McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10
ON THE RIVER.

$50 Vane is at his old tricks again.
II were that girls father or brother, I
should be inclined to express my opin-
ion of his tactics very strongly"
''Is that Miss Elliottp have noticed
him by her side more than half the
evening-but, if I may judge from the
lady's expression, his attentions are not
otherwise than acceptable"
"Splendidly handsome girl, isn't
sheP Alice Hargreaves, the new beauty,
is not patch upon her in my opln-
ion.n
"Handsome enough-for those who
admire that style-great eastern eyes
and Juno-like figure. For my own part
/ prefer something softer and more
feminine"
$50 apparently did Vane yesterday
morning. He was sitting in the park
under Mrs. Fairfax's parasol for over
an hour and half. How q proud girl
like Blanche Elliot can stand such an
open rivalry passes my comprehension.
"Mrs. Fairfax? The widow of Jack
Fairfax, of the artillery"
''Even so-Nina Forester that was.
You must remember her, Graham-a
pretty little fair-haired thing who looks
as if puff Of wind would blow her
away. She is awfully well off-Jack
took good care of that, poor old chap!
And really she looks hardly more than
n child still, though she has q little girl,
as pretty as herself, over five years
old"
''And she is flirting with young Vane,
you sayp''
Flirting! She is the veriest little
fiirt in England. Her villa at Twicken-
ham rs a paradise for that kind of
amusement. Slipping lawn down to
the river-bcat always read-strawber-
ries and cream-and pretty little host
ess so charmed to see you if you run
afternoon. She has been up in town
this week, staying with her brother, but
was to GO home yesterday.
During this last speech Colonel Ora
hame's attention had been chiefly be-
slowed upon Miss Elliot and the coun-
tenance of the man who is SO assidu-
ously bending over her.
1t is a very good looking face-a face
which one Of Sir Reginald Vane's dog
loving friends has sometimes likened to
a Gordon setter, with dark, lustrous
eyes and delicate profile-and if there
are weak lines marring the mouth and
chin, they are concealed by the black
silky mustache which covers both. He
is popular man, especially with the
women, who easily learn to call him
.sReggie," and smile over the rather
free-and-easy compliments which have
a charm of their own when uttered in
that low musical murrnur. In fact, a
drawing-room pet of the nineteenth
century, such as one meets with here
and there in the course of every season.
O, very different type is Leslie Gra-
harne, the man who, standing in the
doorway, has been listening to the care
less remarks OF a gossiping acquain-
lance. OF Scottish descent and with a
rugged cast of features common to that
nation, he might, except for his COM
ananding height, pass unnoticed in the
crowd assembled at Lady Hethering-
toms CAT Home' But probably, ON
Aldershot field-day, a spectator would
pick out the cavalry officer who sits on
ais horse so gallantly (though three
fingers of his bride hand are gone, and
he is fain to wind the chargers reins
around his wrist) as an object of curl
o:ity
For do not other medals besides those
so lately won in Egypt decorate his
breast, and is there not some danger
and heraisro. almost unparalleied in