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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 20, Issue 70, 3 September 1909, Page 6

' even one hundred. “There’s the makj in g of a fine business woman in Dial ! girl. Any other woman would have written a book.” Then she wrote to another uncle as follows: "Dear Uncle Joe: I want a trip pass to Cleveland and back for Cousin Emily, for boat after next. It's all right. "KATHERINE DENHAM." “Then it is all right, since Katherine says so,” said Unde Joseph. “It must be quite awhile since Emily has had a boat trip. I don't remember sending her a pat's. She deserves a dozen.” Next Katherine wrote to the most promising of the three railroad men: “Dear Uncle Peter: I want passes for Cousin Emily from Cleveland to Buffalo, New York, Washington and Boston, anu any place else you can think of, and back ' to Cleveland again. She’s going down by boat. It’s all right. "KATHERINE DENHAM." “Bless her soul, of course it’s ail right!” said the railroad magnate, making out passes with his own hand. "Her Cousin Belle wrote IT page; when she asked for a pass from Milwaukee to Chicago, and I had to gel i her letter typewritten before 1 could I read it.*’ Katherine displayed such a deep and mysterious interest in the p<-, : . 1 no, u the following week that'Cousin Emily began to fear that the chaperoning of a young woman of IT was a position of no light responsibility. The mystery was expin ined, however, when Katherine appeared one morning in Cousin Emily's doorway, with a ra- ; diant countenance, numerous slips m j paper and a work-basket. “There!" said Katherine, with danc- ( ing eyes. “These are all yours!” "Mine!” exclaimed Cousin Emily. “What are they?” “A little of everything,” replied the plotter. “A lake trip, railroad trips, a jai%£ to Washington, a trip to the seashore, a run to Boston, another to New York—you’re, to stay a month if you want to.” “Katherine, you told!” “I didn’t! 1 never said a word!” “But you explained—” “Nothing,” said Katherine. “This family’s too large and too honest for explanations. Here, if you must cry, take my apron. But you haven’t time. You’re to go the minute the others get back. I’ve come prepared to sew on buttons by the quart and braid by the mile. You’ll have to have some clothes, you know. It’s a blessing your spring suit is so new!” ! The day of Cousin Emily’s departure dawned. The relatives that went to sec her off formed'a scattered procession that reached from one end to the oilier iof the long ore dock. Now that their j attention was called to the fact, all ' realized that quiet, unobtrusive, helpful Emily had lived all her life in the little village without a glimpse of the word beyond 1 . “Really,” said Katherine’s mother, ’ waving a handkerchief energetically j after the departing boat. “I’m afraid J we’ve all been abominably selfish. .We’ve given Emily half a dozen homes among us, to be sure, and we’ve provided her with all she could eat and wear; hut I’m afraid we haven’t been quite as thoughtful as.we should have been about her pleasures. Now I i come to think of it, she has always been the one to stay at home; and no one has ever heard her complain.” Katherine tipped her hat over a pair of telltale eyes, and grabbed a small nephew.by the arm just in time to save the boy from disappearing over the side of the dock and herself from the necessity of a reply. With Cousin Emily gone, the family seemed singularly incomplete. No one else could put the Terkins bn into sleeft. No one else ccuid bathe the Denham baby to his satisfaction. Tor no one else would (Jrauufathev Dtn- , ham’s gruel attain the proper consistency. And it suddenly became evident that no other member of the family was competent to make buttonlu !?s in the Denberry twins’ shirt-waists. When, therefore, just five days ai 1 cr her departure, Cousin Emily walker in unannounced, she was greeted will, joy, as well as with no little astonishment. “How in the world,” gasped Kath erine, almost dropping the Terkins : baby in her surprise, “did you get-bad, so soon?” “Soon!’’ cried Cousin Emily, seizin;.; Die baby and shedding tears of joy down his neck. “Soon! It’s been the longest week I ever lived. I was so homesick for this baby, and ti r> Denham baity, and Grandfather I hr.hrm and the twins, that Heft the boat, tire moment it touched the dock at ( Imoland and came home by rail on the very first train.” “But you had no paw—” “I had money!” wid Cousin Emily, triumphantly, “Do you mean to say that with a pocketful of passes to Washington and Boston and Buffalo and New York, aim everywhere, and a boat pass, besides,' gasped horrified Katherine, “that you bought and paid for a ticket, am! wasted all those passes?” “Yes, I do!” said Causin Emily, hugging the Terkins baby ecstatically “Ti! have come by telegraph if I could.” “Well,” said Katherine, in a lone ot deep disgust, “I see I wasn't as small as I thought I was! Next time T plar a trip for you I’ll include a few gramparents, all the babies and all t■ t twins; and I'll go_ myself to see the' you don’t waste even a fraction of ; pas«.” At first Katherine was keenly disappointed at the seeming failure of hr. plan; but when little, nndemnnslra- j live Cousin Emily, still fairly beaming in her joy at being home again, j threw both arras round Katherine's ! neckasshekissedhergond night at bedtime, saying that in si! her 10years she had never known a happier day. Katherine fait that perhaps, after all, the trip had been a success.—Youth’s Companion.