Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-03-02

ats a wicked shame you
san't go to prayer meeting" Louise
exploded. tossing the pink gown
spitefully onto the bed.
Mrs. Cleves laughed softly. why
IT'S all in the days work. child. sbe
said. II did think I'd like to hear
Dady Cane pray one more time
He's such saint. and 50 old, eacn
prayer may be the iast--but Miiiy
didn't know-and her heart 10 50 set
on wearing pink tomorrow might
when she has twenty other frocks
to wear" Louise interrupted rebel
liously. I'm fact she has everything
in the world a girl can want. ! have
nothing"
"Sure?" Mrs. Gleves asked. with .
keen glance at her helper.
Louise was SO pretty It was JOY
to contemplate her. even without tne
contrast Of poor. dumpy kindly
Milly Durham. Milly. indeed. had
everything but beauty and charm
tho beauty and charm that were
Louise's birthright. She liked the
little sewing girl. and tried hard u
be kind to her. but Louise made u
difficult---she was SO proud. so re
sentful OF patronage. and. since truti
must be spoken. SO envious.
Il wonder what It Is like-to d.
| fine from top to toe--and feel
doesn't matter II you ruin every
thing" she said at last. looking u
from the machine.
She sat sewing ruffies upon Sill
foundation--a sort OF fairy under
robe for the filmy pink gown. Milly
the gowns owner. had suddenly d
cided It needed a finer slip. Tn
ruffies we're scant-hardly more tina
yelling for the. shimmery sill
Louise admitted to herself spitefull
they would add something to "a
lacy pink chiffon. The slip had
be made at once-Milly was comm
in the morning to try It on and hav
the frocks adjusted to the lines or
And she'll look like a frump-ft
all you ft so beautifully" Louise sal
spitefully as she laid down the slip.
All the rest was hand-work-Mr
Cleves would trust that to nobody b
herself. Otherwise. Louise. In a m
ment OF exaltation. would have volu
teered to do the hand-work. and
give time from prayer meeting. 81
was a generous creature. II she d
have a temper. Though she had re
uiar hours. she never complained
| working beyond them. Indeed. MI
, Gleves had sometimes to make b
put up her thimble and 60 out for
I bit Of air.
1T lie a pity. Milly would be RIG
. nice looking n she didn't aiwa
dress SO fine." Mrs. Gleves admitt'
( But the poor thing doesn't knit
! that. Besides. her mother lives
. clothes. Every crow. you kno
thinks It's own white. So ! reck
q Milly looks pretty and stylish to M
4 Durham. The Judge IL q fond faef
!. but can see plain he Is nightly .
appointed not to have his only Oh
= beauty"
. HE ought to adopt me- Lou
: said recklessly.
Mrs. Gleves pursed her lips.
mrrmured indulgently: vain thin
!, and went on sewing.
: She was sympathetic enough
: not she herself been poor and pre-
and thereby denied her right
= chance? But she was not going
Z encourage wild notions in Louis
. an orphan with no nearer counsel
than the good dressmaker.
y Think Of masked party! How
81 love to see it," Louise muttened al
10 a bit, looking out at the fading III
II was Just sunset Mrs. Gleves
" looked out do you mind rum
10 over to the Canby's for some new
o. eggs?" she asked Il can teleph
n you debut there may be mob
40 o fetch them"
Ne .IW fetch them--gladly." Lo,
ne said. darling away.
s. She did not stop to change her
ed chambray working frock. nor
n, snatch a hat. In the briefest 81
70 she was at the Candy house; i
is later she ran down through the
gate with bag of eggs clutchet
- both hands. Dusk was falling; m
over she was dreaming when
should have been looking. Betv
all she ran plump into a passel
tall young fellow immaculate
white fianneIs. with a gayly bar
straw hat held at his side. He
striding forward at great rate.
what. with his own impetus
Louise's quick motion. the eggs
no chance. They sQuashed-the
broke-white and yolk overhc
him. 10 save Louise from fallinl
had caught her close. and her
gown was nearly as much sigh
his white attire.
Notwithstanding. both OF
laughed long and heartily. Il n
dreamed an egg had such POSSIBLE
OR that there could be SO man
the world" the stranger said. cl
uld ing himself after a little.
All Louise answered with side
as glance. Between us. we owe
are Gleves Just dozen. But I'll pa,
les debt You had better run ava
In Ian ond water"