The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-10-28
When Angelina
Came Home

to town." conflded the tWeve-year-oid
sjstcr OF the young woman whose spe-
cial young man was calling for the
first time since the family returned
from the lake.
"Er-Miss Angeline--your sister--is
she glad. too" inquired the young
man craftily,
MY goodness. yes!" said the small
Kir. In surprise. She's the gladdest
OF us all Angelina didn't seem to
care for any Of the things that were
| real fun, Hike Ted and | did--she was
always afraid OF getting sunburned or
| something | don't think when you
| grow up there Is much left in life to
| enjoy Ali Angelina wanted to do was
to put on another dress and do up her
hair and moon around with the count,
The young man sat up straight. The
/ hasty glance at the stairs. Who
was he?"
why, didn't you know there was a
| real count at the lake?" asked the
small girl In surprise. Il should have
thought Angelina would have written
you about him, because that was all
she could talk or think about.
When she found his name on the
rehister" went on the small girl Il
for she came rushing upstairs and
/ dragged out her best white embroid-
cred linen suit.
Why she said to mother. did |
put on this horrid. cheap blue ging-
ham for breakfast this morning. DO
you suppose he was the one who sat
at the next tablet
Il was excited, too, but when
asked her II he would walk on tight
rope, or something she pushed me cat
of the room
"All the grown up women were just
as excited as Angelina and rushed
around whispering together. Ted and
decided that he must have two heads
or something, so we started out to find
him. There was strange man read
ing a magazine In the arhor and when
we walked In and asked, Are you q
COUNT he stared and then he laughed
After that he said he wasn't, but he'd
be pleased to direct us to the end OF
the pier, where we could pursue ouI
inquiries.
There was another strange mar
there and didn't like him half so wei
as the first one. He kept jumping
around and his eyes snapped and W.
stared at him a long time. till he al
most jumped at us. Then | asked
him. Are you count? And please
tell us what you count?
Il don't think he liked us, because
be threw up his hands and dashed
away
He acted different with Angelina
He was always leaning over her chat
and smiling and his voice sounded lik'
the inside of marshmallows Their
wasn't any other girl there as prett,
as Angelina, so. of course, she cut on
all the others"
she did, did she?" remarked tn,
young man in tense tones. with an
other glance at the stairs. go on!"
"Oh, my, yes" said the small girl
she told mother she guessed IL an.
of those washed out, uninterestint
girls there thought they were going t,
get ahead of her they were mistaken
Mother got real patronizing to tn,
other women and was always talkini
about estates and family trees ant
how Angeline was such a sweet ant
lovely and brilliant girl that she ha,
always known her fate would be differ
ent from the common run of youni
women. NO honors,' she said once. n,
honors ever heaped on Angeline's hea,
would ever make her forget to be mic,
to those beneath her.
The other women Just shifted an,
left Angelina alone, put she had tn,
count, so she didn't care. She use,
to talk about It to mother and say
Won't the other girls back home b,
simply crazy jealous when they hea
about It, though? And mother woul,
say, If only father doesn't act upl
1T was real fun to see Angelin
sweep through the hotel lobby like
queen and smile sweetly at the othe
women and see how cross they'd loo
and how they'd rock fast and talk AT
eT she'd gone.
"One afternoon the count was goin
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