Year: 1865

She had her whole circuit to 90 over
again, for the purpose of talking about
Hattie. a


"Sbe's got dress with more trimming
on it than all the rest of the town. And
such bonnet have you seen it Looks
fit for girl about sixteen years old-no,
it don't either, for nobody oughter to lie
silly enough to dress so-and she an old
married woman | asked my husband !
what he'd do with me if heaped lace
and flowers onto my head at that rate
and he said he'd swap me off as sure as
MS name was Clark. It looks like dying
she was just ready to die, you know
hum! Some folks can get well pretty
fast when it suits them had flower
on my bonnet but I've took it straight off.
when see how frivolous such things do
look"


So she went on, sighting and spiting
Hattie all she knew but she had entirely
overlone the business, that the other cared
very little for her actions now. Hattie
was rather glad than otherwise that her
relative made her calls fewer and farther
between. since she rarely came for good.
Whenever the two happened to be invited
out to tea, TrypheDie wouldn't go, but


would say with snuff and snarl, that
she had not anything to wear" So it


was very clear that her handspring was
envy.


That autumn in the country proved


very mild and pleasant, and Mr. Sumner


took Hattie off to visit some relations be


had Of a different stamp, intending to be


absent week or two During that time,


Tryphenie found that an Agricultural


Fair was coming off in the town ten miles


distant, and as she had a chance to go


without costing anything, she made prepa.


rations for Attending.


Hattie had gone in neat little hat,


leaving her pretty bonnet at home; fol


besides the latter being unsuited to a


Journey, it was too late in the season to


wear it. An idea struck Tryphenie. She


could hook the bonnet out Of the house


and shine at the Fair, and return it with.
out Hattie being wiser.


So over to Mr. Summers she went, and
chattcd with the hired girl for half ar
} hour in her most amable mood--and ever
{ she had aimable moods and could be az


pretty as pretty can be, when there ws'
an end to be gained. By-and by she went
up stairs careessly to Hattie's front cham
: ber. took the bonnet from its box. and i
r being evening found no difficulty it get
, ting home with it unseen. HAPPY
{ woman


Next morning at day break she was Of
for the Fair, and didn't she feel jaunty
: in her "borrowed" bonnet She boC
not much to fear that any one would b
+. there who would recognize it, and sh
r would not reach home again till it was at
/. ter dark.


f. She was slightly mistaken. She ha(


not been on the ground an honr, when sh
O perceived standing near her a team tina
! she knew in an instant, and seated in tn
G carriage were Sumner and Hattie Boil
' were looking in the opposite direction "a
!. the moment--Hatties bright face smilin,
at whatever her husband was point
. ing out to her--and she had comforta
G BILE hope that they had not seen her. 0
but didn't she make strides for the hotel
8 If she had had team Of her own there
r she would have gone home at doubl
quick: but she had come Jack-at-a
pinch, and now must wait and return tn
Y same.


{ For three mortal hours she sat in th


ladies parlor, a solitary guest, gazing ou
q into the piazza, and starting at ever.
: football like a guilty thing Hattie
bonnet she had hidden on little tabl
: in one corner, by folding her scarf ahou
8 it; and thus che sat guard over another
: property, To lose her enjoyment of th
e Fair was bad enough-was terrible; bu
it was not to be thought of in comparison
e with the other difficulty she had brOugh
d upon herself.


AT last her worst fears we're realized


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