Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

1rnumerdDle nat boxes, bundles or very
English walking sticks and two huge
dogs, she was graciousness personifed.
She thought he was awfully nice, adj
mire1 his huge pair Of reddish brown
whiskers, and wondered If all English
baronets wore such huge blue glasses
and spoke In such muffied tones. She
asked him about il and he remarked:
Jaw, yaas, vewy gweat bore, you know,
vewy-these glawses! Eyes weak and all
that sort o. thing. These Amewican
railways Of yours, you know, vewy twying
dust and all that sort o thing.
Chawming up here, though; awfully
pretty place.
And the baronet made haste to get up
into his room as soon as possible, for he
thought a certain girl had eyed him
rather sharply as he jumped from his trap
to the ground and walked up the piazza
steps.
Gould she have guessed so soon?" he
muttered to himself. ''Gad, mustn' over
act. But how awfulIy pale size looked. |
was brute to force her into that quarrel.
How Miss Aspinwall-Jones laughed when
that Internal pug Of hers b7rked around
me and seemed to know me.
Llckwood's troubles had only begun,
though. When he went down to dinner
that night he found himself seated next to
Adele Van Zlndt
"How love England" she said.
'Roally," be 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 Aspinwall-Jone8, who was eating
her salad comDosedly and with the most
demure air in the world
81 think | saw you there several times,
though l didn't meet you"
''Yaas?"
''Do you stay in England very n1uch?''
she asked
CAL the time-that is, you understand,
when | am not away. Gweat man
Amewicans in London when | left.
'Did you happen to meet Mrs. Van
Rensselaer, there last year,"
''Y las, vewy chawming woman, hand
some and all that don't you know"
ooh, how very nice! She is in Lenox,
and you must see her. I'll ask Mrs.
Aspinwall-J Jones to have her here for
dinner tomorrow Oh, come to think of
it, she will be here tonight at the dance
and I'll be sure that you see her. How
delighted you will be to meet an old
friend"
Lockwood thought that he would be
delighted, but he didu t say SO. He knew
Mrs Van Rensselaer,, to be sure, and he
knew her for a very clever woman.
She had known him ever since he was
small boy, anG he could never hope to
deceire her SO we'll as these people whom
he had just met tlat summer. And he
FASTENED to say that after all be WASH t
quite sure; he met so many Americans
he couldn't possibly remember them all,
and really he wouldn't care to trouble
Miss Van Z ,ndt; ne thought he could get
along very well without bothering her to
hunt up people for him to talk to.
His long head 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 fasten~
ed to his face hurt his ears; he was very
not and altogether the dinner was the
longest he ever went through.
"Oh, Sir Henry" said his fair neigh
bcr presently, what an awful prett, ring" "
and sac looked toward bis left hand at a
handsome seal.
lockwood thought she fingered on the
Sir Henry" with tantaizing emphasis;
looked up quickly and then cursed his
stupidity for leaving that ring on.
"A bad friend this summer who had
one exactly like it. How very odd"
Every, commented Lockwood groan-
ing inwardly. The deuce" he mutfered
she doesn't seem to be feeling very sadly
about this matter. One would think from
that letter of AngeIica's that she was
nearly dead with grief. wish | were we'll
out of this"
He had a suspicion that one side of his
beard was slipped down, and with a
hlmsey excuse he left the table hurriedIy.
Your Englishman is a great bear and
very rude" said Miss Van Zandt to Mrs.
AspinwallJon presently.
You mustn't judge him too off hand"
was the reply, Il have looked him up in
the 'peerage, and he comes from one
of the SWEETEST old families in England
| am very sorry that you do not like
him"
That evening at the dance it was no.
ticed that Sir Henry was very retiring.
and cared very little about meeting peo-
pie, and when Miss Van ZandS brought
him up to Mrs. Van Rensselaer, and
said she would find in him an old friend
she merely laughed and laughed the SUP
posed English man off into the inclosed
piazza.
''What are you trying to do, you ab-
surd boy?' ste said Juggling at his
beard
Don't! Stop! Let ME alone! What do
you mean?' Loo kwood was horrifeu.
But she said she knew him from the
minute he walked across the floor. and
she made him tell her the whole story and
-.
folio we'd at once, for Miss Van Zandt was
soon out on the piazza in place of Mrs
IAN Rensselaer,.
There were once two people who loved
each other very much" he said, but they
had foolish quarrel, at the bottom Of
which was scheming woman who wanted
to do the man wrong In revenge for a
wrong she thought he had done her. And
the girl was very angry and listened to
this woman, and the man went away aud
resolved to keep away. Now suppose the
mani was very sorry and said so, what do
you suppose the girl would say to him %
1t was not Sir Henry Brafordshire speak
ing now, but young Lockwood, and the
English drawlshad changed in some way to
a voice Adele Van Zandt knew well and
had heard before.
If she was very nice girl and really
loved the man, think she would tell him
not to go away again-why, what are you
dolngP What horried brown, nasty
false beard. Oh, you foolish boy! knew
you all the time"
And two items were printed in New
York the next day Sir Henry Barford-
shire has been called back to England by
illness in his family" was one of the m,
and George Lockwood has returned to
Lenox, after a brief stay In Newnnrt. ~