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“TELL ME.GRaNDVA-YOU ~Se—
TERRIFY ME BY YOUR SILENCE!"
‘What is your fortune, my pretty maid
“My face is my fortune, sir,” she said,
yur tol
yg and gst yout
od-evening,
looked for the mi ow on sech & night as this.
You never ri
to ask for letters, inthis ere storm m, did you?”
France,” responds the old postm
BE Cy mae sad kage glasses, |“ Now itZ
owed ti
"es 0? your!
eed The awoetest, bi
mortal (face
Sf luminous azure, like to Bo!
n as y%
ia all the wey Over from the farm jest
Entered aocording to Act of Congress, tm the year UG8. by Norma
‘Congress at Washington, D.
“My Fay? She Said:
good-bye!” called out France, as she climbed up to the platform and waved her
L. Munro, in the opice of the Librarian
oR,
ed—they stand—and
I
Miss
Jones. How is Thee rained ‘ankle goming rong?
A stormy night, isn’t it? d how
fall, to be sure. If this up tl The wl be
quite blocked by morning, and y% Ba won't be abet
open the school-bouse for aye Anything for us,
Mr, gotre
“Ene What? Why, it's you, Miss France!
{hought 1 Knowed that "ale voloe: but I'd as soon
Which shows tholr bad taste, that it does, Miss
master, beaming upon
giasses. | WNow if T
Warrington sow wed away
-—Lor" bless
te
bigs dee
ing 8 mach as
the summer skies! ’and the ile face
7 ete
SOCIETY'S LOOKING GLASS.
A Companion Story to
“As In a Looking Clase,"
Now being performed all over the United States
By MRS. LANGTRY.
(This Story witl not be Published in Book-form.}
Se0RGE! IT'S
eT SATE
pe
i ae
NE eae 6 a ine
ry body—good-! ipye! &
o sogrenyeny Nee tert andee nly not any-
whose name begins with a ‘D.
vith a‘ D,’ did you say, Miss kancet”
yes!’ Its sealed with vt wax, and
theres daold, English "iD? stampa ight i the
middle of it Now, who inthe wort be trom
who—— Ob, there's Jed!” aight,
dy ahi bat a surprise ‘this will b for ein
int. Jane.”
‘Red ices the best letter os er it, it
‘wou't be half as good as I wish it. ean Fags
gue Mr, Jolly as she turns and ir
t, and good luck ou oS
sift from mi
+ last zm,
And ome. ace! tink ‘of it now, mebbe# fe Pr
i—‘one on ‘em see oR and fel ft “in
tore ith od at andl the elettere fei bim, askin’
0 ait on
ess he ‘somed he sure
‘ouldn't be no bette my
and if one on them city, Peller
“No danger of nay Mr. say oad
seh 'y gontleman
si
Sy
Miss France,
cha been a ami 1:
ane
Sie or ry Me 6
sn
<
er,
joubave bim |soft, dark eyes
hap- | bat what e commanded by lim
| i F \
St,
”
IP WITH A el ah
fer AGAIN THE PY oa
yp, She
‘Ore
72 mZHE STRANGER
anakeghlet as the train began to start. “‘ Good-bye, grandma; good-bye,
“bye!”
scurries through, the sleepy, snomy villages whirls
into the notch” just back’ of the Beecham,
House (which is dari and empty cnouy
summer, is filed to overflowing
Hoanta health-seekers), glides
emerges into a deep, aisle and then, while
stil * editations dark,” it
swings seus sup toa rumbling
oid Tarmhotse “and-she is home at last,
re lights ageam in all tite lower windows,
and wlhout pa using to exchange 0 word with Jed—
who grates at, her as th wero somelbing
red—France springs ech vees the svow from
ber garments, pushing open
‘front door, * Nofes adngety tothe seal minting:
two women are si
Before the bigs roar ring wood.
now, bk
rity Gree
reifay along until
Franc
eck madie-aged woma
and silverhreaded ale i Jane
ay
tel
ar after nis array
@ small, sweet-faced,
religious old thay of nae ‘whose actions in life
ple
have ever beet by, not what pleases her,
look”? breathlessly
jer wraps and
ta ettreact
‘*Grandma—Aunt Jano—do
SS SS SSS
“I DIREGT OPPOSITION TO HER STEPMOTHERS
belt needles | Tem
RA, | Iy down ito that beautifa, gnish face,
ont told the
WILL, SHE FLEO WITH_HIM,””
untie; good-bye, -
utters one low heartbroken cry and fails back in
her chair with two trembilog wrinkled bands clasped
over het w
ni tot an X fad yet itis my duty
she faintly 3 moans. jane! Jane!—the worst
could bave dre amed has vomer be Tete
Phyllis per tov
“There {3 on of pain, and then, to
France's unspeakable surpeise, Avat dane, too, falle
packs in her chair and covers her face with. her
han
“ Grandm a-—suntle—whaterer is it?” gasps tl
i Ss Who is “Phyllis Doe
I beard @ 4
the golden
the ‘when you mnst.
tanings| and ‘he bittorest days ef
ay Leave at,
5, dear--pray that Im
et come between Me end my dats,
bear Jane, very hard to beast”
Tae ey ane Warogton rises from ber
hair and goes slowly and sorrowully out, shutting
joor behind her and leaving them by the fire
lone.
“France!” Grandm
ver
red _ torgou" sive <A lever, France? From whom?” aks, and her Terinited bande fal Hestly on the
SELIGtC ral wit roomed cheeks ed ang ce 0, 89 dec hi base the faitet Hen In the| Seatac athe genase or oo ty
rows, aslim patrician nose, @ and eran wi watetly rene lise of ma rid,” gran i ecaten, ea gees TK baven't | woke ag to bers France, deat, you. said once
wring snd mbite roses a "oath a8 sano and hue | fly "short puree ow oN opened it yet!” Renee leugtsnely. | when sour ‘watching the dancers in
asa itie Childs and, framing a een see See | Jolly: « * What is your orto vane, mH pet “Besides, ever since iit mperinene bangs ‘at Ute | the ballroom of the hotel, that you would like to
dor, a wave ot tclinting eoiden vate ‘th in sunny splen- | * + My face e my for rune, st, sho § eechampton House followed me home from the | tive as they live for just one year ot your life, that
Fa bencath hor palecbioe heca eta curted out| AIL right, Ji com WHlago lat sommer, and ‘Wen tried the next day at | you wound ike to seo tho great fashionable ities
Pit rigs upon Ber omy a dutty Me ms [etch to alip a Hote into my Prayer-book, you from” which, ‘howe people came, and that 3
“What is it?” says Frat Jbserves the Mi it, wala she said; my mi ni mise never vo read 8 a letige until i iad | wished you had somé fa ry €0 mot her who who would
” mited to you and thie beng the ery et; | give you the onportiny of playing the ei of Cs
ror sree of mild fi ast, postoeg eh oway wht ous and bis beg tig, and | ered if oy fora brie tne.” Faun, your wish
* Ts there anything wrong. a the mally eereRe, | pes “rerap of human 2 ee ang | Pe tke 8 tea Band enn, “for Lim postely | has been granted, and yon re going away, deat, t0
that letter beon mis © mailt? and has) throagi, ‘ee rn cow te at Cesta dying to. know ‘wo could have erie J] tha right and beni fen orrlgh, Mushy
“No,” respot ied Me lookin, ders and whitens her hair as she to the wait. Postmarked * New Yori? vou se jma, and is | hush! do not lo not protest at leaving me?
bewildered eyes, “0 gap with p wide, ing sleigh. amped wi with the letter ‘D? >; | It is my duty, child, to do all J can to further your
iLae clear and beattiful ae copper plate: aon tee Merey, Jed! you look Troma’ New Vouk! Staraped wit tter D.”| welfare in life, and please God I will do my duty by
body could mistake them Tas confer in ah o ornament already fang foe selabe The two women start and exch lances @8| you, no matter how bitter it be to me. France,
tha ae surprises me, buts fo Uirections, *Tain’t| sng “inet as she bi ‘atd Haws the big |they repeat those words, and even the ruddy Sre-| you’ asked me but a minute azo who Phyllis Dor-
"For me?” gasped Fra ce in a vole of bearekia: about ber, “ip | iors hea ligut cannot wholly ask the pallor which sweeps | mor is, Look at me, dear, and let me tell you.
redulity.. Why, it’s two years since U cle Pal Ym al wet ‘across bot] She is\a very wealthy and very worldly woman
died. an ho was tue only one hat ever Dele Phill suret_ 1 hope “Read it motbenread i" sys Jone Warring- | whose name {3 a in New York, and who wi
‘all my life, Oh, there must be some “ive ea, man ‘a husky voi yh, it-can’t be possible, |—Four tnother sap Sher my end
takes Me, dolly. Tt might be for gran 0 Fa may, r—read it, moiber Seed it at once and let} *Mamma’s steps pothert eas rrance,
Jane, but it couldn’t possibly Yereon mpl sake o enow the worst.” ' Ree An a ae ail alt von
Well, it is, then,” jolly, i up as she catches |I—I. thon at all mama ves were
For les nddfensed to “Mae x Me ots, fatty. tua Eanes oT aie e, question whi | dead an Her step mother is living and
jeechampton, Vairmount and fm dashed Sethu mbles upon her lips, Jane Syarrinuton cheeks It vey rich you say?”
means either 0! them! ‘aL it noweamd se foe With a merous, i snehh ana bends Droatblessly rich, dear, but—you are not to bull
yourselt. vs postmarked at nom, and wee for forward in the crimson grandma any hopes upon that, ny darling, for, althougt he
Bargain, an how amect it ao & the Open the tayaterfous iete had sent for you to come and make your home with
x ‘ oa, Hieva bush broken only by the | her for, one whole fom fs duatinedy eave that it
Franco takes the square, beautifully written and
fall gloved
delicately, scented envelope in her
hands and stares at it in surprise, not
"Yes, t's for me,” she says wonderingly, «
unmixed wi
I-1 don't see who could have written it, I don’t,
‘| the
which,
irksome
the ale
itagling veh
ugh the dense, feathery #2)
erly precludes se possibility of ©
an i ond
merrily
horses’
| speeds me
2
* but
‘om, to the tan oro
A dead bush fai
e trem.
as those
ia dainty W
yw deathly vale
fe’ spoken not & movement in ie until,
Fae entee inet word of that brief Letter, grandua |
give
your condition, if peas ble,
f
is ‘only to
and Deeaute sho eels that her
do mwncthing for re not Wo hope for
one penny fa th yr of an Inheritance, singe she
has already “ohoseu her belrs, and ber siep-dagh-
id is not among them.’ France,