Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-09-28
you see. Craigdarroch always has its

supper at eight, and Kenneth will put you
| on your way back
Thanks; l shall be most happy. need
not trouble your nephew. In your we'll
ordered country the roads are as safe al
/ midnight as midday"
That's truer' emphatically. Tam glad
/ you're aware OF. That great, lang, self
/ opeenionated young woman-how dye ca
| her?-that just turned up her nose tmair
/ than nature had done for herr against
| Scotland to a ScOtchman!-that wasna
! weel-mannered for a lady that goes to the
| Qneen's Court, they tell me.''
"Oh! the court is a regular ola pOdTidG
now" said Isle
"A what? What tongue is that?"
! Spanish. 1t means a general mixture. u
! En-, pOw-sowdie is the same thing;
/ that's rale Scotch, and mair expressive and
/ wise-like. Weel, that tall Teddy would
| hold her ain in the biggest pow-sowdie OF
| a. Where is she?"
| 'YOu mean Miss Morton. She is the
most appalling female / know. She has
captured Greek prince; who goes to balls
| in white petticOat and says he is de-
| scended from Alcibiades"
"Eh, he wad be a shifty sort of great
| grandfather to hayer' cried Uncle Sandy,
who piqued himself on being a ''soond
| claussicai scholar"
! "Well, this fellow is about up to her
| shoulder, and rather a doubtful parsonage.
| They are fighting over settlements at pres
| cnt; for though she is said to be fath0ms
| deep in love, she does not like to lose her
| grip OF the e s. d.
'And varra right she is. Moo, the tea is
! ready, come AVA and have cup"
| 1t was, on the whole, an uneasy sort of
| afternoon and evening. a sense Of unfit
! ness-a want Of harmony, oppressed every
! one. though Mona and Kenneth did their
utmost TO entertain their guests. Both the
| girls sung and played aud talked their
| best. Indeed, Mona was unusually gra-
cious TO Lisle, yet he was dissatisfied, and
| left with Kenneth early, saying that he was
| bound to Lord Finistoun for the next day,
| but the following he would come to see
them, as he was going back to town on
! Saturday night"
At luncheon next day, when the post
| came in, Waring, after reading his letters,
| announced that he must start on Monday,
| that he had been away too long, and it was
! time he returned.
| To Mona this was a cruel stab. He was,
| then, to vanish away from her-this frank,
| kind, brave man, whose qualities were the
| complement Of her own, for whose trOu-
| bles she felt responsible, and whose wounds
| it would have been the sweetest and most
| congenial task to heal, and she dared not
| try to hold himl No: if it cost her her life,
| she could make no effort to reveal herself
| He was her friend, and nothing mOrel Yet
vague, dim belief breathed through her
heart that he loved her still, to justify
which there was not a little of evidence.
81 did not know you were here" said
Miss Black, coming into the drawing-rOom
the day after this visit and finding War
ing seated with n book before him and his
head on his hands. "Where is Mona?"
''She has gone out with Mr.. Craig"
"Will you come with me and look for
them?"
mo, thank you; am searching for one
or two books brought here, ana I want to
put them up. You see, l have only two
days after tomorrow"
II am sorry you are going, Mr.. Waring."
81 am gratihed to hear you say 50. How
| sorry | shall be to leave you all, it would
not be easy to say"
''Well, / think You look sad like, Mr..
Waring. You must write Kenneth, and
tell rs all about yourself"
'Maryw exclaimed Warning, after short
pause, and not aware of his own familiar
10y, M"aC no yo" VlilN brings IhaC IelioW
'IIe says it's fishing; and so it is, but not
WIN rou anu me.
Iheh 1t Is Mona:"
Mary DenI her mead IN the affirmative.
Az least l fancy SO, she said. He
used TO DC up mere III the autumn, and
Kenneth thought he would have asked her
then"
Il suppose it will DO what is considered
'Eoo" hatch' mt she Is TOO good for himl'
on might say ihaC oil good many"
i"" 'iIINN S"'
lee. boh You.
Il do: and suppose Miss Craig will soon
De Transformed in,u Lady Lislc."
- cannot th.a, so: sh, never seems 10
a. To- car, ;b .ut Lim. have always i'm
agined she loves someone we know moth
ing about; but l have no right to say so"
"No wo have norinbt IN corinctura what
she feels or thinks: only l trust in God
what she does, and whoever she chooses.
she will be happy"
He left the room abruptly as he uttered
these words.
"Ahp' exclaimed Mary, aloud, as she
looked after him, and then stopped to run
over in her own mind a dozen or more Of
slight indications, which, viewed by the
new light that had broken in upon her.
made proofs rs strong as Holy Writ of the
feeling entertained bv Warfnr for her nd
mired friend. 'And oh! she does not care
for him either, and he is honest and true
i am sure he is thought Mona. "Stayl
doesn't she care for him? l am not so sure.
OH where is Kenneth? / Twin go and talk
TO him"
The morning after this conversation rose
bright and fair. though the night had been
so stormy that between the bowling wind
and her own distressful thoughts Mona
got little sleep.
II must go down to the fishers" said
Kenneth, ut breakfast. 81 hear the two
Mackilligans have been nearly drowned,
and their boat is stove in. Jockis severely
hurt. They were driven ashore in the gale
last night
"Pll come with YOU" said Warning.
you are just killing yourself" said I'm
Gle Sandy. who was busy summing his nor
rilgc 'You look like = ,rhcist &c ~ isr
You'll no be fit for a lang Journey if We
gang this gait"
ooh! lam perfectly fit. I assure Won.
whatever my looks may be II ala not
rise up like n giant refreshed after the
care and nursing | have had in this estab-
lishment, | should not be worth taking caro-