The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-09-04
HER COUNTRY COUSIN.
How Nick Weybridge Got Out of
Bad Scrape

You see il all happened this way:
Nick Wcybridge had been waiting at
the Grand Central depot for the arrival
of the western express, by which was
"a q due his old .chum. Reggie Bell. The
3Jb express arrived up To time, but with no
Reggie therein. At which collapse of
plans Nick, nightly wroth, strobe for
the street, with hands showed deep in
his trousers pockets and his chin stuck
out squarely In front Of him like the
jaw of a surly bulldog, muttering
strong words about that Bell
What's that about BELIEF" huted
forth "a sudden sweet voice SullSy
Nick looked up and beheld two big vel.
vcty brown eyes smiling into his--eyes
belonging to face that Greuze would
have loved to paint, with its dainty
oval its peach bloom cheeks, and its
hair whose silken net seemed to pos
p scSs "a magical attraction for gadding
sunbeams. The owner of the eyes and
voice was TO use the language of art,
study in black and white; TO speak
plainly, a young woman ooquettishly
arrayed in widows semi-mourning
What's that about Belle? Don't
you blame me, sir. Why. it's all your
own fault, you horrid, impatient boy!
Here you are, calmly strolling off into
could find you, and you look as sulky
a. bear with a sore head, tool"
Nicl<s only answer To all this was
blank stare.
Why, what's the natter" she went
,rtes on. You don't seem To know your
.NaI own cousin2' Then, with charming
pout; I'm surely not grown so very
old and hideous Mort that you can't
recognize me-" r,
Here was evidently big blunder.
Deceived by some resemblance in fea-
Il turc. and mislcd by the chance remark
about Bell which she had overheard
and which she took as an alusion to
herself, this charming stranger had
mistaken Nick for some western cousin
she had come to meet Now. II the
tempted one-for the girl was really
uncommonly pretty-had been a
straight walking, sober-minded young
n "a NJ man with modicum of conscience he
y ke tNYepid have fonted the temptation and
set the lady right with polite bow
y and explanation; she would have apol-
N ~ ogized-as IL there were any need for
GIi apology bowed, blushed and fed and
Nick would have seen her face no more,
which would have been a great pity.
SO he, who in nowise resembled tho
aforesaid straitlaccd, sober minded
Hpuik maui having ITO CouSClcHCe 10
speak OF. and being endued with a fore
head of bronze aud the tongue of the
old serpent. after the first shock DELHI
erately mp and spake:
a asa .Well, any dear as calmly as il he
had known her from a child, IL waited
and waited. and not seeing you, con-
clpded you wasn't going TO turn up.
ofl tButi'm awful gladto see yoti" Which
~ ~ fwastruc cas- for your changing, why,
never saw you look SO pretty in all
my life" And, this statement also was,
a. Chadband has IT, herewith indeed"
you were very impatient though,
"a, Mort--and stupid, too. SO there! But
80 M forgive you, dear Where's your
~ luggage?' ~ - a
''Oh, that'll be sent on after"
"Well, come along then; the carriage
is waiting"
''Whew!" whistled Nick under his
breath. The carriage is waiting, eh?
This il high-hyer and no mistake.
Wonder who the deuce she is-for that
matter who am |, too? she's thor
oughbrei, evidently; s'pose the dear
defunct' was some bloated old bond
~ holder who married her for the sake of
her face by Jove. a spanking turnout,
too. Shall back out heres May turn
a.