Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1893-04-01

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which told the weeping girl that the
Nbject must be dropped.
But although Nellie retired to he1
room, it was not to sleep. She sal
patiently in a chair TIL the clock
chimed II, and then wrapping fe1,
self in a shawl she crept quietly
down the stairs, and opening a doo1
in the rear Of the house stole through
the shrubbel'y and reached the well
Of the kitchen garden, in which was
a small gate communicating with a
lane. Opening the gate with trem-
bling hand she found herself almost
Immediately clasped in the arms OF
a tall, athletic young fellow, whose
shabby attire poorly matched his
clear cut and aristocratic features.
MY darling Nellie, he murmured
in passionate tones
"Oh, Fred, how could you ask me
to meet you at such an hour2" and
the girl shivered more in apprehen-
sion than from cold as she spoke.
Because l knew you would be
sure to come, dearest. It is not often
we get the chance of a few minutes
together. But tell me, Nellie who
was that man that came down by the
6:45 train and drove straight to this
house? I Travelled by the same train
and thought l knew him"
! "Oh! that's some one who is going
to take charge of the practice for
three months while dad takes hol-
i iday. His name isl
At that monet the lovers-for such
they undoubtedly were-heard the
sound of an opening window. Mel
lie rapidly retreated through the
gate and ran toward the house. As
she did SO she noticed that on the
first floor the window OF the room
which had been prepared for the new
conner was open, and that st. John
himself was stationed thereat, evi-
lently watching her movements.
Keeping her face we'll shrouded in
ter shawl, Nellie gained the door OF
the house and reached her room in
less then ten minutes from, the time
she had quilted it.
Doctors daughter sweethearting
On the sly" said st. John to himself
as he closed his window. Didn't
look like that sort Of girl either.
Still SO much the better for me-"
Having duly introduced hIr. St.
John to his patients end gone over
the case diaries with him, Dr. West
packed his portmanteau and depart
ed, with tho intention of rambling
through France and Switzerland,
with possibly a run as far as Rome
Nellie continued her housekeeping
duties, aided by t1lv servants, who
had been for many years in her
fathers employ
Charles St. John was out during
the greater part Of the Gay, though
he generally managed to be home
for the o'clock dinner, which he
shared with the doctors daughter,
waited on by tho sedate man serv-
ant, who was butler, footman and
groom, ali in one From the first
st. John had declined the services of
this man cut of tho house. lie Pre-
feE.red, so be said, to drive himself,
and lie certainly did not spare the
doctors horses.
He don't fog en-, ~ said Sam, the
factotum referred to, as he was bed
ding his charges for the night; ''he
don't seem to drive 'e1n fast, for they
allus comes in cool enough. But he
must cover lot O ground, for them
'osses never was SO dead beat ever
since I've 'ad to do with EN-"
Sam mentioned the matter pri-
vately to his young mistress, but it
was hardly one in which she could
interfere. In fact she spoke as little
as possible to Mr. ST John, who had
chosen to make love to hol. in a cool
nonchalant way which was the very
reverse of fiattering And when on
one occasion she had been tempted
to snub him most plainly he had re-
piled:
My dear Miss West, you can say
what you like TO me- You can't vex
me. Why, you don't know how de-
voted | could be to your interests if
necessary ! believe I could even
keep watch at the postern gate, |
came you never SO late" and the !
speaker looked significantly as he
uttered these words The memory
of the open window flashed across
the girls mind. She blushed furi-
ously, and muttering something
about instructions to give to the
servants left the room, conscious
of most sardonic smile on the face
of her prosecutor.
Some three weeks after the doc !
tors departure the community of .
Bewley -Stratton was startled with +
the news that The Crays," 4" the seat
of one of the county families, had
been broken into by burglars and
q considerable amount Of valuable
jewelry carried off. The local police,
aided by detective from town, soon
the fact that the "job"
was the work of experienced thieves,
and they were busy following up a
clew-or at least so they said-when
they were called to q mansion some
eight miles from 1.-The Crays, which
had also been burgiarized, evidently
by the same hands. Here the plate
chest had been 1ihed, and the thieves
had got clean away without leaving