San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-13

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on the stairs!'
Here Frances ventured tosuggest that
the fracture might have been equally
well attended to by some other medical
mana remark Mrs. Smith negatived at
once, with a very knowing shake of the
head. Then she resumed the converse.
ton by reverting TO the topic which was
never far from her thoughts.
at so happened that Johnny came
home today, him and his great friend,
Mr.. Josselyn. They've been travelling
together on the Continent ever since
they left college. We couldn't leave
them at home alone the very first even
ing, so,we took the liberty of bringing
them with us. Why, here they are, ]
declare, and your ma too"
Frances said Mrs. Lisle, II want to
introduce Mr.. John Smith, Junior, to
you, and his friend, Mr.. Josselyn-my
eldest daughter, Miss Lisle-"
Mrs. Lisle then sank into the chair by
Mrs. Smith which Frances vacated, and
left the girl face to face with two young
men. One tall, fair and distinguished
looking, the other short and dark, with
clean shaven, clever face, and wear
ing double eyeglasses. The latter began
the conversation, as his friend stood by,
twirling his long, fair mustache in some
slight embarrassment. After exchang-
ing few commonplace, Frances seized
an opportunity to move on and speak to
other visitors. As soon as she was out
of hearing, the tall young man caught
his friend by the arm. by JoVe, Jack,
isn't she lovely girl! We haven't seen
a face like that in all our travels. What
a shapely head-what rich, auburn hair!
Did you ever see more liquid brown
eyes? and the lashes are
But his rhapsody was cut short by his
companion turning on his heel with a
muttered "Humph! Proud as Luciferr
Presently Frances came close, to her
father, who was talking to tall, stout,
broadly built man, with thick, curly
gray hair and very red face.
Eyes, DOCTOR" he was saying, hes
fine young fellow and I'm very glad and
proud for Jack to have such a friend.
Oh. yes, he's the wrangler-'Erbert John
Moreton Josselyn. Capital name. isn't
it? Now think a good, high sounding
name is fine thing for a man. Look at
me-'John Smith might be anybodv-or
nobody. That's why have the 'Trew.
SON in the firm. When a man hears
Smith and Trewson' he knows all about
me-and that's what | like. But, bless
you, there isn't any "Trewson' at all
really-it was my good wife's maiden
name. When We began business to-
gether we were Smith and Trewson.
you see. Then there's my boy-hes
John Smith too; his mother would
have it so, bless her-plain John Smith
had been good enough for his father and
ought to be for him. | wanted to put
in the 'Trewson,' bnt she wouldn't hear
of it. Then | thought I'd call him
'Wolvercourt,' after his godfather, our
good parsOn,-a real gentleman, and no
mistake-but there again the missis,
dear soul, didn't like to for fear the old
gentleman should think it presuming on
his kindness. Wish we had now, you
know. John Smith isn't the name to
carry a man into parliament. But there,
some day he shall buy big estate
somewhere and call himself after it if
he likes. After all, it isn't the name
that matters so much as the amount of
backing up you can give it,"
by the way, Mr.. Smith" interrupted
the doctor, Il should like to introduce
you to Mr.. acknowledgements Fitz-
hardy, you know-he is very much in
terested in the society we were talking
about just now; in fact, l believe he is
one of the honorary secretaries"
"Oh, indeed" replied Mr.. Smith.
"Fitzhardy - Fitzhardy - no, | don't
know the name. | once knew a Mac
hardy, fellow who served in our shop.
and he ran away with
"Mr. Augustus Fitzhardy is the editor
of The Worldwide.
Indeed! All, you see, I'm not much
of newspaper reader, don't go in for
politics and that kind of thing like a
good novel when business is over,
but
"Oh," put in DIR: Lisle meekly, lit
isn't a newspaper, it's a magazine-a re-
view-the cEief literary organ
But Frances would hear no more; she
sought out her bosom friend.
Frances" said that young lady,
"who is that delightfully."- handsome
young man | saw you talking to just
now? There was little dark man with
him whose face interested me very
much
at must have been Mr. John Smith,
Junior, and his friend, Mr.. Josselyn,"
said Frances.
"Josselyn-what Josselyn? | wonder
il he belongs to the Sussex family. One
of them was fourth wrangler last year.