Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-20

All the young men at the meeting wore
rundown collars, and coats which had
apparently been made for somebody
else.
az shall be delighted" she said, In
her most cordial tone. "Where are you
going, and what are you going to do to
improve met"
"Oh, it's an expedition down salt
mine. We shall have to take you down
in bucket. You won't mind, will
youa" urged the weak-eyed young man
eagerly.
"Not at all, if you will insure the
rope not breaking"
But, all the same, when Thursday
arrived, and Lena found herself alone at
the railway station-for Sir James had a
committee meeting that morning, and
could only join her later IT, the day
she telt somewhat depressed at the
prospect before her. There was large
and somewhat weird-looking crowd on
the platform. A slight drizzle was fall
ing, and the ladies of the party had
unanimously elected to appear in bag
like waterproof garments, though, to be
sure, their male kind ran them hard in
the matter of curious raiment. Most of
the travellers had invested in paper bags
full of Bath buns, for an expedition
with the British Association is generally
fraught with peril in the matter of sup
plies. The weak-eyed young man was
in state of excitement bordering ON
delirium. Lady Loveday sighed as her
eye ran over the mass of pushing, per-
spring, be-mackintoshed human beings
on the platform.
"There isn't soul here that I want to
speak to-" she thought, settling into the
comfortable cornerrlace which the
youthful professor had secured for her;
and then, as her eye caught the square
shouldered back of check-coated man
in the distance, she added, mentally:
"That looks like nice man. His hair
is cut beautifully short, and he's got
brown neck and properly ironed collar.
He reminds me of poor Dick"
But, directly after, the train steamed
out of the station and Lady Loveday's
"reminiscences came to an end. She had
to make conversation with her cicerone
for the day, and whole carriageful of
other people. By the time they had
arrived at the pits mouth and were
waiting their turn to go down, Lena was
not sure that she wanted to engage in
such perilous experiment.
Only quarter of the trainful of peo-
Pile could be accommodated under the
shed which covered the shaft, the rest
were waiting outside. Finally, however,
she was jammed with some seven or
eight other people, including her scienti-
fic admirer. in the baize-covered bucket,
and was emptied out, after an uncanny
descent through black void, into tho
brown walled cavern at the bottom. The
mine had been decorated with thousands
of candles in honor of the event, and each
visitor was provided with a tallow dip
stuck into wooden handle. Down in
the depths of the mine the Scotch pro-
fessor waxed confidential.
"This man is getting BORE" thought
Lady Loveday; ~ must really evade him
and with another turn
of the rock she managed to slip away
from him. Candle in hand, she followed
a group of people in front of her. Pres
ontly one of the party-the young man
whose back she had seen on the platform
stopped, and, with an action which
she recognized at once, struck match,
stopped his head, and lighted a cigarette.
"Why, it is Dick' she murmured;
and just then he turned and saw her.
81 thought you were in-Afghanistan,"
she went on, hurriedly, as he stood gaz-
ing at her.
$50 l have been, for the last two
years. That frontier business took
longer than 1 thought. And youa"
Lady Loveday blushed and looked
down. Here was an adventure after her
own heart. She was curious mixture
of practical worldliness and theoretical
She had liked him, hand
some, penniless Captain Bramwell, more
than any man she had ever known, and
he-well, she was quite aware he had
worshiped the very ground she trod on.
But all that was three years ago, and in
three years there are many changes.
81 saw you the other night" he con-
tinued, presently; ''you came in an aw-
Iuliy 1elCuluR CiOdky Will u Willie, uuuy
thing round your neck. I've been trying
to find you out ever since, but nobody
that asked could tell me anything about
Miss Gardner"
Lady Loveday smiled. He did not
know of her marriage, thena The ca
price took her not to tell him just yet
she wanted, womanlike, to see if he had
remained faithful all these years.
"oh, I'm such an Insignificant person
in the midst of all these bigwigs."
Dick smiled back at her-he had
smile-and they wandered
along together, each with tallow dip
and spluttering, and fitfully
lighting their handsome young faces. She
had not altered one bit, he said; and she
declared he was as brown as Hindoo,
and would have to be scraped white.
Time flies when old lovers meet, and
nearly an hour had gone before Dick had
told her that he had come down to the
association to read paper in the geo.
graphical section. Would she come and