Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20

slang like a school-boy, swears like a
trooper, shoots like a keeper, and
smokes-bah! like a chimney!f'
what q category of crimes!"
AFTER that, do you care to be intro
duced to this elegant heiress, JackP"
mot if l know it, thank you! If 1
had a chance, I should decline the
honor: A woman of that descriptions
revolving. l wouldtgo a long way to
avoid coming across her"
lhe shower was over. The two
friends nodded to the shopman and took
their departure. After a minute or
two Kate came into the front of the
shop.
"Who were those two gcntlemen?"
she asked of the man.
:Ihe slight dark one is Viscount
Kyrle, miss, Lord Greyrock's eldest
son."
"And the fair one:?"
':Mr. Dormer, a great traveller, miss;
he has just returned from the East"
Kate colored holly.
She mounted her horse and rode
away; and it was characteristic of her
that she utterly forgot tt call for the
friend she had promised to ride with.
Instead of going anywhere neal this
lady's house, she turned her horse
southwark and rode impetuously up to
a certain doorway in South Belgravia
with which she was familiar.
SIS Lady Ellerton IMP"
Her adyship was in her room dress
ing for her drive, she was told.
She bounded upstairs, two steps at a
time, and burst like Il whirlwind into
the front bedroom.
Good gracious, Kate! how you
startled mel"
Lady Ellerton, q pretty little woman
of some two-and-thirty years, whose
Gelicate pink and white fairness, good
temper, and prosperous circumstances
generally, had somehow preserved her
from looking her full age, sat before
the toilet-table arranging the pale-blue
bows of her bonnet-strings.
"Adela, l have seen him!' cried
Kate, sinking down on her knees by
the side of her friend.
Lady Ellerton looked nervously
round to see if her maid was still in the
room, but finding that that damsel had
di%screetly retired. she inquired:
''Seen who? not Jack??"
Eyes, Jack, as you call him-your
brother. Mr.. Dormer."
Lady<Ellerton continued to pat down
the tlaxen curls of her fringe with low
ing fingers, regarding her pretty face
attcntively in a hand-glass the while.
'Well?" she inquired, unconcern-
ediy, turning her head from side to
| side.
81 hate him!'' said Kate, with tragic
solemnity.
Lady Ellerton jumped, and the glass
fell out Of her hand upon the dressing
table.
"Good gracious!!"
And he hates me-" continued Miss
Ingleby, in adcep voice of horror.
'tDo you mean to tell me that YOU
have met him somewhere, and quar-
relied already? What crushing bad
luck! What did.he say to you?"
Nothing"
"What did you say to him, then?"
Nothing" she repeated, gloomily.
''Then, what on earth-are you mad,
Kate?-for goodness sake, explain"
81 was in a shop; they came in
your brother and a dreadful friend of
his, Lord Kyrle."
Adela nodded; the ''dreadful friend''
was a particular crony of her own, but
she let that pass.
''They began talking about me
Lord Kyrle said l was a .horrid girl
he described me as a sort of wild ami
NAL, a tom-boy who climbed trees, a
! vulgar creature who swore and talked
slang-oh, it was Shameful"
"Well, but Kitty, people do say that
you are fast, you Know" suggested her
friend.
..What do they mean by fast? what
does anybody mean?:" she cried pas
sionately; '.they don't know them
selves. 1t is true l have high spirits,
and that / like bodily exercise, but !
never did the dreadful things that brute
said of me-"
"Cigarettes," murmured her lady.
ship.
''And where's the harm! there's no
sin in a cigarette! But l haven't told
you half. After he had given this de-
lightful and perfectly veracious sketch
of my character to your brother, he
mentioned the o of my fortune
Chat was correct enough), and asked
him if he would like to be introduced to
me; and Mr.. Dormer replied that he
would go long way to avoid coming
across me! There-what do you think
of that?"
"Pooh! Jack will like you when he
knows you, Kitty, as I do"
Miss Ingleby got up from her knees,
and began pacing up and down tie
room; suddenly She stopped behind
her friends chair and put both hands
on her shoulders.
..Adela, you know You meant your
brother to marry-hush! don't eXclaim,
and don't deny it; know exactly what
you are going to say, SO you needn't
say it," Lady Ellerton had got very
red. II don't think you are at all to
blame, my dear; if | had a great friend
worth fifty thousand pounds, and a nice
~impecunious brother, l should do my
best, too, to bring about a coalition OF
forces-but, Adela-let me tell you. it
won't dol"
..Katc how you do jump at conclu-
sions!" murmured Adela confusedly,
for Miss ngleby ha Stated the case
exactly.
':My dear, it won't do; 1 am not go
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