Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-04-19

In love with LOrelei, or Water-Wltch,
who persisted in asking him at the end
of every stanza whether he could change
his nature and live under water with
her.
swell, but you are not Lorelei,
Miss Ida," Guerdon exclaimed impati.
emily when he had heard this song twice.
"Perhaps am Pyrie, though," she
answered with a smile.
"What is Pyrie?? ?"
"A fire. witch, in the modernized form,
8 girl who delights in fire. arms, shells,
petroleum and other hOrrid engines of
revolutionary warfare" saying which
she laughed with rather forced gsyety.
Guerdon made no answer, but hoped
that time might work for him. 1t thus
befell that he remained two months at
E, seeing Ida every day, and he was
just beginning to feel dispirited by the
consciousness that his suit made no
progress when Unexpectedly he received
a summons to hurry back to England
on account of his elder brothers illness.
As the younger son of peer, Charley
Guerdon might be said TO have sex
pectations' in case of his brothers
death; bit he loved him too well to
think Of that, ard was on the contrary
sincerely grieved at the news. He hast
ened to pack his traps and then said
good-by to the Koratines. He found
them both in the garden, looking sad,
for he had sent his servant to apprise
them of what had occurred. Ida
especially was pale, and there was just
the slightest quaver in her voice as she
said, "Good by, Captain Guerdon; we
are sorry to lose you"
''But shall RETURN" he replied. 81
hope my brother will recover, and then
| shall hasten back to E.. You will
still be here, will you not?"
Perhaps" she answered evasively.
swell, but you are surely not going
to leave E-just as the summer season
is beginning. Let me go away with the
hope that we shall meet again"
"Perhaps, she rejoined anew. Then,
as if to take the chill of dependency
out of her words, she plucked branch
of May blossoms off tree and handed
it to the Englishman. stake that to
your brother, and let it carry health to
him." she said. az have the supersti-
ton of flowers, SO you see am not quite
Nihilist.''
Guerdon took her hands, and, at an
approving sign from her brother, drew
her to him, and kissed her on the brow.
II was chaste kiss, and hope was re-
kindled in his heart as he gayeit
The illness Charley Guerdon's brother
turned out to be 8 serious affair. 1t
lasted more than six weeks, and during
that time Charley was unremitting in
his attendance at the bedside. In such
spare moments as he could snatch, he
wrote several times to the kOratines,
and once he received an answer from
the Count with q postscript in Ida's
hand; but after that he got no more re-
plies. Charley had never been a news
paper reader, and the world might have
gone all wrong without his hearing any
thing about it. He sometimes glanced
at the Field. or at one of the military
periodicals to look for army promotions,
but into the Times he never dipped, and
thus he was kept from learning the grim
reason which prevented his Russian
friends from writing to him. He was
not fated to ascertain it for a long
while, for when Lord Guerdon became
convalescent his doctors ordered him off
on yachting cruise and Charley ac-
companied him. The brothers spent |
two full months sailing over the seas
and receiving no news, till at length |
they put in at Cadiz and landed. 1t |
was in this city that Lord Guerdon, Pc
rusing batch of London papers one
while his brother sat at the |
open window looking out listlessly over
the waters of the harbor, exclaimed: 81
say, Charley, didn'tyou tell me you had
4 friend called Count koratine?''
"Yes. What of him?" answered |
Charley, turning round with sudden
flush