The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-01-25


agitated gentleman did not look exactly in
/ state to be discoursed to about winter
blanket clubs and working mems clubs and
friendly societies.
IT is very fine to talk about leading an
urpuzzled existence, like Jane Austen; but
why on earth did Colonel Haldane look al
her with this unfathomable glance from his
undeniably fine grey eyes? What did il
mean? She fell away from him, musing,
and turned the outward machinery of trite
commonplaces on her greeting of the
numerous guests, who were rapidly arriv-
ing.
The Whites had just started q page, who
answered to the ubiquitous name of ssTom-
N.Y." one of those specimens much adapted
by ambitious matrons as an improvement
] on parlor maids; a creature raw of the
fields, with the expression of an animated
turnip, and brains to match. In the midst
of buzz of voices intermingling with the
frou-frou of rich dresses, Tommy suddenly
darted into the room and made straight for
Miss Florence White, carrying in his lobster
colored hands book suggestive of the p.
D. Company.
Colonel Haldane, from his solitary seat
in the deep recess of the bay window facing
the entrance of "The Grange" felt an
awlui sensaslon come over mn. was .nis
en9 inyrsie arlising. anu n'su .no n :. ntau
luin aDsoiuseiy cnaisu .no o'1ii9e ~ n.lss
"Iise' nae snou'u 10 W ne snianA
. yen.nu sns ueep amDel - 'ne gu 'ail'S'
'hen az suaueniy 81 1,ne,geu'
-. 5unp Myrtle 'nes , were pea own
molus' anu no nnaue sioiens luSn acioSs
ssIt's the myrtle r he said, breathlessly.
fsAllOW me- The stllpid peOple have made
q s.-r ,nis.1Ae ne continueu, .uconerentiy.
~ iuea ~ charging sne earrings 70 you
AAH Ap spteM eosoioiSu in.o Aolniny
bashful fingers.
Miss White looked at Colonel Haldane
with ever-enlarging pupils. He had re-
turned lately from Egypt, and had been
indefatigable at the bombardment of Alex
andria, had had an illness on his return,
and she remembered hearing that he had
been obliged to hav his head shaved. She
continued to look at him quite tenderly, as
these thoughts fitted phantem-like about
her.
sThank you, Colonel Haldane," she said
"You have saved me the trouble of fetching
my purse. This is a new boy-country
manners you know; he wants instruction r
and smiling pleasantly, she moved out of
the room after the vanishing figure of
Tommy.
In the round, roomy hall stood huge
tube matted up and bearing the name, eau
Myosotis, Mention etc.
'sIts a towering myrtle, Miss" said Tom
my; ''the biggest, the carrier says, it ever
fell his duty to deliver"
''Fetch a pair of gardening scissors,
Tommy" said Miss White; "and another
time never venture to bring P. d. G. books
into the drawing room. Go to the house
keeper wi b that kind of thing"
Tommy took the color natural to him in
yet deeper hues and ran for the scissors.
Miss White soon shipped the OBTAINING
strings and gave way to very natural de-
light as the starry blossoming myrtle was
exposed to view.
every odd" she thought. sIts address,
ed Enthusiastically to me- Poor Colonel Hal
dane What does it mean?'
Thinking again of the shaven head and
the bombar dment of Alexandria she sighed
a little pensively and little compassion
ately, and returned to the drawing room
just in time to escape the entry of Mrs.
Danvers, whose forest cart, drawn by
lovely pair of Welsh ponies, she saw turn
ing in at the gate. That lady now entered,
perfect DANDY D,nmont. alono-bodied low
legged. Aap-eared pedioreed creature
which reioieed in the nossession of seven
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