The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-22

marked upon tablet and crosses each
out with q pencil as its total of sixty
minutes IS consumed. Now all the
world knows that Miss Balderstone's
establishment is no common seminary,
nor is that lady By any means a type of
the schoolmistress novclists love to
pOrtrav-the washed-out, faded piece of
gentility who presides over a gloomy
mansion where the lives of girls are
made miserable by the discipline of a
penitentiary 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 cheer
fui, lady-lille manner and generous in
stincts and her house, No. Clarendon
Terrace, KersingtCn-the best quarter
of London-was rs brightly and hand
somely furnished as any mansion in its
vicinity. OF course, her terms were
high, and, equally Of course. her pupils
We're drawn from the very first families
in fact, TO be one of Miss Bladder
stones young friends" was as good as
patent Of gentility.
Yet, Of all Miss BalderstoneS 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 baronetcy and 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 arc assured that he
never viii.
And about this adopted daughter there
are some curious stories, more or less
believed in according to the disposition
of the tattler, but the one which per-
haDs maintains the fewest adherents is
that this beautiful girl was rescued by
Sir Harry, when he was plain Cornet
Crahcmc and she was a little baby,
from the clutches of some wicked
N2waub in India.
Anyhow she is thcre-a palpablc, and
70 some people, 4 disagreeable fact, for
Harry Gr2hame's eldest sister had mar
RED Lord Scarborough, by no means
rich for 4 nOblc-lan, and had host of
small 'honorables" TO provide r,while
his second sister, Uonoria, lived in sin
gle blesseGaesS in Sir IIarry's town
house, the chaperone of his young ward,
whom she hated with all the virulence
of Gye-and-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
ent2iled, and it was quite in his power
20 rob mis- natural heirs of the bulk of
his fortune and leave it to this waif;
nay, he had even gone so far as to mott
~ his relatives of his intention to do so.
Meanwhile. of course. the young lady
was 4 person of consideration. Miss
Honoria lavished ugon her those super
4iuous affections which a cold world
had never rightly estimated, and Lady
Scarborough. having a red-headed,
knock-kneed son, two years Hates
junior, dreamed of the possibility of
keeping the fortune il the family after
all; so her words to the orphan girl
Were always sweeter than honey.
1t was Kate Grahame's last half-year
at school. In another week she would
begin to take her place in the gay
world, and even now Miss Balderstone'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 disposition
50 swee. that she was the idol of the
Balderstone household, from the gentle
schoolmistress herself down to the boy
il buttons, who worshiPed the young
lady from afar as some being even
more glorious than the radiant fairies
he had seen in the pantoEaine 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 4 groom
wearing the Scarborough livery
dashed mp to the door and handed the
neat maidservant a letter for Miss
Bslderstone which he asserted required