The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-09-07
The COACHMAN
AND THE MAID
Double representation Leads
to a Wedding.

Miss Childers' maid got into the vic
toria and, leaning back as If she ha'
been born in victoria, rode to Mont
view.
when will your mistress arriveT
asked Mrs. Sanderson when the mai
had made Miss Childers' excuses.
by the same train tomorrow
maam"
Singular" muttered the lady, 'tha
she should have sent her maid ahead.
Later on Miss Childers' maid noticed
a gentleman in evening dress goinI
down to dinner, and during the even
ing, while she was passing the timt
in the sewing room doing some mend
ing, he stumbled in.
Pardon me-" he said ~ didn'
Enow there was any one here"
You're eXcusable. sir"
''Are you Miss Childers' maidY'
81 am, sir"
you have very nice mistress,
am told"
"Passable. sir"
You're not very enthusiastic"
NY LlLoA4'- hOtSi l httu a CL1l az
ter from her maid"
Did you get such sprightly repartee
from Miss ChiIders?"
Miss Childers does not pride herself
on repartee. She has matters of i'm.
portance to interest her and keep her
from chatting her interiors"
II trust she hasn't the keen edged
tongue of her maid"
"She may need it, I'm told she's
thinking of marriage"
rs she to get a fine felOw?"
Il trust he will he above bandying
words with her maid"
THAT depends upon the maid. One
as pretty and as bright as she who has
come here before her mistress would
tempt any man"
The maid lowered her eyes.
what do you consider Miss Chill
ders' best trait?'
THAT she is fully aware of her own
faults"
How long do you think 1t will take
her to become aware of the faults of
the man she is to marry?"
Miss Childers will have the good
sense to ignore them All people have
faults. 1t is the duty OF married cou-
pies to find excuses for each other"
You mean that II her husband
passes time that would otherwise hang
heavy on his hands chatting with her
maid his wife will find an excuse for
him"
IF she does he will not deserve such
a wife"
Then If you were Miss Childers he
would not fare so we'll"
I'VE are discussing Miss Childers,
not her maid"
''In this matter let US consider the
maid You blame me. gentleman.
for chatting with you. servant Sup
pose Miss Childers were to become a
pauper and go out to service. Would
you expect me to recognize her for
what she had been?"
THAT is different"
"In what respectw
Miss Childers would be lady who
had only recently become a servant"
How long would she need to be
servant before my recognition OF her
would be inexcusable?"
ut would never be inexcusable."
Every well. Suppose you were Miss
Childers and had only today become |
her maid"
The girl cast quick glance at him.
Suppose" she said in reply, that |
you had only this afternoon become |
Mr.. Reginald Sanderson's coachman"-
Good" he said. You being Miss
Childers' maid and Mr.. Sanderson's
coachman, | am free to tell you that
this is case of love at first sight"
A long pause.
would you. were you Miss Childers,
consider it a proper thing to become
your maid?'
"And would you, being Mr.. Sander
son. demean yourself by becoming
your coacbman"
II would-to see woman unguard-
ed who ought be my wife"
"And what could be Miss Childers'
object" he asked, ''in becoming her
OWN maid?
"Once upon a time" continued the
nan. "a princess was betrothed to a
prince she had never seen. Desiring
% observe him incog, she personated
Ter own maid and went to visit the
princess mother. The prince, poor fool,
linking TO see his fancee when she
vas not masqueradiRg-in fact. to do
he masquerading himself-drove his
carriage TO the station, where. 10 and
,ehold, he found not her, but her maid.
at not meeting the mis-
ress. he solaced himself by chatting
With the maid and-lost his heart"
Miss Childers' maid looked up with
smile But she was Miss Chill
nean the princess"
"And the coachman was Mr.. SAM
lean the prince"
Mrs. Sanderson. passing upstairs,
Aring voices in the serving room,
Nd in and was inexpressibly :
hooked to see Miss Childers' maid in !
he arms of her son. The fond moth 5
r kept the secret. She was not sur
rised the next morning when the girl. +
laking an excuse, departed. but she
-as surprised when Miss Childers ar
vad later at the resemblance be-