The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-07-29
CHAPTER V.
MARKS Suspicious INCREASE.

MARIN y SDNFltloNS lNlhEASE,
In the joyous excitement of meeting
Philip again Florence had almost for
gotten Herbert Archer's proposal, and
the alarm and indignation it had occa-
stoned her, She had had neither time
nor opportunity to acquaint either her
aunt or uncle With what had occurred,
and The blow ON her temple which
might, by being remarked, have led up
to It, was concealed by her hair.
When, therefore, in her own chamber
she recalled the events of the day, both
her alarm and indignation were modi-
| fed. How could she feel alarm. with
Philip, now her acknowledged be-
trothed, near to protect her? And her
own exceeding happiness made her ex-
perience pity for the suffering Of one
whose fault was loving her too ardently.
Rejecting upon it, she deemed it the
greatest kindness to her discarded lover
merely to state he had proposed and
been refused, without entering upon
the manner of his proposal, which she
felt, by arouSing her uncles sc0rn, if
not anger, Would shut the doors of
Shady Creek against him for ever. AS
TO Philip Bathurst, when he awoke the
next morning, he found it at first rather
difficult TO believe that he was really
under the same roof as Florence; and,
what was more, her accepted lover with
her unole's consent. There was only
one obstacle to be overcome before he
made her his wife-the getting enough
to keep a wife upon.
But / don't despair Of that" he ex-
claimed, as he sprang up. what men
have done surely can |, and I'll not let
the grass grow beneath my feet either.
IL once l can bag enough nuggets to
buy station and stock it, III work like
the shepherd kings of old, and, with the
colonel's experience and advice, will
soon get q sufficiently extensive sheep
run to make my sweet Flo mistress Of"
Charles Bathurst's anger against his
nephew had been so extreme that his
disinheritance had been pitiless, and he
had refused him the smallest assistance
to commence his new life upon.
"Go and work il you will" he had
exclaimed, "and il your white hands
prove unfit, starve- doyou understand
-starve, Twill not help YOU
III will and energy be present, Phil
ip had rejoined quietly, 1.-The hands,
however white, that can pull an oar or
handle a rifle, can use spade or pick,
and the fortune so gained will be sweet
er than the one obtained by Independence
and the sale of ones liberty"
II hope you will find it so,' was the
sneering retort.
Whether | do or no, Of course will
not matter to YOU went on Philip. II
may perish In the bush, or succumb to
fever at the digging; but be assured Of
this, Uncle Bathurst, will starve and
die before will ask you for one shilling
to prevent either"
SO they had parted. Philip had
packed his portfnanteau, and that very
night had slept in his foster.brother's
cottage, and the next morning had com
menced their new life with Just hun
dred and fifty pounds between them.
The spirit of wisdom and economy at
once had seized Philip, who had pre-
pared the most serviceable Of outfits.
and as now he looked in the glass, after
expanding an extra quarter OF an hou
over his toilet, he laughed heartily in
comparing his bronzed bearded self
with the aristocratic young gentleman
who had sauntered away life at Brigh-
ton.
what do carer" he thought; this
existence Is far more manly, Il seems to
give one better right to live, and III
wager It makes no difference in my dar-
ling's love. Hallol there she is fitting
among her flowers like butterfly,
What a sluggard she will think me.
And, with last glance at himself in
the glass, he ran downstairs There Ia,
however, many a slip 'twixt cup and
lip, and on reaching the verandah Phil
| Up found that Flo had disappeared, but
the colonel was there, on the point of
paving a visit TO the stock-yard, Ia
which he persisted In carrying off his
guest, who had to consent, though he
cast q wistful glance round for her be
had longed TO see.
Only a few seconds before his appear.
ance Flo had passed from the garden
| into q miniature wilderness of bushes