Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-02


had been running his eyes over the
horses with an expression of critical ap-
proval, asked his own driver whose was
the four-in-hand following them.
81 guess it will be Sir Henry Narbor-
ough' j." said he, whistling up his horses,
and getting to the side of the road. 81
see his team standing in the hotel-yard
when was a-starting. They're four as
pretty BAYS with white stockings as ever
l see together,
ssIt's Sir Henry Narborough's four
in-hand," explained Mr.. Salway to his
womankind, as the other drew gradu.
ally alongside. s..-[..
All, Miss Mary, how your cheek has
been flushing and blushing, and your
eye Frightening, and your mouth smil.
ing proud, happy smile, though you
have never looked up to see who is the
spruce driver of this gallant equipage
turned out in all respects fit for Hyde
Park! Now he is alongside, handling
the ribbons, though the road is narrow
and steep, with the ease OF custom, look
ing, with his tall hat and black coat and
the flower in his button-hole, every inch
a Baronet and a member of the Coach
ing Club. He is alongside, and not un-
til then, when he lifts his hat and shoots
one glance at Mary, sitting we'll pro-
tected by her mother and sisters from
the wolf-wof indeed! wolf no longer
not until then do the others recognize
their old acquaintance of the knicker-
bockers and shabby hat. He is gone
before they can express their astonish-
ment, or anything; but she, who is so
| well prepared for it, returns his salute.
"Good gracious!' uttered Mrs. Sal
way, slowly, her eyes glued to his back,
t'can it be? suppose it really is.
Why, who can it bep Can it be his
coach?"
Sir Harry Marlborough, l suppose"
answered her husband, dryly, who has
secretly sympathized with Mary, and
has been puzzling his brains how to
rescue her from that lecture and other
disagreeables that he suspects are being
prepared for her.
''Mary, is that Sir Harry Narbor-
ough?" %
He told me so,'' answered the girl,
demurely, as if the most impossible as
sertion from his lips would not have
commanded her credence.
| And it was really true. If the early
| part of Mary's courtship had had some
| thing of the bitter mingled with the
sweet, that was all over now. No lee
lures, no Punishment to Aunt Anne for
her. eft was so unlike Mary" said
the sisters among themselves, meaning
so unlike her to gain the heart of Baro-
net. But they were good girls in their
way, and tolerably unselfish-just as
ready to fall down and worship and pet
the successful sister as to repress and
snub the school girl. AS for Mrs. Sal
way, when she found Sir Harry's four
finland standing at the door of the
Crown, and half the visitors in Bowness
standing round admiring it; when that
rather cynical young gentleman received
her at the door with all honor, and few
minutes later proposed for her youngest
daughter; when he put that very coach
at their disposal, and the whole party
had weeks tour in it; when all these
things and many more almost as pleas
ant Gncluding going in to the table
h'hote dinner on Baronet's army had
happened, why, Mrs. Salway taught
herself to believe that this match was
entirely of her continuance, and was
owing simply and purely to her good
management and diplomacy.
And demure, quiet Mary, with the shy
little face and the big brown eyes, the
Baronet's wife to be, what of her? Well,
nothing more, think; for this hap
pened in August of the year 1881, and
an event of the utmost Importance in
Mary's life is arranged, which is looked
upon by Mrs. Salway with much pride
and Observation-Disclosures Society.