The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-15
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Not DESTROYS of pursuing this topic fur.
Their, Lord Glencore put question.
you're not going to drive that" he
said, nodding toward the horse, a most
vicious looking screw, "are your"
"Why not? He's real good one to
go. Come in and see us start; it's capital
fun. We'd a regular crowd round us
yesterday. Any one else but Peg would
have been frightened to DEATH"
Incited by curiosity Lord Glencore
obeyed Freddy's invitation.
1--WE keep all the front well shut, -
said Freddy, as he marshaled his way to
den at the far end of the narrow hall
Passing the stairs, he gave vent to a
shrill whistle, answered by a similar
one which might have been taken as its
echo.
"Ain't you ready?" was piped up from
below.
Coming" answered girls voice,
and at the same instant with the word.
down the flight of stairs, flop on the
mat, came figure which. through the
cloud of dust sent up, Lord Glencore
surmised must be Peggy.
I'm so sorry. thought it was only
Freddy-P'-a and then, better able to see
who stood there, she gave vent to an
agonized, "Oh, Lord Glencore" and
seemed unable to say more.
Freddy, who was enjoying her con-
fusion to the full, here burst in with,
Don't mind him; he's square enough,
amt your"
Certainly 1 am" and then turning to
Peggy, he said, tive never had the
pleasure of seeing you here, have II
No"
''But you've seen him, haven't you,
Peg? And once don't you remember
when the door opened and scuttled off
and your frock caught and you tumbled
down? Oh, say, what game! 1t was
a shave we weren't caught that time"
Poor Peggy's face was like beet root.
"There wasn't anything to see," she
said to Lord Glencore, reassuringly. 1T
really wasn't for that we looked, but I
I was so curious to know what you was
like" and she gesticulated violently to
Freddy behind Lord Glencore's back.
whats the harm?" responded the
young man, expostulatively. You'd
do the same if you were packed off into
a cock loft of a garnet, wouldn't you?
That's what they do with her-stick her
anywhere out of the way"
''No, Freddy, no." Lord GIencore from
out of the corner of his eyes saw her say,
and, hoping to change the conversation,
he said:
"I'm afraid I'm making you lose the
best of the day. came in to see you
start" Perhaps Peggy fathomed his
kind effort, for she looked at him fairly
for the first time.
Eyes" and she gave him little shy
smile; "did your
"It's very pleasant, a drive out of
town, now. Where are you going?"
ITO Richmond park" answered the
irrepressible Freddy. "Would you like
to go? Well take you; there's heaps of
room behind. Why-why shouldn't he?1
This was evidently in answer to more
pantomlme from PeSSy-
you don't want me-would rather I
didn't go?"
Lord Glencore had turned suddenly
round and was asking this question of
the young girl.
"Oh, no; it isn't that, only I'm fraid'-
and here Peggy stopped and blushed fu-
riously. For wonder GleIcore did not
catch the complaint. Quite persuasively
he said: ''But do let me; it's what
should SO enjoy"
There was an instant's pause, and then
they all began laughing; and good fell
lowship being thus established, some
twenty minutes later the three, Lord
Glencore behind, Freddy driving and
Peggy by his side, were on the road to
Richmond.
1t might be tedious to retail all the
folly that fell from the lips of the trio as
under Freddy's guidance they pursued
their way. Their united years did not
make up the sober age of 60, and they
had the spirits of schoolboys out for a
holiday. Lord Glencore had never felt
so much at his ease before; none of those
who in society knew him would have
him as the same shy indi-
vidual. The hours flew like minutes. 1t
was o'clock when they thought it 3;
and then to have looked at the time
would not have occurred to anybody,
only that Peggy, heaving a tremendous
sigh, had supposed it would soon be time
to think of returning home.
The horse that was SO good at going,
we have omitted to state. had. at a GER
ain small hostelry, Goat and Compass"
name, shown signs of rebellion. Stir
rom that door he would not, and Lord
to cut short the difficulty, had
that they should leave the
brute there to get feed, while they took
\ stroll in the park.
Returning from this walk they passed
he "Star and Garter"
81 say, dinner in there wouldn't be
lalf bad fun," said Freddy.
"Oh, I don't think so" said Glencore.
"Why, have you ever been there!'
eyes, dined there twice this season !
With Lady Jane and your sister,"
And chill ran through the young man
IS he recalled the dreariness of those
olemn ordeals.
"Ohr' said Freddy, drawing in his back !
Is if about to succumb, while Peggy |
ourst out laughing.
A bright inspiration came suddenly to |
ilencore.
"Why shouldn't we stop here now, he
aid, have dinner, and go home after?'
Freddy and Peggy came to a standstill, |