my dress and my petticoat and put the stool aside. I walked and minced about looking at myself how I loved "ME"! My head was ringing with it all I had found ecstasy, bliss and supreme happiness.

I put my back to the mirror and bent forward without bending my knees. I did this on purpose as in this position all bent over, I saw in the mirror a most delightful view of pretty legs, petticoat and panties. Just enough to tease a fellow were I a girl and did this! I was having a ball and for real. Time was forgotten and in a panic I looked at my watch on the dresser. I saw that I had plenty of time as Miss Cora had said it would perhaps be five o'clock before she and Alice got back. (Note the "perhaps "). So there I was with another hour and a half, I thought, to love and live and I had a secret place all ready prepared in the bottom of a deep drawer in the closet-storage for my gar- ments. What fun I would have and all my osn secret!

I was standing facing my mirror again and loving myself and in a state of dizzy thrills and ecstasy when I felt rather than heard a soft sound like that of smooth, oiled metal. I looked into the mirror at myself again and right there in the mirror I saw the reflection of my door wide open and there stood Miss Cora and my Alice. I al- most fainted. I was rooted to the spot, trembling all oh, my shame, my terror, my humiliation, my burning face! My long, pretty legs trembled visibly. No it was not a dream it was a nightmare. It was Cousin Cora, my legal mother, there in person, in the flesh. It was true and there at her side, smiling in high amusement was the girl that I loved my own dear, sweet Alice!

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Miss Cora softly shut my door and said: "Alice, my dear, come to him with me". They came over to me in dead si- lence and walked around me, both smiling in SATISFACTION! With my hands clasped tightly and shaking all over and with a dry throat now lacking my former thrills, I tried to speak. At last I managed to stammer hoarsely