Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-17

| ueiiSnteu VIII tue CATCH she had made. A
real live English baronet, whom her
daughter hao met in Tuxedo last year. was
coming to visit her. 1t was a feather in
her cap. Ard when ''Sir Henry Barford-
shire" made MS appearance one evening in
his travelling suit of tweeds, accompanied
| by two men servants and innumerabIe hat
boxes, bundles of very English walking
sticks and two huge dogs, she was gracious
ness personifed.
She thought he was awfully nice and adj
mired his huge pair of reddish brown whisk.
ers, and wondered if all English baronets
wore such huge blue glasses and spoke in
such muffied tones. She asked him about
it and he rem arked:
Jaw, yaas, vewy gweat bore, you know.
vewy-these ylawsesl Eyes weak and ali
that sort o. thing. These Amewican rail
ways of yours, you know, vewy twying-
dust and all hat sort o. thing. Chawm-
ing up here, though; awfully pretty place -
! And the ba -onet made haste to get ND
| into his room as soon as possible, for he
thought certain girl had eyed him rather
sharply as he jumped from his trap to TIE
] ground anu walked up the piazza steps,
Could she have guessed so soon" he
muttered to himself 'Gadl | mustn't
overact. But how awfully pale she looked.
| was brute to force her into that Quarrel.
How Miss As )inwall-Jones did laugh when
that Internal pug of hers barked around
me and seemed to know me-"
! Lockwood's troubles had only begun
though. When he went down for dinner
that night he found himself seated next to
Adele Van Zandt.
How love England" she said.
Really" he replied in a shaky tone
which was muffied and husky. He feared
every moment she would recognize his
voice. His eyes wandered across the table
TO Miss Aspiuwall-Jones, who was eating
her salad conposedly and with the most
! demure air in the world
Il think saw you there several times.
although / didn't meet you"
''Yaas?"
''Do you stay in England very muchgn
she asked.
'All the time-that is, you understand,
when / am not away. Gweat many Anne
wicans in Lor don when left.'
did you happen to meet Mrs. Van
Rensslaer there last yearf''
''Yaas, vewy chawminC woman. hand
some and all that, don't you know
oh, how very NIGEL She is in Lenox,
and you must see her. rllask Mrs. Aspin-
wall-Jones to have her here for dinner to-
morrow. Oh, come to think of it, she will
he here tonight at the dance, and FIJI be
sure that you see her How delighted YOU
will be to meet an old friend"
Lockwood thought he would be delight
ed, but he Didn't say so. He knew Mrs.
Van Rensslaer, to be sure, and he knew
her for very clever woman.
She had known him ever since he was a
small boy, and he could never hope to de-
ceive her so well as these people whom he
had just met that summer And he has
famed n l,at ko
sure; he met 50 many Americans he could1
possibly remember them all, and really he
wouldn't care to trouble Miss Van Zandt;
he thought he could get along very well
without bothering her to hunt up people
for him to talk to.
His long beard began to trouble him and
he had narrow escapes from pouring soup
down his shirt front instead of his mouth.
and the wires where it was fastened to his
face hurt his ears; he was very hot and al
together the dinner was the longest he
ever went through.
''Oh, Sir Henry" said his fair neighbor
presently, what an awful pretty ring"
and she looked toward his left hand at a
handsome seal.
Lockwood thought she fingered on the
Sir Henry" with tantalizing emphasis;
he looked up quickly and then cursed his
stupidity for leaving that ring on.
II had friend this summer who had
one exactly like it. How very odd!"
''Veryw commented Lockwood, groan-
ing inwardly. The deucer' he muttered
''She doesn't seem to be feeling very sadly
about this matter. One would think from
that letter of Angelica's that she was near
ly dead with grief wish were well out
of this"
He had a sus picion that one side of his
beard was slipping down, and with a fiimsy
excuse he left the table hurriedly
"Your Englishman is great bear and
very rude" said Miss Van Zandt to Mrs
Aspinwall-Jones presently
You mustn't judge him too off hand"
was the reply, II have looked him up in
the 'peerage,' and he comes from one of
the SWEETEST ole families in England. lam
very sorry that you do not like him"
That evening at the dance it was noticed
that Sir Henry was very retiring and cared
very little about meeting people, and when
Miss Van Zandt brought him up to Mrs
Van Rensselaer, and said she would find in
him an old friend, she merely laughed and
logged the supposed Englishman off into
the inclosed piiLzza.
what are you trying to do, you absurd
boy?" she said, Juggling at his beard.
"Don'tl S:opl Let me alonel What do
you meanE LCckWOOQ was nOrrlueu.
But she SAID she knew him from the
minute he walked across the floor, and she
made him tell her the whole story and
gave him some good advice, which he fol-
lowed at once, for Miss Van Zandt was
soon out on the piazza in place of Mrs. Var
Rensselaer,.
"There were once two people who loved
each other very much" he said, "but
they had a foolish quarrel, at the bottom.
of which was a scheming woman who
wanted to do the man wrong in revenge
for wrong she thought he had done her.
And the girl vas very angry and listened
to this woman and the man went away
and resolved to keep away. Now, suppose
the man was very sorry, and said SO, what
do you suppose the girl would say to himi"
1t was not Sir Henry Barfordshire speak
ing now, but young Lockwood, and the
English drawl lad changed 1t some way to
a voice Adele Van Zandt knew well and
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