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Voice From The Library.
Sunday evening, just at dusk, I hap
pened to have an errand at the Library.
To my surprise as I eutered quietly, 1
heard voices very suggestive of an after
noon tea and discovering the source of
the conversation, I settled in a corner
and played eavesdropper.
"So you are here over Sunday for
once," said Beverly of Graustark with
some surprise.
"Yes," sighed a sweet shrill voice evi
dently that of William Ashe's Kitty,
"yes, I'm here a great deal of late and
very stupid I find it."
"Of course you do," said Nancy Stair
sympathizingly. "When I stay on the
shelf a few days I find everything grows
disconsolate."
"Pretty well for you to say," grumbled
Kate of Kate Hall "you've been out three
years and expect people to like you as
much as though you were fresh from the
press. I've been out only a year and
everybody has forgotten my existence."
Crockett's Miss Anne giggled. "That's
strange," she said, with mock solemnity.
"Evidently Nancy old is preferable to
Kate young."
"I'm not so old after all," broke in
Nancy a trifle indignantly. "If you were
speaking of Jane now "
Jane Eyre's modest yet bright little
voice, took up the wrords. "I am old,
that's true," she said, "over fifty years
old, but I get an airing now and then
that keeps me from getting musty."
"I don't know how you do it" sighed
Evelyn Byrd. "Of course you don't
Evelyn" cried Anthony Hope's Dolly. "I
don't expect immortality myself, but I'm
able to see the difference between Jane
and you."
"There, there!" cried Ellen in the
soothing tone she used to Mr. Man,
"Don't be disagreeable, Dolly. Evelyn
is a nice child it she isn t a genius like
Jane."
"Who is?" asked Trilby, mournfully.
"There was a time when people said I
was going to live forever, but I fear I'm
nearer death every year."
"You do look rather seedy," comment
ed Princess Osra, "but I'm sure I can't
say much for I see the world so little
myself in these days."
"I'm out all the time," cried Yolanda.
"So am I and almost worn out" chimed
in Lily Bart, while The Gambler added
with dignity, "I don't even get on the
shelf."
There was an ominous silence broken
by the satirical voice of the Abbess of
Vlaye. "Do you think your activity due
to superiority ?"
"Yes" said Yolanda confidently.
"Then my dear child" rejoined the Ab
bess sweetly, "you are doomed to disillu
sion. Were Dorothy Vernon here she
could tell you a story of which yours will
be the duplicate for no one thinks of her
now. As lor .Lily uart wen sue mav
survive her second season, but I doubt it,
and as for The Gambler, she's already on
the decline."
'No such thing" said The Gambler
fiercely. "Lady Tennys and I head the
list of the most popular heroines of the
year."
"That is true" sighed Lady Tennys,
"but I hear every one who takes me de
clare Nedva isn't half as good as Grau
stark and I fear my day will be a short
one."
"I've had a very good time since I came
out," piped up Uebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm.
"So have I," said liebecca Mary sol
emnly. "Dear me, yes, you children always
do," said May Iveison loftily. "Now I
find it much more interesting to stay on
the shelf and listen to people criticise us.
I have the literary instinct you know."
"If I only had more agreeable neigh
bors," said Anna the Adventuress sud
denly, "I wouldn't mind staying com
fortably on the shelf but I have The
Egoist on one side and The Uagged Mes
senger on the other. Yrou may guess
how congenial they are !"
to be continued
Elizabeth Olney.
Captain AH.
"Captains All" by W. W. Jacobs
(Charles Scribners' Sons), is a collection
of short stories, taking its name from the
first. Mr. Jacobs' has shown in "Dial
stone Lane" an intimate acquaintance
with the manners, customs and thoughts
of the middle and lower class English
men, and these characterises are well
marked in "Captains All."
The title story, which is one of the
best, gives the love making of three sail
ors who wished to retire from the sea and
are looking for a "snug harbor." One of
them finds a most promising widow, who
is running a tobacconist's shop, and rep
resents himself as a retired sea captain.
His two mates who have followed close-
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W. W. JACOBS,
Author of "Captains Ail"