Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-09-19
ROCKVILLE MARYLAND FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 49, 1913


oil with cunnraasaI nypitamaDt for
Iouiso had nromised them something
I'm the way of n startling surprise
"What's II going TO be?" WHISPERED
Mrs Banks as she sat down near
Louisa.
..Navor mind WHIT until FRANK
comes in IN NAV tho nbonorronh nieces
for ms. Then worm see" Louisa could
NOT holm n sIy plnnce nt Emma Rims
face bent above her sewing. and Mrs.
Ranks knew chat the surprise had
something TO do with Emma Binns, of
whom II was known that Louisa Null
WAS nercely Jealous on her brothers
account
Emma Biuns wore the same gown
In which she had appeared Mt the min
ister's house. and the brown hair still
bonstcd the blue ribbon, and somehow
II was vastly becoming to the little
widow. If nobody else approved of
These fripperIes II Is certain that the
starved vanity of Emma Binns rejolc.
cd I'm wearing them They made her
happy. and happIness took wears from
her age
Whom rafrasbmants wore servod
Frank Mull came In and wound nm the
talking machine md thare vero much
music and singing and nleasant con-
yersntion. and Frank Null looked con-
tcntedly at Emma Binns and voted the
affair Il great success
II was when they arose TO 90 that
Louisa Null led them into the parlor
md poInted TO n large crayon portrait
on an easel I'm one corner.
"This Is n guessing contest" laughed
Louisn nervously. "Pll give each of
Won one guess MS TO who sat for that
picture. You begin, Fanny"
Fanny ponl;s nursod hor rod Inns and
Iool,nd ot tbe hodIv oxocutod nortroit
OF n woman dressed I'm the ncrlod of
twnptv vn,rs oco Tho bodIco of thc
black gown was tight across the chest,
and the sleeves were great bngs OF
h,llncss stlGfcned with crinoline. The
hair was strained bnck from the face,
and across the forehead was small,
fluffy bang Even the prettiest woman
would have taken on ugliness under
the painfully unskilled pencil OF the
crnvon artist And although the wo-
man I'm the picture showed signs of
Drettiness II was overshadowed by
drawn lines OF age
"VolI" soid Fanny Ranks smortIv
"If the picture wasn't taken twenty
years ago and the woman looked so
ore of Emmo Rims"
Tbcre was silence. while each one
corcfullv truced likeness TO Mrs.
Rims I'm the horrible portrait. All
came 10 the same conclusion at the
same moment If Emma Rlnns look
eli forty years old twenty years ago
the style of the dress was that of n
score Of summers pnst-now she must
be sixty, Was Il possible?
with one accord they nil turned and
looked ot Emma Rims. Her face was
white os marble save where little red
spot rlowed on her check bone. she
looked handsome. hor bluc ewes flash
inc hcr Inns trembling
pooi, 90 ,,,. .,,,,od I,.o,t, Nt,u h,o,
Inc WITH wr,th Inn,sa hIs siotor
,o7,.,,ro1 ,,,ain,.t ,ha ,you cho hod
paver coon her hrothor gu angry I'm MI
her lifo ana she WINS afraid Of him
"WnI Empo ?" cIgplnd Fanny Ronlks
indiffcrcntlv
"It Is nv nicturo" soid Emmo Rims
nroudIv "Simeon Ind n dopo .bc first
veor wos married oxncct looked
inst IKE tbot tired and old ond worn.
out for no vos n hard man no Won oII
know. those of Won who con forget
tint he was rich
az u.,s oniv tvontv yoors old ,bon
but admit the nIcturo moloa mo look
FORTY, what of tt9 mont con coro
ro,. mo eor ,vsoIr 20, ,yho, 7 on,p
Must Won h,ciyor With mo ovor NV
ogo3 Don,t vop want IN 600 mo han.
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