course, left them in the train when we changed
cars And after Brother James had so warned us
don't how could have been stupid-but
wasp
"Wouldnt Jim be-intolerable, you know" con
tinued Agatha, eff he to find out! Yet il
isn't so much to lose, really; l down to
twenty odd dollars; know because had been SO
careful carry the big notes in my secret pocket,
and took them all out to pay for that Hepplewhi.e
table; and it didn't worth while to put back
only two notes. so was carrying them in my bag. y
II did that very thing said Dorothy, but oh
dear, mine was fifty" Then, with sudden inspira-
tion. I'VE might pawn jewery," she said We've
got some rings and watches with u.s."
But Agatha shook gloomy head. "You forget
that there's no pawn-shop in this out of-the- way
village-it would be desccration to this prim old
street"
"Well, there's orc thing don't let do if we have
- go without all three meals; don't let wire to
brother. He srrc that 1t was foolish in us ia
go pokng off to New England village for antique
furniture. Don't you remember how he insisted
taking Therese or Amelia and prophesed we
should be sending him wire for money a trained
nurse to get out of the Jail. or-something;
and you said they wouldn't receive telegram of
distress from unless it were matter of life and
death? Let's not give in"
That's the spritF' cxul.cd Agatha, embracing her.
well find a way out"
Dorothy knitted her brows. Very lovely dark brows
they were, darker than her darkbrown hair Their
thick dusky arch and her long black eyelahes gave her
violet eyes something of mystery and appeal and made
the sweetness of her face plaintivc. She very
slender-too sender-and there touch OF languor
In her graces. Indeed Dorothys health had given her
sister anxious hours of late The girl grew palcr and
thinner all the time; she easily tired and she
far too docile when the doctor put balls and dinner
dances under the BAN
He had known Dorothy all her life and he fumed
over her apathy. Then he turned very serious "The
fact u.s." said he sobey, you very rich people all live
unraturay stupid lives Now you've got think of
something different enough from what you've been do
ing catch her interest for long enough to put few
pounds Of flesh on her bones"
you mean trip-shc and with but
snaide"
lust yourselves acitiout a maid Give her some
thing to do if its only her hair" And he gone,
irritaby chewing his cigar He had not suspected any
clue to Dorothys unhappiness-or spared her the
ton if he did suspect But Agatha knew. She knew
that Dorothy had made hero OF their distant cousin
Ned Wentworth since they children together
and he had saved her from the mad dog. The year
after he graduated from Harvard they had suddenly
broken off the correspondence which had fourshed dur
ing the whole of his college And Agatha
day charred bunch of newspaper notices
in her sisters fireplace about the famous football quarter
back the promising young reformer, the brilliant young
lawyer This only little while before the doctors
talk Agatha put UP brave front to her father and
her brother But nwardly, she aroused as the
doctor.
The sisters went to Massachusetts, together on
search for wonderful old furniture among it
less than Hepplcwhite 'scrutoir given by Horace
Walpolc himself to Philip Wentworth, time gov
ernor, and descending through him and long line of
Colonial worthless to Mrs. Hannah Wentworth Prem
lce, who being stricken in years. with offspring left
her. announced in the public prints, that she would self
her furniture to any descendants of the old governor
who could pay her price and satisfy her ideas of their
fitness to Colonial furniture
Therefore. they had come to the old home Of the
Wentworths; and it happeaed. they had sheltered
themselves under the roof Vt Mrs. Love-Prentice
daughter Madam Prentice of the furniture
For two days Agatha had submitted to Madam Prem
tees inspection herself only coverty inspecting the
furniture BY that time the Westerners felt sense of
isolation and chilly distrust They rather glad
70 to Boston and hunt furniture. It their
the village the preceding forenoon that they
had lost all their money.
Agatha had paid Mrs. Prentice in advance for the
lodging so the sisters felt Of roof over their
heads for at least week They had been getting their
meals the the village boosted paying for
each meal they got It.
Naturally, under the circumstances they had not
iunched nor dned-nor breakfasted. Now Agatha
looked anxously al her delicate sister Don't YOU
worry sweetheart" she said brightly, "only, go i'm
mediate'y back to bed You'll Til fetch you