St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-08
lW APTER x.
4 VERY PLAIN TALK.


''You will remain here with the patient?"
said Pelham to DR.. Haynor, when he return
ed to the room.
The doctor nodded and answered:
eyes, though 1 can give but little relief till
we have had an operation"
''We shall have your professional brethren
here shortly, and if all don't show up think
[ can take the place Of one. I have seen
score of operations of this kind" said Lord
Pelham. Then coming round to where Dora
sat, helplessly holding the young mans
shapely brown hand, he said with gentle
ness that showed the better side of his ma
ture: "My dear little friend, you have been
awfully kind in obeying me since this unfor-
tunate occurrence, will you continue your
obedience for the PRESENT."
Dora did not look up, but signified her
willingness by inclining her head
''Then go to your mother, my Child being
near her will rest YOU
Dora rose and took his hand, and per-
mitted herself to be led from the room.
though the impulse was on her to rush to
the bedside and take the unconscious mans
head in her arms again.
''You are very kind to me, Lord Pelham
she said, when they had reached the end Of
the hall, where he stopped.
''Not so kind as I would be, Miss Morton,
if I obeyed my impulses, instead of carrying
out what 1 feel to be my duty he responded.
Lord Pelham took the little unyielding
hand and raised it respectfully to his lips,
then waited hat in hand till she had vanished
down stairs in the distance.
The Englishman went down to the library
looked in and finding no person present, he
went out on the piazza, Lit his pipe, and called
to passing servant, a Chinaman:
'sWhere is DIR. Eilerton?'
''Doctul Elleltou? me don know" replied
the celestial.
''And Colonel Morton?"
''Col Motion no come back yet.s
Sand Almedo?"
''Me don know
''You are perfect know-noth1ng; an en-
cyclopedia of blissful ignorance, bound in
pig-skin. By Jove, you would make your for
tune as stock Juror
The Chinaman evidently regarded this as a
compliment, for he laughed in an open
mouthed, dumb way, and clattered off on his
high-soled shoes.
Lord Pelham went back to room at the
end OF the main hall, where Colonel Morton
kept his rifles, pistols, flshing-rods and other
sporting appliances. He strapped a revolver
about his waist, put box Of metallic cart
ridges into his pocket, and with his pipe
drawing freely. he started down to ''the
BUTTS as his lordship called the targets.
Hewas not disappointed in finding Almedo
absent, although not more than an hour had
elapsed since the shooting of Ralph Holmes.
He loaded the revolver and was firing it at
swing disc about thirty PAGES away, when
he heard cough behind him, and turning,
he saw Captain Almedo coming from the di-
rection of the shore.
Pelham reloaded his revolver, by which
time Almedo had come up.
"Ah, l see you are determined to practice
till you beat me in every way" said Almedo,
with affected airiness, and he came and set
ting his rifle butt on the ground, looked at
the Englishman.
"Almedo," Lord Pelham had finished re-
loading, and striking the cylinder with the
palm of his hand, he sent it whirring around,
''you were shooting here short time ago?"
"Ye-yes. I shoot here great deal, there