The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-13

burn as soon as it is late enough to
call. l suppose | may call before
luncheon?-therei is nothing very prim
or struck up about her! Then | can
get back in time To look at that mare
Bligh was recommending. I'll be off,
and frighten old Dixon with an ac-
count of my visit after it has become
an accomplished fact!'
He finished his breakfast very delib
erately-walked to his club, where he
read and replied to several letters,
looked in at his boOtmaker's and tail
or's, and at length hailed a hanson
and set forth on his voyage of discov-
cry.
Thirteen Alma terrace, kilburn,"
he said authoritatively to the driver.
BEG pardon, sir, but is it before or
after we come to the station"
"Oh! | haven't the faintest notion!
Ask the policeman or anyone when we
get near it
"Kilburn is a biggish place sir"
returned the Jehu. and they drove off
at a good pace.
1t took many inquiries and divers
turnngs to and fro, back and forward,
before Alma terrace was discovered.
and proved to be a melancholy road
bordered by semi-detached villas, with
very high, steep steps to their front
doors. No. 13 had very fresh lace cur
tains and brightly polished brass han
dies. and a neatly-kept garden.
Wait" said Forester, descending
and ringing the bell. The garden gate
was unlatched by some machinery
from within, and by the time he had as
cended the high steps the door was
opened by rosy-faced girl of perhaps
12 with a huge cap and long white
apron.
please walk in, sir" was her reply
to his inquiry for Miss Cavallo, and
Forester was ushered into a front
room which opened into another at the
back originally by folding doors, which
were now removed and replaced by
portiers of many colors. Cheap Jap
anese screens, brackets upholding spe-
cimens of indefinite china, painted tam
bourines, photographs, oleographs, and
many other "objects d art" decorated
the walls. Some gay colored rugs here
and there partially hid a threadbare
chairs offered rest to the weary, and a
sofa, draped by huge rug of kangaroo
skins filled a good deal of space in the
back room.
Forester stood in the window Gaz-
ing at the door, which soon opened to
admit his travelling companion who
came in with half-amused smile play
ing on her lips and cleaning in her
eyes She held his card in one hand.
1T is you, them" putting out the
other to him. 81 was puzzled who
Captain Forester could be-"
II have taken the liberty of calling
without permission" began Forester
''But I was anxious to restore your
property which / found on the floor di-
rectly after you left the station. I tried
to overtake you in vain. Now, here 1t
is" and he took the scarf from his
pocket.
"Oh, thank you very much! | was so
vexed when l missed it, My mother
gave it to me on my seventeenth birth
day. I value it greatly. Pray sit
down"
She unfolded and examined the lace,
saying softly: II am so glad to have it
again. Then she lifted her smiling
| eyes to his and added: at is very good
of you to take this trouble. Hold--how
did you find me outY''
"That was easy enought. am not so
| unobservant as to miss making a mem
| tai note of the address on your wraps!
After enjoying a talk with you I was
anxious not quite to lose sight of so
agreeable a companion!'
THAT is very fattering," she re-
turned laughing a pleasant refined
| laugh, Forester thought. 81 did not
think that words of wisdom came nat
urally to me-"
"Oh! ] do not mean to insult you by
| saying that your conversation was i'm
| proving. That would not have created
a wish to hear it again. Are you going
| to make any stay in town?'
81 may be here a month: I may be
| longer"
"Why do you Danish yourself to these
wilds? You are too far from every
| thing"
Because there Is no other place for
| me. | am alone and know no one In
| London except Mrs. Bartlett and she
| Is n friend of my father and mother
| Mrs. Bartlett Is my hostess, the lady
who came to meet me-"
"Oh you'll be deucedly bored here.
What are you going to do with your
self?"
"Oh. no. have plenty to do. No one
| Is bored who Is not idle. l am going