Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-04-23

of fortune, Kate Grahame possessed
great personal beauty and disposition
SO swee. that she was the idol of the
Balderstone household, from the gentle
schoolmistress herself down to the boy
in buttons, who worshiped the young
lady from afar rs some being even
more glorious than the radiant fairies
he had seen in the pantomine from the
gallery Mt Drury Lane theater.
The mornings task was over, and the
girls were preparing for their usual
promenade in the park, when groom
wearing the Scarborough livery
dashed up to the door and handed the
neat maidservant letter for Miss
Balderstone which he asserted required
an immediate answer, and then, as II
struck with an afterthought, produced
another addressed to Miss Grahame.
The schoolmistress' brow clouded as
she perused the lines addressed to her.
Lady Scarborough presents her kind
regards to Miss Balderstone and would
be exceedingly obliged if she would call
upon her this afternoon Mt three o'clock
to meet Miss Grahame and discuss q
matter of the deepest consequence.
"Well, my Lady Scarborough" Miss
Balderstone muttered to herself, II did
not think even your chronic impudence
| would have carried you rs far as that"
and forthwith in little flutter OF indig-
nation she ran to her desk and penned
the following caustic reply:
miss Balderstone presents her kind
regards to Lady Scarborough and she
will be Mt home Mt three o'clock this af-
ternoon, when she will be glad to rec
ceivc her ladyship and Miss Grahame to
discuss the matter of consequence al
luded to in"
She had just got thus far with her let
ter when the door was burst open and
Kate Grahamc, wild with grief. flung
herself into the teachers arms.
"Oh, / shall die! l shall die" she
moancd. 1.-The dearest, llindest, noblest
friend-Miss Dalderstonc, he is dcad!"
The gentle lady soothed the girls
passionate outbreak of grief. and she
had no hesitation in taking from her
unresisting hand letter which she
read with much surprise and disgust.
"DEAR KATE; YOU will be shocked to hear
| that my brother Sir Harry Grahamc, died OF
Jungle fever on tho 9th OF january last et hlst-
| nun, o town In the Ghauts mountains. inc dli-
fculty Of communication prevented the sad
news reaching US ut IN earlier date Lady scar
borough agrees with me that under the circum-
stances you had better delay your preparations
for leaving Miss Baldcrstonc for tho present
| Yours SINCERELY, HoNoRIA GRAHAME."
what does it all mcan?" Miss Bladder
stone asked herself. "But," she added,
II will soon know" and, not trusting
herself again with pen, she sent q
verbal message that she would wait on
Lady Scarborough at the hour men
toned in her letter, breach OF social
etiquette which caused that grand per-
sonage much righteous Indignation.
When, however, Miss Balderstone's
neat brougham drew up ut the door of
Scarborough house, the respondent hall
porter, on reading her card, confessed
that ser led'ship his at 'ome" and called
q footman to summon the groom OF the
chambers to conduct her to the blue re-
ception room.
Both of Harry Grahame's sisters were
in mourning-not, of course, in grand
state, but in the embryo modification
of Grape and cashmere.
$50 good of you to come" simpered
Honoria.
''For of course we could not leave the
house to call on you," my lady OK
planned.
But Miss Balderstone cut their COM
pliments short by abruptly stating
s'thnt her visit must be brief, as Kate
Grahame was in no condition to be left
in the charge Of servants"
"What" Lady Scarborough ex-
claimed. ''Kate I'LL What in the name
of goodness is the matter with her?
She seemed to me to be particularly ro-
bust and healthy"
''You cannot expect q high-strung,
sensitive girl to receive such COM
municntion as yours without being
Frustrated" Miss Balders.one said, in
dignantly.
''Oh," Miss Honoria shifted, 81 sup
pose you think she ought to have been
shown moro consideration, but you are
not acquainted with oil the particulars
of my dear brothers. sad death"
''Or, that he died without making q
will" added her ladyship.
(which makes all the difference in
her position" continued Honoria
s.All the difference in the world"
echoed her sister.
Though 1t may make difference in
her prospects," the schoolmistress said,
spiritedly, II fail to see how 1t puts her
outside the pale Of Christian sympathy.
Her loss has come upon her so sud-
denly"
Really Miss BaiderstQpe, Lady Scar
borough said. severely, 81 do not think
! Il h necessary to carry the manners Of