The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-07-09
A ROMANTIC INCIDENT.
CHAPTER II.

"WeH but, Alan-have you left
her an accepted sutton? Is it all
right
"Cut'' roared my uncle. cut do
YOU mean to say she wouldn't have
you? Tell me all about it. What
hard hearts girls have nowadays"
L assure you, Wood says she will
carry tie mark of to-day's work to
You don't mean to say you told
that chatterbox Wood about your
proposal? Why Wood will tell it to
all his patients"
Proposal? L really don't under
stand YOU"
"Come, come, Alan, fnesse apart,
Of course it is all right, Ell? Those
fellows will come up directly and we
will execute the will forthwith"
But unfortunately Miss FluXon IS
still insensible; she was flung. from
her horse this afternoon and her
head is seriously injured"
WhewP' said my uncle, solemnly,
is she very -"
at this moment the door opened
and a fo0tmSS ushered into his pres
enee, Netherby, In a russell garb and
an aWestruck cOuntenanee, and Stan
ley, pale with terror, and repeatedly
stroking his hair to my uncle.
Hillol What? | don't want you'll"
he shouted to the unlucky fellows
go and be hanged to you both for
couple of &C., &C.; long before he
could finish, the wretched rustics had
fed to the servants hall, while |
shouted with laughter.
The old man flung himself into his
armchair and moodily resumed:
You will have to wait and try again
meanwhile, make yourself happy with
the pheasants. The |. Il. Depart
ment will have to lose your valuable
aid for the present"
Unfortunately, Briggs handed me
a telegram from lenox as | dismount-
ed. The Kuttack Provinces want
at once, e900, 900; L must run back
and see abont it, | suppose, or else
there will be some terrible blunder.
There are not above two of the subs
that know where the Kuttack Prov
inces are. | don't want the depart
ment TO be 0verheuled in the House;
some fellow will be proposing to give
MS Cape Sherry, so | must at once
wish you bood-byel"
As | spoke, the carriage passed the
windows, and ere long j was once
more whirled off to the great Baby
Ion.
The Kuttaek loan was duly negoti-
ated, and aGonth more found us busy
upon the Carribbee Succession Duty.
Lord Mayors day, with the usual raid
of WhItechapel upon decent hats had
just passed, when among my CORES
pOndenee arrived two private letters.
One was directed in a bad hand that
had been bold enough for Premier 3,
but now it shook sadly here and there,
and the letters were occasionally
blurred and smudged like the same
worthy fingers when knotted with
govt. This could be from no one but
my uncle.
Dear Alan, it began, / thought
you would like some news from Ash
ton, this dull weather. Miss Eluxton
has quite recovered: young Quick
spoke is to marry her in a month. [
do not think you would have had
any chance, unless she had been ig-
norant of your proposal to Miss
Gibbons. Some men never know
Comet port from Oxford mixture.
My sister james boy is. fond OF a
country life; L trust the new minis
try will not forget such devoted pub
Tic servants as yourself Netherby
and Stanley have just come in to
witness my signature, so / must end.
Ever your atfeetionate uncle,
&C. H. NORRIS"
!" Lambton,' | cried to my head
clerk.
That functionary appeared prompt
as the genii when Aladdin rubbed
his lamp. "Oblige me by putting this
letter in the hottest part of the fire,
and the note was consumed to ash
es forthwith.
Now for the other. 1t was writ
ten on blaek-edged mourning paper
from the severe affliction depart
ment; the handwriting was firm, ye
delicate add ladylike.
"SHIP EUPHRATEs, GRAvEsEND, |
Nov. IL, 1856.
MY DEAR Mr.. WOODWARD: Afte
your kindness to me at Ashton, ant
my promise to let you know what m,
plans were, you will not be surprised
to hear that | am going to India a
.governess to the Hon. Sir Il. Prynne'
daughters. We sail in an hour. Yol
will soon learn to thank me for spar
ing us the bitterness of saying fare
well to one another. You carry witt
you my loving affection and bes
wishes for your happiness; a kinde
fate might have saved me from sign
ing myself your most sincere an
aisterly friend, X. G."
Lambton la hanson Immediately !
| reached Gravesend to hear tn
Euphrates sailed during the night
She might touch at Plymouth, but
depended on the weather.
OF course, the Carribee Succession
Duty papers could follow me to Ply
mouth; my name could be signe
there as we'll rs in London. ! wer
down by the night mail, and mex
morning called upon the agent of th
packet line to which the Euphratc
belonged.
He informed me decisively bu
courteously that there was not tn
chance of her touching at, or eve
sighting Plymouth. She had dis
charged her orders at Folkstone, tn
telegraph had that morning brough
word, and was rapidly making the bes
Of her way down channel with favor
lng wind. Sometimes when passen
gers Joined at Plymouth their vesse
put in there, but the Euphrates ha
shipped her full complement befor
leaving Gravesend.
What was to be done now? 1t wa
certain L should not see Kate again
L was ehagrined, certainly, nay, seri
ous!y grleyed l settled with myse
while smoking my cigar on the Ho
4 could not all at once and nb;Iesonb