The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-27
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CHAPTER L.


 "Well, Pansie, all I can say is that Pm awfully sorry," said MT. Lancelot Selfe, young man clad in flannels, who was sprawling at full length on the turf by the side of the tennis ground of an old Sussex manor house one calm evening in late August.
 "Awfully sorry about what?" asked Pansie Wyman - nineteen, brown haired, and brown-eyed-who was seated on a camp-stool close by the young man.
 "Why, that we've had our last game of tennis for goodness knows how long; that you're going away, and that Fve got to be buried alive in this dull, little, out-of- the- way place with those two old gals"
 "Those two old galsl Hush, Lancy 1! You ought to be ashamed of yourself for speaking of two dear old aunties in that disrespectful way" said Pan- sic.
 "Well, of course, Pm very fond of them, and all that, especially as they are my only relations in the world, and are so kind to you, but it's rather hard lines for fellow to be condemned to exchange the society of one whom he-with whom he"
 "Well, with whom he what?"
 "With whom he has fallen head over heels in love-" said MT. Lancelot.
 "Well, I declare!" exclaimed Pan- SIG, in mock astonishment. "And who asked you to fall in love2"
 "Who asked meP Nobody. Who made me2 Why, you," replied the young man. "Pm clean bowled, and that's the long and short of it and now, just as we are beginning to un- derstand each other, you have to go back to Athena House."
 "But surely you wouldn't have me turned out into the world half-edu- cated, gawky, bread butter miss, would you2" asked Pansie.
 "Well," replied the young man, eff you're half-educated, gawky, and bread-and- bu utterish, all I can say is, education be hanged p
 MT. Lancelot Selfe was a young barrister, who had been invited by his aunts and sole relatives, the Misses Julia and Aurelia Penless, to spend the long vacation with them at their Sussex house. Pansie Wyman was an American, and had been sent to Eng land to finish her education at Miss Sage's famous school, Athena House, Sussex square, Brighton, by her father, a retired colonel, who now occupied a responsible position on one of the lines of railroad which run through the gold and silver districts of Colo rado and Nevada. The Misses Penless were distant relatives of the colonel, and under their care he had placed Pansie, his only child, the result being that the young lady, being of a lively and intelligent disposition, as we'll as an exceedingly pretty girl, had capti- vated the young Englishman, and had learned to reciprocate his f. elings towards her in 6 way which was very apparent to the two maiden aunts.
 Urine we went in to dinner" said Lancelot, after pause. "The aunts will be working themselves up into 6 frenzy"
 So the pair sauntered slowly up through the pleasant gardens, until they came in sight of the three- -gabled, red-brick house known as Furnace Court-a name which recalled the ancient iron industry of Sussex-at the door of which could be discerned the figures of two elderly ladies.
 "There they sre," said Lancelot. "Pansie, prepare to bow your head to the storm. I say, Pansie, why is your father 90 down on Englishmen?"
 "Oh, I don't know, replied the girl. "He's prejudiced warrior of the old Union school, and he can't forget the part you people took in the civil war;"
 "Then I wonder he sends his daugh- tsrs to be educated among us,n said Lancelot. A
 @Well, rve wondered that, tool ' snid Psnsis. eI3ut I believe therGs more bark than bite in him, and all tho