The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-21

cuSSed from every direction. There
was something sly about it or else he
would have told us he was there. Perhaps
he is in love-
Cora laughed dissentinglv.
Il do not know, Bessie, why you expect
to be told of Marks every movement"
she said. If YOU recolect. he mentioned
in one of his letters that Charlie Gunton
had invited him there for shooting in the
autumn This is October, so he has been.
He intended coming straight from there
to us probably, and then would have told
us-I am certain he is not sly. AS for
love, Nelly is his sweetheart; he told me
So
bah that doll Mark viii never marry
her. He loves so many. You're so stu
pid."
My dear girls. don't quarrel" piped
Mrs. Boyd. dolefully. Il am sure | trust
Bessie is right. and that Marks frequent
visits to Coxmoor park with his college
friend are dictated by love. Your father
vows that he must marry for money, and
Here's a pretty go. Ha, ha! Hen
stock in trouble! It's as good as a five
pound note to me-
The speaker was DR.. Boyd, who entered
the room brisl1ly He rubbed his hands
glecfully together, and seemed altogether
plcased-a striking contrast to his atti-
tude Of half an hour previously
''Ha, ha, such joke continued he,
seating himself 'I've been up to- Peter
Balls-bronchitis again-and heard the
news. Nelly HenstoclS is lost"
Lost, pa" cried Clara, her brow dark
ening. "How?"
Grown up people cannot be lost, - in
terposed Bessie, with her general facility
for correcting mistakes.
Fright you are, Bessie exclaimed her
father, patronizingly, ''but DR.. Henstocl6
does not possess your sense. He saw his
eve lamb off by the mornings express to
her aunt's-by the way, how could he
ever bring himself to let her out of
his sight is u mystery-hOwever, that
is neither here nor there, she did go, and
the long ;and short of it is she has not ar
rived at her destination-Mrs Ferrar has
telcgraphGd.N
"Nelly- =" cried Mrs Boyd, wiring
ing her hands.
The doctor favored her with crushing
look enough to annihilate her for the next
half hour
"She is temporarily undiscoyerabl my
dear" he replied, freezingly. "Of course
her whereabouts will be found before the
hour is out, but imagine Henstocks state.
A bull in a china shop is but a mild
description of the rate he is tearing about
IN. He should possess a few of our,
'umph, blessings-Im sure he is welcome,
and then he would not be so upset when
his only one loses her train"
"But pa, ~ demonstrated Clara, huskily,
eff DR.. HenstOck saw Nelly into her train
how can she be lost, even comparative"
Women and their actions are never to
be comprehended," retorted the small
doctor, bluntly. "There, there, we've
had enough of it," washing his hands to-
gether, "sans savon," and without water.
Only now chat [ am worrying about our
scapegrace of a son, tiresome young blade
it pleases me much to learn that Hen
stock is in a worse state about that fanci-
full bit Of a daughter Of his, though his
distress will be ended any momento
DIR. Boyd frequently favored himself
with a license, which he strictly limited
to himself, of calling his well-belovcd
Mark names. Lucky was it that people
understood, and did not try to initiate
him He would have bitten off any out.
sider's ears had they even attempted.
Suppose Nellie and Mark are to-
gether,' observed Bessie.
Don't be an utter idiot if you can helr
it," Numbered DR.. Boyd 'How in the
world could they meet"
"Of course not, protested Mrs. Boyd
meekly Between her snappish husband
and her waspish daughter she was accus-
toned to a very bad time of it. ''In all
our worry about Mark, and poor Dr. Hen
stocks uneasiness about Nelly. there is
just this comfort, that they are not to-
gether"
but lost, mai Nelly lost is it not
dreadful" exclaimed Clara. Where can
she be- ] think if you can spare me I'll
just run up and ask Mrs. Baines the truth
of the report"
Mrs. Boyd glanced timidly at her better
half to see if she might give permission.
Clara darted off without waiting
There, madam, there's your last
daughter rushing out husband hunting, -
declared DR.. Boyd, snapplshly You
have no restraint on them 1t is disgrace
full perfectly disgraceful. No wonder
your helplessness is the common talk of
the place. Why don't you keep
them in?''
CLARA is not the last daughter left, -
said Bessie, bridling up. you'll please
to remember that when next you men
ton US"
20, my! You want husband too, do
yOul Well, then, Bess, take bit Of adj
vice from your father, and never let other
people know. At your age you"
"Atmy age" shriel1ed Bessie furiously
what do you mean by that am only "a
I O! if you are going to be disagreeablc
I'll leave you"
She tore ont Of the room.
The joke was too rich to be ignored. DR.
Boyd burst into loud and aggrayatinl
laugh So long did it last that Bessie
caught it as she banged her bedchambeI
door to.
"Twenty-fo did you hear that, MAJ
he asked, wiping his eyes, ''your eldest
daughter, too! You are quite young yet
you see"
Il would not aggrayate her unneeessa.
rily, Mark, - pleaded the invalid timidly
''She wants to pass as the next to Clara
What harm if-if people viii believe herr"
But they won't; that's the harm Of it.
you Old stupid She looked grown ur
when we came here eighteen years ego,
50 are people fools enough to believe she
was but then"
II wonder where poor Nelly isl" sighed
Mrs. Boyd.
And / wonder, madam, what mischief
your son has been up to that he has had
TO defer his visit" growled the doctor
"No, don't believe his excuse Of fearful
catastrophe-cata strophe bosh. He has
other fish to fry, and he wants to blind
u.s.
70 BE CONTINUED.
A mean swindle was perpetrated on a Con
neeticut farmer the other day. A clerical
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