Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 19 April 1895 — Page 4

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The tlocni is very angry. "Very •veil, madam/' said he. "In that case I »in only say that I have the honor to wish you a very good morning." He raised his broad straw hat and strode away up the gravel path while the widow

looked after him with twinkling eyes. She was surprised herself to find that she liked the doctor better the more masculine, and aggressive he became. It was unreasonable and against all principle, and yet so it was, and no argument could mend the matter.

Very hot and angry the doctor retired into his room and sat down to read his paper. Ida had retired, and the distant wails of her bngle showed that she was up stairs in her boudoir. Clara sat opposite to him with her exasperating charts and her bine book. The doctor glanced at her, and his eyes remained fixed in astonishment upon the front of her skirt. "My dear Clara," he cried, "you havs torn your skirt!"

His daughter laughed and smoothed out her frock. To his horror he saw the red plush of the chair where the dress ought to have been. "It is all torn," he cried. "What have you done?" "My dear papa," said she, "what do you know ibout the mysteries of ladies' dress? This is a divided skirt."

Then lie saw that it was indeed so arranged, and that his daughter was clad in a sort of loose, extremely long knickerbockers. "It will be so convenient for my sea boots," she explained.

Her father shook his head sadly. "Your dear mother would not have liked it, Clara," said he.

For a moment the conspiracy was upon the point of collapsing. There was something in the gentleness of his rebuke and in his appeal to her mother which brought the tears to her eyes, and in another instant she would have been kneeling beside him with everything confessed, when the door flew open and her sister Ida came bounding into the room. She wore a short gray skirt, like that of Mrs. Westmacott, and she held it up in each hand and danced about among the furniture. "I feel quite the Gaiety girl!" she cried. "How delicious it must be to bo upon the stage I You can't think haw nice this dress is, papa. One feels so free in it. And isn't Clara charming?" "Go to your room this instant and take it off!" thundered the doctor VI call it highly improper, and no daughter of mine shall wear it." "Papa! Improper! Why it is the exact model of Mrs. Westmacott's." "I say it is improper. And yours also, Clara. Your conduct is really outrageous. You drive me out of the house. I am going to my club in town. I have no comfort or peace of mind in my own house. I will stand it no longer. I may be late tonight. I shall go to the British medical meeting. But when I return I shall hope to find that you have reconsidered your conduct, and that you have shaken yourself clear of the pernicious influences which have recently made such an alteration in your conduct." He seized his hat, slammed the dining room door, and a few minutes later they heard the crash of the big front gate. "Victory, Clara, victory!" cried Ida, still pirouetting around the furniture. "Did you hear what lie said? Pernicious influences! Don't you understand, Clara? Why do you sit there so pale and glum? Why don't you get up and dance?" "Oli, I shall bo so glad when it is over, Ida. I do hate to give him pain. Surely he has learned now that it is very unpleasant to spend one's life with reformers." "He has almost learned it, Clara. Just one more little lesson. We must not risk all at this last moment." "What would you do, Ida? Oh, don't do anything too dreadful. I feel that we have gone too far already." "Oil, wo can do it very nicely. You see we are both engaged, and that makes it very easy. Harold will do what you ask liiin, especially as you have told him the reason why, and my diaries will do it without even wanting to know the reason. Now you know what Mrs. Westmacott thinks about the reserve of young ilies. Mere prudery, affectation and a relic of the dark ages of the zenana. Those were her words, were they not?" "What, then?"' "Well, now we must put it in practice. We are reducing all her other views to practice, and wo must not shirk this one." "But what would you do? Oh, don't look so wicked, Ida! You look like some evil little fairy, with your golden hair and. mischievous eyes. I know that you aro going to propose something dreadful!" "We must give a little supper tonight." "We? A supper!" "Why not? Young gentlemen give suppers. Why not young ladies?" "But whom shall we invite?" "Why, Harold and Charles, of course." "And the admiral and Mrs. Hay Denver?" "Oh, no. That would be very old fashioned. We must keep up with the times, Clara." "But what can wo give them for supper?" "Oh, something with a nice, fast, rollicking, late at night kind of flavor to it. Let me see! Champagne, of course—and oysters. Oysters will do. In the novels all the naughty people take champagne and oysters. Besides, they won't need

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any coo King. 'Jtiow is your pocKet money, Clara? "I have three pounds." "I have one. Foijrpounds. I have no idea how much chaff^agne costs. Have you?" "Not the slightest." "How many oysters does a man eat?" "I can't imagine." "I'll write and ask Charles. No, I won't. I'll ask Jane. Ring for her, Clara. She has been a cook and is sure to know."

Jane,on beingcross questioned, refused to commit herself beyond the statement that it depended upon the gentleman and also upon the oysters. The unit* experience of the kitchen, however, t« tified that three dozen was a fair provision. "Then we shall have eight dozen altogether," said Ida, jotting down all her requirements upon a sheet of paper. "And two pints of champagne. And some brown bread and vinegar and pepper. That's all, I think. It is not so very difficult to give a supper after all, is it, Clara?" "I don't like it, Ida. It seems to me to be so very indelicate." "But it is needed to clinch the matter. No, no, there is no drawing back now, Clara, or we shall ruin everything. Papa is sure to come back with the 9:45. He will reach the door at 10. We must have everything ready for him. Now, just sit down at once and ask Harold to come at 9 o'clock, and I shall do the same to Charles."

The two invitations were dispatched, received and accepted. Harold was already a confidant, and he understood that this was some further development of the plot. As to Charles, he was so accustomed to feminine eccentricity in the person of liis aunt that the only thing which could surprise him would I be a rigid observance of etiquette. At 9 o'clock they entered the dining room of No. 2, to find the master of the house absent, a red shaded lamp, a snowy cloth, a pleasant little feast and the two whom they would have chosen as their companions. A merrier party never met, and the house rang with their laughter and their chatter. "It is a minutes to 10," cried Clara

suddenly, glancing at the clock.

"Good

The large man drew out a red case and. extracted a great yellow meerschaum. out of which a moment later he was puffing thick wreaths of smoke. Hfirold had lit a cigar, and both the girls had cigarettes. "That looks very nice and emancipated," said Ida, glancing round. "Now I shall lie on this sofa. So! JjTow, Charles, just sit here and throw your arm carelessly over the back of the sofa. No, don't stop smoking. I like it. Clara, dear, put your feet upon the coal scuttle and do try to look a littje dissipated. I wish we could crown ourselves with flowers. There are some lettuces on the sideboard. Oh, dear, here he is! I hear his key." She began to sing in her high, fresh voice a little snatch from a French song, with a swinging tra-la-la chorus.

The doctor had walked home from the station in a peaceable and relenting frame of mind, feeling that perhaps he had said too much in the morning, that his daughters had for years been models in every way, and that if there had been any change of late it was, as they said themselves, on account of their anxiety to follow his advice and to imitate Mrs. Westmacott. SiHe could see clearly enough now that that advice was unwise and that a world peopled with Mrs. Westmacotts would not be a happy or a soothing one. it was he who was himself to blame, and he was grieved by the thought that perhaps his hot words had troubled and saddened his two girls.

This fear, however, was soon dissipated. As he entered liis hall he heard the voice of Ida uplifted in a rollicking ditty, and a very strong smell of tobacco was borne to his nostrils. He threw open the dining room door and stood aghast at the sceno which met his eySs.

gracious! So jt is! Now for

our little tableau!" Ida pushed the champagne bottles obtrusively, forward in the cjirection of the door and scattered oyster shells over thq cloth. "Have you your pipe, Charles?" "My pipe! Yes." "Then please smoke it. Now, don't argue about it, but do it, for you will ruiiji the effect otherwise."

The room was full of the blue wreaths way, I understand from what you said of smoke, and the lamplight shone through the thin haze upon gold topped, bottles, plates, napkins and a litter of oyster shells and cigarettes. Ida, flushed and excited, was reclining upon the settee, a wineglass at her elbow and a cigarette between her fingers, while Charles Westmacott sat beside her, with his arm thrown over the head of the sofa with the suggestion of a caress. On the other side of the room Clara was lounging in an armchair, with Harold beside her. both smoking and both with wineglasses beside them. Tlio doctor stood speechless in the doorway, staring at the bacchanalian scene. "Come in, papa, do!" cried Ida. "Won't you have a glass of champagne?" "Pray excuse me," said her father coldly. "I feel that I am intruding. I did not know that you were entertaining. Perhaps you will kindly let me know when you have finished. You will find me in my study." He ignored the two young men completely, and closing the door retired, deeply hurt and mortified, to his room.' A quarter of an hour afterward ho heard the door slam, and his

two daughters came to announce that the guests were gone. "Guests! Whose guests?" lie cried angrily. "What is the meaning of this exhibition?" "We have been giving a little supper, papa. They were our guests." "Oh, indeed!" the doctor laughed sarcastically. "You think it right, then, to entertain young bachelors late at night, to smoke and drink with them, to—oh, that I should ever havo lived to blush for my own daughters! I thank God that your dear mother never saw the day." "Dearest papa," cried Clara, throwing her arms about him. "Do not be angry with us. If you understood all, you would see there is no harm in it."

No harm, miss! Who is the best judge of that?" "Mrs. Westmacott," suggested Ida slyly.

The doctor sprang from his chair. "Confound Mrs. Westmacott!" he cried, striking frenziedly into the air with his hands. "Am I to hear of nothing but this woman? Is she to confront me at every turn? I will endure it no longer." "But it was your wish, papa." "Then I will tell you now what my second and wiser wish is, and we shall see if you will obey it as you have the first.'

Of course we will, papa."

Then my wish is that you should forget these odious notions which you have imbibed, that you should dress and act as you used to do before ever you saw this woman, and that in future you confine your intercourse with her to such civilities as are necessary between neighbors." "We are to give up Mrs. Westmacott?" "Or give up me." "Oh, dear dad, how can you say anything so cruel," cried Ida, burrowing her towsy, golden hair into her father's shirt front, while Clara pressed her cheek against his whiskers. "Of course we shall give her up if yon prefer it." "Of course we shall, papa."

The doctor patted the two caressing heads. "These are my own two girls again." he cried. "It has been my fault as much as yours. I have been astray, and you have followed me in my error. It was only by seeing your mistake that I have become conscious of my own. Let lis set it aside and neither say nor think anything more about it."

CHAPTER XI.

A BOLT FROM THE BLUE.

So by the cleverness of two girls a dark cloud was thinned away and turned into sunshine. Over one of them, alas, another cloud was gathering which could not be so easily dispersed. Of these three households which fate had thrown together two had already been united by ties of love. It was destined, however, that a bond of another sort should connect the Westmacotts with the Hay Denvers.

Between the admiral and the widow a very cordial feeling had existed since the day. when the old seaman had hauled dqwn his flag and changed his opinions, granting to the yachtswoman all that he bad .refused to the reformer. His own frank and downright nature respected the same qualities in his neighbor, and a friendship sprang up between them which was more like that which exists between two men, founded upon esteem and a conimunity of tastes. "By the way, admiral," said Mrs. Westmacott one morning as they walked together down to the station, "I understand that this boy of yours in the intervals of paying his devotions to Miss Walker is doing something upon 'change." "Yes, ma'am, and there is no man of his age who is doing so well. He's drawing ahead, I can tell you, ma'am. Some of those that started with him are hull down astern now. He touched his £500 hist year, and before he's 30 he'll be making the four figures." "The reason I asked is that I have small investments to make mj*self from time to time, and my present broker is a rascal. I should be very glad to do it through your son." "It is very kind of you, ma'am. His partner is away on a holiday, and Harold would like to push on a bit and show what ho can do. You know the poop isn't big enough to hold the lieutenant when the skipper's on shore." "1 suppose ho charges the usual half per cent?" "Don't know, I'm sure, ma'am. I'll swear that ho does what is right and proper." "That is what I usually pay—10 shillings in £100. If you see him before I do, just ask him to get mo £5,000 in New Zealands. It is at 4 just now, and I fancy it may rise." "Five thousand!" exclaimed the admiral, reckoning it in his own mind. "Leniraesee! That's 4225 commission. A nice (lav's work, upon my word. It is a very hmdsomo order, ma'am.r"Well, must pay some one, and why not him?" "I'll tell, him, and I'm sure he'll lose no time."

"Oh, there :r no great hurry. By the

just now that he has a partner." "Yes, my boy is the junior partner. Pearson is the senior. I was introduced to him years ago, and he offered Harold the opening. Of course we had a pretty stiff premium to pay."

Mrs. Westmacott had stopped and was standing very stiffly, with her red Indian face even grimmer than usual. "Pearson?" said she. "Jeremiah Pearson?" "The same." "Then it's all off," she cried. "You need not carry out that investment." "Very well, ma'am."

They walked on together side by side, she brooding over some thought of her own and he a little crossed and disappointed at her caprice and the lost commission for Harold. "I'll tell you what, admiral," she exclaimed suddenly, "if I were you I should get your boy out of this partnership." "But why, madam?" "Because ho is tied to one of the deepest, sliest foxes in the whole city of London [TO BE CONTIKtfED.]

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