Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-08-03

and Ill do your will. Horses are, per.
haps, the only thing ! do know any
thing about So for "a couple of years
unless Pm sacbed-your lordship's hum
BILE servant" The tramp touched his
battered hat brlm
Name of Brownson, your lordship,
please"
The city of Wcllminster, being a ca
thedral city that was small in popula-
ton and blank in point of paying in
dustries, followed the lead of many
other cathedral towns and excclled in
items of gossip.
Everybody knew everything about
everybody elses affairs and usually
| good deal more besides.
This being the case, it need cause nc
surprise to learn that the diets and
acts of the noble lord we have already
met came in for their full share of at
tention.
But, of course, the one interest that
stood preeminent was his choice of
mate
Pm sure his lordship would be ever
so much happier if he found some nice
| girl and married h IT." said the women,
each matron of them thinking inwardly
that her own daughter was the very
person to fill the post.
And as his little lordship had appar-
emily set his affections upon young
lady from distance, whom nobody
knew before she came down to his
place to stay, naturally Wellminstor
outdid itself in having much to say upon
the matter.
''Of course it's all right, my dear, with
his mother there to play hostess" said
one matron to her bosom friend, "but
between you and me | think it's hardly
good taste on her part when he is such
an obvious catch"
''She has strange way" observed
the bosom friend. ''From what hear,
she's only just civil to him, and shuts
him up most numerically if ever he
tries to go beyond the most stconvcntional
friendship. Riding his horses seems to
be the only thing she lives for"
Rides en- tete-tete," mused the ma
tron, thoughtfully, "are apt to warm
up mere friendship very b,1slsly At
least SO I've observed"
The secohd-best bosom friend
laughed.
hCo Sh iuilJ iilloiihtNi,
The girl doesn't ride with his lordship
at all; she fatty refused to- One of the
stable helpers is her only escort when
she goes out"
81 can't understand it," the bosom
friend owned, candidly. But you may
depend upon it she's playing an artful
game. Thinks to lead his lordship on,
y'know. Designing creature"
Wellminster-female Wellminster es-
pecially-experienc the sensation of
heaving deep sigh of relief.
The Objectionable Mabel Whatever
her-name-was had not married his lord
ship after all. She had done some fear
full thing in the way of running off
with the groom who used to go out rid
ing with her
1t was notorious fact that she
might have had his lordship If she had
chosen SO much as to smile in his direc-
ton, and even now that she had bolted
with the stable person he was idiot
enough to NOPE about and show how
cut up he was over it.
Wellminster felt like congratulatins
his lordship upon his escape; but,
somehow, they never did, especially
when it came out that the stable help
had not always been a stable help, and
had, moreover, been engaged to the OBJ
jectionable Mabel Thingummy long be-
fore his lordship ever knew her
But the nice girls who kept them
selves waiting for him have aged u
good deal for the affair of the stable
help is a great many years old now and
his lordship is bachelor even to-day.
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