The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-19

cousins devotion means, especially to a
girl like you"
The pair We're fast allies; but the spin
ster sat at the feet of her juniors aplomb
and world sense with an awe struck
meekness foreign to her nature. And
she owed Edith an unspoken but deep
debt, too; for in all preliminary train
ing necessary to break Bennie's high
spirit to the double harness PROPOSE.
ton so necessary to family prospects
nothing had awaited like Miss Van der
Huysens precept and experience, not TO
add example And during the town
winter succeeding the encampment, and
III all the present spring, all three had
been used increasingly. For, while no
such word was spoken at Rose Villa or
even whispered in the city, it was tacitly
understood that the beautiful American
was only waiting decorous interval be-
fore following the example of fortunate
bellies who had accepted English titles.
Important events had occurred in the
| Martindale peerage within the twelve
months past. Harcourt Annesley Dud-
LEY Vernon Mortimer Spencer, its heir
apparent, had followed one fox too
many. A nasty cropper at blind ditch
in hotly contested field had landed him
on his head and beyond the care for
earthly coronets. Then the Hon. Alger.
non, summoned by cable to nurse his
venerable lordship in the illness caused
| by the terrible shock of his heirs death
arrived only in time to receive his bless.
/ ing and the title of Algernon, Lord
Martindale, the seventeenth of the line
81 shantpretend to be broken hearted
you know" he had later written tc
Edith, in a struggling, boyish, round
hand, "for in fact l had hardly ever
seen Harcourt since we We're little chill
dren. And the poor dear old governor
was really quite 80, you see, and few
men of politics and fashion were filter
to die than he. But / was awfully cut
up, dear Miss Van der Huysen, when
knelt for his last blessing and saw hi
dear old eyes look so wistfully into mine
1t made me feel ought to be worthie1
Of my people; and | am going to be
better man from this, really now; anC
[ want you to let me hope that some day
you will let me ask you to help me keel
my promise to the dear old governor
And to this, and much more of thu
same sort, Edith had replied in the mos
delicate style of coincidence, and in 1
most English handwriting, firm as he
will and clear as her insight into hu
man nature as it grows in the societ,
) dollhouse. Only this and nothing more
but it was known at the clubs that Lore
Martindale would soon be over, and per
haps it was known only to Edith tina
when the seventeenth Lady Martindal,
was presented at court, American aid
to the peerage of Britain would feel Il,
shame for their latest addition. Some
thing of this was perhaps behind tn,
brown eyes; for they darkened deepl,
and steadily, though only fixed on al
announcement of Amidon's hats in Thu
Herald.
And by the way, Edith, what became
Of our young friend the surgeon" Stand
sh went on reminiscent.
His mamma married him." Miss Val
der Huysen said simply, but still study
ing Amidons hats.
His mamma marry him" echoed
Miss Tabitha, literally. "Why, IN,
dear, what do you mean?"
Miss Van der Huysen "came bacl
from Africa" with a half sigh; the eye
that We're black to Amidon's hats beam
ing brown upon Miss Fay as she an
swered:
con, she followed the injunction wit
her doughnut that is often given to chill
dren with theirs. She put it where tn
flies of society could not get its sugarin
Of bank account and bonds. But, alas
one cannot have her cake and eat it toe
so his wife made him resign, and nov
they are doing the Rhine, while mamm
is left to Saratoga alone"
edith Van der Huysen, do thin
you are the most remarkable girl l eve
did known gushed Miss Fay, with ex
tremely italicized admiration. st seem
to me you see through human natur
just as though it We're common glass"
Il am afraid it is; sometimes yer
common" the girl of nineteen answered
with the slightest suspicion of wearines
in her tone, as she rose and threw dow
The Herald. "Butqd best follow Ber
ME and see to the last touches of bonne
and wrap. Even a travelling dress wed
ding has its demands, you know" An
the graceful woman swept through tn
same door Bonnie had slammed in til
childish rush of her exit.
GA remarkable girl! She is really
wonder to mel" Miss Fay cried warml,
as she gazed through the vacant doc
way. "And learned it all herself, poo
child-for she never had mother,
least not for years"
well -um perhaps that's ii
reason" her brother replied.
Miss Tabitha bent one painfully pit
ing look upon him, but the only thr
words she youchsafed We're:
Nonsense, Brother Standish."