The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-11


said so that night. The belle, without
possibility of mistake.
But to those who knew her, and were
with her frequently, or watched her
closely from that time forth, there was
something missed in Irene that hitherto
had part in herself-the joyous conf
dence, the innocent abandon, the quiet
but genuine under tone of real happiness,
had fed. With all her pride, she was
too engenuous to conceal from those who
cared for her that her perfect peace was
lost.
Our friendly young men held con-
sultation upon this point.
"Mark me-" said Sam Dent, CT know
something of girls, and that girl has
fallen in love. Mark me, has fallen in
love with one of us only hope, since
I'm an engaged man, that it's not me. "
Du Bois looked infinitely self-con-
scious, but did not speak.
"Don't trouble yourself, SAM" said
Dick Wilhurst, with insinuating self
assertion. 81 happento know she hasn't I
been such fool as that"
"We've played too Deep" said Gros-
venor. "Upoh my word it hasn't been
right. We've had our fun, but, by
Jove, it has been hard upon the girl"
"Well," said graceless Dick, cit isn't
a wrong that can be made right. If its
me she is in love ith-and-but-well
-n'importe. If it's me, don't care if
1 do become victim. IT'S cool three
hundred thousand. 1t might be worse. "
"Wilhurst, exclaimed Lindsley, with
flashing eyes, stake care. Miss Wolf
is too true and good a girl to be lightly
spoken of, in my presence at least. A
girl that any man may be proud to make
his wife,"
"Hear hear!'' cried Dick. eek
cuse me, friends. L meant to praise,
not to scoff. What greater compliment
can be paid to made belle than to ring
the change out of herring the changes,
I mean. Lindsley, my dear fellow, 1
pass. Take her, and thousand bless
ings go with you, my boyl"
" Lindsley is right" said Sam Dent.
"The girl has metal in her"
"Who ever heard of a belle that
hadn't metal in herr" asked Dick.
Nonsense but 1 tell you there's a
genuine ring to her."
"Of course"
"And smart tongue, as can testify,
when she's put to it," said Grosvenor.
81 like woman who can hold her own. "
"Her own tongue9 So do l." said
Dick. "Oh, I'm sincere. Irene Wolf
is all right. Hurrah for orlr made belle!
She's trump. Lindsley, you're sue
cess. Well, goodnight, boys m of.
By.by, Lindsey. Ring the belle-ding-
dong2 2"
The feminine portion of the house
had not been so sensitively aware of the
change in Irene. The truth is, they
were too thoroughly engrossed in a won
derful event to condescend to trifles.
The event was no other than the unex-
pected arrival at this delightful seaside
hotel of an English lord, bachelor,
crossed in love abroad, it was rumored,
and come to America expressly to marry.
A live lord One and all of the fem
inine portion of the house fixed heart
and soul upon him at once. There was
no turning back from the plow there
was no dallying with time to be "well
off with the old loves" or loss of haste
in going first to bury ones dead. The
affair demanded, or commanded rather,
religious zeal and dispatch. cup and
strike - was the motto of every Anna.
zonian ambition whose bewitching arch
cry suddenly fixed upon this shining
bull's-eye.
If the thought of "Mrs." had to any
one been sweet, the thought of "My
Lady" My Lady Lindehurst," was in
comparably treat.
It was, of course, necessary to be pre-
sented to "My Lord" first. And Lord
Lindehurst, who had been thrown by
accident of foreign travel into intimate
relations with Grosvenor and Du Bois,
came specially introduced. He was le-
ultimately prize of the set.
Not until fortnight had elapsed did
it become family rumored that Lord
Lindehurst, whose attentions had so far
been generously general, had "taken
particularly" to Irene Wolf.
A torrent of Indignation swept through
the house. Miss Hammond felt her
plane of duty so broadened that she actu-
ally contemplated confding Dick Will
hurst's secret, "too good to keep" to
the young Englishman-to illuminate
his notebook as q Characteristic episode
of American manners and life. She was
delayed somewhat in her benevolent in
tent, for the reason that the live lord was
not easily approached.
AS for Irene, when she felt that the
illustrious stranger was unfeignedly at
tracted by herself, she experienced some
womanly tumults of satisfaction. He,
at least, was sincere. This lover, at
least, was unaffected in his marked pref
erence by any latent relish for joke.
"He did not make me-" she very
naturally, and with some grateful sense
of restored dignity, said.
The young nobleman, an unassuming
youth, who seemed hardly to appreciate
the furore he had created, was rather an
exception to his countrymen in his per-
sopal history. But of that history it is
only necessary to say that the rumor of
his having been crossed in love was not
correct. He had been crossed in mar
riage, not in love. His own temper
far from base sort-had made the cross
by decidedly refusing match proposed
for him upon worldly principles alone.
Personally, Lord Lindehurst was a
man who, without title, would not have
been popularly remarked. He was a
travelled, but not "society," man OBJ
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