The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-24

| buOuSuLS OF my own aDOuU marriage or
! late"
This was a remarkable admission for
Harry Waring to take.
| +" hope they are favorable Ones" re-
turned Lady Warning.
Certainly they are not unfavorable
my dear mother said bachelor Harry.
"Given the right conditions and I shall
be ready to marry or, at least, to go a
conrting," added he, a little ruefully.
And do you find any help toward the
right conditions in your study of the
heralds' record % asked Lady Waring.
"That's my secret, mother" said
Harry. "But have found enough in
them to send me over to France for a
fortnight. We shall see what shall
come OF 1t. am off this very day, and
as soon as have news to tell you I will
write, or, more likely, come myself and
bring it. y i'1a''H 81 -
"Another trip after parchments p
thought Lady Warning; but she made
no objection it was Harry's way to
come and go thus unceremoniously, as I
have said. In what way fortnight's
absence in France could possibly be
connected with change of heart on the
part OF Harry relatively to the subject
OF marriage was quite insoluble ques-
tion to her. She simply said:
Well, take care of yourself, Harry,
and come back as soon as you can"
And Harry made his adieu then he
went to his elder brother, and was
closeted with him for an hour; but he
reached town in time for the noon train
to Dover, and before night he was
landed safe in Calais. 1ts 7il'.
Shall tell here what it was that
brought Harry Warning to, Calais? On
the whole, I think # will be better
simply to record what. he did. Perhaps
some of my readers have OWNED his
secret already. But I will give clew.
to the mystery by reminding them of
what they know already-that Calais
was for more than two hundred years
an English possession, and that finally
it was retaken by the French under the
Due de G1ise in the year 1853. Among
the forlorn band of five hundred En-
gllshmen who then garrisoned the town
was an ancestor Of the Warnings, a man
of wealth, who had spent the better
part of his life there, and who fell dur
ing the final assault His former resi-
dence, now in the poorer instead of the
better part of 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 a
very definite and Important plan in his
mind. A single servant accompanied
him. 1 4F .sav.9zua#. = #
1t was a quaint, spacious, tumble
down rookery of q place, such as the
traveller IN any old French town will
find in the more ancient quarters. It
did not look. very, promising in the way
OF comfort and neatness, but it had
every appearance of being we'll patron
lied. Harry Warning doubted whether
he should be able to find any place ill
it, 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 milora would not think of taking
that ? And the Frenchman smiled in
wardly at the odd taste of the stranger
IN coming to his hotel at all, while he
cursed, also inwardly, the fate that had
just 1nyelgled him into letting his best
rooms to pair of commercial travellers,
and at a shamefully low price.
Harry Warning, on The other hand,
had much adoto conceal his satisfaction
at finding the merest foothold in the old
hotel, But it was important not to
awaken any suspicion of his object. ''I
am sorry" said he, -" that you have
nothing better to offer me than3a sky
parlor. But It's my whim to come to
your hotel. I love to get away from
those modern buildings and perhaps
you can give me a better apartment
soon. Meanwhile I shall busy myself
in. studying your old CITY,"
t The landlord hoped to accommodate;
2. meanwhile he would take every pains to
make milor comfortable I'm cinQaienae..
j "Stay, cried Warning, who had been
closely scanning the courtyard during
the dialogue. 81 will tell you what
monsieur p shall do if he pleases. He
shall build me little pavilion on this
side OF his courtyard, where sun shines.
! There | shall carry on my studies, like
, the hermit that l am my servant shall
take care of thesroom and of my books,
and / will pay you roundly beforehand
for gratifying an Englishmans whim. :"
II This proposition caused M. Heritier
| to shrug his shoulders more actively,
! perhaps, than he had ever done before.
4 What radical, q revolutionary, an UNI
heard-o PROPOSE ion "But those En-.
glishmen are capable of anything" re-
fected he. ga milor does not come to
this old place every day-no, not every
three months. Doubtless. the milor is
as rich as he is odd. I shall not be
the loser" "a-k Rfn1@s ai5
There was long debate over Harry
Warnings proposition. .ls ssiWe will see
what can be DONE" said M. Heritier,
finally and the result was that the
next morning Harry Warning was over
seeing a. paIlcr of Ecappantnrc n wi n war