Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-06-22
WORKING HIS WAY.

'Grrat Jonesi Is that you, Trethewyf"
The man In the shabby raiment nodded.
"Why, old chap. haven't seen you since
we came down from Oxford. am glad TO
run across you again"
"Your lordship Is very good"
"Oh, hang the titlel What's the use of
being stiff and stuck up like thatf Why,I
believe you were actually going TO cut me
just now II l hadn't nearly ridden you
down."
II certainly wasn't going to recognize
you first When man gets seedy, he's
rather sensitive about making advances TO
the high and mighty ones of the land"
You always were a 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-bs- blowed
kind Of air and tell me precisely how the
land lies. Hang 1t all, man. we're old
shums, aren't wei"
~ 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
sixpenoe Of 1t. That's ALL"
"I'm awfully sorry, old chappie."
"No, stop, please I'm not one Of the Dor
rowing sort. To let you into secret, I'm
coming in for 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 expectationsf"
"Yes. But I'm peculiarly situated. Don't
taught I'm engagedp
IT shouldn't think OF laughing over so
serious matter. May ask the lady's
namer
"Not at present You see-er-l don't do
her any particular credit. To be candid,
she, like YOU noble self. belongs to the high
and mighty ones"
Really I congratulate you, old chap
pie. But still you must let me say lisa
mo, l 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
can prove ii some degree that won't car
~ ON the same game again In the future.
She says, Your next fortune is two years
on ahead. Very we'll. II you promise not
to mortgage 1t In advance, but struggle
through those two years by earning your
own living, Ial marry you. II you fail. !
won't.
beaming Mt 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"
I'm afraid I've got nothing of that kind
you'd take. You see, couldn't offer you
Job In the stables-you wouldn't accept
that"
II would II I'd the chance"
mo; would you really, thought Because
Pm wanting a new stable help, and-er-if
you-that is to say. did know a NAM
Look 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 a servantf To
fnrast In TACT. that we ever met beforeS"
YES" said his lordship lugubriously.
"Then I'm Infinitely obliged to you, and
I'll do your will Horses are perhaps the
only thing do know anything about So
for a couple of years-unless I'm 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-
dral 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.
"l'm sure his lordship would be ever so
much happier II he found some nice girl
and married her." said the women--each
matron of them thinking inwsrdly that her
own daughter was the very person to fll
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 one
matron to her bosom friend, but between
you and me think it's hardly good taste
ON her part. when he IL such an obvious
catch"
"She has a strange way" observed the
bosom friend. From what I hear, she's
only iust civil 10 him and shuts him up