, 1886-05-27
JUST LIKE ARGENTINA.

down the three volumes Of "A DEAD
Mystery She had read Lady Damp
sticks DOOM and ~Lurid L%igltnings,'
and 'Groen-Grey Eyes, and The One
Le-e, 4 Witch" three volumes each, OF
the most ~blood-curdling description that
the village library could supply.
Nelly's taste in omance was not Of the
highest. She liked to have her blood
curdled. And as the four weeks Of her
country visit had Deer necessarily wet
she had trotted her young friend and
hostess, Mary Marsh, in the pony-tran
every second day to the village library
in search of the weird and mysterious.
At the end Of her months visit to Dark
leigh Court. Nclly's fair and curly little
head was bcwildercd by three puzaling
discoveries-that Hubert iiarsh. Mary
obliging brother. and the heir Of this
grand old place. was desperately in love
with her insignificant little self: that tho
country was n compound Of gray sky.
rain, and mud, whatever the poets said
to the contrary; and that heroincs-
especially Argentina, the last heroine
could cry without spelling their violet
eyes and their pretty little noses, and
that they had a habit of gliding and hid
ing. Argentina often did; md Nelly
WIS beginning to feel just like Argentina
since the heir of Darkleigh Court had
begun to do her chivalrous service from
morning till night to win a word or a
smile.
Hubert is like Lord Lockwood in "A
Dead sl~ystery.'" she told Mary Marsh.
as they went down arm-in-arm. ready 10
see a new guest at dinncr-a great event
in a weather bound country house
He has black hair and eyebrows, and
there the likeness ends said demure
Miss Mary, with a smile. we don't
want Hubert to be a forger, or a high
wayman, or n %corsair. or whatever it
was-not like Lord Lockwood-thank
YOU"
But | do like a nan to have some
thing notwithstanding grand-as
if he were able to"
40 slay s~omebody.." limited Mary.
THAT would be romantic and out of tho
common"
~Oh, no said Nelly helplcssly; but l
cant explain. Hubert looks advcntur-
Gus. He might have been a courtier in
the old times. and helped in secret coun-
ellis, and"
Planned the smothering Of princes,
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Jay OF Two with hubert
There was also at dinner that day a
neighbor of Darkleigh Court-a hand
some young fellow. Sir Harry Give
who took the world easily. His chief
pastimc was twirling the ends of his
mu-lache. aud his only troubles in life
were lay ing foundation-s;ones and gIac-
ing the platform at public meetings.
His occupations ranged from lawn-,cnnis
in summer to slcighinS in winter. and
Irving "A four-in-hand. lie called Miss
Marsh Mary and she called him
"iiarry." they had known each other
since he painted new compilations on
her dolls in his Eton holidays, and since
her baby hands stitched the calico that
sailed his ship. Now, when boys and
girls begin rs playmates, they often only
end as friends; new faces and new way
have some day a mysterious attraction
that the too well known face had not.
Sir Hmry Give stood by the window
that night, curling his musiache on his
finger, and enjoying Nelly's chatter with
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