The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-15

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with his British Museum records, Lady
Warning could not refrain from drawing
q long sis h as she saw. for the hundreth
time, that her sou Thoughts much more
ab rat parchments than about posterity
Don't be alarmed, mother" he return
ed. looking up from transcript OF q
medieval heraldic record. II have told
you that | am not rich enough to court an
heiress,nor poor enough to marry beggar
but | have had some thoughts of my own
about marriage of late !"
This was remar kable admission for
Harry Warng to make.
II hope they are favorable ones" re-
turned Lady ,Naring.
| Certainly they are not unfavorable, my
dear mother" said bachelor Harry
"Given the right conditions, and shall
be ready to narry-or, at least. to 90 q
courtsng," added be, little rufully.
Sand do you find any help toward the
right conditions in your study of the
heralds' records?' asked Lody War
ing,
That's my secret, MOTHER" saidHarry.
'But have found enough in them to send
me over to France for fortnight. We
shall see what will come Of it. am off
this very day, and as soon as l have news
to tell you will write, or, more likely
come myself and brlngit."
''Another trip after parchments |"
thought Lady Waring; but sne made no
objection; it was Harry's way to come and
go thus unceremoniously as have said
In what way forrnight's absence in
rance could possibly DE connecaed with
q change of heart on the part of Harry
relatively TO the subject of marriage was
q quite insolnble question to her. She
simplyasald.
well take care of yourself, Harryand
come back as soon as you can" And
Harry made his adieux; then he went I'd
his elder brother, and was caoseted With
him for an hour; but he reached tow
in time for the noon train to DRYER,
and before night he was landed safe in
Calais.
Shall tell her what it was that
brought Harry Waring TO Calais? On
the whole, think it will be better simply
to record what he did Perhaps some Of
my readers have diviued his secret q lready
But will give clew to the mystery by
reminding them of what they know
already-that Calais was tor more than
two hundred years an English possession,
and that finally it was retaken by the
French under the Ducde Guise in the
year 1868. Among the torlorn band of
five hundred Englishmen who then
the Warnings, man Of wealth, who had
spent the better part of his life there,
and who fell during the final assault.
His former residence, cow In the poorer
instead of the better part ot the town,
as it was three hundred years before, had
been long In use as hotel of the
second class. To this hotel Harry betook
himself, with very definite and impor-
tant plan in his mind A single servant
accompanied him.
1t was quaint spacious, tumble-down
rookery OF u place, such as the traveller
in any old French town will fnd in the
more ancient quarters. 1t did not look
very promising in the way of comfort and
neatness, but it had every appearance of
being we'll patronized Harry Waring
doubted whether he should be able to find
any place in il, after all.
The landlord hustled out into the
spacious courtyard to meet him, and
feared that he could not accommodate
milor suitably. There was, to be sure, an
attic chamber, Indefinitely high; but
mllor would not think Of taking that
And the Frenchman smiled irwardly at
the odd taste of the stranger In coming to
his motel at all, while he cursed, also
/
inwArdly, the fate that had just inveigled
him into letting his be rooms to pair
OF commercial travellers, and at shame
fully low price.
Harry Warlng, on the other band, had
much ado to conceal his satisfaction at
| finding the merest foothold In the old