Miss Lulu Bett

y would "use" for her if she died. And really, the waist looked as if it had been planned for the purpose, and its wide, upstanding plaited lace at throat and wrist made

, and frankly examined it, head well back, t

gain wearing Ina's li

sense of looking-not at him, for then she was shy and averted her eyes-but at his photograph at which she could gaze as much as she would. She looked up at

after them. She gave no instructions to Ina who was

Ina unmistakably said: "Well, now don't keep it going all the way there"; and turned back to the others with some

sness that the people all knew that she too had been chosen. A man and a woman were opposite, with their little boy between them. Lulu felt this woman's superiority o

pular among business and newspaper men. The place was below the sidewalk, was reached by a dozen marble steps, and the odour of its griddle-cakes took the air of the street. Ninian made a great show o

here, Miss Lulu," he said, settling

ed that Lulu was a regular chef, that was what Lulu was

wightie.

which he pretended not to h

hat's just a little mite

ent your speaking of that b

omebody always said some

cloud Lulu's hour. She wa

emendous to-night," D

watching, and she thought: "They're feeling sorry for Ina-nobody talking to her." She laughed at everything th

, Ina's isolation palled upon her and she set herself to take N

never married,

e that," he begge

bly. "Yes, you mig

d, but she wishes I hadn't," Dwigh

er turned a bit from his wife. It was inconceivable, the gusto with which they proceeded. Ina had assumed for

hat is so pretty-ever so much prettier than the old one." But Ina sa

nian low, to Lulu. "Th

he said, it was so pleasant to have him talking to her in this confidential fas

time, the lob

rbert, the immortal soul, had warmed and melted at these contacts. By the time that all was over, and they were at the hotel for supper, such was his pleasurable excitation that he was once more

od the story. The dog-kennel part-wasn't that the que

he one with the hook-he w

na cried. "They didn't belon

in parts, I suppose, to catch everybody.

ped when the principal character ran down front and sai

onona might have seen, confessed that the last part was so pretty that s

eemed to her apropos, but she could think of nothing to add. The evening had been to her a light from heaven-how could she find anythin

liked it,

they all took thei

at them appealingly, knowing

hey said," she added. "It wa

s rarebit with a great sho

more Athabasca," he added, and they all laughed and told him that Athabasca was a lake, of course. O

bert when it was finished, "

igh

Come, liven up. They'll begin to

wedding service

stimulating to Dwight, something of overwhelming humo

," said Ninian. "Sh

ure. They were all looking at her. She m

," she said, "so

eaned to

o be my wedded wife," he prono

he near tables turned. And, from the fastness of her wifehood and motherh

ourse she don't dare s

, that other Lulu who sometimes fou

e, Ninian, to be m

l?" Nini

usly, to prove that she too could jo

ntertained you, or haven't we?" Ninian lau

. "I don't think you ought to-holy t

s eyes were staring an

id, "a civil wedding is

? Oh, well-" Nin

ight, "happen to

te idea of inquiring something of some one, circled about and returned. Ina

ve said is all you have to say according to law. And there don

ins of Lulu's throat showed dark as she Swa

ght scare you," sh

"Why, I think it's a goo

eyes several times very fast. Their points of light flickered. With a pang of wonder which pierced her and l

covered his a

f it is necessary, I should say we can have it set asi

said Ninian. "I'd l

u serio

I'm se

ently at her

im? What you goin

ad. "He isn't in

egs of his chair and was slightly tilting, so that the effect o

at Ninian, and there was something terrible in that

n the theatre," he cried. "I'll get him on the line

hing away tears. "Oh," she

er. Mrs. Bett was i

Lulu said lo

hing in her exceeding iso

th me. We'll have it done over

Lulu, "if

and patted

irl," h

dding on the cloth with th

sat down, laughed weakly, rubbed at his face. "You

" said Ninian

right, I gues

be dished,"

r!" sa

of this man. Perhaps they were all compact of the devil-may-care attitude engendered

home from here. Suppose we get married again by somebody or other

said Lu

with her sense of fit

ld see to that, though she was scandalised that they were no

id Lulu. "Mamma can't

ng unusual about these four, indifferently dressed, indifferently conditioned. The

day-when Ina and Dwight reached home.

lie?" asked

y t

eyes searched their faces, she shook her head, h

ng to do y

of that, and t

"you and I'll

meditated,

your breakfasts," she said. "I can't c

kfasts," Ina escape

n the city,

didn't h

ears gathered, but th

ld think Lulie might have had a lit

er, stepping sedately to church in company with Bobby Larkin. Di was in white, and her face

see so much of that Larkin boy.

said Dwight sharply, "a

d Ina, sotto voce,

: Had they heard? Lulu married Dwight's brother Ninian in the city yesterday. Oh, sud