The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-08-10

haps, the only thing do know any
thing about So for couple of years
unless Pm sacked--your lordship's hum
BILE servant" The tramp touched his
battered hat brim.
Name of Brownson, your lordship,
please"
The city of Wellminster, being a ca,
thedral city that was small in popula-
ton and blank in point of paying in
dustries, followed the lead of many
other cathedral towns and excelled in
items of gossip.
Everybody knew everything about
everybody else's affairs and usually a
good deal more besides.
This being the case, it need cause no
surprise to learn that the diets and
acts of the noble lord we have already
met came in for their full share of at
tention.
But, of course, the one interest that
stood preeminent was his choice of a
mate.
''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 appar.
emily set his affections upon a young
lady from a distance, whom nobody
knew before she came down to his
place to stay, naturally Wellminstel
outdid itself in having much to say upoI
the matter.
'Of course it's all right, my dear, witt
his mother there to play hostess" sale
one matron to her bosom friend, "bu
between you and me think it's hardly
good taste on her part when he is sucf
an obvious catch"
"She has strange way" observed
the bosom friend. "From what hear
she's only Just civil to him, and shut
him up most unmercifully if ever HI
tries to 90 beyond the most conventiona
friendship. Riding his horses seems Il
be the only thing she lives for"
'sRides en- tete-tete," unused the ma
tron, thoughtfully, "are apt to warn
up mere friendship very briskly. A
! least so I've observed"
The second-best bosom frien'
| laughed.
"You aren't fully informed, dear
The girl doesn't ride with his lordshil
at all; she fatty refused to. One of tn
stable helpers is her only escort whel
she goes OUT"
81 can't understand it," the bosom
friend owned, candidly. "But you ma
depend upon it she's playing an artfu
game Thinks to lead his lordship on
y'know. Designing creature"
Wellminster-female Wellminster es
neutrality-suspicious. the sensation Q
heaving deep sigh of relief.
The Objectionable Mabel Whateve,
her-name-was had not married his lore
ship after all She had done some feal
full thing in the way of running o.
with the groom who used to go out ric
ing with her.
1t was notorious fact that sh
might have had his lordshipif she ha
chosen so much as to smile in his diret
ton, and even now that she had bolte
with the stable person he was idie
enough to NOPE about and show ho'
cut up he was over it.
Wellminster felt like congratulatin
his lordship upon his escape; bu
somehow, they never did, especial
when it came out that the stable he
had not always been stable help, ar
had, moreover, been engaged to the o
jectionable Mabel Thingummy long b
fore his lordship ever knew her.
But the nice girls who kept ther
selves waiting for him have aged
good deal, for the affair of the stab
help is great many years old now ar
his lordship is bachelor even to-da
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