The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-01-31
Angeline
Came Home

| ies' "ere aWIul glad to get back
10 town, conf1ded the twelve-year-o old
sister OF the young woman whose spe.
clai young man was calling for the
nrst 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
girl IN surprise. She's the gladdest
0f us all. AngeIine didn't seem to
care Tor 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 Angeline wanted to do was
70 put on another dress and do up her
nalr and moon around with the count"
Inc young man sat up straight. THE
count?" he repeated inquiringly. with
nasty 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. II 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, IL
thought she'd have At or something,
lor she came rushing upstairs and
dragged out her best white embroid-
cred linen suit.
Why. she said to mother, did 1
put on this horrid. cheap blue ging-
ham for breakfast this morning? DO
you suppose he was the one who sat
at the next table,
was excited. too, but when l
asked her II he would walk on a tight
rope, or something. she pushed me out
OF the room
All the grown up women were Just
as excited as Angelne 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 a strange man read
ing a magazine in the arbor and when
we walked In and asked, Are you a
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 our
inquiries.
There was another strange man
there and didn't like him half 80 well
as the first one Te irpt jumping
arount ana ais eyes snapped ana We
stared lt MIN Ions time TIL he al
most iGmQeo- II Us. Then I asked
him, Arc you count? And please
tell Is what you COUNT
Il don't think he liked us, because
he threw up his hands and dashed
away.
He acted different with Angeline.
He was always leaning over her chair
and smiling and his voice sounded like
the inside OF marshmallows. There
wasn't any other girl there as pretty
as Angeline. so, of course. she cut out
all the others"
She did. did she?" remarked the
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 any
OF those washed out, uninteresting
girls there thought they were going to
get ahead of her they were mistaken
Mother got real patronizing to the
other women and was always talking
about estates and family trees and
how Angeline was such a sweet and
lovely and brilliant girl that she had
always known her fate would be differ
ent from the common run of young
women. No honors.' she said once. no
honors ever heaped on Angelines head
would ever make her forget to be nice
to those beneath her.
The other women just shifted and
left Angeline alone, but she had the
count, so she didn't care. She used
to talk about it to mother and say,
Won't the other girls back home be
simply crazy jealous when they hear
about it, though" And mother would
say, If only father doesn't act up.
1T was real fun to see Angeline
sweep through the hotel lobby like a
queen and smile sweetly at the other
women and see how cross they'd look
and how they'd rock fast and talk aft
er she'd gone.
one afternoon the count was going
TO take Ange.ine riding and she came
downstairs all rigged out and he
wasn't there. Finally she asked the
man behind the desk. Have you seen
the count? | am waiting for him.
There were lot of people around