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It was noted that she took to doing her hair up at night on "wavers" and used her lipstick with greater frequency, and whereas she had vowed she et in the saddle she now rode with Mr Stott daily

The ladies who had known Miss Gaskett for twenty-five years, and nothing to her discredit, were not prepared to say that she was a huzzy and a vampire without further evidence, but they admitted to each other privately that they always had felt there was sohtforward about Mattie

Miss Gaskett, who looked like a returned ht into the dark places, seemed rather elated than depressed at the aspersions cast upon her character, and by the ti Mr Stott sha hi with him by the cas Mrs Budlong showed her disapproval by refusing to speak to Miss Gaskett, and Miss Gaskett replied by putting on a peek-a-boo blouse that was a scandal

But Mrs Budlong herself was not in too high favour, since to the sin of gluttony she had added that of lying and been caught at it It was a snantly, it is trifles that betray character, and Mrs Budlong was treated with marked coldness by the ladies to whom she had prevaricated

It was known beyond the question of a doubt that Mrs Budlong had purchased food and kept it in her teepee Therefore, when asked for so before dinner and she had denied having anything, they were outspoken in their resentment

"There she stood and lied to our faces," Mrs Appel declared to her husband afterward, "while hercracker cru they have in this country that to know people you ht that of Hannah Budlong!"

It was because of this incident, and the strained relations which resulted from her perfidy, that none of her erstwhile friends responded to her invitation to join her in a bath in a beaver dam of which Mr Hicks told her when they camped early the next afternoon

Mrs Budlong's phleghts of a bath in a beaver daly