The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-05-19

wooded hills, you have a pleasant
place to summer in, FARMLAND"
''Jollyr' assented FARMLAND, who
sat with the heels of his dainty French
boots upon the rail of the hotel piazza.
Mice band; good table; fishing and
hunting capital. if fellow chooses to
take the trouble; nice bits of scenery,
and no end of fun with picnics and
croquet parties. Yes, you're right,
Ken. There may be worse places.
But" and here he lowered his voice
into mysterious whisper, there's an
heiress thrown into the bargain.
IAN heiress! Oh, you mean Miss
Biggin?"
'.Miss Bigginl Poohl As if her pal
try forty thousand dollars were worth
second thought No, no, old fellow.
/ mean an heiress that is worthy of the
name Did you notice that gray
stone house on the hill when you rode
up in the stage?"
with battlemented tower and a
range of conservatories in the rear?"
Exactly so. Well, that is where the
heiress lives, or rather where she will
live when she returns from Europe,
within a week or two. And there's
where shall live when have won her. u
Field laughed.
1T seems to me you are taking q
coed deal for granted, FARMLAND.
mot so much, after ALL" he said.
'It's just as easy to marry rich as it is
to marry poor if one only goes scien-
tifically to work. My sister Rosamond
will help me- clever girl, Rosamond,
who is up to all the ropes in society
and my aunt jefferson, who died last
fall, used to know Miss Althorpe't
mother when they were schoolgirls"
.'But did it never occur to you that
others might also enter the lists Of
competition for this moneyed maidoa?'
LET 'em. / mean to outreach them
ALL"
sAnd suppose Miss Althorpe should
have the bad taste not to fancy you?"
81 shall make her fancy me-"
''You talk as If you were disguised
magician with a store of love philters
and amulets hidden away in your
pockets"
ANY man who isn't positively ape
like in his physiognomy can make q
girl like him without any Of those
pre-Adamite contrivances," observed
FARMLAND, coolly.
'My dear Frankland," said Field
..you are either great genius or con
ceited fool"
''Or perhaps little of both. Well
we shall see. Here comes Rosamond
and what do you say to stroll up the
glenn
Miss FARMLAND came up as her broth
or ceased speaking. She was tall
SNOWY blonde with radiant complex
ION and a good set of teeth, which she
took particular pains to display.
HAS Guy been telling you about my
future sister-in-law?" she said, with q
light laugh. ''Ah, that smile means
that you think us slightly premature
Come, will wager these gold bracelets
against your diamond collar buttons
that Agnes Althorpe becomes Mrs Guy
Frankland within the year."
but come" cried FARMLAND, impa'
tiently. 1.-THE afternoon is getting on
and 1 want you to see the glen before
the beautiful llghtS ana SnaOoWs nave
vanished from its heights and depths
There is one abyss where stream frets
itself into white foam over mass OF
rock that an artist would lose his wis
over When ] come into possessrsl
mean to have rustic bridge thrown
across the chasm and stairway cut II
the rock"
The walk was beautiful; the gler
sylvan and wild enough to justify any
amount of enthusiasm; but the party
were destined to what Rosamond
Frankland called "a delicious adven
ture" before their return.
In one of the loneliest and most pic
turesque hooks, the very one. in fact
where bit of vclvet-soft tint walled
in by vine-draped rocks overhung the
chasm where the tiny stream beat it
self into boiling crests of snow-whits
fcam. they paused
,.There. announced FARMLAND, wav'
ing his hand toward the narrow ravine
.herc is the exact spot where ! mean