Show L MISS ISS SOPHRONIA SOPH RONIA by SUSAN F HANFORD N for td r 0 ft a ia 1 by ul mcclur 14 matr mies illas sophronia Sophron la illegia wae forty on one jo and looked it and knew that ake lm looked it but ne as thia this eventful billy ip day afternoon the he sat at in the little front room and looked down the year years of her youth alie be knew that of all daye days this vins the happ happiest hai pleat lest I 1 or the fleet first urne the batti of mak adventure was we here berm she v as to spend the summer at seaside hotel and ard moreover ne an the owner of it 10 A week before ehe she had expected to go on wo ft 11 the same life ae an the last forty years bad had hell bell till the eventful day that brought her the letter leiter from ft lawyer in the tho city telling that ahe she was the owner of 0 seaside ly by the will of her late uncle jami jared stone seaside wan was to go on the same ae an before she had bad that very adny corn com plated the arrangements with till mr 1 I cutley estley ae AN proprietor and he fie wn ats to attend to everything every thin iler presence there as a ow owner n er was not to he be known to anyone a at t the hotel ave save tr to that auspicious person I 1 itself june came come and went with little excitement cit elt ement at the seaside except to SUM bliss the reason bad had been cold and the guests few but there wore rare daya days when ehe she and the young man of the ranee orange tie sir IT Arding grave graves boated and evon evenings ings when ben tho the moon was bright herons the water it ans the first of anly that hiss miss 4 sophronia Sopt ironia la lucked in n her rife plaits and roar mar at the u as of love and he says my eye eyes are beautiful she he reflected an aked at tise the tell tale crow a e feet with the new vard vanishing shing I 1 cream that winter th wh passed for or forty and told her about hut but i t t the thrill of the he new c and find the softly modulated oice nice of her escort there were when hen a Soph was wa 8 iM lee one reason for which belne being the artty lilue blue eyed girl nho ho pk preside welded d at the seaside piano the other was t the angular but sturdy form fonn of azra bascom that had hod a peculiar r way at appearing in her dr damn of late for twelve years filae brilliantly polle Polli bedNo hed a 0 9 n had bad the th on sunday evening anil and every I 1 plen pleasant sant evening they had iriven behind eiras ezras handsome roan hut but never a mord ord of love had passed betheen them hut but ahat troubled tron bletl misa miss Sop sophronia hront ft wan wits chrt she had promised to write and nd after a week of 0 tlona had forgotten for ROtten july brought ita its usual flock of race and the man of the orange tie WM wits greatly in demand sophronia nia noted this and considered derel hie his unselfishness one of hie his moat admirable i qualities still there were houra hours th that at be etole stole awny any to entertain her and escort her wherever she he willed to go while all the time the bloyed bl eye pianist east tender fiancee glances at min man while be her r 1 cheeks chirs grew pale pate under the demand deman da of the seaside guests j iv 11 I 1 the season was to close the second week la in september end and the last of au her conscience coni clence having been more v beavy than usual of f late miss bliss ala wit offit a it picture postcard to azra and ID in return mail a attractive one came in return in the center I 1 I 1 oat at a youthful swain on an a rustic seaf seat 1 one arm am about ft ghostly vision of a sweet young thing and anil und underneath ernen th thin Is A lonesome town own without yon while the ene one word kini Vil was nas writ ten in he the corner comer ellei sophronia Sophron la put tier ber handa hands over her hot face as an the ot of things effine over her roar azra ehe she I 1 oh I 1 thi this tr n t ani nd she he lore loves mm I 1 know this meaning hr her acair affair with the man of the orrange tie that mr air alardin graves had hod hem very attentive all summer could not tx he 1 declet led I 1 halt half a bobu ehe she had callert called him at first then later le 40 had halt con eluded that he wae wits an beeb hut but of late the had been hem marred ly by the thoughts of the little blue eyed girl 11 who wax t aftem years older than he lisa miss Sophron Bop broni la felt sure that she cared ft for hirn and 1 even if he be was pleasant the others she decided hat that iho the dt not be tho th cause of a broken heart at least and then its ilva net not bring in to efte me concluded as ho she rang for the bellboy and dispatched a formal note to the man of the orane orange ne tie pleading a hed heal ache that made mad will sell to the point impossible and thanking him very demurely for it 11 very appy cumma two weeks lat later hack back in her little parlor miss sophronia Sophron la was piRn ring for the new houpe and si she he her fingers were huy on a it lonia white silken seam only one lier tier she wondered if it rhe had detilly had a flirtation that flint bummer to her fillma it a sin and how flow rould he fie ever explain it to 71 jus hen then the little cam 1 from the post with n lette it ards from mr air Wc atley telling her when he vv I 1 I 1 he there to settle the season s tm hoult lt vf ex niso 1 to learn the terms for ohp tip ie of ohp hotel Inc loed wi the i recount of the employee emp loye of the sum tr mor hilr their iange bending it t 17 if or linar entertainer mw 3 III nten grm Iliin Ilan lut tnt III road no more A 1 wn finx lifton from cpr mind ehe she I 1 e in n I 1 hurt ancone s feell feelings after all fam ip F nw a postscript to wester jer later M n ornies ample 1 sort of toll on the expenses IT HP kne to n vi horn your uncle left the prop e rr if r 1 py rmon Ill irgin did not care car oh w t teen dpn soaked ai its she phe ep e p f 14 ej on the long earn 1 too t 11 drew |