St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-17
following item appeared in two of the


Hill hotel will proceed i'm mediately to
Lennox. where he will be the guest of
NJ NJ and Mrs. AspinwMl-gon at theIs
charming country mousse there
Mrs. Aspinwall-Jone in particular
was delighted with the catch she had
made. A real live English baronet,
whom her daughter had met in Tuxedo
last year, was coming to visit her. 1t
was a feather in her cap. And when
''Sir Henry Barfordshire" made his APP
pearance one evening In his travelling
suit OF tWeeds, accompanied by two men
servants and innumerabe hat boxes,
bundles of very English walking sticks
and two huge dogs, she was gracious
ness personified.
She though he was awfully nice, and
admired his huge pair of re ddish brown
whiskers, and wondered If all English
and spoke in such muffied tones. She
asked HIM about it and he remarked:
Jaw, yaaS, veWy gweat bore. you
know, yewy-these glawses! Eyes
weak and all that sort o. thing. These
Amewican railways of yours, you know,
vewy twylng-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
Overact. But now aWfully pale she
looked. l was brute to force her into
that quarrel. How Miss ASpinwall.
Jones laughed when that Internal pug
of hers parked around me and seemed
to know me-"
Lockwood's troubles had only begun
though. When he went down for din
ner that night he found himself seated
next to Adele Van Zandt.
"How love England" she said.
Really" he replied in shaky tone
which was mutfied and husky. He
feared every moment she would recog-
nize his voice. His eyes wandered
across the table to Miss ASpin ~ all
posedly aud with the most demure air
in the world.
Il think | saw you there several times,
although didn't meet YOU"
"Yaas?"
"Do you stay in England very much?"
she asked.
''All the time-that is. you under
stand, when l am not away. Gweat
many Amewicans in London when
left"
Ibid you happen to meet Mrs. Van
Rensslaer there last year?"
"Y aas, vewy chawming woman,
handsome and all that, don't you
know"
"Oh, how very nice! She is in Lenox.
and you must see her. Ill ask Mrs.
Aspinwall-Jone to have her here for
dinner tomorrow. Oh. come to think of
it. she will be here tonight at the dance,
and Fll 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 didn'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, and he could never hope to
deceive her so we'll as these people
whom he had just met that summer.
And he fastened to say that after all he
wasn't quite sure; he met SO many
Americans he couldn't possibly remem-
Der them all, and really he wouldn't
care to trouble Hiss Van Zandt; he
thought he could get along very well
without b0therng her to hunt up peO-
pie for him to talk to.
His long beard began to trouble him
and he had narrow escapes from pour
ing soup down his shirt front instead of
his mouth. and the wires where it was
fastened to his face hurt his ears; he
was very hot and altogether the dinner
was the longest he ever went through.
''Oh, Sir Henry" said his fair neigh
Dor presently, what an awful pretty
-, Irt, IL
hand at handsome seal. ldi}
Lockwood thought She fingered OH
the ''Sir henry" with tantalizing en-
phasis; he looked up quickly and then
cursed his stupidity for leaving that
ring on.
81 had friend this summer who had
one exactly like it. How very oddI'
"Veryw commented Lockwood.
grooming inwardly. "The deucev' he
muttered. ''She doeSn'G seem to he
feeling very sadly about this matter.
One would think from that letter of
Angelica's that she was nearly dead
with grief. 1 wish 1 were well out of
this"
He had suspicion that one side of
his beard was slipping down, and with
a fiimsy excuse he left the table hur-
rIedly.
"Your Englishman is a great bear
and very rude" said Miss Van Zandt to
Mrs. Aspinwall-JOnes 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 Mrs. Van Zandt brought
him up to Mrs. Van Rensselaer, and said
she would find in him an old friend, she
merely laughed and lugged the sup
posed Englishman off into the inclosed
piazza.
What are you trying to dc. you alb
surd boy?' she said, Juggling at his
beard.
DON'T Stop! Let me alone! What
do you mean?' Lockwood was horri.
fed.
But she said she knew him from the
minute he walked across the floor, and
she made him tell her the whole story
and gave him some good advice, which
he followed at once, for Miss Van
Zandt was soon out on the piazza in
place of Mrs. Van Rensselaer,.
"There were once two people who
lONeu each OtlieT very MUCH, lie SAID,
but they had foolish quarrel, at the
bottom of which was a scheming woman
who wanted to do the man a wrong in
revenge for wrong she thought he
had done her, And the girl was very
angry and listened to this woman, and
the man went away and resolved to
keep away. Now, suppose the man was
very sorry. and said so. what do YOU
suppose the girl would say to him?'
1t was not Sir Henry Barfordshire
speaking now, but young Lockwood,
and the English drawl had changed it
some way to 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 doing? What horrid brown,
nasty false beard. Oh. you foolish boy!
l knew you all the time"
And two items were printed in New
York the next day. "Sir Henry Bar
fordshire has been called back to Eng
land by illness in his family" was one