The Red Cloud chief., 1893-11-24

provinces, and picked up quite a stock
Of information as to tho customs, poll-
tics aud nj Of the Canadas.
l had, too, become greatly attached
to the propristors, and employees in
and about the great house Of the Old
Dominion and felt sad to think that
the day was near at hand when OUT
pleasant relations must cease.
Then. too, there were the Gibsons
for whom l had a strong social attach.
ment,
And, too, there we're the judge and
. host Of acquaintances for whom l
had a special warm feeling, among
whom was Uncle Pete's brother, ell Of
whom I must say good bye" to, per-
haps, forever.
But as time waits for no one, and
the day being very near for our de-
parture, we began to arrange our af-
fairs generally for that very important
occasion.
Dick and I talked matters over and
determined that We would 20 by way
Of Sidney, and stop there for a time
in order to enjoy the friendly greet.
ing that We felt sure awaited our
presence.
Then, too, l 70 much desired that
Naomi and Mary should meet, that l
was the more resolute in my intentions.
Mr.. and Miss Stewart were pleased
with our program, and..so on the morn
ing Of May 5, 1s-, we left the city
Of Ottawa for u old Kentucky home
via the little Ohio town among the
bluffs, where lived the Bloomers, our
best Of friends, where we arrived in
due course of time, and were escorted
to the hotel by the same old gentle
men ef color, who, months before had
so lavishly prepared a breakfast for
Dick on the morning Of his arrival
from Sandusky.
The faithful old fellow was now in
his feather owing, as I afterwards
learned, to Dicks having ~tslegraphsd
him while enroute, that We would be
there on the $50 p. m. train.
II I had been astonished at the
breakfast prepared for Dick. what was
my anazement on entering the same
dining room to End a spread so elabor.
ate as simply to defy description.
There, too, was the same black girl
with the the same white apron--or
enc exactly like unto the one she
wore that morning-and there were
the same pictures adorning the walls;
the same bright carpet, and the same
dish teeming with smoking quails
''dpn to de queens taste" as Uncle
Zask expressed it.
And indeed the appropriateness Of
Uncle lacks remark became the more
apparent to me, when I beheid the rel.
,sh with which our little band OIL
, travellers were 500 partaking; and
more especially so when I rested
my eyes upon the queenly form Of thu
young lady, who sat opposite me, and
, who was full Of vivaclous wit and hu.
NOR such as I had not thought it pos
sible for her to indulge.
Mr.. Stewart, too, seemed to enjoy
the meal, and the conversation As we'll
Dick vas in a happy vein, and
: with an occasional order given Uncl'
lack in an under tone, kept tina
worthy gentleman on the fly for mor'
of this and that and the other for GU
little party, all to the supreme deligh
OF Uncle lack, who was showing off t
an advantage, but seldom squaled ant
: never surpassed.
Uncle lack, Of course had not hear
, the story Of our nom de plumes unde
= which We sailed when at Sidney befor
and to our amusement called US as b
!, had then done Mars. Archie and Mar
a Joseph. This We explained to Nj
\ Stewart and Mary after we had lei
-, the dining room and retired to tn
parlor, where We spent the svenin
most enjoyably.
During the evening, and while v
b were listening to Mary's sweet voice
d she sang a popular song with an a
compartment on the piano, and viii
H. | was deeply absorbed, the do'
e opensd all of n sudden. and wi