The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28
! when the tug came alongside for the

when the tug came alongside for ths
mails.
! Cora read her letters and consulted
her peerage tno properly-minded
! American woman will travel without 8
peerage), and looked out Ticehurst
thus:
rfcehurst, sth Earl .ohn Ste-hen Wayne
only son of Ith Earl, born at Calling on Royal
lS;0: married 49,. Ellen Violet I'll laughter oil
! Admiral Sir Ciaudius Turn ur. X. L. B.: ma
issue; I. John Ashton. Lord Marden. borf
1865; 9. james. Cliudius. bDrn 1854: late Scot:
Guards: j. Violet Alexard ia, born 1857. Seat.
-Chillngton Royal: kilIpeg. n. B.: No. 1ss
/ Grosvenor Place. Clubs-Carlton- Travellers
/ So Jack" had brother. who would
{ be-speaking formal -the Honorable
James Mayne. Mayne? The name
/ seemed familiar to her somehow
Where had she heard it, or who had
written about it? Could he be that un-
principled but delightful "Jim" Mayne
about whom gushing friend of her
girlhood, married in London, had writ
ten such shocking stories some four OF
five years ago?
There was a fog in the Mersey. OF
course, when the big ship foated up
with the tide, and the tender with Gus
tom-house people, clerks from the COM
pany's Office and favored friends of the
. passengers came fussing up. Cora got
I up in her shore-going clothes, with Just
an extra frill on for Jack or Jessie 5
benefit, stood at the head of the COM
panion stairs looking in vain for the
cowboy. 1t would never do for him
and Jack" to meet; so the plan was to
wish him goodbye in the most decisive
manner before the other came on
board. and thus be rid of him. How
tiresome he was! Why did he not ap-
pear and take his dismissal in this con-
venient way?
Looming dimly on the tenders bridge
appeared a handsome man of about
thirty, fresh-,aced, close-cropped, dap
per. speckless! dressed from his point
ed shoes to his curly hat as though he
had just been picked up in St. James
street and dropped where he stood. He
was the first on board, and ito HIM
as the old dramatists say-went rush.
ing another handsome man of about
the same age, fresh-faced, close-crop-
ped, dapper. speckless! costumed rs
though he also had been spirited direct
from the same celebrated eminence'
only he had no flower on his coat.
They grasped each other by the hand.
set the teeth. brpathed hard and fought
down their feelings as only BritIshers
can. They couldn speak Just then to
save that ship from going straight to the
bottom. The just articulate words that
came were something about ''the moth
err and Queenie.
In few minutes the one without a
flower took the other up to where Cora
stood, and said:
Mrs. Flower. this is Lord Marden,
whom think you expect"
g. The usual questioning followed, with
most contradictory answerings.
Yes, she had had a most delightful
voyage, and been very sick. and the
weather had been dreadful, and she
had en- Dyed herself so much! She did
not know what she was saying. She
never had suffered from sea-sickness.
something very like the first admonition
of it came over her. Things heaved and
swan around her and the bones of her
knees melted. In the midst OF quite an
other subject she buoxe in with:
But who tch0-was the gentleman
that introduced you?"
why, my brother. of course! He
came over with you. Surely
"Oh. impossible!'' gasped Cora, and
if she had not chung to the rail she
might have made another header down
the companion. The flowerless one
came up at this moment, and, Noticing
her tribulation and the appealing look
she gave him, said:
LET ne take you out of this crowd.
There is no hurry. We shall not an
Choir for another half hour Aft they
went alone to the rail over which they
had so o ten lean Z. and then he be-
gan:
Il don't like to tell you what an idiot
/ made of myself before went to Amer
ica. Let me be Iin at the mines, where
[ was known by my mothers name,
spelled Turnouf' There | heard me-
thing about my brother jack which
worried me. | left at five mins.tes' no.
tice. Just rs | stood In New York l
had Osiy time to buy some ready-made
clothes and scramble on board as YOU
saw My. brother. dear old fellow. who
remembers everything. made my tailor
send me some thing to Queenstown.
| have had my hair cut and sacrificed
my beard in the BARRIERS STOP this morn
nc, and am Jim Moyne again. That's
FL :"
''You-you said your father was a
Ear farmer" Cora faltered.
80 he is. Good tenants are scare
in these hard times, so he farms most of
his own land"
.'But you ate with your knlfe!'
My ar Mrs. Piover. YOU kindly
took IN interest in me as the Wild Man
OF the Sierras, and had to keep up the
cha -acter used to be a great hand at
theatrica!s, and very markedly '.must
not get out of practice"
Nj e"y, shame, and utter discom-
future! He had overheard her converse
ton with the Senator! 1t would be told
as a good story how she had mistaken
Jim" Mayne for cowboy and set her
self to civilize him! Her slame would
be all over the clubs be'Orc the week
was out. London correspondents of
American papers would get hold of it,
spice it up, and send it over for friends
and rivals to make merry about. She
wo Id be pointed out as the Yankee
woman who crossed wits with Jim Mayne
and got hurt. 1t was unbearable! She
WIS ruined, disgraced. undone on both
sides. 1t was As much as she could do
to save herself from burst ne into tears.
The relief came.
But" continued the whilom cow
boy. carelessly. 'I'm not at all proud
of the part. 1t was low comedy in
every sense of the words. Please to
forget it alas shall. If you could
imagine that our acquaintance began