Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-11-22

"Why, OF course. And Cecil is the
eldest SON. cried Jerry, with renewed
excitement. ''Why. how very, very
odd. And you know nv Aunt Char
lotte Lady Raymond and land Ethel,
and Alicia. and all of them? Oh dear,
how strange it seens.'
Bellenden laughed. 1t was not quite
SO strange in his eyes, man of tho
world. who went everywhere, and
made new acquaintance every day;
but he was amused and pleased with
the impression the wonderful discov-
cry made upon his little friend.
''Oh, yes, | know them all least,
I suppose [ do" he said, II do not
know them yer y intimately, mind; you
must not put me through nv tacings
too severely, but have certainly met
both Lord and Lady Raymond"
And Ethel, and Alicia:"
''>tot that | remember. do not re.
member any Miss Raymonas."
ooh, but they are hardly Miss Ray
monds yet. Ethel is only year older
than am, and Alicia IS just my age.
But Cecil is grown up-he is nearly 70. +"
Twenty? Yes, the Raymond
know must be about 20. At Oxford?:"
ives yes. At Oxford"
81 stayed with him at house this
year. [ remember him perfectly. Tall,
and fair and"
Eyes, that is Cecil why, it is Cecil,
of course. Oh, you must come down
and see him. Come along, quick, and
we'll meet the boat. If we run down
straight from here, we can easily head
her. and get TO the pier first. Do come;
Cecil will ike us to meet him."
Like this?" suggested Bellenden,
self, though, truth to tell, it was of her
or himself, he was all right, roughly
but suitably and becomingly clad, but
Jerry was-such 81 Jerry! And he
knew we'll that young Oxonians were
sensitive on such points, and not likely
to appreciate being hailed, even on a
Highland pier, by Highland cousins
wrapped in oilskins and topped by SOU
Westers.
''To be sure, I had forgotten, owned
the little lady herself, coloring slight
ly under the imputation. 81 do look
rather queer, don't l? And Cecil is
most frightfully. dreadfully particular.
| should catch it from granny ever SO
much if he were too see me-"
but you don't mind my seeing you?"
ooh, no-at least, [ mean / never
thought about it. Granny would have
minded, | daresay; but then you will
not see granny, unless''-a and again the
round young check was sutfused by u
blush-"unless you will come home
with me, and -"
Now this was the very proposal Bel
lenden was longing to have made him.
81 should like to see the Raymonds
again." he said thoughtfully.
Perhaps he really thought at the
moment that he should like it. Per-
haps it was only the remem brance of
the close, stufy, whisky-reelSing little
inn at the ferry, which made a chance
of escaping IRON it so seductive; but at
any rate the unfortunate traveller felt
that for life or death his only hope was
to hang on to Cecil Raymond now, and
that never in his life before had an ac-
workmanship turned up such trump5.
Until within a few moments he had
been forced to contemplate passing
luckless night in u damp rough bed,
amid the coarScst surroundings, with
heavy mist5 celebrating all the beau
ties of the landscape without, and with
no compromising, save his own
thoughts, within. He had been posi-
lively assured that there was no posi-
bility of reaching his friends shooting
10 &c until the following morning; that
the boat on which he had depended for
proceeding up the loch did not go be-
You'd the ferry on that especial even
ing of the week; and that the best, in
deed the only thing to be done was for
MIN to take up his quarters at Dame
Maconochie's little public house, and
lnhabit her one spare room.
1t had beeE a sorry look out: but it
had been mitigated by the DANES
suggestion that he should take her
son rod, and bring her in some trout
from the Inchmarew burn, not q mile
Off which burn she assured him would
be in inc trim after the rain, and was
noted for its trout.
The worthy woman had not added
that the fishing in it's best part was
jealousy guarded for the benefit OF the
young mistress of the place, and that
any one caught trespassing within the
lnchmarew grounds in pursuit of sport
would be in an awkward predicament.
She had trusted to the gentleman's not
being caught The odds were that he
would not be so; the day being so eX
ceedingly bad, and the stream having
been SO greatly augmented by the re-
cent rains, she concluded that the little
miss would hardly be allowed out, and
the worst, the stranger would say moth
ing about her She did not think he
would even know her name.
TO BE CONTINUED.
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