Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-12-20
| home with keeper. What do YOU

think"
''Think. WHY, of course I could have
a pony, and of course could go, ii only
granny and Cecil will let me, almost
sobbed Geraldine, trembling with ex-
element and anxiety. ''Oh, if they
only will. But am afraid they never,
never will. Granny has perfect
horror of shooting ladies, as she calls
them"
"But one day on the moor could
hardly turn you into a shooting lady,
Or else don't think should ask for it
myself" quoth Bellenden. 81 think
your grandmalnma might allow it just
for once" and. as apart from his desire
to please her, he experienced feel
ing that her company would be an
agreeable addition to that OF the young
Oxonian, he spoke with an earnestness
which showed he meant to be taken at
his word.
"What is it you are in doubt about,
Bellenden?' said Cecil, entering at the
moment; ''any thing | can get you?'
''Why, yes: get permission tor this
little lady to ride alongside OF Us on the
moor. Don't you think she might?
She would be in no ones way: and [
dare say she is quite as good for a long
day among the grouse as the best of
US.
"Impossible" said Cecil with a look
Of amazement. "My grandmother
would never hear of such thing.
Why, jerry, surely you did not pro-
pose it? Was that why you got up?"
mo, indeed" cried Jerry, almost in
tears; Indeed [ never thought Of it,
Cecil. Really and truthfully didsnot.
[ only got up to see you off. You
know" she added, coloring and hest
tating ever so little, ''you know L do
often see you OIL
''Not very often. But Well?"
"And Capt. Bellenden thought that
that perhaps night go too, if granny
and you did not mind"
"My grandmother would most cer-
tainly object. She would mover hear
of it," said Cecil to him.
"But. really, would she noto Ladies'
do go out, you know and and"
ooh, yes; some ladies' do, certainly.
Not those of our family" said Cecil,
with all the stiffness OF the Raymonds
dead and alive On the subject; sit is
the last thing we should ever wish
them to do"
"She is such q child" murmured
Bellenden, apart to him, land different
from other children, too. She must
have but few pleasures in this lonely
place; why deny one on the mere score
of propriety?:"
GU own it woulC: be improper?'
''Not at all, for d little girl like her.
It would be different il she were few
years older At present it could surely
do no HARM
''Oh, no HARM I dare say. How
ever, it is not for me to say either
yes, or mo- l do not think my grand
mother at all likely to consents but, of
course, Jerry can ask her"
me-" Jerry was on the wing instan-
taneously.
"No- say I WILL" cried Bellenden,~
laughing. And somehow Cecil thought
OF the heliotrope as he looked at him,
and from him to Geraldine.
1t proved that he knew his grand
mother best She was shocked, ala
most incredulous, could hardly believe
that a man who knew the world as
Capt Bellcnden did, could have made
such a proposition, and assured his
messenger with many an ominous
shake of the head, that it was no COM
pliment to her at her age to be con-
siderel too young to be at all in the
way by young men who wanted to
smoke, and talk, and shoot. If Capt.
Bellendcn thought Of her in that light,
it meant that she was to be no re-
straint upon them, and that they might
go on just as freely together as though
she were not there; and how would
she like that? She little knew how
uncomfortable it would make her 1eel.
Young women who respected them
selves should always be a restraint
after a fashion upon young men, and
Jerry was really growing to be young
woman now, and ought to feel as one.
She took it very i'll of Capt Bellen-
den, the old lady further proceeded,
to have mooted such an idea, an idea
that but for him would never have
entered Jerry head and, indeed, she
had meant to tell Jerry to be a little
more careful. and not to run on quite
so fast with her tongue when Bellen-
den was by, in case he took it into his
mind that she was wilder and more I'M
tanned than she really was: this sug-
gestion of his showed that her caution
would have been a wise one-and so
on, until the poor little girl, ashamed,
aggreved. and bitterly repentant, all
at once broke out into an agony of sobs
and tears, and rushed from the room,
seeking only to be unseen and un
spoken to any more.
Go down again? Not for worlds.
Her own cham Der. and behind q fast
locked door was the one place for her
now.
TO BE CONTINUE ED.