The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-05-06

marked upon tablet and crosses each
out with a pencil as its total of sixty
minutes is consumed Now all the
world knows that Miss BaIderstone's
establishment is no common seminary,
nor is that lady by any means a type Of
the 'schoolmistress novelists love TO
portray-the washcd-out, faded piece of
gentility who prcsi6es over a gloomy
mansion where the lives Of girls are
made miserable by the discipline of a
penttentiary and the diet of a work
house; for, on the contrary, the lady
herself was a pleasant, brown-eyed
woman OF five and thirty, with q cheer
Iul, lady-iiKe manner and generous in
stincts, and her house. No. 2 Clarendon
Terrace, kcnsington-the best quarter
OF London-was as brightly and hand
somely furnished as any mansion in its
vicinity. OF course, her terms were
high, and, equally of course, her pupils
were drawn from the very first families
in fact, to be one of Miss Balder-
stones young friends" was as good as
q patent Of gcntility.
Yet, of all Miss Balderstone's young
ladies none were so envied as Miss
Kate Grahame, the adopted daughter
and reputed heiress of Sir Harry Ora
hame, who, Notwithstanding the fact
that dozen years ago he succeeded to
the .baronctcy and a rent roll of twenty
thousand pounds year, continues to
serve her majesty in India, where he
has covered himself with glory. OF
course he is young yet and it is on the
cards that he might marry, but those
who know him best are assured that he
never will.
And about this adopted daughter there
are some curious stories, more or less
believed in according to the disposition
Of the tattlcr, but the one which PEP
hans maintains tho fa -graek a1haraufe Is
that this beautiful girl was rescued by
Sir Harry, when he was plaiE COrnet
Grahame and she was a little baby,
from the clutches of some 1s4cI1ed
Eawaub in India.
Anyhow she is there-a Palpable, and
to some people, a disagreeable fact, for
Harry Grahame's eldest sister had mar
ried Lord Scarborough, by no means
rich for n nOblemau, and had a host of
small ''honorables'' to provide for, while
his second sister, HOnoria, lived IN sin
gle blessedness in Sir Harry's town
house, the chaperonc of his young ward
whom she hated with ali the virulence
of fve-aud-twenty years of unappreciat-
ed womanOOd. For the worst of it
was that not one-fourth of the bache-
lOr eccentric baronet's estates were
entailed, and it was quite in his power
to rob his natural heirs of the bulk of
his fortune and leave it to this wGif;
nay, he had even gone so far as to noti-
fy his relatives of his intention to do so.
Meanwhile, of course, the young lady
was a person of consideration. Miss
HOnOria lavished ugon her those super
Huous affections which a cold world
had never rightly estimated, and Lady
Scarborough, having n red-hcadcd,
knock kneed son, two years Kate's
junior, dreamed of the possibility of
keeping the fortune in the family after
all; so her words to the orphan girl
We're always sveeter than honey.
1t was Kate Grahame's s last half-year
at school. In another week she would
begin to take her place in the gay
world, and even now Miss BRlderstone's
young ladies were discussing the dress
she would wear when the countess of
Scarborough presented her to the
queen. in addition to all these smiles
of fortune, Kate Grahame possessed
great personal beauty and a 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 Rfar as some being even
more glorious than the radiant fairies
he had seen IN the psntomine from the
gallery at DrUry Lane theater.
The mornings task was over, and the
girls We're preparing for their usual
promenade in the park, when q groom
wearing the Scarborough livery
dashed up to the door and handed the
neat mafdservaut n letter for Miss
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