The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-03-14

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AT this they both laughed.
ITS curious" Dorothy continued
"how different it is to be hungry whcr
you arc gong TO have something TO cat-and when
you aren'tp'
Agatha sighed
Il don't Sec' she reflected, "how VIC were both so
crazy as TO carry all our-our all as the novcsts
say, in our 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 sec how l could have been so s,upid-but 1
was"
Wouldn't Jim bc-ntolerablc, you know con-
tinucd Agatha, ''ii he were to find out, Yet it
isn't much to lose, really; l was down to
twenty odd dollars; | know because had been so
careful carry the big notes in my secret pocket
and took them all to pay for that Hcppcwhi.e
table; and it didn't worth while to put back
only two notes; so was carrying them in my bag
Il did that very thing said Dorothy, but oh.
dear mine fifty" Then with sudden inspira-
ton, "wc might pawn jewcry." she said. We've
got some rings and Our watches with u.s.
But Agatha shook gloomy head you forget
that there's no pawn-shop this out-of-the-way
village-it would be desecration to this prim old
street"
We'll there's one thing don't let US do if VIC have
TO go without all three meals; don't let wire to
brother. He that 1t foolish in to
go poking off to a New England village for antique
furniture. Don't you remember how he insisted
taking Therese or Amelia and prophcsied we
should be sending him wire for money a trained
to get out of the JAIL or-somcthng;
and you said they wouldn't receive a telegram of
distress from unless 1t matter of life and
death? Let's not give nl'
That's the spritr cxulted Agatha, embracing her.
well fe1 way out
Dorothy knitted her brows. Very lovely dark brows
they were, darker than her dart-brown hair Their
thick dusky arch and her long black eycashc gave her
violet eyes something OF mystery and appeal and made
the sweetness of her face plantivc. She was very
slcndcr-too slcndcr-and there touch OF languor
her graccs. Indeed Dorothys health had given her
sister anxious hours of late The girl grew paer and
thinner all the time; she easily tired. and she
far too docc 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 is" said he soberl, you very rich people all live
unnaurally stupid lives. Now you've got to think of
something different enough from what you've been do
ing catch her interest Tor long enough put few
pounds Of flesh on her bones"
You mean a trip,-she and with no but
maid7"
Just yourselves, iprfioat maid Give her some
thing to do if its only her hair" And he was gone,
Irraby chewing his cigar. He had not suspected any
clue to Dorothys unhappineSs-or spared her the
lion if he did suspect But Agatha knew. She knew
that Dorothy had made hero of their distant cousin,
Ned Wentworth, since they were 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 nourshed dur
ing the whole of his college course. And Agatha
day came charrcd bunch of newspaper notices
in her sisters fireplace about the famous football quarter
b1ck thc np rcfor
lawyer THIS was only little while before the doctors
talk Agatha put up a brave front TO her father and
her brother. But inwardly she aroused the
doctor
The sisters went to Massachusetts together. a
search for some wonderful old furniture among 1t
less than Hepplcwhitc scrutoIr given by Horace
Walpolc himself to Philip Wentworth time gov
ernor and descending through him and long line OF
Colonial worthless 10 Mrs Hannah Wentworth Prem
tiee who being stricken in years, with offspring left
her. announced in the public prints that she would sell
her furniture to any descendants OF the old
who could pay her price and satisfy her ideas OF their
fitness to Colonial furniture.
Therefore. they had CONC to tho old home of the
Wcntworths; and, it Happened, they had sheltered
themselves under tho roof pf Mrs. Love Prentice
daughtcr-in-law Madam Prentice Of the furniture
For two days Agatha had submitted to Madam Prem
ticcs inspection herself only ooverty inspecting the
furniture By that time the Wcserners felt sense of
isolation and chilly drust They rather glad 10
30 to Boston and hunt furniture 1t their re-
turn to 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 restaurant the village boosted paying for
each meal they got IT.
undc
lunchcd nor dined-nor breakfasted Now Agatha
looked anxiously at her delicate sister. Don't you
worry sweetheart" she said brightly. only, 60 I'M
mcdiatcly back to bed You'll I'll fetch you
something in little while" As she spoke she was