The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-12-03

not a bed In the house. Every Granny
has been filed. It never occurred to me
that we had not room for your friend,
now that he is kind enough to come.
And it looks SO, rude, when it is so ex-
ceedingly good natured Of him to come
at all" s4
"Oh, deari anywhere will dol" said.
There is not even room for Ralph in
the house." continued Sir George. Il
have put him up at the lodge" pointing
to a small house at the end of the drive,
near the great entrance gates. ''There
is another nice little room leading out of
his" he added, hesitating-"but really
I don't like to suggest"
"Oh, that will do perfectly" l broke
in. ''Carr is not the sort Of fellow to
care straw how he is put up. He will
be quite conter5 anywhere.
'Come and see it," he said, leading the
way out of doo4 ). II would have turned
out Charles in moment an given Carr
lis room; out Denis is really rather i'll
and Charles sees to. him, as he is next
door"
Icould not help saying how much /
liked Charles.
strangers always do" he replied cold
ly, as we walked toward the lodge 81
constantly hear him spoken Of as a most
agreeable young man."
"And he is SO handsome"
"l'es," replied Sir George, in the same
hard tone, handsome and agreeable. /
have no doubt he appears so to others;
but !. who have had to pay the debts
and hush up the scandals Of my hand
some and agreeable son, find Ralph, who
has not feature in his face, the best
looking Of the two. / know Charles is
head over ears in debt at this moment,
butn-with sudden acrimony-'h viii
not get another farthing from me. 1t Is
pouring water into sieve"
"Ralph is marrying a sweetly pretty
creature" said, with warmth, DESTROYS
Of changing the subject.
eyes, she is very pretty" said Sir
George, without enthusiasm. "But I
wish she had belonged to one Of our
county families. It is nothing in the
way Of connection. She has no relations
to speak of-one uncle living IN Aus
tralia, and another, whom she goes to ON
Saturday, In Ireland. There seems to be
no money either. It is Lady Mary's do
ing. She took fancy to her abroad;
and, to say the truth, I did not wish to
object, for at one time there seemed to
be an attraction between Ralph and his
cousin Evelyn Derrick, which his aunt
and Iwere both glad to think had passed
over. / do not approve CT Marriages be.
tween cousins"
We had reached the lodge by this
time, and / was shown tidy little room
leading out of the one Ralph was occu-
plying, in which I assured Sir George
that Carr would be perfectly oomforta-
bic, much to the courteous old gentle
mans relief, though 1 could see that he
was evidently annoyed at not being able
to put him up In the house.
In the afternoon, toward 8 O'Clock,
Carr arrived. I went into the hall to
meet him and to bring him into the
drawing room myself. just as we came
In, and while I was introducing him to
Sir George, Ralph and Aurelia, who
were sitting together as usual, started a
lovers squabble.
"Oh myt" said Ralph, suddenly.
eft is all your fault. You logged my
elbow" came Aurelia's quick .rejoinder.
"My dearest love, I did not, !" returned
Ralph on his knees, pocket handkerchief
in hand.
It appeared that between them they