The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-23

that the two children were left together
to make friends, which they speedily did,
and as soon as the mullins had been con-
sumed Lady Ella took her visitor off to
the stable yard to show him her dogs and
her rabbits and her Shetland pony. He
was much interested in the latter, as we'll
as in the groom who conducted them into
the other stalls and loose boxes, and
whom he addressed with good deal more
respect and reverence than he had dis
played when talking to Lady Winch
combe.
THAT is what / am going to be-" he in
formed the little girl contidentialy when
they had left the stables; Il am going to
be q groom"
her eyes and surveying him with touch
of disdain; why. thought you were GO
ing to be a pianist. You don't know any,
thing about horses, do your
Not yet, but can learn. OF course
shan't begin by being groom; shall be
a stable boy at first. In fact-ths is a
great secret, you know. but don't mind
telling you'll mean 70 run away. / have
got lot of money, and | shall take the
train to London tonight and be lost. Once
l am there l shall get situation easily
enough"
lie proceeded to state the reasons which
had caused him 10 decide upon this some
WiAt HtSAfdpus sttpt anu very good rca-
sons they were, as his nearer was fain to
admit. 1t was a melancholy tale that the
poor little fellow had To tell, and he told il
with pathos W hlch was all the more touch
ing because he evidently regarded his hard
ships rs nothing so very out of The ordinary.
Only he had come 10 the conclusion that
il wasn't worth while 10 submit To- them
any longer. Lady Ella, who was a high
couraged child. and perhaps rather a
spoilt one into the bargain, was moved to
tears of Indignation by this artless ac-
count OF the brutaiites OF a drum ken father
and of the desperate WEAKNESS engen-
dered by what. to the outer world might
have looked like series of brilliant arts
tic triumphs; but what reused her ire
more than all the rest put together was
Francs matter-of-course statement that
he never practiced less than eight hours A
day. That. Is seemed 10 her, revealed a
state OF things not to be borne hy man or
mouse. She had never been whipped in
her life, and probably thought she was
pain: but she did know what practic-
ing scales for an hour a day meant. and
she hated II. As for going through that
terrible drudgerv during eight mortal
hours-not while there were laws in the
land and determined persons ready 10 set
them in motioni
Now. it was evident that she herself
lacking In determination. was hardly the
proper person 20 invoke the all Of the law =.
in tact. a. a matter of detail she did not
quite know how 10 set about il t'onse-
Quept,y she lost no time III appe alin, to
one in whose power II 10 anything and
everything that justice might require she
felt almost A. uno0uDdet a confidence "a
she dad IN the queens. Ia the course of
their tax the children hal strotle4 into
the rose garden, where Lady W!uchcan he
was AZ that moment wandering about with
basNe and pair OF scissors. anu before
Franz could check his companion she had
rushed M ~ her mother and had poured
forth = rapid resume OF his wrongs. not
forgetting 10 mention his proposed blight
and AS project II turning himself into 3
stable Roy.
Good gracious re," calculated the
cood-nstuvei lady. "A stable boz. in
deed! never heard Of such thing
but iny dear child. yoa don; dislike mu-
SIC. do ypu Pc
M" answered Franz II DON'T dislike
IL used - love Il once, ne added rather
wISttu5iy
'of course you did. and - YOU will
again when yo0 have hal liifls rest
keSi - Anai you want. AMI resi- you shat.
have, promise yea. Now go INTO the
house WIKI t.ts, ami dom tax any more
about running away. Yea are going 70
stsy the night re-c. AMI presently / ~ii
send down IN tas note. for your things.
Then nil see yous father aud make ar
RAJ @rnlents N.ta hsU. Il Nia tie all right.
- don bother yaur head about II until !
te. yOG waAt has been <ett.tt"
Lady W;nchCoo9e Vas i.uuG ssye and
.1tAorltajlve. lals Nas sAAs her LADY,
sa,ps local lawyer gave her - unierstan !
IA respectful and Ci-cQi:0us lsncusre
y rem she SEMI t0r Aiu 2a4 informed MIN
'sag she hai U&de CP her nlnd 20 adopt
tae y Gs!ca mouse The .lwYer thought
j taas taere "oa4d Ike i .sicu les Aaa con-
siderable expenses attendant upon The mo-
lo>ti Transaction; ae a.ao Vcu.urei 90
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