Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-26
CHAPTER LII.

better acquainted, and they began talk
iDgin the most amicable manner.
CHAPTER III.
Before coming in sight OF the hotel
Mosely excused himself and went on be-
fore, saying that they would in this way
be moro likely TO save her evergreens.
She WAS glad 10 be rid Of him now,
and could not help admiring his sdcofr-
fgire in leaving her, for she could see
that his reason for so doing was desire
10 shield her from the embarrassment
arising from her going to the hotel with
stranger. She watched him as he
swung off up tho path, admiring his
manly form and long, easy strides, while
faint flush crept into her cheeks.
When she came TO the hotel quarter
OF an hour after she was walking along
as demurely and quietly as If young gen
tlemen finding maiden5 asleep in the
woods and restoring lost articles Of dress
were things totally unheard OF.
Her father vas seated on the veranda
behind the screen Of Virginia creepers
that was trained from the ground to the
roof, reading his paper, and che paused
TO speak TO him rs she was going up to
her room. While she and her father
were talking Mosely came up. He had
long had business acquaintance with
Colonel Reid and was surprised when he
came back to the hotel few moments
before TO meet him. and was still more
! astOnished now to know that his sylvan
acquaintance wss the daughter of the
rich Fauquier farmer.
SO far a. personal appearances were
concerned Mr.. Florin was certainly not
calculated to call up the green-eyed
monster in the breast OF respectable
rival. He was one Of numerous class,
n class which we perhaps all know, and
maybe some OF us love, though this is
hnrdly probable. He wore his bat on
the back of his head. His hair, tawny
he called it, tho vulgar called 1t OF dol
cate straw color, was banked low on his
forehead ; his ears were seriously
threatened by the linen stockado about
his neck a four-in-hand of palest blue
Ito match his eyes was exquisitely
knOtted at his throat dark coat, tight
rs the skin, was on bis back, while his
lower limbs were inside OF pair OF
trousers that contained several times
more cloth than necessary, and whose
combination of stripes gave them the
voice of stage-horn. On his feet were
dainty pair Of tan-cOlored shoes, tooth
pick cut. But | have described his
dress first Well, it really doesn't mat
ter Persons most familiar with this
genus homo aver that this is of infinitely
greater importance than anything else
about them.
"My daughter Diana, Mr.. Mosely,"
said Colonel held.
The young man bowed and murmured
his pleasure as though they met for the
first time, But Diana colored vivldly and
not once did she lot her eyes meet his.
She soon ran off to her room, and though
Mosely watched long and eagerly for
her she did not appear during the
evening, and he retired in bad humor.
The next morning he rose early, and
when he was returning from constitu-
tional two hours later he saw a young
lady whom he recognized as his sleeping
Diana of the day before seated with o
young gentleman on a rustic bench
beneath n large elm in the park. A
strange feeling of jealousy came over
him as he saw her III apparently such a
close tete-a-tete with gentleman. They
were quite near the walk, and when he
came opposite them he paused and
spoke. Miss Reid returned his greeting
with quite d1gnifed air and introduced
her companion, MIR. Florin. and Mosely
was ashamed of his jealousy Of few
moments before.
Mr.. Florin's face and form were very
striking. His eyes we're of the palest
azure common people called them
washed-out blue 10y his friends his nose
was termed piquantly retrouSsc (you
and would say "snubbed v, and his
skin was beautifully transparent you
could see his bones through 1t. His
tight-ftting coat would have made HIM
look SIX inches taller than he really was,
and his wide trousers az much shorter I;
but as he never appeared IN public with
out the one or the other his height was
not affected 10y his dress, and he looked
TO be six feet nine inches He was very
thin. 50 much so that he often expert
enccd difficulty i'll locating bodily pains.
For instance, he often found it hard to
tell whether O certain pam was caused
by the failure of his dinner to digest or
an affection of his backbone. lie was
very wise, too. In fact. he often thought
that what he didn't know was outside Of
the possibility or necessity OF hearing
told of.
But above all he was rich, or his father
was. which signifies the same thing.
They owned ol-wells in Pennsylvania
which often ran thousands OF dollars
while Mr.. Florin, Jr., was parting his
hair. He had been very devoted to
Diana during the month he had known
her. and to her face her friends congratu-
lated her on her splendid catch, and be-
hind her back called her an artful, de-
signing piece and said it was outrageous
the way she had entrapped him.