The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-01-22

| tne village To get SonlettiHS 10 eat
NO. no; I'll take my share of what
you've got for yourselves. I'm not in
the mood for eating" interrupted his
master.
| Jock looked at him narrowly, with Il
suspicious eye, and Sir Alexander
glanced up.
I'm in the blues. Jock"
so see, sir"
''Confound it, man. don't treat me
| like that, as if your eyes would drop
out of your head cried his master,
noting suddenly the fiXity of tn" gaze
which the old keeper had fastened upon
him. ITS not matter OF life or death.
But-put I've lost the hrst prize at
the cattle show for my short horns
| had IL carried OF uhdef my Yer! nose
| by miserable southern VINO An,
well, II 1t had been a 1air reward
Shouidh nave minded f'ut ihihe were
the best. Everybody on the ground
VINO knew COW from custard cup
said So 1t was unfair absolutely I'M
fair.
| And Sir Alexander. whose short
| horhs were 10 nm as TN" breath Oh MS
| nostrils. ana who pfided himself ON
being the most successtui breeder IN
| the Kingdom. got un IRON MS chalr
ana began to mace up ana down the
stone-i'agged iloor
"Short-horns. calculated Jock. with
an odd infection; and then after a
pause he said again, in a ruminating
tone: "SbOrt-horns! Oh-aye'
Wv nat the matter with you! asked
Sir Alexander. irritably, noticing Il pc
culiarity in the old mans tone
"Naething. naething. sir. answered
the old fellow. dryly. II was thinking
yer trouble was maybe about direr-
ent sort q cattle that's IA, sir
And before his master could ask him
another question jock had disappeared
through the back door of the hut on
his way to the cottage.
Sir Alexander was half inclined To go
after him and insis: upon an explana-
tion of his mysterious words and man
ner. But rejecting that it was only
some whim of Jocks. he changed his
! mind and gave himself up again to the
wrathful meditations which had occu-
pied him ever since the judges decision
at the show,
He had been wounded in the most
perhaps the only-Nulnerabl' part.
For ms short-horhs ne neglected so
clety' ms "utles as lahd'ord' MS
duties as husband. Three years pe-
lore ne had married young beauty
temporarily FASCINATED oH a freshness
ana charm Whlch diu not III the iohg
rum outweigh lhe soilu attractions oi
ms prize cattie
"'r AieNahuer no" ieit Lazy Auch-
'eah chiehE 10 ner own devices ana
never u'upioo tha'' III pio'iu'hs her
win mouse III 'oEerslreet ana man
SION III tI'e hiSHiaiuS' as wen aS d MANU-
SOME a'io"ai'ce "i Pochet 'iioheS' ne
,'au oo'te as n'uon io' he'i as "o'''a"
''ao ''Sn' " 'Noe'''
And 1t was SAFE TO say that no one IN
the Whole world was 1urther from MS
thoushts than ms Wile was Wheh iock
caihe 10 teil MN that tne cottage was
reauE' ana the paronet' beginning 10
ieei rather urea ana sun after the
journey ana the excitement Oh the day'
entered the long narrow room which
had neeh maze by throwing the living
rooms OF the Two cottages INTO one
ana threW h'inseif on the chihtH-c"N-
ered couch IN niue way from the ilre.
You came straight INTO TINS room from
the open AR, without any sort or pas
sage OF ahteroofn; SO screen had peeh
placed around the door TO Keep the
draft out. The SOFA on which Sir Alex
ander lay was between TINS screen and
the fire, right under the latticed WIN
dow, the curtains of which were not
drawn.
'DOnt light VET 1pnp W
cried he, as Jock was preparing to light
couple of candles.
"Nara weel, sir"
Jock was less cantankerous, but
| more taciturn than usual that evening,
his master thought, as he watched him
| out and then overcome by the drowsi-
I ness induced by fatigue and comfort
and warmth. he closed his eyes and fell
into sort of doze.
! lie was presently aroused by the
sharp click of the latch as it was hur-
riedly raised, and. opening his eyes
with start. he jumped up just as a
woman's voice whispered at the other
side of the screen. this one word:
Harry"
! And he rerncnized the voice as that
of his wife.
Startling. absolutely unexrected as
this incident was Sir Alexander real
lied in n moment what If meant and
eyen knew who tbe nerson was she he
lieved sb. was ,ddressipo
| A contain bandeomo b,t ;nnecunious
vorns, soldier c.nt,in Tantardep IA
whom, chs. had SCARCELY be.n allowed
IA sneok in her maiden days had be-
come since b.r marriage tbe tame cat
of tho bousoh,,,l dssni.ad hv tho bus-
hand ne a nero ,riner and anporentlv
Ionkad unon bv the wife only as a r,,n-
Nor of arrapds and t,lar-un of pans ot
tho dirper-tah,a
In an instant tbo trr,,, u,sbed unon