Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-10-20
When Angelina
Came Home

YES, we're awful glad to get back
to town." confided the twelve-year-old
sister OF the young woman whose spe-
cial young man was calling for the
first time since the family returned
from the lake.
Miss Angeline--your sister-is
she glad, too?" inquired the young
man crafty.
my goodness. yes!" said the small
girl In surprise. "She's the gladdest
OF US all Angeline didn't seem to
care for any OF the things that were
real fun. like 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. All 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
count?" he repeated inquiringly. with
. 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 Angeline would have written
you about him, because that was all
she could talk or think about.
When she found his name on the
register" went on the small girl, y
thought she'd have fit or something
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 sal
at the next table!
Il was excited, too, but when
asked her II he would walk on q tight
rope. or something. she pushed me Out
Of the room.
-All the grown up. women were Just
as excited as Angeline and rushed
around whispering together. Ted ano
decided that he must have two heads
or something. SO we started out to lind
him. There was q strange man read
ing magazine In the arbor and wher
We walked In and asked. Are you
count?' he stared and then he laughed
After that he said he wasn't, but he'e
be pleased to direct us to the end o.
the pier. where we could pursue oul
inquiries.
There was another strange mai
there and didn't like him halt SO wei
as the first one. He kept jumping
around and his eyes snapped and w
stared at him long time. till he al
most jumped at us. Then asked
him. Are you count? And please
tell us what you counts?
Il don't think he liked us. because
he threw up his hands and dashed
away
she acted different with Angeline
He was always leaning over her chat
| and smiling and his voice sounded iik'
| the inside Of marshmallows Their
wasn't any other girl there as prett.
as Angeline. so. OF course, she cut GU
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 II an!
| OF those washed out. uninterest1nl
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 an,
how Angelina was such a sweet ant
lovely and brilliant girl that she ia,
always known her fate would be diifeI
ert from the common run OF younI
women. No hopors. she said once. M
honors ever heaped on Angeline's hea,
would ever make her forget to be NC
to those beneath her.
The other women just shifted an
left Angeline alone. put she had tn
count. SO she didn't care She uset
to talk about It to mother and say
Won't the other girls back home b
simply crazy jealous when they nea
about 1t. though? And mother woui
say, II only father doesn't act up! ~
1T was real fun to see Angeiin
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 al,
er she'd gone.
"One afternoon the count was goin
To take .AnRalinA riding and she Gam