New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-05

a. ne cafe along. apparently half lazily.
in reality very swiftly. he looked up at the
renee that divided the field from the road and
came right I'D the meadow to where stood by the
hedge. / knew at once who it was. A.
Guess You one OF my COUSINS saiu tno
stranger in a ricn. full. flexible voice. but WIN y
decided American accent. and IN snort aDrup'
manner. el, ms,
sure as life he said And who are your
Your cousin Ida.
Cousin Ida. shake hands
7 held out NV hand across the sweet-briar ana
privet forming the hedge. and ne graspeu ~
heartily Then he quietly strobe over the garden
hedge as he had before surmounted the meadow
fence, and looked about him curiously' But nc
looked most ut me. e., "a, -: ,,.
manner Sit down awhile; I'm tired "thklhR'
fell me obout Yourself and the Others. don't know
one darned thing about n British relations, anu
want to be posted up before | meet tie oid one.
There j. no old one to meet, | answered ana l
began to tell him about poor papa and mamma ou'
he interrupted me ana h sao mot OF man aeeu
famed TO the simple truth You needn { tell me
about that. | know it all. l want 10 near aDcut
your sister Nora. amt shef She must DC pretty
i don't think she would like you to call her So
answered laughing.
laugh at He was evidently a grave man; ana
laughter seemed t. come but seldom TO his lips lie
only repeated, with kind OF insisting manner
and that is chicken, gness.'
! thought spoke very guardedly about them ooIn,
but especially about him but cousin James. VINO
had been looking at me from under his oroa'i-
leafed hat brought close down over MS eyes, SUD
denly said You don't love that Drother-ln-la" Oh
Love Love him no certainly don't love him. an;
swered lightly and eyasivelY; but dld not say
di'in't sav YOU did said cousin James quietly
bnt Won don't like him, anyhow.
To this made no answer -
'Ncver you mind them, said cousin James, laying
his broad hand on my shoulder and still looking at
ne with ewes that seemed as II they saw rigIt
through me. While I'm here none OF them Sh II
clad I've seen you first. You and are TO DO
friends Won know He took my hand in his
LAYING If on his palm and looking at IL. Then ne
kissed it. and passed his finger down the veins
saving: What "a pretty. strong hand! That's the
hand like. You are grand creature. cousin LA;
Il think we had better 90 INTO the house. SAID
a little disturbed and with my face on fire..
I think so too said cousin James gravely.
SO we went up the garden, neither OF us SPEAK
hand again on my shoulder, and said IN lower
voice than he had used before We are friends'
cousin Ida; that's fact. amt 1t 49,, An ..o.
And / looking Mp at him as he $1,000 tai, erect
and with such a fearless and yet such tender ex-
preston IN the handsome tace that looked INTO mime
20 Jar above me, tall as l was-answeIed hur-
richly: Yes But 1t seemed as II both OF US hau
SAID a great deal more. 49, . .
If Nora and Mr. Tagart had disliked the idea OF
cousin James they dslkcu tne rtallJ1 zen tilllos
moIo. 1t was quite painful to see their horror OF
him ONLY because his clothes were cut dlnerenty
from ours, and because he was not up III al tn,
minor matters OF etiquette to which we attend.
rad never thought either of them very profound
observers but | certainly did not expect 10 nhu
them so shallow a. they were. They saw nothing
o4 ronsin Jamess goodness. nothing Of his bravery
his riChtness his truth, ms set-rpspectng NOME
ness Of nature; they only knew that ne spoke WIN
an accent. said. i guess and reckon : uscd odu
words ana not always impeceabie grammar; kept
his hat on in the r0Om-and MS hat Itself was a SIN
tumbled the antimacassars witch ne calied uarned
RAYS > disregarded gates and DOORS ana went over
edges and out OF windows II II suited him TO 90
40 that in tart he was as they sad, a savage,
and 10 be desplsed accordingly Aud 1t was Just
rms savageueSs that Is, TINS truth ana ullcoh
ventionality-wh ich charmed me. 1t seemed 10 me
"a If had never known a real man until now Ana
we were such friends lie mad such qulet' IN
conuuerable way of dong things that even Mr..
Tarart was 81 bdued. And when he proposed that
7 shonld 90 for this walk or that ride with HIM.
now much soever Nora aud her husband dlsap-
iroveJ and were annoyed. tney had 10 give way.
Cousin James would listen To no OBJECTIONS. ION
SEE they had hold on him. don't know now u
~ rs done but with the most absolute unsellslnes7
he was utterly uncomfortable and did exactly As
ne liked | think a quarrel to hum was sometmns
SO serious that he had no IDEA OF the sinai III
fcrners in which my brothern-law and Nora ID
dul geti and he really did not see theh ne hiti
that large kind OF allowance met with only IN thc
very str0ng-in men ana women VINO eau dHoId W
Inc generous lie was graver than most men, more
sileuJ but not sad II was more Klnd OF serious
earnestness, would be natural to man VINO nae
ALWAYS lived in a certain amount 81 danger, IN thc
midst of a larger. prander nature than we have
in England-and IN solitude. " -.
Cuvi Lawrence not at home AT TINS tlme. W
course cousin James knew that was engaged MI.
T.gort toll him before he had been hall an hour
in the house.. and really thought he might have
left my private affairs alone. l cOuIu nave Colu
cousin lanes myself. He never spoke about TINS
engagement tn me after the first time but the LOOK
and tone with which he took DOth my hands III MS
and said: will wait till see this lover OF yours,
cousin Ida did not pass IRON me quickly. nat
did he mean by waitingi He would wait To do
WHAT
He conh not mean wait at the Vicarage, for he
was ALWAYS running Oft in the oldest way. he
nsed TO come down to breakfast and say that ne
was going away that day 10 the Isle OF wight or
the Highlands, or Cornwall, OF ares Oh arls, OF
Ireland a. II he were gong out ior wax auu
Mace. that we should have taken weeks 10 see lie
woud do IN a couple OF days, ana speak Oi Lhcin as
pretty little rat-holes afterwards. Nora ana W.
Tagart s,d 10 be furious with him when he did ~
but he made me laugh; and l could understand
how "A man used 10 the Sierras ana the CordllIeras'
and those great rolling prairies ana panPas, suolIu
find our finest scenery IN England small and taInt
IN comparison: but Nora and Mr. T0gart would nol
see things ~ this light They used quile 10 seol'
when cousin James laughed at the prrtehslohs o.
Rack Gang Chine to subiImity, and when he sslll
that Skiddaw and Scawfcn were only mOle-hIlIs oil
u respectable elevation.
homr-cousin james came into breakfast Win MS
velvet coat MS kuotted stick, and ms hat over his
eyrs-hc never earned any lnggage-and an
nouncrd that ne was going 10 Holland ana "pul!.
Ice hack auain presently. He never ASKED apout
times or trains when hc started OF ike ms ~
used to 3VIuL hnlsr N down ii" SiIuth ann 9" 'i t
fences as ID hr could walk over the whole ISLAM nm
a dav; but I found out afterwards that tins was
nor prcullar 90 ma. bat that all Am"r"d4+ Whrn
thev come over 10 England. wander about Ike W III
thin, in "A CAGE and crumple MP distances when
are severe to bs into absolute uothlngs 1 went
down the garden with hun; and / fell so wretchcd
cculd scarcely keep the tears Out 81 my eyes IL
seemed as II should never see him AGAIN. lie was
uuhappv too, ] think and when We parted nc
pressed my hand TN he nearly naHe me scream.
rrftgr turF ~ o.. r
i'm am undcrtoue When ! come back we shall
L1cw more how we stand GoOd-bYi l think |
know y0u.'
All very enigmatcal butt somehow was httle
,,tortsJ bv what n. said perhaps rather by what
he looked : Tor he did look at m very kindly.
Then he went and Us hc turned the corner oil me
lane aud ] lost sight Of nm 1T was Like the sun
going out OF the say. M
WHEN / went back into the house Nora and hr-
Tarart both attacked me iOf going down the gal,
den with him; and.they both ralcpleu- thu aD' 4
- IreI Ns lie. ID noe