Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-05-19

"My dear, returned ne, "Jnab Is
Just why we should come out and en-
Joy the one comfort they cannot de-
prive us of-the sea air."
"What / am afraid OF. II /
thought they had begun by doing
their worst, and there was q prospect
of their getting, by ever so slow de-
grees to something better, l might
reconcile myself to cooking which is
an insult to food, to being waited on
by creature who has evidently been
released too soon either from an asy-
lum for lunatics or a homo for in
ebriates, and above all to having to
pull the bell till my arm aches with
out having the slightest attention be-
ing paid to it. Why, Mr.. Monk, l
give you my word l rang last night
for candle just fifteen times!"
Mr.. Monk did not want his word: he
groaned in spirit having had the evil
dence of his own ears that this was
true.
Surely" suggested he, ''you might
find better accommodation in an
hotel, or-or some other house, now
that you have time to look about
you"
The colonel shook his head.
I'm going to have that miserable
scoundrel with the black eye up to-
day, to explain what he meant by
saying he could give the highest ref
erences."
"IIighest refercences?" echoed
poor Temple, not that he doubted
Cameron's mendacity having reached
this point, but because he was in too
much distress of mind to concoct
more original remark.
"Yes, that is what he told me.
And that there was man-cook kept.
l will have that hancock up too,
and though the creature may prove
TO be man, he has already proved
that he is not a cook"
"Well, papa, perhaps he will cook
better to-day"
Perhaps, if he ia not so drunk"
Drunk" echoed Temple family,
but scarcely able now to keep indigna-
tion out Of his tones.
Yes" said the colonel emphatical-
ly, 1.-THE whole houseful last night
were uproariously intoxicated. There
seem to be half dozen young black
guards about the place. We hadn't
been in the house more than half an
hour whcl one or two more arrived,
and there was row in the passage;
half an hour later than that there
was set TO on the stairs. When we
had finished what we had to call din
ner we found fork sticking in the
framework of the drawing-room door,
and broken mustard-pot on the floor
just inside the bedroom.
Temple listened in discontinue
which h tried in vain TO hide. His
face was alternately crimson and vio-
let, his muscles twitched, his eyes
shifted from sea to shore.
You don't know that they were all
intoxicated, papa" protested his
daughter.
"My dear, if there had been one of
them only partially sur.,c, would
they not have sent that one to wait
upon us? Now, you could see for
yourself that the creature who did
wait was almost helpless. He leaned
against the table, he leaned against
the doc"; he laid the tablecloth so
that it looked like the sea in a gale,
and he put the cruet-stand down be-
| tween my knives and forks, and the
plates in the center of the tablet"
Temple writhed.
Perhaps" he faltered in a
strangled voice, "he wasn't used to
it."
"But surely" said the colonel, rails
ing his voice to one of just indigna-
ton, "people who entrap innocent
men and women TO take apartments
in their houses, and who profess to
offer highest references should be
used TO it! | should have gone out
myself to the top of the stairs TO
demonstrate, but Linda wouldn't let
me. She had peeped down into the
hall when the row first began, and i
suppose she saw that they were none
of them in state to be demonstrated
with.
Linda had peeped into the half
! Why that must have been, thought
Temple, when Cameron had opened
the door to let him in! Then she
must surely have seen him. He felt
ready TO sink into the earth; he dared
not meet her eye. And yet-no it
was not possible that she should have
given him just now that smiling greet
ing, If she had believed that he was
one of the ruffians whose misdeeds
his father had been describing! His
head seemed to spin round. Then he
suddenly became conscious that the
colonel was addressing him again.
IL hope that you have been more
fortunate than we Where are you
stayingn" asked he, with a sudden
change to very winning manner, as
if he felt that he owed some apology
for having dllated upon his own
grievances so long.
Temple had TO clear his throat
twice before he could answer.
In--in that row of houses over
there" said he at last, waving his
hand vaguely In the direction Of the
accursed "Seaview."
But Nlis WAS not definite enOuph for