San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-14

w udIEs Ine-I must Deg you 10 leu Inc
know when can meet you and the
other two victims Please let it be to-
morrow, if possible, as am much press
ed for time, and for heavens sake let the
discussion be short onei lam sure you
will understand how very disagreeable
this tomfoolery is to me under the cir
cumstances. Ever yours,
PERCY THoRoLD."
Eustace Moreton's note was even more
concise:
DEAR GUIsE-l couldn't find you
last night to tell you that want meet
ing of that blessed anti-marriage club
of yours summoned at once I'm going
to offer my heart and hand to somebody,
If you'll kindly allow me. III tell you
all about it when we meet, and hope
none of you will be ill-conditioned
enough to put spokes IN my wheel
After all, it's nobody's business but my
own. Yours in haste,
"EUsTACE MoREToN."
Mr.. Schneider wrote at greater length
and in more carefully chosen language,
and this was what he had to say for
himself
my DEAR LORD GUIsE-When
joined you and our friends, Thorold and
Moreton, some months ago in an agree
ment that we would none of US offer
marriage to a lady without previously
submitting her name for approval to the
other members of our society did not,
/. confess think that should be the first
to claim the requisite permission and
authority. Fate, however, has decreed
that it should be so, and feel sure that
| may count, at least, upon your sane
ton. You may have your own opinion
of the lady in question, and it may not
be all that | (who am possibly little
better acquainted with herr could wish
1t to be; yet it would hardly, think, be
consistent with the views which have
heard you express were you to oppose a
union recommended chiefly, if not solely,
by considerations of worldly prudence
and advantage l will not say more
upon this subject now, as hope to have
an early opportunity of laying my case
before you all
occupied at present, and may at almost
any moment be compelled to go north.
| am therefore most anxious to bring
this matter to an issue as soon as pos
sible, and if you could make it suit your
convenience and that of our friends to
meet me in the course of tomorrow i
should feel greatly obliged. Believe
me, my dear Lord Guise, very truly
yours, 81. SCHNEIDER.
If there was one of these missives
which made Lord Guise laugh more
than another it was the last. Upon what
ladies the choice of Thorold and More
ton had respectively fallen he did not
know, though he had suspicious with
regard to Moreton; but as to Mr..
Schneider's selection he was in no I'M
certainty, and the solemnity Of that gen.
tleman's style delighted him.
81 was sure from the first that there
was no frivolity about Schneider" he
muttered. The people who set him
down as fool will find out their mistake
one of these days. What magnificent
NJ. P. he will make, and what a joke ii
will be if Sybil accepts him! If can
only reconcile it with my conscience to
vote for him Twill certainly do so; but
have duty to perform, and l must not
think selfshly of my own amusement"
In any case the approaching meeting
seemed likely to be an amusing one, and
Lord Guise at once dispatched replies to
his three correspondents, requesting them
to dine with him that evening. His
messenger speedily brought him back
grateful acceptances of his invitations,
so that it only remained to give the nee
essary instructions to the housekeeper.
Lord Guise, when in London, inhabited
a few rooms in the somewhat gloomy
family mansion in Piccadilly, which his
father, who was an old man in failing
health, seldom occupied.
During the season he was supposed
(the supposition was scarcely verified to
take the burden of entertainment off the
ducal shoulders, and the services of the
ducal chef were therefore placed at his
disposition for three months out of the
year Consequently four gentlemen sat
down in the spacious dining room that
evening to a dinner which only one of
them appreciated. The other three were
far too much preoccupied with their
own thoughts to pay any heed to the
fare set before them, and it cannot be
said that their conversation was at all
worth listening to.
As for their host he behaved admira-
bly,, not a smile appearing upon his face,