Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-03-20

81 shall get on. The people are
amusing to look at, and Hannah will
take care of me. Besides, Annie pos
itively irritates me. | know she
thinks nursing such a dreadful infic-
ton"
Have it your own way, my dear.
I'll tell the count that we shall be de-
lighted.
SO when the appointed day came,
Mr.. Dexter, accompanied by Miss
Annie, and duly mounted on moder-
ately well-appointed coach, was
piloted by the triumphant count to
well-known show-place a dozen miles
from Scarborough.
Mr.. Dexter omitted to inform Count
Splitzentoff that the young lady under
his charge was not his niece at all, but
the daughter of defaulting clerk,
who had committed forgery and then
blown out his brains. Neither did he
say that she had not a sixpence in the
world, or that he had allowed her to
assume the name of Dexter, owing to
the disgrace which had stained that of
her father. The excursion was there
fore highly enjoyable. The count had
asked the Baron Won Stufguzz to
Join the party too. on the condition, OF
course, that he did not make himself
too agreeable to the pseudo-heiress;
and the rich Miss Mnngo and her
mother had been invited for the
barOn's amusement. So, after inspect
ing some more or less interesting ru-
ins, the party paired off in the grounds,
, the count, of course, monopolizing Miss
Dexter, and the baron Miss Mungo,
while Dexter was left to the tender
mercies of the chaperon. The latter
= gentleman had decidedly tina worst OF
the bargain, for Mrs. Mungo, who had
; originally been Halifax mill-glrl,
subjected him to a cross-examination
of the most searching and irritating
description of about himself, his for
l tune, his nieces, the amount of money
$ he intended to leave them, and, in
$ fact, all his most private and personal
u affairs.
y 81 hope you enjoyed yourself, my
!, dear" said Dexter to his protegee
1 somewhat grimly, when his torments
o were over, and he found himself once
: more at the Regalia.
!, Immensely" answered the young
:, lady with much emphasis. 1.-The cOun
is simply charming, and he is so wei
= off: he has house in Paris, a villa IL
- Cannes, and any amount of estates IL
Lithuania and the Caucasus.
, "a house in Paris and villa il
- Cannes!" growled Dexter to himself
l, 81 must make further inquiries" "
" Miss Annie Dexter, once having in
Z, serted the thin end of the wedge by get
~ ting an introduction to Scarborough sc
=. % ciety, gave her guardian no peace unit
y he allowed her to 90 to the ever-rccul
IL ring balls, which were the almost dali
a. solace of the young men and maiden
Ut at the various hotels. She has no dit
g ficulty in getting Mrs. Mungo, @
y some other affable matron, to loo
w after her, an arrangement which suite
vi Dexter and his niece to perfection,
w thereby they got rid of her for the e'
Ie- ening, and were left to their ow
devices.
Everybody knows what Sea
iI' borough hotel ball is. The guests
Iu' hotel ask those of another alternat
lu- ly. There is usually gentleman wi
Ofliciates as master of the ceremonie
hS and introduces everybody, wheth
they like it or not. Hence one SCI
do Young ladies of title revolving wi
ng Hebrew mOney-lenders, ambition
mammas gushing over their daughter
yer perfection to the managers of Hayma
the ket restaurants, and respectable Br
ere ish merchants worshipping at the shi
of French ballet-d dancers and den
the mondaines. Miss Alace Dexter w
not a young lady of very refined TASTE
and this sort of thing suited her adm
ght ably. Her various chaperohs Il
and pressed upon the company that $
was the heiIess to untold veal