The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-03
CHAPTER XvU-Cosr1yrrn.

''The LIST Of August" said Mr. Blake,
is an suspicious day. / am sure there
is some reason for regarding it as au
spicious, though 1 can not exactly lie.
member what. 1t is something about
Augustus, think"
II never heard of such an idea to
come from clergyman of the Church
of England" said the bride. 81 de-
clare Montagu never seems to think
that he's clergyman at all"
ut will be better for him." said Mr..
Whittlestaff, land for all those about
him, that he should ever remember the
fact and never seem to do so.
"All the same" said Blake, sal
though the LIST of August is suspicious.
| was very anxious to be married in
July, only the painters said they
couldn't be done with the house in
time. One is obliged to go by what
these sort of people say and do. We're
to have months honeymoon-only
Just month, because Mr.. Lowlad won't
make himself as agreeable as he ought
10 do about the services; and Newface,
the plumber and glazier, saws he can
nave the house done as Katie would
like to live in it before the end of Au-
gust. Where do YOU think we're going
10, NJ IS Lawrie? You would never
guess.
Perhaps to Rome" said Mary, at q
shot,
Not cutie so far. We're going to
the Isle of Wight. It's rather remark
able that | never spent but one week in
the Isle of Wight since Twas born. We
haven't quite made up orr mind wheth-
er it's TO be Black Gang Chine OF Vent
nor. It's matter of dresses. YOU see"
Don't be a fool, Montagu," SAID Miss
Forester
well, it is. If we decide upon Vent
nor, she must have frocks and things to
come out with
al suppose So" said Mr. Whittlestaff.
But she'll want nothing of the kind
at Black Gang"
do hold your tongue. and not make
an ass of yourself. " hat do YOU know
what dresses shall want? As it is.
don't think | shall go either to the one
pia"e or the other. The Smiths are at
Rydc, and the girls are my great
friends. l think We II go to Ryde. after
all
I'm so sorry, Mr.. Whittlestaff. that
we can't expect the pleasure of seeing
you at our wedding. 1t is, of course,
imperative that kittie should be mar
ried in the cathedral. Her father is
one of the dionitaries, and could not
bear not TO put his hest foot foremost
on such an occasion. The Dean viii be
there, of course. I'm afraid the Bishop
can not come up from Farnham, be-
cause he will have friends with him. l
am afraid John Gordon will have gene
by that time, or else we certainly would
have had him down. l should like John
Gordon to be present, because he would
see how the kind of thing is done"
The name of John Gordon at once
silenced all the matrimonial chit-chat
which was going on among them. 1t
was manifest both TO Mr.. Whittlestaff
and 10 Mary that it had been lugged in
without cause, to enable Mr.. Blake to
talk about the absent man. 1T would
have been pleasant; Ell, kattie?"
I'VE should have been very glad to
see Mr.. Gordon if it would have suited
him To come" said Miss Forester
1T would have been Just the thing
for him; and We at Oxford together,
and everything. Don't you think he
would have liked to be there9 1t
would have put him in mind of other
things, you know"
To this appeal there was no answer
made. 1t was impossible that Mary
should bring herself to talk about John
Gordon in mixed company. And the
alluSion to him stirred Mr.. Whittlestaff's
wrath. Of course it was understood as
having been spoken in Mary's favor
And Mr.. NhittleStaff had been made to
perceive, by what had passed at Little
ArleSford, that the Little Arlesford peo-
pie all took the side of John Gordon,
and were supposed to be taking the side
of Mary at the same time. There was
not one of them, he said to himself, that
hsd half the sense of Mrs. Baggett-
And there was vulgarity about their
interference of which Mrs. Baggett was
rot guilty.
He is half way on his road to the
diamond-fields,n said Evelina.
Sand went away from here on Sat
urday morning. sad Montagu Blake.
He has not started yet-not dreamed
of it. / heard him whisper to Mr..
Whittlestaff about his address. He's TO
be in London at his club. l didn't hear
him say for how long, but when man
gives his address at his club he doesn't
mean to go away at once. have a
plan in my head. Some of those boats
90 to the diamond-feids from South
ampton. All the steamers 90 every
where from Southampton. Winchester
is on the way to southampton Moth
ing will be easier for him than to drop
in for our marriage on his way out.
That is, if he must 90 at last" Then
he looked hard at Mary Lawrie.
'.And bring some of his diamonds
with him. said Evelina Hall. THAT
would be very nice" But not a word |
more was said then about John Gordon |
by the inhabitants of Cookers Hall. |
After that the visitors went, and Mon |
tagu Blake chaperoned the girls out of !
the house, without an idea that he had |
made himself disagreeable.
THAT young man is most egrecious |
asst" said Mr.. Whittlestaf
HE is good-natured and simple. but |
l doubt whether he sees things very
plainly.
He has not an idea of what man
may talk about and when he should |
hold his tongue. And he is such fool |
as to think that his idle chatter can in |
fluence Others l don't suppose 4
Bishop can refuse to ordain a gentleman |
because he is a general idiot. Other
wise think the Bishop is responsible
for letting in such an ass as this"
Mary said TO herself, as she heard this,
that it was the most ill-natured remark
which she had ever known to fall from