The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-23

proposition from Horace MargfaSe, OF
Gray's Inn, Fir Grove, Stanlydale, Berk-
shire. But the handsome lawyer evil
IDENTIFY preferred his free bachelor life;
for if his heart had been very suscept-
ible to womanly graces, he would most
inevitably have lost it in the society of
his lovely ward, Ellinor Arden,
Ellinor had been only a few weeks
resident in London; she had left the
guardianship of her aunt in Paris, to
launch herself upon the whirlpool of
English society, sheltered only by the
ample wing of an elderly lady, duly
selected and chartered by her aunt and
Mr.. Margrave. The world was new to
her, and she came from the narrow
circle of the convent in which she had
been educated, and the quiet coteries of
the Faubourg Saint Germans, in which
her aunt delighted, to take her position
at once in London, as the sole heiress of
Mr.. Arden, of Arden.
1t was then to Horace Margrave-to
Horee Margrave, whom she remembered
in her happy youth among the Scottish
mountains, a young man on a shooting
expedition, visiting at her fathers
house-Horace who had visited her
aunt, from time to time, in Paris. and
who had exhibited towards her all the
tender friendship and respectful devo-
ton of an elder brOther-to him, and
him alone, did she look for counsel and
guidance; and she submitted as entirely
to his influence as if he had indeed been
that guardian and father whom he by
law represented.
Her cheek flushed as the carriage
wheels stopped below the window.
"Now, Mrs. Morrison she said,
with sheer; "now for my incompar-
able tattur. Now for the light hair and
the thick boots"
cit will be very impertinent of him
if he comes in thick boots" replied her
matter-of-fact protectress. "Mr. Mar
grave says he is such an excellent young
person.
Exactly, my dear Mrs. Morrison-a
Young person. He is described in one
word, a person.
"Oh, my dream! my dreamr' she
murmured, under her breath.
Remember, she had but this day
passed wisdom's Rubicon, and she was
new to the hither bank. She was still
very romantic and, perhaps, very fool
ish.
The servant announced "Mr. Mar
grave and Mr.. Dalton
In spite of herself, Ellinor Arden
looked up with some curiosity to see
this Young man, for whom she enter
tanned so profound a contempt and so
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three years her senior: of average
height, neither tall or short. His hair
was. as she had prophesied, light; but
it was by no means an ugly color, and
it clustered in short curls, round broad,
low, but massive forehead. His features
were sufficiently regular; his eyes dark
blue. The general expression of his
face was grave, and it was only on rare
occasions that quiet smile played
round his firmly lips. Standing
side by side with Horace Margrave, he
appeared anything but a handsome
man; but, to the physiognomist, his
face was superior in the very qualities
in which the dark beauty of the lawyer
was deficient; force, determination,
self-reliance, perseverance; all those
attributes. in short, which 60 to make a
great man.
"Mr. Dalton has been anxiously
awaiting the hour that should bring
him to your side, Miss Arden" said
Horace Margrave. He has been for a
long time acquainted with those articles
in your uncle's will which you only
learned to-day
TO BE CONTINUED.