The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-10

clamorous quarrel The clock tckcd minutes noisily, and still each continued avoid meeting
 At last Miss Caroline spoke
 Don't be too hard me, Jane," she pleaded miserab1y
 eaPn suddenly her sS% ps Ro1 @itsos oeud oS s5 ever do it? To think of all we've borne and puf 1p It isn't if you didn't know" she went on reie8t lessly You know just as well as do. There isn't any better than you do, Caroline. And then think
 er voce ad ayspsd S sp 1t IS sq % too set her teeth resolutely into her lips to steady it guilt Her feeling had been one of shame at first. put It changed to sorrow she realized her sisters estimate of the depths to which she had descended
 T want you to Know one thing, Jane," she began at last as if she trying lessen her sisters began as lark. intended to do it only once You things just for the eaperiencesort of social study,
 Yes, admitted Miss Jane patiently She was too true to her city and herself to deny the fact merely because she could not understand it. There were i-
 And then." Miss Caroline went on, seven though 3a It was wrong, it couldn't hurt anybody but me
 'I should think not" said Miss Jane with some os 2naRs m sffs why E you had it. came upon it last May b rather have gone wondering as long as lve''
 Then found out how pleasant it was and she eclamed you can't imagine how deligb3f it IS! You sit there way up above the horses and yoa there how shabby the coach is Ali you see is the carriages around and you just feel as if you were Tn one, too And there comes blockade and you stop and wait just like the And then you go on again And you come up past Delmonico's and they're just lighting up. And then you go by the cathedral Oh Jane, it's simply grand-and so cheap too she went on with note of sadness; "it's the only thing can afford"
 The last sentence with its touch of unconscious pathos, reached the elder woman's heart. Perhaps what had gone before had not been without effect. She herself had plenty of the kind of imagination her sister displayed though in lesser degree Miss Caroline saw all this the stern, hard lips relaxed under her words.
 Jane" she said softly, coming over and laying her hand gently her sisters shoulder, won't you try 1t, just onceP
 No," retorted Miss Jane firmly, suddenly ral1ying to her old stiffness.
 ..Just for lark, you know. The best people"
 "No," reiterated Miss Jane.
 Il could get you green veil, so nobody need know who we are went on the tempter. And you'd enjoy it so much know you would"
 Miss Jane determinedfy shook her head but try it responded with failing vgor Miss Caroline silently noted her conquest and considered it eepe- dient to go and give orders to Maria. No further alluslon was made to her escapade during the ming, which spent in reading from Hannah More.
 toward Third avenue and bought second green veil in horrible store that had great vulgar price marks on everything in the windows.
 And now on pleasant afternoons may occasion ally see the dingy stage rattle by among a hundred splendid equipages. On the outside Sit two womaniy figures in wellbrushed habits and thick green veils. When there comes blockade the stage waits patiently and then they all start again and go on together. It reaches Delmonicos just as the lights are beginning to twinkle, and lumbers on stage stops. two passengers alght, and the green wells are guiltily removed.