Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-26

asked, abruptly nave you any money
saved? OF course l was startled, ano
l said l had about 5000 and some stock
worth about a thousand more. Go gel
it and bring it to my office in half an
hour, said he, and off he went. l did
and all he said was, Come here Mon
day week. There were very lively
days on the stock market after that and
l wondered if my money was having
any share in it. On Monday l went tC
his office and asked if he was in. The
managing clerk said he was in Boston,
and l felt sick. YOU'RE Mr.. McQuis.
ton, / believer" said the clerk. Yes,
and Mr.. Mortimer told me to come here
to-day" Here's a note for you,' said
he, and he handed me a big envelope.
please give me a receipt?' l waited
until was out on the street, and then
l opened the package. There was my
stock, two checks and note, which
said: Enclosed is your margin and
profits for the sake of the thoughts you
awoke in me, Mortimer One check
was my own that had given him, and
which he had not presented for pay
ment. The other was for $4,000, and 1
took holiday, and here am"
ooh, that was jolly in him, WASH It
I'it?o cried the Duchess, delightedly.
"And Pm sure you deserved it. Here
is my husband; you must tell him about
it, toO.o
This was the way the duke was
drawn into it, and very genial, earn
est young man he proved to be, who
seemed to indorse everything his wife
did, and so endorsed Johnny, whose
glory among his companions grew to
great proportions thereat. He was per-
fectly modest and frank about it, and
although he refused point blank to lead
up to introductions without an eX-
pressed desire by the duchess, he still
remained popular.
1t was on the eastern voyage that all
this occurred, and such smooth seas and
in their voyaging around the world by
His Grace and his wife.
BY this time the Cow and Calf came
into view one glorious morning about 6
o'clock. Johnny and his duchess were
"quite pals" as she expressed it, and a
bit of slang being rare from Her Grace,
it was duly priced by Johnny as thing
apart and belonging to him. By invi-
tation from the captain, they watched
the Irish coast peep up into the water
from the bridge, and there they stood
until Fastnet Lighthouse came out on
the other side, and the duchess said,
with sigh: almost home againW
They parted at Liverpool, and there
was given to Johnny cordial invita-
ton to come and call at Essex House,
the London home of their graces, and
he was left to wonder if he should ever
see them again, but in the excitement
of arriving in London this was soon for
gotten in the delight of saying, "And
SO this is really Piccadilly and that
green place ahead is Hyde Park
To be 26 and in London for the first
time and on comfortable terms with
your banker, and not too much writing
of your name on your letter of credit,
meant to Johnny what it would mean
to any healthy minded, active and
and well educated American, and in a
week he felt as though he could give
the younger Dickens many points for
new guidebook to the English capital.
His duchess had become a lovely,
shadowy recollection, when one day,
in one of the catacombs which bisect
the Langham hotel, he almost collided
with lady, who caused him to ex-
claim, '"The Duchess!n The lady was
as much startled as though Johnny had
cried, 1.-THE DevilW and he stammered,
some apology.
like the duchess. / wonder who she
is?" thought Johnny.
'What on earth did that man mean
by shouting about the duchess?"
thought Miss Nellie Thurston of Phila-
delphia as she hurried on to her rooms.
"I'm sure he's an Americana guess
III tell auntie."
And SO it happened that when John
ny went into the dining room that
evening Miss Thurston remarked to the
stout lady who sat beside her, and who
had the dignity Of bishop at confirma-
ton:
"There he is, auntie. That's the man
who said / was some duchess"
Mrs. Thurston looked at Johnny
much as she was in the habit of looking
at hanson cab drivers while making up
her mind to whom she would trust her.
self, and she said promptly: Every Or
binary looking young man. His even
ing clothes are new and he is not accus-
toned to them"
'"That may be true about the clothes, J"
murmured Nellie, "but / think he is a
gentlemanly fellow and good looking,
too"
Before there was time for more John
ny was led up to the small table where
the ladies sat, and was seated there be-
cause of no room elsewhere, whereupon
Johnny looked annoyed and blushed.
Mrs. Thurston was in rage, and Miss
Nellie was highly amused within but
tranquil without.
II cannot put up with these Englis
hotels any longer" said Mrs. Thurstou,
pointedly, to Nellie. "We must go to-
morrow and make arrangements at
some exclusive family resort" Her
niece took on the color which left John
ny's cheeks, and family cried:
"Oh, auntie, what thing to say"
"I'll try to get seat somewhere else,
or go away altogether, madame" said
Johnny, bravely, and yet humbly. at
was no fault of mine; the waiter was to
blame"
There was so much modification in
the boys tone that Mrs. Thurston for
got the episcopal pose, and let herself
down to a kindly level, and put Johnny
at his ease, to her niece's evident sur