Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-21

was not so precipltate as his alNa@. ssssfi sJ5IIi
and, ID consequences more than fortnight
c4apsed before he found it necessary to try
change Of air.
Lady Bagshot was quite bewildered whel
she learned that Evangeline had rejected til,
marquis She didn't express her disapprovalt,
the young lady, but rushed OF &c her husband
TO acquaint him with her disappointment.
II thought it was as good as settled, sh,
said "she seemed to like him so much. VIVA
can she meang There was duke who Car
she be thinking of the duke the only mar
riageable duIeg"
Sir Henry Bagshot laid down the paper h,
was reading and looked at his WIFE
Have you seen The Times" he said Their
he pointed to a column, and Lady Bagsnot
reading, saw tho connection of ideas a great
! cyclone had swept over some Of the western
states of America, causing immense damage
lives had been lost; property TO the amount
Of millions of dollars had been destroyed
| Gettysburgville had been almost completely
destroyed, the inhabitants escaping only with
their lives. Thousands had been reduced
from opulence to absolute want.
"Thet may be very serious piece of news
for our young FRIEND" said Sir Henry
gravely
"Her money comes chiefly from real es-
tate" said Lady Bagshot; she told me SC
once Real estate means houses, doesn't It'll
And if Gettysburgville is all blown down,
she may have lost everything"
THAT is hardly probable sdid Sir Henry,
"but she must have lost q good deal, I should
think. And then, with her expensive habits,
and you know how she's been taken up y i
A dethroned hciressn-
"Oh, WONDER sighed her ladyship, "if
we could contrive to get the marquis back.
He never reads the papers, or anything else,
and he mayn't have heard of itn
"You must break the news to her, - said the
baronet, inwardly glad that the disagreeable
task couldn't be assigned to him. Lady Bag
shot read the column through half dozen
times in the vain attempt to extract some
spark of comfort, or at least of hope, from it.
Then, the paper still in her hand, she went to
the room where Evangeline was writing.
"This is a dreadful piece of news, my dear, .
she said, "but don't be frightened, Things
may not be so bad as they look These news
: paper correspondents exaggerate dreadfully.n
Miss Short read the telegram, and looked
grave.
"What a dreadful calamityln she said
"And Washington street, where We stayed,
quite destroyed. 1t was really fine street,
too.n
Lady Bagshot saw that the personal aspect
of the calamity had not dawned on the mex
perienced young girl
''Will you lose much2n she said
"I37 said Evangene ooh, no mamma and
Aunt Lydia are at Newport"
81 meant in property-your real estate"
The young lady sprang up and rushed to
the window. When she turned round again
her face was scarlet.
Lady Bagshot, ?" she said, 81 have con
fessioh to make l have been deceiving you
don't belong to Gettysburgville was only
there about q month; haven't any property
thero.n
"Then you are not rich, as everybody sup
poses?' said Lady Bagshot
Excuse me-" said the young lady with an
almost imperceptible shade of hauteur in her
tone. 81 do not know what people have been
good enough to suppose about my circum.
stances. l am not responsible for their sup.
positions. But l imagine / may call myself
rich, for have got things as | wanted them,
and have never spent more than q small part
of my income
Lady Bagshot looked little treasured.
Chow then have you been deceiving me,
my dear3" she asked.
Evangeline smiled little, and looked CON
fused 81 am not an American" she said,
"and l let you think was"
mot an Americanln gasped tho elder lady.
Surprise almost oyercame her.
mo" was the reply, II have been in
America, that is all. | am really q cockney
born within the sound of Bow Bells, and the
money l have was made in London
"You said something about oil, y remarked
her ladyship, still bewildered.
81 was right, said the young lady, calmly
"Not oil wells, however, but oil shops There
are l don't know how many of them, from
Hornsey to Peckham, and from Poplar to
Shepherds Bush"
~ don't know where those places are!" in
terrupted Lady Bagshot, feebly
"Well, yon know Kensington; there's one
there-Hilton Basset e. Short; you may sec
the name over the window My poor papa
was the Short. He was the Basset and the
Hilton, too, for that matter. 1t is limited
liability company row, and / hold nearly
half the shares. Then papa built q lot of
houses between Bow and Stratford. You
won't know whore those places are, but the
rental of those houses comes to something
considerable
But why did you pretend to be an Ameri-
cans" inquired Lady Bagshot, duly impressed
by Evangelines last words
The young lady was silent for a little while
ut was an idea that came to me- she said
She was again silent, her cheeks coloring
Then she went on:
Listen, Lady Bagshot You have been
very kind to me, and l will tell you all about
it. After papa died, mamma and lived in
our new house at Leytonstonc. You must
come and see it some day We didn't see
many people, and l used to read a lot of
noves-society novels, you know. And l |
used to think how nice it must be to be in So
ciety, and to meet such nice men, so hand |
some and refined and interesting. But l |
didn't see how to manage it, and mamma |
didn't know anything about it either. Then |
we went TO America to see married sister of |
hers-Aunt Lydia, you know; and while we
were there met young lady belonging to
the place who had been in London, and had |
mixed with lot of very nice people. 1t is so
easy for Americans whoever they are-rich |
Americans, | mean. Then l thought that l |
you know what happened, Lady Bagshot. |
Tho worst of it was l had TO leave poor |
mamma on tho other side; she couldn't pass
for an American, she drops her his Now, |
ctlh you forgive nae?'
Forgive your said her ladyship II love |
you very much indeed. OF course | am sorry |
that you are a-that you are not an Ameri |
can, but that can't be helped. ! must tell |
Sir Henry; he viii enjoy the joke immensely. I
How did you manage it so cleverlyp l
"Oh, said the young lady, Il tried to get .
the accent as well as / coRld. And l wrote |
out lists of American words, with the English /
opposite, you know; "bootlacen -- shoe .
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