Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-10-31

queen Of loves court"
They we're day out at sea when
Myrta began to learn the object of her
sudden return,
my child, want to tell you some
thing"
She turned surprised eyes toward
her mother. She could not remember
that that faithful parent had ever told
her anything except to be quiet and
not laugh so much, and that pickles
were bad for the complexion, and she
had not been ceremonious about those
communications. She waited and her
mother went on nervously.
you must know, my dear, that
things have not been going well with
your papa. At one time we thought
all was lost, and even the house must
be given up. Think of me in a hired
apartment, fifth story, back, and a
woman shaking carpets over my win
dow from the fiat above!"
A piece of Dresden china on
wooden chimney piece! Myrta's i'm
agination declined the jump,
Happily the misfortune has been
averted by-whom do you think?"
Again speculation halted.
"Mr. Lester-your fathers old
friend you remember?-thoug OF
course, years younger than your father
who retired from the street last
year Just before the crash in Great
Western came and put his money in
What is 1t they put it in. MyrtaT
- 10 ,..,noncainuciV
looking back to that last evening.
Mercy! No, child! Whoever heard
of putting money in pianos? Some
times they put it in bureau drawers,
though Mr.. Lester did not Well, he
put it there, wherever it was, and it
brings in an income that would make
your head dizzy. He is willing to put
up the money to save us, and all be-
cause he wants to marry you AS soon
as he sees you and gets your consent
your father will have enough to put
him where he was in business, Your
father told him that he need have no
doubt of your consent You never have
been disobedient, and you certainly
would not begin now when SO much
depends upon you. How could | live
in seventh story fiat on some un-
known street and do my hair myself?
Are you not glad that you can save me
from it,"
Poor, pretty, weak mamma! How,
indeed?
Myrta leaned out and dropped some
thing into the water. She fingered a
moment gazing after 1t as if she might
be wishing that she could follow 1t.
! 1t cleaned in sparkling shades Of red
as it fell She wondered if 1t would
: hide away in the wreck of a lost ship
down at the bottom of the sea, and II
a diver would bring it up into the sun
: again some day and il it would
sparkle ON the finger of a girl happier
than the one who drowned 1t in the
waves,
YES" she said, family.
l Her mother drew her into her arms
and embraced her with 9 languid affec
q ton more like the real article thai
e she had ever before bestowed upor
her.
= What a mistake / have made al
= these years! have regretted that
: had not a son instead of daughter
e see now how much more real yalu,
there is in girl. What boy could saw
II his family in such crisis by the sim
pie and beautiful process of walkin
J. up a church aisle in clouds of wonder
VI full lace, surrounded by wilderness o
n lovely flowers. and murmuring fey
p words in a shy, pretty way, and the
n going off to do the grand tour of tn
s. world You ought to see the exqu
site prayer book Mr.. Lester has bough
E. for you to carry-all pearl and silve
s and the inscription in diamonds. Ism
ly it glorious to be girl?"
IN Suppose so? You will know g
Re when you see that prayer book an
N costume. We ordered the gown
sr Paris and Felix said it was the mos
at elegant thing he had ever created W
st could afford to do the handsome no
IS that we are in such luck. Your hu
he band can never say that you came
r. him a beggar If we have been on Il
"a verge Of ruin"
1t all came back to Mrs. Lester
If. the carriage rolled along-the low Sc
music of that last farewell and u
id face that looked out from the viii
ir. moonlight of that night in Paris. 81
ce had never again seen that face until
Here we are. Are you asleep?
m. wonder, after that stupid play
a enough to set the whole town asleep
sic She alighted from the carriage al
followed the burly figure of her hi
he band up the steps. In the doorway s
an. turned and looked out into the pa
he star.swept east.
he BY and by the dawn would glimm
ne over that horizon and a new d
would begin-a long, dull, wearisoi
.xt day, so like all the other days that
,ur would not be known from any yest
he day that ever was.
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