The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03
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said, but I didn't know that Miss Maud was an artist. What does she paint?"
 ''Oh, her face" I said, just apparently bea ming with pride 'Why she's got the best hand-painted complexion in town and she is an expert at making eyebrows. Why, she's a real old master.
 He looked so amused and so emDar- rassed, but all he said was: q think Miss Lulu has the sweetest expression I've ever seen. It's so uplifted, so guileless, so above all sordid things-a look scarce ly of this world.''
 Isn't it?" I cried rapturously. That S the look she always puts on when she S going to do people, and the way it works is something great. She thinks she is going to get that rich old Mir Thompson with it. You know he's got millions and he's so suspicious that all the women are trying to marry him for his money, but he thinks Lulu so angelic that she wouldn't look at a dollar if you'd hold it right under her eyes She says she thinks he's going to fall for the angel expression all right
 See here, little girl, why are you tell ing me all these things about your sis ters," said Mir. Ronald Graham, with that quiet steady look of his that goes right through you, and in an instant what l had thought was just fun, and getting back at the girls for keeping me shut up in the nursery on bread and butter wher l was just hungry for plum cake, didn't seem an amusing revenge at all It just showed for the plain sneaky thing 1t was, and broke down and boo-hooed, and told him how the girls wouldn't let me grow up. because there were already three out in society, and that I never could be grown. or do up my hair or wear long frocks until they got married. and anybody could see they were going to be old maids, and that I supposed that when I was 70 years old I would still be wearing petails and being sent to bed at o'clock at night
 Well. he laughed and laughed and lauehed and then he said Poor little kiddie, 1t is rough on you to be number four I srnpnse." and then mamma came In the room and he said:
 Mrs. Elliott, I've got my car at the door, and I have come around to see if can't borrow your baby to take to the circus. I'll promise not to let her eat any candy, or drink pink lemon ade. and bring her home safe and sound. If you will lend her to me for the after noon, for you know it isn't proper for a srown-up to go to the circns without being properly chaperoned bv child"
 Well. mother looked at Mir Graham and MT. Graham looked at mother, and then there came twinkle in mother's eye-lVe o1ten thought that mother was sorry for me and would have let me grow up if she hadn't been so afraid Of the other girls-and she told me to run and get my hat, and before you could say "scat!" MT. Graham and l were whirling away in that gorgeous car of his; but we didn't go to the circus. We went to a grown-up matinee, and I had the time of my life.
 That was the first of many excursions that we made together: MT. Graham al- ways pretended to treat me like child that you lead by the hand, and we always had the bestest time, and then one day he said to me:
 Little girl, how would you like to skip being debutante, and just be my wife?" and I just said, "Oh. goody!' and he took me into the hollow of his arm like I told you, and 7 felt, as I said, just like had gotten home.
 '.But then I began to think about the girls. and I knew they'd never let me get married first. especially as I wasn't grown-up, and I told Ronald so, and that I'd never dare to tell them, and so he said, Well. let's go and get mar ried first tnd tell them afterwards and that's what we did.
 Though said Ronald, T expect that I shall be arrested for Kidnapping
 An I whispered, I'll be judge and jury in the case and give you lifes sen- tence of imprisonment in my heart
 My sisters were scandalfzed, but think it's sour grapes, don't you?