The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-11-01
her e was NOT untiI three reaks after

that country bazar that he found
himself once more settled himself in
London for the season.
"Who is the beauty of helyenr ?"
he said to friend at Lady Glenly-
don's ball"
'Lady Rose verden. replbd the
other, 'Lord Salterton's daughter
presented at the May Drawing Room" +"
"Is she here"
eyes. I'll point her out 10 you;
introduce you if you like. Doyou see
that tall girl in blue, the one With the
beautiful hair passing us pow?''
Stanton Harcourt gazed in the
direction indicated, and owned to
himself that the opinion of society
had not erred. He saw before him a
tall. beautiful, fair girl, whose height
overtopped that of most of the men,
while her figure was so gracefully pro-
portioned tina, IL was impossible to
demur to an incl of her ,tature. Her
face was fair as flo rer, and the
heavy coil of hair s;.ggestcd tresses
that would clothe her ike mantle
were they once unloosed.
"Introduce me-" he said; and so,
in time, Sir Stanton Harcourt was in
troduced to Lady Rose Verden
She turned pair OF the loveliest
blue eyes upon him and inspected
him not without curiosity. Then she
smiled, disclosing two rows of pearly
white teeth. Stanton Harcotrt con.
versed with her for a few moments.
Then she said, suddenly;
$50 you have forgotten me alto
! getherl Or is it that am 50 much
changed? / should have known you
anywhere. Don't you remember that
bazaar at kirtleton three years ago,
and how you told me that your name
was Brooks of Sheffield, and i told
] won that ] lived at Weybridge? / did
-. And you gave me q SCREEN"
'i remember now," replied Stanton
Farcourt III amazement. "Brt--but
II ought to have recognized lou, of
course; but 1 am sure l have IN ex-
cellent reason for not doing so. You
were n pretty child then, but now
you have grown into a"
"Now, you of all people NUT not
! fatter. Remember, | regard lou as
nm old friend, whom / can trust.
Don't you remember how l rusted
you with my things at the bazaar? l
got such scoldiDg at the end If the
day for it. They said was too for
ward. Did you think me too for
ward?'
"The only thing that cannat un.
derstand." " replied Stanton Halcourt,
evading this somewhat delicats sub.
iect, "is about your name. Yju told
me, if | remember right, TINT you
were Miss Rosie Devine. Was that n
joke, like my stupid one of Crooks
of SheGieldy"
"PHpa had not succeeded to tie title
then, replied the beauty. "ll fact
we were very far away from il and
very poor; but, as | dnresay you
know, our cousin and his two sois and
grandson were all drowned togather,
moor th'pos when .h+tN sDcQ oGt
down III set storm OF the north
coast of lr& e., and my father was
the next heitplhrough his mother. The
title is one W those v,ry old ones
which go to Won. u as veil as men.
You know whA,, meal Then we
took the nam1h:S erdei, the old Sal.
terton name, T., ", as jur own"
81 see; Sand Shorlanl clipped the
name and told me nicely that you
were Lady Rose Verlel.'
AT that moment call, handsome
. young man came up aid claimed Lady
Rose Tor the next daIce. He was
very good looking maj, thought Stan
/ ton Harcourt, and seemed to know it.
/ HIS big BLACK moust,che was curled
/ TIL the ends pointedto his earz; the
expression of his really fine eyes
seemed to say: ".Sse how irresistible
am, and worship 1t the shrine"
lnvoluntariIy Stanton Harcourt
turned toward Lacy Rose to see how
she was effected b. the arrival of the
new conner, and whether she would
obey the mandate of his orbs.
who is that young man?" he snid
to Lady Glenlyn Ion, "who is dancing
with Lady Rose Verden?"
"Oh! that's Count Karl Chirafou-
Charafau, the son of the prince, you
know. He's attached to the Austrian
Embassy, and | also think he's at
tached to Rosie NcrJen. What a beau
tiful girl she is ! shouldn't be sur
plised if there We're an engagement in
that family soon"
This suggestion made Stanton Har-
court feel that lie almost disliked
Count Kari.
III thin; it is great mistake for
English girls to marry foreigners, he
SAID. Don't you?"
"Well, | don't know" replied Lady
Glenlyndon, whose first husband had
been tar from an angel. "Some Eng
hshmen are just rs bad as any for.
elgner, and some foreigners are just
as nice as any Englishman. Besides,
tins man comes of very old family
and will be enormously rich. And
Lord Salterton is by no means a mill