The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-11

autumn hOSpltaltleS at the great castle OF
Baunagee, in the I~ish county of Armagh,
where the ducal .7ily and the invited
guests came annually from London and
the continent.
The family plate loads Of pictures and
other bric-a-braC and scores Of huge
trunks had come a week before from the
London town house, and Miss TodEers.
housekeeper, and John Jolly, confidential
factotum, head butler and generalissimo
at Ballnagee, of her grace, the duchess
and his lordship, young Viscount Drogo
Victor Vaudeville, who would soon at
tain his majority and dukedom shortly
after his arrival with the assistance Of
the upper and lower houses of BaLnagee
servants, all looking alive" with great
anxiety and zest, as they were now out Of
board wages" and into regulars had
set the great castle 10 rights against the
lords and ladies coming
The etiquette of arrival. never stately
but always rigidly observed, had been
carried out The first cOachman and his
assistants with the great carriages had
brought milady and her titled guests,
with their maids, from the station, and
milady's maid and Miss TOdEers mad met
them at the castle entrance ana conducted
them to their apartments.
John Jolly and the groom had brought
young Milford and his titled guests, and
shown them to their apartments. Then
the grooms had returned for the guests
luggage and the Wallets and "loaders, 80 for
pheasant shooting was 10 be the sport Of
the young lords guests for week while
all the peasantry OF the struggling ham
let which huddled like brown nest of
thatches under the castle walls, had
Tranad their upcHe frOun windows filed
the leaning doorways and crowded 10 the
rOad-edge of the single street, cringing
aud ducking, grinning and pulling fore
locks and mentally wondering how much
coin might overflow from the guests of
Ballnagee into their needy. clUtching
palms
Miss Todgers had got all the ladies'
maids into their little rooms beside their
mistresses' apartments, and John Jolly
had seen that the gentlemen Wallets were
all housed, with due regard to precedence
of their masters rank, in the servants
ball on the second story of the great
quadrangle. The huge court was now
filed with scores of men and maids sour
rying back and forth on their different
errands of service; while along the sub
terranean regions in the housekeeper's
rooms, the buffers rooms, the wine
vaults, the storage chambers the kitchens
and sculleries, everything was rattle,
clatter and excitement. This extended
TO the carriage-rooms, the gun rooms the
harness-rooms and stables, where the
groOms were cheerily kissing and "siss-
ing about the weli-illed studs
All the upper house Of servants were
Mastering "MistressIng' and Miss
ing each other with great volubility, but
IN rigid decorum and throughout the
lower house, above the clamor of the
jangling bells leading to the apartments
nf ord This That nd o,.I Tbs,
Other, was heard a steady. amazing, in
terjectural staccato of inverted applica-
tion Of masters title TO servant. of Bun
raven, there's yer mans belll "Scarl-
borough, your OF boy wants is toys !"
Darlington, yer lads 'Owlin' for a shave!"
"Warcourt, lively, now, yer man wants is
toddy!' and "Teverdon, yer vhlys
waitin' to groom YER
Her grace, the Duchess Of Banchester,
could scarcely doff her travelling attire
before seeing Miss Todgers, the house
keeper-Todgers, she Familiarity CALLED
her-a sharp-faced woman of 40 with
a curious squint of one eye and a droop-
ing, subdued look out of the other,
which, with her thin, red-tipped nose,
and her firmly set, thin lips, gave her the
appearance of always being ready, def
ant and deDrecative for an immediate &C
counting and months notice.
'Todgers, asked milady abruptly, sis
there anything Tor me 10 know l'
"Nothink your grace, save as you will
md Ballnagee very neat and tidy"
Nonsense, Todgers You know what
mean-how about that girl Lucy"
"Jest the same, your grace, as hever,
only Jrltie more so. Haskiu your graces
pard'n you'd sometimes think as 'ow she
were to hown tn 'ouse direckly!"
The eyes of the duchess flashed. but she
added inditferently enough: Nothing
happened 10 her, Todgers?"
Append your grace append to 'er7
Wy, everything pears TO appen TO hev-
cry other body, where she tsp
We'll what about my orders to Filerf"
Filler was the agent Of Ballnagee-s'to
have the gamekeeper's family removed
from Ballnagee!'
WY, tn hagent was carryin' out
your borders, your grace, Lucy all tn
time laughin at i'm like idiut. Wen
long come Geographic borders from is
lordship. sayin as 'Ow ee'd be Duke a.
Manchester in about six months. an if ZEE
didn't want to lose is cad. ee better let
IN Oh gamekeeper an is folk alone
Wat could poor Filler do, your grace2"
"Oh nothing; nothing" This discour.
agedly; and then, as 10 save her dignity
IN the eyes of her servant, Il thought
best 10 humor him, Todgers; but has
Brlsbln carried out his orders to reform
the little mink"
We'll your grace, without disredects
to tn rector, should venture ee's not lest
tn right age. les been very attentive
TO Lucy, your grace
She said this with a little stab of into
nation all women know how to dex-
trously anC safely give, when there can
be no immediate thrust in return.
That will do, Todgers. Send jolly up
10 the drawing room ~ said the duchess
without show Of feeling whereupon Tod
gers, with curtesy Of the sort which
seems to hare a soft little click some
where in it, softly clicked herself out Of
her lady's apartment
The duchess of Banchester wore her
most kindly smiles when John jolly en-
tered the great drawing room: for jolly
was an old servant and had, for a score of
years, sustained the most sacred relations
possible between master and mistress and
man at BaLnagee. Wise, discreet. TO be
relied upon at all times was John jolly.
he was the repository of countless con
noences and deliverer of none He was
al seeing upon occasion, but sightless.
when blindness was wisdom: familiar.
but always deferential 70 those above
him hearty and kindly TO those below:
1ulI 0! gentle diplomacy to all in the two
far-separate worlds Of the great house
there; and coming forward now to grasp
mllady's outstretched hands with his