The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-08-09
A TALE OF THE RED PIKE.

thought | should find you with
the girls, Mr.. Goodwin. You should
have been with us. We've had such a
scramble over Honister Crag, and
brought back no end of flowers for Ger
trude. But one thing must say-that
fellow Losford is Jolly muff, though
he doesn't look it, Just funk, girls,
and nothing else. viii you give me
some tea, Mrs. Godwin?"
"What nonsense you talk, Bob!'
cried his sister, conscious by some femi-
nine instinct that her friends face was
hotter than moment before; "You
are perfect mdurdiS cntdnt bursting
in like that. wish Mr.. Losford would
teach you manners.
I'D like to see him try. 1t would
take pluckier man than he is. Why,
he wouldn't come within yards of the
edge, Mrs. Godwin!"
He showed his usual good sense,
Master Robert" was the lady's tart re-
ply. She had her reasons for
looking favorably upon Walter Los
ford, of Losford Court, Mon
mouthshire, by no means the least
honored guest at Mr.. Godwin's lake
villa. And they were a very CHEEKY
hhN pdIbl IlC SCI,
Gertrude thought, that her mother had
ever got together, and Gertrude was a
young lady of decided tastes and some
what difficult to please. Even Bob
Marston, when he was not saying NAL
apropos things and appearing where he
was not wanted at inopprtune moments,
wa as amusing as any other Elton boy.
Nevertheless, at this moment two peo-
pie at least were ardently longing to
make his ears Jingle.
"And what is the programme for to-
morrow, Mr.. Godwinp" resumed the
young gentleman, not whit daunted
by the unfavorable reception of his last
remark. "Can we picnic on the Red
Pike? 1t would be jolly fur"
The host hummed and hawed; he
rather preferred an open-air entertain
ment at place accessible in an open
carriage. But if you have a house
among the mountains, up them you
must 90. The climbing disease is in
fictitious, and there is no evading it UNI
til by permanent residence you be
come proof against its attacks. Mr.
Goodwin would have to succumb sooner
or later.
Eyes, Bob" said Gertrude, sudden.
ly laying down the fan with which she
was playing, 1--WE will 90 to the Red
Pike tomorrow.
And Bob, who thought that in his
own language, he had rather "put his
foot in it," was comforted, and knew
that to the Red Pike he would go.
Gertrude's face, as she went up tc
dress for dinner, was thoughtful. "He
showed his usual good sense" Mrs.
Goodwin had said, and the words kept
ringing in her daughters ears until hci
lip began to curl with scorn. If there
was one thing which Gertrude admired
it was courage; was she beginning,
almost more than beginning, to like a
man who could be called coward
even by boy? II made her cheeks
tinge with shame and anger. PROUD
and high spirited herself, good sense
of the kind Mrs. Goodwin meant wa,
not in high esteem with ner. And
alas, the insinuatiop chimed in will
other things. Walter Losford was
hardly one to please a romantic girl al
first SIGHT. Co)4, sensible and wanting
in enthusiasm even in his ambition
tFying nearly everything by the argu
nents of reason with impartial sever
ity, he would have made Just and no
too merciiul Judge. Living by rule o
thumb, no wonder that he looked oldel
than his thIty years, or that he re
PEELED chance acquaintances whC
call d him prig. Generally reticent
he would sometimes tell the truth will
rude abruptness. Altogether, hi
friends said. little wanting in charity