The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-09-03

kimberley is long way off,
"Yes, Indeed and when u fellow
gets out there he is apt to stay. sup
pose"
II shall do so, probably I have
nobody near enough to me here at
home to make it likely that l shall
come back"
"You have unckes and auntsp" said
Mr.. Hall.
''One uncle and two aunts. l shall
suit their views and my cousins better
by sending home some diamonds than
by coming myself"
"How long will that takeP" asked
MIR. Hall. The conversation was kept
up solely between Mr.. Hall and John
Gordon. Mr.. Whittlestaf took no
share in it unless when he was asked q
question, and the four girls kept up q
whisper with Miss Forester and Mon
tagu Blake.
81 have share in rather a good
thing" said Gordon; "and if could
get out of 1t, so as to realize my prop
erty, l think that six months might
suffice"
"Oh, dear! Then we may have you
back again before the years outP"
Mr.. Whittlestaff looked up at this, as
though apprised that the danger was
not yet over. But he reflected that
before twelve months were gone he
would certainly have made Mary Law
rie his wife.
kimberley is not very alluring
place." said John Gordon. 81 don't
know any spot on Gods earth that |
should be less likely TO choose my abid-
ing resting-place.
Except for the diamonds"
Except for the diamonds, as you
remark. And therefore when a man
has got his fill Of diamonds, he is likely
to leave"
"IIis fill of diamonds!' said Augusta
Hall.
"Shouldn't you like to try your fill Of
diamonds?" asked Blake.
"Not at ALL" said Evelina. "I'd
rather have Strawberries and cream"
81 think / should like diamonds best, "
said Mary. Whereupon Evelina sug-
gested that her younger sister was a
greedy little creature.
'As soon as you've got your fill OF
diamonds, which won't take more than
six months longer" suggested Mr.. Hall,
''you'll come back againp"
"Not exactly. have an idea of go
ing up the country across the Zambesi.
I've notion that l should like to make
my way out somewhere in the Medi-
terranean-Egypt, for instance, or AL
giers."
"What!-across the equatorP You'd
never do that alive!"
Things of that kind have been done:
Stanley crossed the continent"
"But not from South TO North.
don't believe in that. Ycu had better
remain at Kimberley and get more dia-
monds."
"He'd be with diamonds like the boy
with the Bacon said the clergyman;
"when prepared for another wish, he d
have more than he could eat"
ITO tell the truth" said John Cor
don, 81 don't quite know what should
do. 1t would depend, perhaps, on what
somebody else would join ME in doing.
My life was very lonely at Kimberley,
and do not love being alone"
"Jhen why don't you take a wife?"
said Montagu Blake, very loudly, as
though he had hit the target right in
the bull's-eye. He so spoke rs to bring
the conversation TO an abrupt end Mr..
Whittlestaf1 Immediately looked con-
scious. He was man who, on such
an occasion. could not look otherwise
than conscious. And the five girls, with
all Of whom the question of the loves
of John Gordon aud Mary Lawrie had
been fully discussed, looked conscious.
Mary Lawrie was painfully conscious I;
bet endeavOred TO hide il, not unsuc-
cessfully. But in her endeayor she had
to looi unnaturally stern was con-
sciOus, too, that she did tbat. Mr..
Hall, whose feelings OF romance were
not, perhaps, OF tho highest order,
looked round on Mr.. Whittlestalf and
Mary Lawrio. Montagu Blake felt that
he had achieved Il triumph. "Yes,"
said he, ii those are your feelings, why
don't you take wife?"
zone man may not be so happy 40
another" said Gordon, laughing. "You
have suited yourself admirably, and
seem to think it quite easy for man tG
make selection"
"Not quite such selection as mine,
perhaps said Blake.
Then think of the difficulty. Do
you suppose that any second Miss For.
raster would dream OF gong to the dia'
mond-felds with me ~
"Perhaps not" said Blake. "Not
second Miss Forrester-b somebody
else."
Something inferiorp'
"Well-yes; inferior to my Miss For
roster, certainly"
"YCu are the most conceited young
man that i ever came across" said the
young lady herself.
f'.And ! am not inclined to put up
with anything that is very Inferior"
said john Gordon. He could not help
his eye from glancing for a moment
round upon Mary Lawrie. She was
aware of IL, though no one else noticed
II IN the room. She was aware OF it,
though any one watching her would
have said that she had never looked at
him.
"a man may always find a woman TO
suit, II he looks we'll about him." said
MIR. Hall, sententiously. "Don't you
think so, WhittlestairP'
Il dare say he may" said MIR Whit