The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1895-02-23


fortunate lover.
He thought he should never have
done, never get upstairs again. AS
fast as he had satisfied some others
appeared: and his own dame was not
to be persuaded into Impotence to re-
ascend. No: she thanked him, but she
was quite comfortable, and quite will
ing to wait little while where she
was. She had found some friends to
talk TO. Would he come for her pres
emily?
StilInO Geraldine He had Just made
up his mind to rush upstairs and bring
down his cousin, regardless of Obstruc-
tiOns, when he was beCkOned up by his
rightful charge, and the chance passed,
since. when he had deposited her
above upon a sofa. the room had nearly
filled again. and the second part Of the
programme was about to begin.
He would not be caught again. he
vowed: and told himself he knew bet
ter than to he 70 nj inside the door
way; so flew back TO the landing.
and lowered there, ? ering this way
and that, hanging over the banister.
scanning the hail below. making short
Gis ursivc flights into the balcony, but
never once taking a real look among
the seated audience until the whole
thing was over, and they, too, had
risen.
And then. Just as he was about to
ask his mother and his sister whether
the vision Of the rosebud wreath had
been delusiOn on his part. and Coral
dine had never really been near the
place at all. whom should he see but
her fair self coming down from the far,
far end of the room. from behind the
platform indeed. where young madam
had enscOnced herself during all the
latter part OF the entertainment, hav-
ing seen her cousin safely pas down
stairs in the interval. and feeling Sc
cure that he would not re-enter the
great room on his return.
She had been dispOrting herself on
the balcony. Hcllenden with her, dur
ing the early portion Of the afternoon,
and we may lie sure he had not left her
afterwards.
They had both enjoyed the recital,
ard had listened to it with EOiteucsS
born Of COntentmcnt with their own
situation and the surroundings. Granny
had been with them, well enough
pleased. too: granny was beginning to
have her own ideas about Sir Fred
erick and to think that his punish
ment had perhaps lasted IttIcicntly
long. and SO no one had helped poor
Cecil, and his mother, who ought to
have been his chief support, had done
him an actual IN ury.
"A great success, CharlOtte.' QOuth
the old lady blithly, to her daughter
a. she now passed out, "a very pleas
ant party. If had your rooms -hould
have liked to try something of the kind
myself. But though our little house
su Is me admirably. it j. not intende ed
Tor entertaining. Another year, per
haps. we may be accommodated a lit
tie more cOmmOiiOusly.
II had all three kinds of cream at
once. Cecil whispereC Gera dine "a
if lie were sure to laugh and be de
lighted: | had, indeed: ana they were
or rather it was 80 good. And such
trawberries. 1t was the trawherrie
that kept granny and me downstairs
we could not tear ourselves away from
the strawberries, could we, granny?
u hey were delicious, certainly
assented granny charlotte. Won
must tell me your greengrocer, or did
these come from your own garden?
for they were now in family group.
and could ask family questions.
No the straw berries had not come
from their gardcn-there We're none SO
fine in their garden; bat these had
Teen applied by Lady Raymoni's own
particular market-woman her mar
kct-wOman. witt whom she had dealt
10 years and veal ;, an who had never
disa pointed her. and might he de
PENDED upon for anything else she TN
dertoOk Before she had finished a
gratilicu CUlOgy, Cecil saw Geraldine
twitching his grandmOther's sleeves
to 20.
You are in a great hurry, said he.
"iRe ause we are late. ! am not in a
hurry TO 90 but in a hurry to be gone.
Therein lies the difference If we are
not gone within few moments we
shall have to sCamper thru Oh AL the
evening afterwards. and my poor dear
does not like to scamrer
one of Two things in the little speech
had strange flavor of Inrhmarew in
his ears ar he listened. He had never,
for one thing, heard granny called his
cousins poor dear before in ondOn.
Tie had not seen her cOaXed and hua-
tied in that childish fashion Of late.
Geraldine herself. mOre0 .er. looked
sau Ter. lriskcr, more misChievOus
and frolicsOmc than she hal pre- ented
herself to the world a. a grown Young
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