'THE JELLOUS COVERNESS.'

Evening Star, Issue 17328, 16 April 1920, Page 7

'THE JELLOUS COVERNESS.'

"Popular success is, of course, no crl-. tenon of value, but it remains, neverthe- I less a somwhat stupendous fact that 400,000 renders in England and America /have made 'The Young Visiters' the most widelv read volume of the year."— 'Daily Telegraph.' "The young Ashtords were an imaginative family, and one influenced the other, Miss Daisy Ashford read her delicious ' Visitors' at the yEolian Hall on Friday aTiernoon, and throbbing romance written by her sister Angela at the -asje of eight was read in public for the first time by Miss Ida Molesworth. The readings were for the benefit of the Catholic Stage Guild," says the ' Morning Post.' ""Miss Daisy Ashford said 'The Young Visiters' was "written before 'The Jellcns I Governess.' She and her S'ster were in th habit of showing each other what they had written. That accounts for the resemblance between the style of the two j ineffable romances. THE NEW BABY. "Tli": full title of the priceless romance hj 'The Jealous Governess,' or ' Th» Granted Wish.' First Chapter. 'Wishing.' Mr and Mrs Holmes wore sitting in their parlor. One, thing I have been wishing for ever since wo were married is a baby, said Mr Holmes, and I should like to adopt one. . 00, no, I should like to have one of m ,yown. said Elizabeth. Well, we will , see, said Mr Holmes. " Second Chapter, The I\ew Baby. Mr Holmes came home about 12 o'clock that night. He had drunk a drop of whisky, but it could not be noticed. When the clock struck 6.30 a loud knock came at the door, and the maid coming to the bedroom said the doctor had arrived with a 0 box wider bis arm. . Wiil you show him j up to this room, said Mrs Holmes. | "The baby was delivered. Oh, hurrah, 1 said Mrs Holmes. Is it a- boy or a girl? Oh. I don't know quite, said the doctor, .but I will leave you to find out. So he ' departed the door with his feet because he had his slik hat in both hands. THE NEW GOVERNESS. "A darling fat baby rolled out of the bos on the eiderdown. What a pity its eyes are not open, said Mrs llolme3. Six months passed, and Mr Holmes said they must havo a' nursery governess. So Mrs Holmes went to smoky dreary London to engage one. The registry office told her that one was alright, but rather cow-like another had taken"a few things that didn't belong to her but she was a beautiful girl. "That was Miss J. Mrs Holmes went to see her and had dinner while she waited . Perhaps you would like to know what she ', had for dinner. Piabbits and meringues ars what she chose, and she drang sherry wine. Miss J. was asked how much she wanted. Either £5 or £l4 a year according to what I have to do she said, but I don't do -much for £5." " She was engaged at £l4, and here I am she said, slapping out of her cab, who tips the cabman, you or I? Oh the butler, he has a few shillings in his pocket, said Mrs Holmes. MISS J. IS JELLOUS. " Miss J. became very jealous of the baby and found out who the doctor was. So > she went to s-ee him, pretending she was going to buy some Bsecham's pills in case of necessity. Have I the pleasure f seeing j Miss J., the new and accomplished governess of Mrs Holmes, asked the doctor, who was wearing a complete suit of even- j ing dixss. Yes, you have that pleasure, said Miss J.. Miss J. said she wanted a baby like Mrs Holmes's. Are you married said the doctor. No, said Miss J. Then I j am afraid it cannot be dene said the doc ; t'T. Well, I must have made a great rnisj take. I certainly am married said Miss J. j " Xcxt chapter, The Private Arrival of 1 Miss J.'s Baby. Mk-s J. was met in the -j street next morning by <% page boy, who | said the doctor told me to give you this i box and !;•!> hopes the contents will do. ! Miss J. took the box home and opened it. | She called it an ugly baby and threatened to throw it away. Next day she thought it more ugly still and really" did throw it away in an alley. In fact she did moio than this, she murdered it first. She was mere angry sdll to find a bill in the box to one bubv delivered as per agreement. £l. EXD OF THE BOOK. "Years pa-sed by and she stole the other bj.by. Mrs Holmes was horrified, the words died off her lips as she went off into a fit and she died. More years passed. Mr I Holmes was sitting alone and his red nose i was growing; bigger so nobody would go !..near hm. Just at ftiat moment a young j man rushed in. Father, father, don't you I know me, he said. My,, son, I do, but I have not seen you since you were two, said the father. " End of the Book by Angela Ashford."