Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-25
any discrimination to meeting, we were
utterly incapable of inducing them to do


Our choice of residence, at Is Cliff,
Road was not fortunate. Mrs. Rips, The
| lanelady, kept a stationer's shop in thu
! High street, and was chiefly remarkabl,
for the fact that the editor of the Time
and most of the leading publishers hac
conspired together to effect her ruin, b,
deliberately refusing to supply her with
the various papers and magazines which
she punctually ordered; for what reason
she was quite unable to say, as she was
not conscious of ever having done any o
them an injury. Mrs. Rips did not show
the light Of her countenance much al
Clitfe street, leaving us to the tender mer
cles OF Lizer, young person who, il
wanting as an attendant-a fact which,
think, her most faithful friends would not
dlspute-was even more dismally failure
looked at in the light Of a cook. In spite
OF all this we enjoyed Mavertord, and were
sorry when our stay was drawing to q
close. | had waited in vain for q letter
from the uncle, but one day we received
one from Charlie Mather. He WINS going
south, and as he had to pass through the
town, and was very anxious to see u.s.
proposed remaining at Maverford for d day
or TWO, If | would take some rooms for
him at the hotel.
Are you sufficiently experienced
matron to entertain visitor?" | asked
! Alice. Charlie Mather is coming to
| MaVerford for day Or two, and Of course
he must stay with us.n
| Alice looked pleased; but serious with.
al. II don't know, I'm sure, dear" she
replied; "I'm afraid Mr. Mather would
not like Ellza's cooking" And, indeed
the extraordinary variety of methods in
which that damsel contrived to spoil
our dinner, though curious from a mum
| erlcal point OF view 4o0s trihe disheart-
| ening to hungry people, and / could not
but reply that Alice's fear had founda-
| ton. s.1d a
'She is a little tiresome sometimes, GER
tainly. Do you Think" she continued.
with due sense of the gravity of her
proposition, that if | were to trv and
cook things I could do them righte Don't
laugh, dear; don't you think could?n
mo, you baby, l don't think there is
the slightest possibility of your being
even remotely successful - was my ami,
hilating reply. However, we'll manage
| all that. Let's see, he arrives at half-past
two; we can go and meet him as we come
from reheal SAL"
she consented to accompany me to the
station, where Charles good-humored
face was one Of the first we saw.
Our guest was immensely DELIGHTED
with Maverford and everything there
though, for the matter of that never saw
him IN any mbination of circumstances
under which he was not perfectly satisfied
and happy. OF course he went to the
opera the hrsts evening; and it was
decided that next day we should
take him for a drive to see
the nneigghborhood, going by the Lon
don road to enable Alice to visit her latest
protegees. But events were ordered other
wise. Instead OF repeating the familiar
Rose of Castillo" Betterton decided on
playing the Oily Of Killarney and we
were obliged to attend rehearsal: and. in
deed, apart from the music, I should not
| have liked Alice to go through the water
cave business without seeing that it work
eel we'll. [ don't think that such scenes
should be introduced into opera at all; if
the music is-not sufficient attraction, bet
ter give up the whole thing: however, the
Lily is far too beautiful to be lost, and
SO VIII continue to be played in spite ofob
Jectlons to the plot. You see a nervous
glrl becomes quite unstrung by knowing
that all that acrobatic business is coming,
| and the reaction and excitement prevents
| her singing up to herself when it is over.
Alice was disappointed; but Charlie,
gathering the gist of her regrets, of course
expressed his determination of riding
round to have look at the place by him
self; and he could leave the money.
Rehearsal went off smoothly; and when
we returned to the house we found Char
lie already there. He announced the full
fillment of his Grand
Didn't you say you had never been to
| that cottage, Mrs. Heytesmere?" he con-
tinued. 'sYou haven't seen the people,
have you, Bertie?' 400
Neither Alice nor had been near the
| place
Then how is it that found this theree"
ne asked, drawing scrap Of paper from
his pocket. 1t was wrapper in which
something had been sent through the
post; and took it and read
CLEMENT II. F. HEYTEsMERE ESQ.,,
100 Rt0erside, Ma0erJord.
"Uncle Clement, by all that's marvel
GUS" | exclaimed; "'1O9 Riverside, ,
why, that's sort of Professionalism, isn't
1t? How could it have got there? It was
he, you know, who took such trouble
about the Hall property"
Charlie had been keeping in his ex-
cltement; but the small spark which I
had emitted set it in blaze.
81 thought it was very strange, and so I
asked about it, and the people at the cot
'tage said it had been used to wrap up
some things they bought there. But, look
here, BERTHE, don't you go gettin' san
guine and all that sort of thing and then
bein' disappointed, you know" was
Charles caution; he palpably thinking
all the while that this discovery must
/ bring about the most important results in
| the course Of the next ten minutes. Alice
dld not exactly follow the matter, for /
had not talked much about it to her, not
wishing to raise hopes which might never
be realized; and she looked on with won
der, as l seized my hat, and rushed off to
| 100 Riverside.
| 1t was, as had expected to find, a
small grocer's shop.
| "Is your master imp I asked the shop
man, who greeted me with a pumpkin
grin of resignation, and was about to re-
ply when the proprietor emerged from his
little den at the back
"What can do for you, sir?-Mr. Hey