Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-08-29
WORKING HIS WAY.

ooh hang the title! NndUS une use VI
being stiff and stuck up like that? Why,
believe you were actually going to cut me
lust now if | hadn't nearly ridden you
down"
Il certainly wasn't going to recognize
YOU first When a man gets seedy, hes
rather sensitive about making advances to +
the high and mighty ones of the land"
you always were proud, stuck up sort
of a person, old chap, and given to standing ,
on your blessed dignity and all that. (
Now, I'll just thank you. Mr. Ire
thewy, to drop that surly, you-be-bloWed
kind of air and tell me precisely how the |
land lies Hang it all, man, we're old |
chrms, aren't WEI?
II don't see that sordid details can help !
either you or me. AS you know, had
tidy fortune and during these intervening
years I've managed to get through every
sixpence of it, That's all"
pm awfully sorry, old chappie."
mo, stop, please. Pm not one of the bor-
rowing sort. 10 let you into secret, I'm
coming in for a big pot of money in two
Years time, and till then must rub along
on my own resources"
''But why, in the name of wonder, not
realize on your expectations
YES But Pm peculiarly situated. DON'T
laugh! Pm engagedH'
II shouldn't think of laughing over so
serious matter. May l ask the lady's
name?"
''Not at present. You see-er-1 dom do
her any particular credit. To be candid,
she, like your noble self, belongs to the high
and mighty ones"
''Really? l congratulate you, old chap
pie, But still you must let me say lisa
sNo, shan't let you say anything of the
kind. Look here, you good natured, per-
sistent old woman, I'll tell you bluntly how
it all lies. I've made rank fool of myself,
and she, the girl, is fully aware of the same.
''She says she isn't going to marry me till
I can prove in some degree that won car
nv on the same game again in the future.
She says: Your next fortune is two years
on ahead. Very well. If you promise not
to mortgage it in advance, but struggle
through those two years by earning your
own living, III marry you. If you fail, l
won't ,,
beaming at the happy thought, you could
come to me as secretary"
"Too thin. You haven't got three letters
day to write. No; you're only Offering
me sinecure in polite way"
Pm afraid I've got nothing Of that kind
you'd take You see, couldn't offer you a
lob in the stables-you wouldn't accept
that"
II would if I'd the chance"
mo; would you really, though? Because
Pm wanting new stable help, and-er-if
you-that is to say, did know man''---
'Iook here don't let us beat about the
bush. Do you offer me the post Of stable
help?"
Yes
"And will you promise to treat me as
neither more nor less than servant? To
forget in fact, that we ever met before"
Yes" said his lordship lugubrl6usly.
"Then I'm Infinitely obliged to you, and
I'll do your will. Horses are perhaps the
only thing l do know anything about So
for couple of years-unless Pm sacked
your lordship's humble servant" The
tramp touched his battered hat brim.
Name of Brown, your lordship, please"
The city of Wellminster, being cathe-
tral city that was small in population and
blank in point of paying industries, fol-
lowed the lead of many other cathedral
cities and excelled in the items of gossip.
I'm sure his lordship would be ever so
much happier If he found some nice girl
and married her." 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 apparently
set his affections upon young lady from q
distance, whom nobody knew until she
came down to his place to stay, naturally
| Wellminster 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 ono
| 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 lust civil to him and shuts him up
most numerically if ever he tries to go be
yond the most conventional friendship.
| Riding his horses seems to DO the only thing
| she lives for"
"Rides en- tete-a-tete," unused the matron
| thoughtfully, "are apt to warm up mere
friendship very briskly. AT least, SO I've
| observed"
The second best bosom friend laughed.
You aren't fully informed, dear. The
girl doesn't ride with his lordship at all.
She fatty refused to. One of the stable
helpers is her escort when she goes out"
Il 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 espe
cially-experienced the sensation of heav
ing deep sigh of relief.
The Objectionable Mabel What-eyer-her
name-was had not married his lordship aft
err all. She had done some fearful thing
in the way of running off with the groom
who used to go out riding with her.
1t was q notorious fact that she might
have had his lordship if she had chosen Sc
much as to smile in his direction, and ever
now that she had bolted with the stable
person he was idiot enough to NOPE about
and show how cut up he was over 1t.
II Wellminster felt like congratulating hi
lordship upon his escape, but somehow
they never did, especially when it came ou'
that the stable help had not always been
stable help and had, moreover, been en-
gagged to the Objectionable Mabel Thin
gummy long before his lordship knew her
But the nice girls, who kept themselve
waiting fol, him, have aged good deal, TO
the affair of the stable help is a good man!
years old now, and his lordship is even I
bachelor today.-English Magazine.
Thackeray's Definition of a Gentleman.
What is it to be gentleman? Is it tt
, haya lofty MINIS to lead n pllre life to keel