The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-02


me have one II asked him."
"Thst would never do; all the good
weather will be gone before you can hear
from Canada. You must let me give you
a mount. Don't deny me; 1t would DO
such 4 pleasure; and there arc beautiful
horses in my stables eating their heads of,
as the grooms say. You shall make your
choice OIL Friday"
"You won't let me refuse. Then how
shall / thank your said the girl. 81
shall go just wild to be on horseback
again."
"sJust wild,' you Americana laughed
Sir Philip, hiding deep feeling under a
light tone. "Well, you have thanked me
for what is, after all, selfish act.'
"You mean because you like to give en-
joymcnt? But that isn't selfish" returned
lima; for selfish people don't have pleas
urc in other peoples happiness"
"Ah, you are metaphysical! We must
dismiss the subject" said Sir Philip
quickly, and, with some embarrassment,
which lima was delighted to perceive;
for Sir Philip, she felt certain was not ca
silly dislodged from his citadel of self-pos-
session.
Dark Darrell, with NIL his courtliness,
was the reverse of a ceremonious person.
age; and 10 he followed Ilma's lead up
the tcrracc.steps and presented himself
| through the open window of the morning.
room before the astonishcd Sabines.
They were all there except Roland, In
search of whom lima instantly sped away,
and they greeted Sir Philip warmly. lie
speedily explained how lima came to be
with him, and In what manner he had been
introduced to her.
Meanwhile lima had found Roland bust.
! ly engaged in the repair OF some fishing
tackle in his study, If an apartment only
| devoted to sporting literature and imple-
| ments deserved the name; he looked up,
and his whole face frightened as his beau.
tifnl young cousin fastened to his side.
dwell catanount," said Roland, taxing
her hand and kissing her, "were you sent
for me, or did YOU come of your own &C.
cord"
"0f my own accord; though | have
come to fetch you to sec--whom do you
think? Dark Darrell HIMSELF"
ollie here" said Roland in tone that
did not betray much pleasure.
"Ies; and he came with me. He break.
tasted with US this morning, and Roland"
| added lima, tossing up her hat and catch
| ing it, 'he is just the incest fellow ever
| met"
"Oh, of conrsew said Roland, laughing;
but the laugh, lima thought, sounded
! forced. "Girs are bound TO worship
man who looks like picture, though he
| doesn't DO much more in the world than
| IL he were a picture. He might be the
| foreigner he looks for al, that he is among
his own tenants or cares about them"
"That's not my business" and lima
flushed little-the girl was quick-,em-
pered, aud ever ready TO resent injustice.
III don't think Cumberland peasants are
very nice people"
"Iou don't know anything about them,
my dear" said Roland; "ihough / dare
say you know az much abou. them as bar.
rell does. Rough speech and manners
don't always mear bad heart, any more
than suavity and smooth words mean
good one"
lima said no more, but descended with
her cousin 70 the norniBg-room. The girl
| went over 10 her aunt, and watched from
| beneath her sweeping lasnes the meeting
| between Roland Sabine aud Sir Philip Oar.
| rell. What a difference there was be.
tween them. Roland seemed to belong 10
another and lower order OF beings than the
man Of whom he haG spoken with hardly
! yelled contempt.
"You are good deal altered from
what l saw you last, Sabine" said Sir
| Philip surveying his host. "lou were not
much more than boy then; and, though
should have known you at once, that for
est Of hair about your face makes an i'm
mense change in YOU"
"There is little difference in you," re-
piled Roland, laughing. "You look i bit
older, bnt not much; and when you are
forty,you won't look older than YOU do now!
"Maybe not" said Sir Philip, withA
halfsmile, as he resumed his seat.
Something in the look and tone gave II.
ma the clue to the thought--"HoW should
look older in ten years! Time stands
still In the grave" The girl felt some
! thing like terror come over her. Was
there, after all, some truth in = curse
which seemed to have Influenced the
whole life OF man SO unlikely to yield to
nero superstition as Sir Philip Darrellf
"Sir Philip" said Mrs. Sabine, turning
to her son, "has kindly asked us all TO the
Court on Friday, With aunt Rachael and
lima"
al shall be delighted" returned Ro.
land.
"And," added Sir Philip, al want to
mako up q riding party, while the fine
weather lasts. DO you know any one you
would care to ask to join us?"
Roland shook his head.
"No, newcomers are scarce in these
parts. lima Is the first for twenty years
at least; and the last before her were only
farmers"
china will join us" said Sir Philip,
using the christian name quite inadyert-
ently-probably merely catching 1t from
Roland, possibly from subtle instinct to
try to think OF her rs "only n child"
But Roland did not like the dropping OF
the formal title. Wild and childike rs
lima was, she was not young enough TO DO
treated with such freedom on the strength
OF n mornings acquaintance, especially by
SO young u man as Sir Philip Darrell. Sir
Philip could read what WAS passing in Ro-
lands mind--tor II was not easy to hide
anything from his observant eyes--but he
gave not the slightest sign Of having no.
ticed resentment which he haughtly
considered "deuccdly COOL"
There was an awkward pause for a few
seconds after Sir Philips words; for cy.
cry one knew that lima had no means Of