Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-02-17

sue was chilled by the memory g.
what she had said to him: what
has he ever done except play polo and
furnish spicy paragraphs for the So
cfety columns?"
What a beast was!" she said, adj
dressing the wet hedge. HE had just
done that splendid thing. 1t was be-
cause of that that he was little better
than beggar, and I said those hor-
rible things!" Again she 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 well 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-
a useless, purse-proud faneur. She
had called him all that! She could
still see the paleness of his look as
she had said it.
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 it 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 black
eyes and wool neatly pinned and set
off by an amber comb.
Honey" called Emmaline, Use
been fearin' fo' yo' wild all that light.
MIN r'arin' eroun'. Yo' got tn jess
mine? Give 'em to Em'line. She'll fix
'em all nice, jes' how Mis- Judith like
"All right, Emmaline," replied Shir.
ley. "And I'll go and dress. Has
mother missed me?"
Nom. Sic ain lef' huh room this
whole blessed day. Now yo' barth's
all ready-all 'cep'n tn hot watah
en- l SEN Ranston with that tn fus
thing. Yo' hurry en- peel them wet
close off yo'se'f, or yo' have one Q
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 living-room-
till the delicate fragrance filled the
house, quite vanquishing 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
fled 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. II know'C
y'o be pleas, Mis- Judith. Now pu
yo' ham on NAH shouldah en- I'll take
yo' to yo' big cha'h.'
They crossed the hall, the dusky
form bending to the fragile pressure o
the fingers. Nov heahs yo' cha h
Ranston he made up a little fab jes
to take tn damp out, en- tn big lamp:
lit, en- Miss Shirley'll be down RICH
quick"
A moment later, in fact, Shirley de
scended the stair, in a filmy gown o.
India-muslin, with a narrow betting o.