Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-06
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"Well, l suppose it is our l,aiuful duty 10 go to Cousin Sarah's wedding this evening" said Tbankful a dinner the next evening
 !" Every man jack ol us and our pres scntS is desired it the marriage of their daughter, presents with q t.
 "What did you buy for the shindy. Dad?''
 "A white tic.
 Dudley, to call 3 religious ceremony t sshindv - said his sister Helena. "l bought picture to grace the f,J. lure home of the happy pair-oae wanted myself, by the way. l always covct my ncgilbor s goods 8heu all iroi.. clad social custom holds me up for some thing too valuable for me to own myself. s' don't know what we shall do with tie baby if We all go, said Mrs. he'd field sl forgot all about the affair and j, told Ese.ina she m ght go home tonight and see her mother, who is ill shall i not take it back now. "'Take her. said Theo; "I will in. cite her to rot and to set up an inspired shrick if the wedding grows too dull,
 "I will stay at home with her, cried ] Dudley eagerly
 "Now, Dnd, how mean! l was going to stay myself Let us both stay"
 "No; Dudley may stay; you must go, Elizabeth y
 "You did not speak quickly enough. .Proerastnation is the thief of time. v
 "You did not leave me any time for the thief to get. -
 "Tan is sicklied o Ter with the pale cast of thought What s the matter, Tan?'
 "Nothing''
 "Nothing' Mrs. Soule looked dismal this afternoon when I got the snow off her sidewalk. If l were as pretty as she is, I would go about clothed in a spark ling smile. V
 "Wc have new man on the paper, mamma he k very good looking; he wrote the new story we all liked so much and is at work on a novel. y
 "His name is Theodore Starr, said Mir Redfeld.
 els he the big New York jewelry mani If he is, am going to get him to give me one of those diamond pendants that I have always longed for.' CA boy with q diamond pendant! "Well, I am sure if kings and princi- I can. '
 "You might wear q pair of arc lights in your ears, like Mrs. Merton ;
 CT believe she sleeps in them Now I shouldn't really care to sleep in pend- ant but then I would inst as soon have a eoronet. Bring forth the royal dia dem come, Elizabeth, we shall be late at schools
 "Must I wear that new tight dress to the weddingS' sighed Elizabeth.
 About eleven o'clock Dudley was dog ing over his books before a large fire in the sitting-room grate. His mother had put the baby to bed in her own room next the sitting room, that Dudley might be near her.
 He stirref tae fire and lay down on the lounge for a nap.
 ''I should think they would come home sometime-I am so-slcepyi'
 In a few minutes he started awake with an awful sense of something wrong; he sprang up wide awake.
 "What was thatf 1 know I---' He picked up the poker but dropped it with a crash as he heard the baby cough, that rasping, choking cough that heralds croup. He rushed to his moter s room ana found the child sitting up, clutehing at hel throat with both little hands. She stretched her arms to him, but did not speak. He took her up anu elun.s'ly bundled a shawl around her, and took her to the fire. "Oh, Baby! what can l dc for yous Oh' why doesn't somebody comes God, she will die" The croup was growing more severe; Dudley was wild with fright and anxiety.
 "I'll go for Mrs. Soulel" He spun big easy chair before the fire, drag ged a blanket from his mothers bed wrapped the baby in it, and placed her iu