The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-01-14

well as not. It's little bit of a
n,own house on a side street-you
Il ,.isbt have trouble finding it, but I've
+.Een Alice home several times after
e,ub-she is such nice girl"
Eleanor Barnard did not mean her
B .oue to sound condescending, but she
w,s in a particularly elegant" mood
mat afternoon.
She and Helen Perley were coming
snwn the steps of Mrs. Longley's
school for girls. Helen was a new
conner in the school and in the town.
She was a pleasant, attractive girl,
hut what gave her special prestige in
the eyes of her new schoolmates was
that her grandfather. now dead, had
been Governor of the State, and her
father, brilliant lawyer, although
still young man, was spoken of as
likely to go even further than the
elder Perley had done.
Eleanor Barnard's father was the
owner of large mill, a man who had
made his own way and fortune, and
+. enjoyed the high esteem of the COM
I. munity. In Mrs. Longley's school
Z Eleailor was the only girl who had a
carriage at her own disposal. It was
really her mothers, and was only
very handsome park phaeton drawn
by very gentle sorrel horse.
There was just one shadow over
her pleasure in the use of the
phaeton Danny, the sorrel, was
fine, aristocratic-looking animal,
free traveller and perfectly fearless;
but among her fathers delivery
horses was one reserved for light
work only, a creature so superlatively
handsome that in Eleanor's opinion
Danny looked like yellow COW be-
side him. Charlie was snowy, up
standing iron-gray, beautifully dap
pied, with an arching neck and
proudly carried tail. Eleanor often
teased her father to let her drive
Charlie before the phaeton, but al
ways met with half-iaughing re-
fusal.
To-day Eleanor had for the first
time invited Helen Perley to drive
with her in the park, and Helen had
accepted the invitation joyously.
Il wonder" she said, whether,
while we are up in the neighborhood,
you would mind running in with me
to call on my cousin, Mazda Fanshaw?
l ought to go there soon"
Eleanor was delighted. She did
not know Mazda although
she had long desired to. The Fan
shaws were one of the oldest families
in town, and the thought of calling
upon Mazda thus Familiarity with
Helen Perley set all her latent social
ambitions to purring contentedly.
She formed a great resolution.
When she stopped at the livery stable
at noon to order the phaeton, she told
the man in charge to put "Prince
Charlie" as she called him, into the
shafts.
The man looked puzzled. prince
Charlie?" he queried. do you mean
that there proud-going dapple-gray
of Mr.. Barnards?"
yes Eleanor replied, little
haughtily, and he ventured re-
monstrance.
why, miss" he said, "you don't
want to drive that there Charlie
horse, do your"
Yes, Eleanor was sure she did.
please have the phaeton at the
school promptly at half past two, ;"
and she swept away, full of school
rir or, ha
scratch his head in genuine per-
plexity.
At half past two boy from the
stable stood at Charles head before
the school as Eleanor and her guest
came down the steps. The handsome
gray certainly made a picture, set off
by Danny's harness and the stylish
phaeton. He was not altogether COM
Portable. His own bride bore neither
check-rein nor binders. Dannys over
draw did not restrain that beautiful
crest and proudly held head, but he
tossed it impatiently now and then
m a way that gave him an unusually
spirited air
Helen noticed it as the girls came
down the walk.
OH" she cried. "Do you drive
that beautiful creature? Aren't you
afraid of him."
Eleanor laughed as she stood to
let Helen enter the phaeton. Hes
perfectly gentle" she said, land l am
used to driving"
Eleanor took up the reins and
whip and they were off. The phaeton
was large one, but its weight was
nothing as compared with that OF
even light express wagon with sew
eral barrels of -four, and Charlie
missed the steadying resistance of his
usual load. He put unnecessary
strength into propelling the light
vehicle, and once or twice, at a word
from Eleanor, he accelerated his ex-
press wagon gait.
AS he settled by degrees into a
comprehension of his new task, the
TWO girls talked of school matters.
Helen was not quite prepared. as to
her Latin, for the class which she
could otherwise easily enter, and Mrs.
Longley had suggested that Alice
Graydon, who was unusually clever
al Latin, might coach her SO as to
bring her up to the class work. Alice
mad not been at school that day. and
Eleanor offered to take Helen to see
her, after their other call had been
made.