The wooing of Leola

F. M. LUPTON, Publisher, 23-37 City Hall Place, New York.
Copyright, 1905 and 1906, by F. M. Lupton.
BY MRS. ALEX. M’VEIGH MILLER.
“ALL THE WHILE HE WAS UNCONSCIOUS OF LEOLA, LYING THERE LIKE A DEAD GIRL ON THE GROUND.”
THE WOOING OF LEOLA.
BY MRS. ALEX. M’VEIGH MILLER.
“Oh, mamma, I have had a lovely time at Mrs. Van Bibber’s! I would not have missed her reception for the world!”
The blonde beauty threw herself, with a silken frou-frou of rich attire, back into a luxurious chair, clasped her white, jeweled hands, and rolled her large, bluebell eyes heavenward, practising the seraphic expression she found so effective with the men.
She repeated, rapturously:
“I would not have missed it for the world! Everything was on the grandest scale, and went off beautifully. I felt that it was worth all our scheming and planning for my lovely gown;” and she smiled, complacently, at her rich blue silk robe loaded with fine lace trimmings that set off so well her blue eyes and fluffy flaxen hair.
“But, mamma,” she continued, “how sober you look. Is your rheumatism worse, poor dear?”
The faded, elderly woman, with the careworn face and fretful mouth, clasped her thin, white hands nervously over her knee and answered, wearily: