Love at the Loom — page 68: what you’re looking at

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64 The Plot Against Goldie. “T mean that I am going to take Goldie home with } me. You and Donald are away most of the time, | and I want some one to talk to. Now, don’t say no, } Goldie, for I always haye my own way. Papa! tell | —— om SAA i. abt , her it is useless to resist.” | Mr. Selden laughed. - “That is true, little Goldie. Everybody obeys Mil dred. So put on your hat and cloak and be gone.” “But I am not fit,” pleaded Goldie, in consternation, © spoke. | | “You are fit if I thin: so,” insisted Mildred; and — with her own hands she took down the street garments — of the despised factory girl. Indeed, now that she had seen Goldie, she would not ~ ‘for any earthly reward have let her escape her. 3 ‘The bewitching beauty of the factory girl had mad- — | dened her, and into her brain had crept a dark, terri- : ble thought. | “Aye!” she murmured to herself, ‘you shall go with : me, and | swear your beauty shall never charm the heart of Donald from me again. I swear that he shall turn from you with a shudder of horror.” “It seems so strange,” pleaded Goldie. Mildred laughed almost harshly. | “Why strange? Are you not yet used to making Weenie love co Ah! you should be. Come, little fc looked down at her neat but plain gown as she ~