Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-14

"In future, Binders, when speaking TO
your mistress, you will address her as my
LADY,"
eyes, my lord" replied the obsequious
Binders.
Before the sun went down that night it
was generally Drafted about Monte Carlo
that Pippin had been raised to the Peer
age. And, strange to say, the little man
took no pains whatever to put the gossi ps
right in the Matter.
Mr.. Pippins lived ia Portnan square.
And at IL O'Clock the following morn
ing Mr.. Pippin's brougham stood in front
of his house. The little man looked
almost merry as he descended the steps,
entered the conveyance and ensconsed
himself in a corner, having first ordered
his coachman to drive to the treasury.
While proceeding through Whitehall,
however, ne espied Lord Dulaores on the
footpath, go he pulled the check string
with violence that nearly jerked the
coachman off his perch. AGghting, he
ran in the direction of the government
whip. Lord Dulaores made an attempt
TO escape him. Then, seeing that the
flight would be at once useless and IN
dignifed, he looked helplessly round, as
though to implore the interference of
the police from contiguous Scotland
Yard. Pippin grasped the nObleman's
hand and said with effusion;
81 thought, my lord, I'd acknowledge
your message in person"
"Quite So" said his lordship-he felt
that he must say something.
$50 much better than writing, you
know"
'Ever so much better-yes! yes!"
"You omitted to mention the title the
government were good enough to confer
which order of knighthood?"
ssTitle? Order? Knighthood? What do
you mean Mr.. Pippin?"
''Your telegram, you know"
"My telegram? 1 sent you no tele-
gram"
'sNot personally, perhaps. But your
private secretary or some one at the
treasury did. This [ meau."
Poor Mr.. Pippin drew the telegram
his eye-glass, read the message and, re-
folding it, returned it to its owner.
''T know nothing of it, I assure you.
y
I must really bid you good morning. I've
an appointment at the board of trade"
And so, taking advantage of the momen-
tary confusion of Mr.. Pippin, the noble
lord made good his escape"
Pippin's Indignation was too great to
permit of his acknowledging the parting
| civility of the whip. He stood transfxed
to the Whitehall pavement with the tele-
gram in his hand till the booming of
big Ben" aroused him from his reverie.
| He glanced as the dial in the clock tower.
It was noon. He re-eutered his brougan
telling the driver in a voice that seemed
strangely altered to drive to the Junior
! Conservatory.
When he entered the apartment, the
hall porter went to the rack, and taking
bundle of letters from pIgeon-hole p,
handed them to him. With these in his
possession, Pippin retired to the library
aud appropriated to himself remote
corner. His feelings were complex and
acute. Nor were his sensations in any
degree mOllifedwhen Lord Cinquewarden
and The O'Mulligan came into the room
and approached him. They evinced a
very extraordinary desire to enter into a
conversation with him, The O'Mulligan
rOundIy asserting that during his alb
| senca the club had "not been the same at
all, at alba statement that was perfect
| ly true. Lord CinqueWarden endorsed
his friends remark with the utmost
heartiness aud expressed hope that M.
Pippin bad broken the bank at Monte
Carlo.
But, for once in his life, the worth!
Pippin was anxious to avoid the compan-
ionship OF his fellow creatures. He an
swered the young men CURLY and ex-
pressed a desire to be left to himself.
Then he proceeded to explain his GORE
spondenoe. One of the letters bore a
foreign post1nark. He opened this to find
in it another letter, addressed to him at
Monte Carlo. The letter must have been
delivered there soon after his departure
and had been forwarded by the very next
post. He opened the inclosed missive,
and, as he read it, the cold perspiration
burst out on his forehead. It ran thus:
! PRIMROSE LEAGUE, DAME PARTINGToN
HABITATIoN, HAMMERsMITH (sub date).
"Dear SRI have the pleasure of in
forming you that on the nomination of
Lord Cinquewarden, seconded by The
O'Mulligan, you have been duly elected Il
knight of this order. To-day 1 tele-
graphe6 you this information in the
name of Lore Dulacres, ruling our coun-
| ciIlor. [ incIose form which kindly fill
up and return. | am, dear sir, faithfully
| yours, "MARY ANN JOINER.
"R. PlPPIN. ESQ.,, Monte Carlo"
= London Truth