Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-07-13

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They looked at each other in dismay.
The hotel-keeper could give them no
hope, though their rooms had been
ordered weeks before; more and more
people were arriving daily, and he was
at his wits end where to put them.
"A large family came yesterday" he
said, land l know not how long she
stays. If she 20, these ladies shall I'm
mediately occupy their apartments; If
not and he shrugged his shoulders.
A carrying-chair was brought, and Mrs.
Lowell was carried up stairs to the one
room, while Mr.. Lowell and the courier
sailed forth on an expedition to all the
other hotels and lodging houses in the
town, to see If any rooms could be had
They returned in triumph; they found
that though the Schweitzerhof (of which
every village in German Switzerland pos
sesses one) was quite full, it had belong
ing to it tidy little chalet, a dependence
containing five rooms. 1t was now &C.
cupied by German Princess with her
two daughters, but they we're going to
leave on the following morning, and
Andrew had joyfully secured it all.
For this one night Perdita must sleep
with her mother and the maid. and two
beds we're rolled in from the passage;
and Andrew could find room for him
self in the Badhof, little inn some way
off in the town.
1t was great relief to think that the
present state of things was not to con-
tinue and they were in better spirits
than they had ventured to think possible
an hour before.
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her room. and Perdita and her father
went down OF the table d'hote room.
1t was all new to both of them, and
they were much amused by the crowd
of people seated in groups round little
tables eating and talking ceaselessly.
The courier marshaled them to a table
which they were to share with two ladies
and three very magnificent German off :
GERS, who rose at their approach and
bowed profoundly.
Suddenly Perdita uttered an excIama-
ton of pleasure.
''Oh father, how delightful. familiar
face"
Aud there at round table in corner
of the great room, Andrew saw Lady
Armine with three of her children, and
lady whom Dita knew to be the COVER
ness. They had just finished their sup
per and were leaving the room.
Dita would tain have run after them,
but did not dare in that crowd; but she
was in high spirits at having already
found companions tor their time at Bad
field
Mildred Grethard was the next sister
to Mabel; she was IS years old, and lately
come out; and now that the eldest daugh-
ter was married, she was her mothers
constant companion. The next girl.
Mary, was suffering from weakness OF
the spine, and it was for her sake that
they were there.
She and the little boy, Dick, were the
only ones still IN the schoolroom, he not
being yet old enough to go to school,
The next morning was spent by the
Lovels in moving and settling in the
chalet, which rejoiced in the name OF
Bellevue. 1t was a nice little house, a
pretense Swiss cottage, with large ver-
anda, into which all the long French
windows opened. 1t was fixed, as it
were, into the side of the mountain. so
that there was sweet smell of frwood
round about it. In front, great crimson
oleanders grew in tubs, and were in full
flower.
1t took Mrs. Lovel's fancy at once; she
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with anything out of England. Whether
it was the smallness of it that gave her
the impression that she had realized the
real dream OF her life-a beautiful little
rural cottage-or whether it was only
the rest and repose after the crowded
and noisy hotels they had been in, but
she seemed TO be thoroughly settled and
happy there at once, to Andrews great
joy.
They had brought all sorts of pillows
and air-cushions with them, and Mamie
was carried out to sofa under the
veranda, where she could lie among the
oleanders, and see through the trees all
the gayly dressed people walking in the
garden or listening to the never-ceasng
band.
There was spare room kept in the
chalet for Jacques, in case he should join
them later.
In the afternoon Mr.. Lovel and Dita
found out the rooms which Lady Ar
mine Inhabited. and went to call on her.
A waiter carried their cards in to No.
95, but before the answer came, Mildred
came running out to beg them to come
in. The girls were quite enchanted to
see Perdita.
Whether Lady Armine was as en-
chanted to see Andrew was not quite
so certain, but she had great respect
for him, and most cordial liking for
his wife, and she greeted both father
and daughter with warm kindness.
Perdita was pressed to spend as much
time as she could spare WITH the girls,
and it was insisted on that she should
share their German master, and come
and play whenever she liked upon the
piano, which they had secured by rare
piece OF good fortune.
Then Lady Armine put On her bon
net and went across the garden with
Andrew to see Mrs. Lowell, and the three
girls sat down to have chat together.
And how are you. Mary?" said Per-
dita; show many baths have you had?"
'Only three, and they are very pleas
SAINT They are beautiful white baths,
and the water is blue, and as clear as
crystal"
''And the woman next door," shouted
Dick, who could never control his voice,
''sings all the time at the top of her
voice-a sort of howl without any air in