Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-05-19
CHAPTEK VI.
The Ledger Grows FESTIVE.


ure! Young, though it was impossi-
BILE to say how young; broad, with
breadth which suggested that in an
encounter with furniture van, or
brewers dray, it was the van or the
dray which would suffer the most,
there was about her an air of serene
dissatisfaction which inspired her
new masters with boundless conf
dence. Her face, which was round,
and pink, and fiat, wore always a
smile of bland superiority To Hill
dred, who habitually wore a similar
smile, this expression was irritating
beyond endurance; but to his broth
ers, it was the smile of an angel.
By an agreement insisted on by Tenn
pie, and acquiesced in by Cameron,
the former slept in room on the sec
ond floor, in order to accentuate the
fact that he had nothing to do
with his brothers humiliating exper
iment. He had also prevailed upon
Cameron to take the big card out Of
the dining-room window, and to be
content with the victims already cap
tured. To this Cameron assented the
more readily that these victims were
proving FESTIVE enough to make it
doubtful whether fresh responsible
ties might not prove too much for
him.
With the assistance of Lizer, the
rest of the evening passed in compar-
alive peace; and when Temple peeped
out of his window on the following
morning, and saw the sun sparkling
on the sea, his spirits rose, and he
almost felt that it was better TO be at
Westclere even in these desperate cir
cumstances, than not TO be there at
all. Dressing hastily, he ran down.
stairs, slipped out of the house, and
went down to the beach for a dip.
He had reached the promenade on his
return, when he came face to face
with the person whom, of all others,
he would have preferred at that mo-
ment not to meet-Linda Frere.
She looked much, much lovelier by
day than she had even looked by
night, thought the poor wretch, as he
noticed the richness and delicacy of
her brunette comlexion. and felt that
he was growing purple under the
glance of her eyes. She was indeed
a handsome girl, tall, well-made, with
clearcut features, and an expression
of bright intelligence and good
humor. She bowed, and stopped to
speak to him. At another time this
proof that she had not altogether for
gotten him would have caused him
the keenest delight; now it made him
wish that he had been seized with
cramp, and drowned, rather than be
made to face this ordeal.
But there was worse one in store
for him.
you must let me introduce you 10
my father, Mr.. Monk. He got the
visitors list last night, and found
hardly any names he knew, while
those he did find were of people he
didn't like. So he has been wailing
with fear that he would be altogether
dependent on my society"
"Surely he wouldn't consider that a
misfortune!" said poor Temple, who
had lost all his aplomb, and was as
nervous as a curate at his first Penny
reading.
He saw the colonel little way off,
tall, well-groomed man, with fresh
complexion, and hair and mustache
almost white. He was reading q pa
per, with most unpromising frown
on his face. Temple, who was for in
slant fight, began to make hurried
excuses to Miss Frere, when her faith
er, looking up and seeing how she was
engaged, bore down upon them with
rapid steps.
"Papa, this is Mr.. Monk, who took
30 much trouble to find my bracelet,
with poor mammals portrait in it, that
lost at Lady Asland's, " said Linda by
way of introduction.
Although the presentation could
scarcely be said to restore him to
good humor, the colonel was not un-
gracious. But unhappily it soon
proved that his satisfaction arose
from the fact that he had now new
ear into which TO pour his grievances.
Temple asked him IL he had had a
dip.
mo" answered the colonel, II
never go into the sea before break
fast, in fact object TO goisg out be-
fore breakfast at all But as, in the
place we are staying at, it appears to
DO the rule not to serve any meal un-
I'll two hours after one has first rung
for it, my daughter suggested that