Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-04-12


, wooded hills. ''you have q pleasant
place to summer in, Frankland.
"Jollyr assented Frankland, who
sat, with the heels of his dainty French
boots upon the rail of the hotel piazza.
: 'Nice 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 pargain.
IAN heiress! Oh, you mean Miss
Biggin?"
Miss ,Biggin! Pooh! AS If her pal
try forty thousand dollars were worth
second thought! No, no, old fellow.
i 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 a 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 week or two. And there's
where shall live when have won her. y
Field laughed.
ut seems to me you are taking 9
good deal for granted, FranlSland
:. "Not SO much, after ALL" he said
ats 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-a clever girl, Rosamond
who is up to all the ropes in society
and my aunt jefferson, who died las
fall, used to know Miss Althorpe''
mother when they were schoolgirls.
'But, did it never occur to you tha
others might also unter the lists o
competition for this moneyed maiden?'
LET EN- mean to outreach then
ALL" ~t
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 philter
and amulets hidden away in you
pockets" y"
"Anv man who isn't positively ape
like in his physiognomy can make
girl like him without any of thos
nre- Adamite contrivances," observe'
.Frankland, coolly.
"My dear Frankland," said Field
"you are either a great genius or con
ceited fool" u
"Or+ perhaps a little of, both. Well
we shall see. Here comes Rosamond
and what do you say to stroll up tn
glen?' -,
Miss Frankland came up as her broth
or ceased speaking. She was tall
!, snowy blonde, with radiant complex
ION and a good set of teeth, which sh
took particular pains to display.
HAS Guy been telling you about m
future sister-in-law?" she said, with
LIGHT laugh. "Ah, that smile mean
that you think us slightly premature
Come. | will wager these gold bracelet
AGAINST your diamond collar button
that Agnes Althorpe becomes Mrs. Gu
FranlSland within the year"
"sut come" cried Frankland, impa
tiently. "The afternoon is getting OF
and want you to see the glen befor
the beautiful lights and shadows hav
vanished from its heights and depths
, TNere is one abyss where astream fret
itself into white foam over mass c
,,o,,,, that an artist would lose his wit
oycr When / come into possession
msan to have rustic bridge throw
ocr,ss the chasm and stairway cut |
the rock"
The walk was beautiful; the gle
sylvan and wild enough to justify an
amount of enthusiasm; but the part
were destined to what Rosamon
Frankland called "a delicious adver
ture" before their return.
In one of the loneliest and most pi'
turesoue hooks, the very one, in fac
where a bit of velvet-soft tint walle
IN by vine-draped rocks overhung tn
chasm where the tiny stream beat /
self into boiling crests of snow-whit
foam, they paused
.There," announced Frankland, wa'
,ng his hand toward the narrow ravin'
There is the exact spot where ] msa