The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-08-26

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place. The inmate, a young man
wrapped to his ears in q huge coat
lined with sables, remained inside his
carriage until the fOotman's bell ring
had been answered. Then he lightly
bounded forth upon the pavement and
ran up the stooP into the open doorway,
which was Immediately closed behind
him by another footman inside the hall.
rs everything ready, Jameson?"
Eyes, SIR replied the man, as his
young master slipped out of the coat and
let its big, sumptuous bulk drop into
this third servants waiting arms A
large mirror CLEANED opposite the form
which had thus lightly unsheathed it
self, and its POssessor, A1onzO LisPen-
ard. gave q saucy stare at his own pre-
sentiment. He saw a man in the later
twenties, OF excellent height and build,
though of mcager personal beauty.
Bronze eyes, with merry spark in
them, and waved hair of silky yellow
did their best to keep the face from be
ing. commonplace. An impudent nose
aided it-a nose with an airy, upward
slant and little arches to flank either
nostril. Some of Alouzo's friends used
to say that this feature accounted for
many of his audacities.
"Oh ] think III do" he exclaimed,
half to himself and half, as it were, to
- Jameson, who grinneG screnely. IF
they don't like me this way they'll have
to take me all the same" He wheeled
round on one heel and hurried to the
staircase He had reached the middle
of il, taking two steps at a time, when
he suddenly paused and called over one
shoulder.
"Ohi Jameson, are the carpet and the
awning out there? I forgot to notice"
''No, sir; not yet. But they're sure to
be in time, Mr.. Lispenard-"
AlOuzo frontcd the speaker and shook
with vchcmencc an appraised foTeanger.
Nov, jameson" ne cried, IF anything
goes wrong to-day you'll not forget it
till your dying hour. To say that you'll
merely be discharged isn't anything.
III have Won traced by detectives to the
Uttcra0st parts of the earth, and the
instant you try to get a new place
they'll prevent you."
lie sprang upstairs again, still two
steps at time, w'ile jameson watched
him with eyes that twinlzlcd fondly.
just as he disappeared the new English
valet, Fletcher, sauntcrcd from back
regions. This person had a sneer on
his clcan-shOrn upper lip as he muttered
to jameson:
'.Wel, if he amt one o. the regular
bloomin', iah-de-dah, striIse-ye-with-a-
feather kind! / wonder how you could
stand him for 50 long n time. l begin
20 be pretty sure that l can't"
Jameson colorcd and scovlcd. He
greatly liked his young master. To
was no doubt effeminate. He often
chose to use the treble notes OF voice
that was not devoid of bass ones, and
he gave to his body too mercurial
tWirl, to his shoulders a too facile
shrug. His laugh had sometimes u
girls own shrillness, and he sometimes
used his hands in gestures that were so
many challenges to dignity. But those
who knew him best knew him for an
athlete of skill n rider of pluck, a keen
sportsman when lazincss let him shoot
or hunt, and n mental force replete
with every opposite of wOmanish trends
and tastes,
The new valet had been in office
hardly n week yet, and here was not
the first slUr that his feliow-servants
had heard fall from his lips. He ha6
chosen a dangerous atmosphere in
which to vent his aversion, and this
fact was soon made clear to him in ne
careful terms.
Look out, my young sprig of con
cCit," Erowled Jameson, whose gray
touched little thiclzcts of side-whislsei
seemed to bristle as he spoke, sol
you'll find that the gent you've en-
gagged with IL send you flynn befor,
you've had the chance to give warnin,
And without n RECOMMENDATION, too
Yes, sir; you needn't look sour and up
pish. Mr. Lispeuard won't mind that
If you take him for what you've JUS
called him you'll get so left You Won
know Monday from Saturday week"
Thc.ncw valet (vvho was thought L
wear stays) put a neat white hand OF
either hip. He had been in this coun
try three or four years, and had Learned
not 70 squonder his his. But in the ex
citement of repartce he now forsook
few of them. With "bioomin',
"blarsted," and an occasional bloody
as his recurrent adjectives, he declared
himself anxious to learn of Jameson
why he so-admired Mr.. Lispenartl. AnC
Jameson swiftly told him.
Hes got his harum-scarum ways,
announced the butler in tart semi
tone, but he's every inch a gentleman
behind EN-. His fooiin's only like tn
white OF an egg with big yoliE to it
When / was sick in the hospital, tyy,
years ago, he went to see me twice
q week and put me in a room that must q
cost him q hundred dollars a month /
it cost a cent. The man that was her
just before You got drunk three time
and was forgiven, and at last, when tn
rascal stole a scarfpin worth sevcnt
dollars, he got his discharge, but Nh
E4ispenard shook him by the hand-yes
sir-before he quilted these doors wit
his dirty feet, and told him that b
hoped with all his soul not goin' t
prison this time would teach him
lesson for the rest of his life. Thin
Q that, when the police was spoilin' 10
the mean devil, and Mr. Lispenar
could n had him sent up by the way
of finger. And he gives to the poor
Lord, sir! I've seen him bring tramp
into this very hall that made me itch {
look at EN- And / don't itch easy
neither" pursued Jameson, with
fresh scOwl meant to De deeply angus
in its convincing agency Meanwhil
the object of this eulogiuH (which wen
flowing on, to the mingled surprise an
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