The Cairo bulletin., 1914-02-23

felt her throat swell as she read; thor
she was chilled by the memory O.
what she had said to him: VIVA
has be ever done except play polo and
furnish spicy paragraphs for the SO
ciety columns?"
What beast | WASH she said, ad.
dressing the wet hedge. "He had just
done that splendid thing. 1t was be.
cause OF that that he was little better
than a beggar and | said those hor-
rtbIe thlngs!" Again shc bent her
eyes. rereading the sentences. Took
his detractors by surprise
had Just sustained a grilling at the
hands OF the states examiner which
might we'll have dried at their fount
the springs Of sympathy"
She crushed up the paper in her
hand and rested her forehead on the
wet rail. Idiotically rich--a vandal--
useless purse.proud flaneur. She
had called him all that She could
still see the paleness of his look as
bIt udu Sdlu II,
Shirley, overeXcited as she still was
felt the sobs returning. These. how
ever, did not last long and in a mo
ment she found herself smiling again
Though she had hurt him. she had
saved him, too! When she whispered
this over to herself 1t still thrilled and
startled her. She folded the paper
and FASTENED on under the cherry
trees
Emmaline, the negro maid was wait
ing anXiously on the porch. She was
thin to spareness, with a face as
brown as a tobacco leaf restless blacl
eyes and wool neatly pinned and Sc
off by an amber comb.
Honey" called Emmaline. 'rst
been fcarin' TO yo' wild all that light
min rarin eroun'. Yo' got TIL Jess
mine? Give EN- to Em'line. She'll Il,
'em all nice, jos how Mis- Judith like.
"All right, Emmaline," replied Shir
ley and I'll go and dress. Ha!
mother missed me?"
Nom. Sic ain lef' huh room thi.
whole blessed day Now yo' barth's
all ready--all 'cep'n tn hot watah
en- | SEN Ranston with that tn fus
thing. Yo' hurry en- peel them wet
close off yo'se'f, or yo' have one o
them digested chills."
Her young mistress flown and the
hot water despatched, the negro WON.
an spread a cloth on the floor and
began to cut and dress the long stalks
Of the flowers. This done she fetched
bowls and vases, and set the pearly'
white clumps here and thereon the
dining-room sideboard, the hall man
tel and the desk Of the liying-room-
till the delicate fragrance filed the
house, quite yanquishing the rose.
scent from the arbors.
As the trim colored woman moved
lightly about in the growing dusk
with the low click of glass and muf-
fed clash of silver the light tat-tat of
a cane sounded, and she ran to the
hall, where Mrs. cambridge was de-
scending the stairway, one slim white
hand holding the banister. under the
edge of a white silk shawl which
dropped its heavy fringes TO her daint,
ily-shod feet On the lower step she
halted. looking smilingly about at the
blossoming bowls
Don they smell up tn whole
house?' said Emmaline. Il know'd
20 be pleas, Mis- Judith. Now put
20 han on NAH shouldah en- III take
yo' to yo' big cha'h."
They crossed the hail. the dusk
form bending to the fragile pressure Of
the fingers. Now heah's 20 cha'h
Ranston he made up little fab jes
10 take tn damp out. en- tn big lamps
lit, ell Miss Shirleyll be down righ
quick"
A moment later, in fact, Shirley de
scended the stair, in filmy gown OF
India-muslln, with a narrow betting OF
gold, against whose flowing sleeves
her bare arms showed with flushed
pinkness the hue OF the pale coral
beads about her neck. The damp
neusp arfar was In har hand