Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-06-10
LOsr HEIRRss.



softly wooded hills, 'syou have pleasan
place to summer in, Frankland."
& : sJolly .yassented Frankland. who sa
with the heels of his dainty French boot:
upon the rail of the hotel piazza. "Nict
band; good table; fishing and hunting
capital, if fellow chooses to take the
troubIe; nice bits of scenery. and no enc
of fun with picnics and crOquet parties
Yes. yoii're right, Ken. There may be
worse places. But" andhere he lowered
his voice Unto a mysterious whisper,
.there's an heiress thrown into the bar
gain.' -. ,,. ~.
Miss Biggin! Pooh! As IL her pal
try forty thousand dollars were worth a
second thought! No, no, old fellow. j
mean an heireSs that is worthy of the
name. Did you notice that gray stone
house on the hill, when yon rode up in
the stage?"
= with q battlemented tower and a
range of Conservatives i'm the rear and
q deep glen cutting of the external
world?
Exactly so. Well, there is where the
heiress lives. or rather where she will
live when she returns from Europe,
within week or two. And there's
where shall live when have won her"
Field laughed.
1T seems to me you are taking good
deal for granted, Frankland."
FARMLAND stroked his soft, silky beard.
Not SO much, after all" he said. Its
Just as easy to marry rich as 1t is to mar
+. nv poor, if only one goes scientifically 10
work. Ny sister ROsamOnd will help
me-as clever girl. Rosamond. who is up
coz sofu on vrru IN, mr.
Jefferson, who. died last fall, used 10
know Miss Aithorpe's mother when they
were school girls. Miss Althorpe is very
soft. ON the subject of her mother, and If
there isn't string of sequences which
must undoubtedly lead to the apex of
my hopes, call me a wOodcn-headed
idiot"
but did it ever occur to you that
Others might also enter the lists of eompe-
tition for this moneyed maiden?"t
.I.et 'em. / mean to outreach them
ALL"
.And suppose Miss Althorpe should
have the bad taste not to fancy you?"
II shall make her fancy me-"
"You talk as If you were disguised
magician, with store of love phllterS
and amulets hidden away in your peck
ets."
"Any man who isn't positively ape like
in his physiognomy can make girl like
him without any of those pre-Adamite
contriYances," observed Frankland, cool
~.
MY dear FARMLAND" said Field, "You
are either great genius ora eOnceited
fooli"e 1870 - : $50
TOR perhaps a little of both. Well, we
shall see. Here comes RosamOnd and
now what do You say TO stroll up the
glen ?"
.-shall we not be invading the heiress'
,dominiOns 2" - ~ 81 1I
.Oh, they are free to all peaceably dis
posed citizens who refrain from cutting
the shrubbery or strewing the table-lands
of green turf with empty beer bottles and
egg shells" .1@
Miss FARMLAND came up as her brother
ceased speaking. She was a tall snowy
blonde, with a radiant complexion and !,
good set of teeth, which she took partic-
ular pains to display. ~
HAS Guy been telling you about my
future sister-in-Iaw?" she said, with a
little laugh. .''Ah, that smile means that
you think usslightly premature. Come,
i will wager these gold bracelets against
your diamond collar button, that AGNES
Althorpe becomes Mrs. Guy Frankland
within the year." 1879
"Done. The coll,r button would look
very we'll in that strip of black velvet rib
bon you wear around your neck" e
Wouldn't it, And you might give
the bracelets to the lady of your love-"
"When l find her-yes."
sButa come," cried FARMLAND impa-
tiently. 's.Phe afternoon is getting on,
and want you to see the glen before the
beautiful purple lights and shadows have
vanished from its heights and depths.
There is one abyss where q streamfrets
Itself into white foam over mass of rock,
that an artist would lose his wits over.
When come into possession, | mean to
have rustic bridge thrown across the
cbasrn, and stairway cut i'm the rock"
"Do hold your tongue, Guy J" cried his
sister. 'sWhy don't you give me chance
to tell myscharming mOrSel of news? The
heiress has arrived at The Towers"
"No!'
But she has. Captain Dallas, who
came over from Havre in the same steam
er, wrote me the news"
1.-The hour and the woman have GOMEZ"
solemly uttered Mr.. FARMLAND. 'See if
do not find an excuse tor calling there
within the next four and twenty hours"
aYou shall do no such thing, Guy!" ex-
claimed his tair, imperiOus sister. There's
n diamond stud at stake tor me, as well as
an heiress for you, and you must consent
to be- guided in some measure by my
woman's wit There must be no rash |
adventure. Pleasure to-day-to-morrow
And Mr.. FARMLAND yielded the point
Of his own impatienee to his sisters
deeper science on the subject of heiress-
catching. .Tn-sn zvo
The walk was beautiful the glen syl-
van and wild enough to Justify any
amount of enthusiasm; but the party
were destined to what ROsamOnd Frank
land called ga delicious adventure" be-
lore their return.
In one of the lonliest and most pictur-
esque hooks, the very one, in fac, where
OIL OF velvet-soft turf, walled i'm by vine
utapcu rocks overhung the chasm where |
snv my stream beat itself into boiling I
c'ss .s =. snow-white foam, they paused.
mere, announced FrankIand. waving
his hand toward the narrow rav;ne. ..hare
is the exact spot where mean ~ bavs
the rustic bridge, and little lover a
summer house to corresponds
IF the heiresS is willing.- m;soh;o,-
ously added Field.
'.Her will shall be my will, !" said Frank.
land loftily. "A mans wife-Hallo. who |
are these people? Strolling musicians,
A party just beyond the wall of rock,
whose vail OF floating. vine leaves nearly |
concealed them, had called forth the ejac-
s sn;s A man in. rough veIveteen |
?ai,, with the cone-shaped hat one sees !
=" i'''y' and harp half supported by