The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-05-22

she behaves properly" at which every
body laughed and the table remained as
| it was.
Clever little Mrs. Traffordl For the
natural consequence of her mistake"
was that Mr.. De Lisle confined all his at
tentions to Miss Julia and left his sister
| to be kind and encouraging to Mr..
O'Hagan. Consequently Julia had very
! good time and showed to her best advant-
age, and before the ladies left the table
she had heard great piece of news from
Gerard
You know the Manor Lodge. don't you.
Miss Trafford?" he said.
THE Manor Lodge" she repeated.
"No, / don't think do. Who lives there|
''Well, nobody has lived there for long
time, never since i can remember" he an
swered.
''Oh. the old house on the Appleton-roa d
yes, know. What of it?''
"It is let-or rather sold.'
"You don't say so. And who has bought
it?"
GA Mr.. Markham, an Australian. He
is going to spend lot of money over it
and means to live there as soon as it can
be got ready Meantime, he has taken
Brentwood Hall for six months"
Really, you don't say so. Are they
nice people, do you Think"
Eyes, think so. His wife is very
pretty, gentle, lady-like kind OF woman
and they both seem uEcommonly keen on
hunting. They are going to fit the stables
up in superb style" a
"And have they already come to Brent
wood?"
II think not They come next week,
believe
81 wonder what made them think of
coming to Blankhampton," said Julia,
wonderingly. ''They must have been
very much charmed with the Manor
Lodge to take so much trouble over it,
There must be plenty of houses to be had
in good hunting centres which would be
ready for them to walk right into"
Eyes, but Mrs. Markham took a fancy
to this place, the moment she saw it she
turned round to him and said Bob! must
have this place at any price,
"And were you there?" asked Julia,
who was astounded to hear of the great
Adonis having personally to do with so
common matter as house-showing.
81? Oh no! &But we have all Mr.. Bel
lairs' affairs in our hands and one of our
young clerks went over the place with
them. Lob, no! Well, saw them when
they came to talk over terms and that sort
of thing"
81 see. Well, I suppose said Julia.
that everybody will be very glad to have
the Manor Lodge occupied again. Idon't
know that it will make much difference
to us, for my mother is always talking
about leaving Blankhampton and settling
in town. So one of these days, daresay,
we shall take flight and her threate nings
will become reality"
''In that case Btankhampton will miss
you dreadfully," said Mr.. De Lsle, gal
lantly.
Really! All, | don't know. We are
but outcasts here, Mr.. De Lisle, strangers
and pilgl ms, you know Now il the De
Lisles VIZ re o berake themselves away it
would be looked upon i'll the light of a
public calamity, for you have been here
for hundreds and hundreds of years,
haven't you?"
eve have been a long time in the place.
it is true" answered he who did not feel
inclined to tell her that his great grand
father was he first or his name who had
part or lot IN th old city and that he, as
matter of fact, mad come straight from
his natlYe TAI N 10 De apprentlced to
BlankhampCol tradesman
All: dear, dna~, il is ut times very con
venient to be what Julia described as
''outcasts," strangers, and pilgrims"
and so OMIT enables you to talk about
my people" III way that does not sound
pretty when you have been mixed up with
place for three or four generations and
everybody knows exactly who and what
my people" are.
''You seemed" said Mrs Trafford to
Julia, when the company had gone, ito
get ON very we'll tonight with Mr.. De
Lisle.'
ooh, yes, pretty WELL" answered Julia
''But all the same don't care much about
him, he does fancy himself SO enormous
ly. By-the-by, did anybody tell you about
the Manor Lodge?" n
mo, not word; what about it?" Mrs.
Trafford answered. ga
And then Julia repeated all the infor-
| nation that Gerard De Lisle had given her
about Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Markham and
| what they meant to do with the long un-
| inhabited Manor Lodge.
ITO be conttnued.)