The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-01-06

porhood who was devoted to it, heart and
soul; that This gentleman had recently
presented q well broken ssgldle horse q
his betrothed; and furthc% that when
Brackncll was not ont hui LII with The
/ couple aforesaid hewas ami ne himself
4 IN some other and perhaps lass innocent
fashion IN the company Of ene Of them.
| But did not tell him this, PARTLY because
! WINS not asked and partly because / am
eotstltntlonally averse to being blown up
sky high,
A few days before chat on which the
wedding had been appointed to take place.
was invited to luncheon at the rectory
II having been intimated to me that /
should be expected to make myself useful
subsequently in helping to move furniture
and carry ont other preparations for the
feast at which Mr., Turner proposed to
entertain his friends after the ceremony.
When l arrived ] found Jim and Mr..
sparks the curate, seated in the drawing
room. with our host, but Hilda was CON
spicnous by her absence, Her absence
had become quite disagreeahly conspicu-
Gus when the clock struck half past Q.
by which time we were ali verv bnnsrv
having reached the extreme limit az onr
subjects of conversation In tbe conrsa
thereof it had transpired that Bracknell
had come over in his dog cart two
Or three hours before, and had per
suaded Hilda to 20 ont for Il drive With
him. @But she assured me " eoid M
Turner, fidgetlnp ahout uneasilv 1sfbat
she would be back very shortly ara nm,
altogether at loss to accoi,nt for this
delay.r
'oh, they'll turn up all right /" re-
turned jim conposedly .tBrocknell
never knows what time Of dov II is
don't think they deserve that wa sbonId
wait any longer for them. though },
Here the curate. a good natured h,,t NOT
very intelligent Young man. iudeed II on.
propriate to remark. with n lond langb
Upon my wcrd, Mr.. leigh. von vii,
have to look after this Young lady. It,s
easis uays lot her TO begin driving OF
"ten IL gay pacheior and tinding his COM
pauy 70 agreeable tnat she forgets to come
hoile 10 luncheon.
e, At.er tiils graceful sally on the part of
WeWent into the dining room and
ieileshea ourselves; but we listened in
as'h ior the SOUND o. Bracknell's chariot
v nucis' aiiu ~ length JIM, whose lawyer |
"os cohiins uoNn from London to see |
u.an, was competed TO leave us. His
~ .li l''', iposuie remained nndlsturbed up to
ri' MY iasv' ot'L US soon as he was gone Mr.. |
uLher cohhaed to me that he, for his
pAtIf ~ WIS was 1eoonills seriously alarmed
wouia not mention it while James
,"s Iere ne sald, nut it struck me
10y AIofu prackheii was driving some
! 10y Ies'iNe ahilIiai, ana cannot help
etli ~ ny tliul some accident has occurred" :"
- "uy aeVlaeht ma occurred within ten
'iiiss VI u.s. we should certainly have
lealu Oh IL py mat time, and so told him,
~ ~ tS, he was hot convinced; and as the poor
aa ltliow was evidently fretting himself
nto lever, could but offer to scour the
yulIy III search OF the abseDtees. Ac-
y. = oIl'Biy seu ott IN one direction while
~ sVou-iiaturea sparks trudged away in
i'9.neri ana very disagreeable walk /
'au oi II through tle rain, which began to
oiie saI aown iiIlnehateiy after | started.
,one , ol the people whom met had seen
'is'eNneii' 'i,'', upon whose head did not in
ny ny piessing WheA reached home after !
'i.1 90 n, uiehcneu 70 the skin was per- {
ectly sure that neither he nor Hilda had ]
oihe 70 any physical harm; because per-
IN IN y Ihat klnd very rarely get their
tchs broken unless it be by the hand of ,
he public executioner, and only IL thew
aPpen 70 belong to the lower orders, but {
unl tnink itiat between them they were /
Trying iulpuachce about as far as it s
'ulu s,t very wen be carried However, as
'liu not at that Time foresee that should S
WI , wrlte tlie history of these delinquents, s
ceaseu 10 tlllhk about them as soon as / i
~ ltlished iis my dinner, and, having made t
" lysen comfortable with a blazing fire /
~ cigar, set to work upon an article /
=, Mnicn 'ils5 4 hoped to have the skeleton d
Ivy, Was getung on quite nicely, and had h
ilouieu '.' t Gown several epigrammatic say b
~ 70 pe scattered carelessly over my v
nll'osloloh ana to cheer the persevering n
auer e on ms way through it, when was d
lVriueu that MI Turner was down s
ilIs dnu wanted 10 see me "mOst nartic-