The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-16
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auu bscOt Oi O4avel.--S paIkt me Otter
is the river Brawl, and if You look
about you may find the very tree that
Pendennis and Blanche Amory used as
a postofiiceH "
She bIushed, and Will smiled So did
Lord Straubenzee. She looked today
like happy child out for treat, con-
stantly making plumbers, yet no whit
dismayed, and might have been ten in
stead Of four years younger than the wo-
man who sat beside her.
lyon didn't know Devon was SO in
teresting, did your" said Will kindly TO
Hagar, for he was growing used to her
now, and having duly inspected those
credentials that proved her to be, as he
would have put it, all right, he would
have been a churl and an migrate to be
unkind to what after all was perpet-
ual ever varying delight to the eye.
"No," she said simply, "but every
thing seems interesting and beautiful to
me now.
1t was this directness, or what he
termed her admirable simplicity, that
was Hagar's greatest charm TO Lord
Straubenzee. She pretended TO moth
ing, she fiattered no one, her silences
were more admirable than most wom-
ems flashes of wit, and her completeness
of beauty soothed him like charm.
"And this day week" said Will with
a groan, 1--WE shall all be scattered
right and left. "
"You will be among the partridges,"
cried Mamie, land perfectly happy, as
a man can only be one day of the year.
So will father Oh, can see you and
your neat get ups and all the rest of it,
while / shall be sitting in class and
thinking Of you, Willie, t." she added lam
entably.
Her father laughed. So did Will, but
this time Mamie did not blush. only
shall have you, she said, touching Ha-
CARS hand. That's one comfort And
Won mustn It mind Miss Shorter. She
talks like a foghorn and looks like Mi
nerva, but she's awfully kind and good
Don't you think, father, you might have
let me off this last year and got me fin
ished at homer"
"No, Mamie, l don't. You were
growing into an utterly spoiled mink
when in sheer defense / sent yon to
school. Did I not find you setting
Blake Trelawny and Will Cassilis by the
ears because you were receiving love
letters from them both at the same timer
And you barely H."
but / only answered Wills, said
Mamie, with her little winning air and
looking lovingly at her sweetheart.
eve got 'em all, ',said Will raptur-
I ously, "bad spelling and everything,
and wouldn't part with 'em for king
dom. What have you done with miner
But Mamie shook her head. This was
trying her father patience a little toe
far, and they were coming now to the
town, where many hats were dotted ano
smiles displayed as the three vel
known faces passed.
"Will," said Mamie an hour later
when they had contrived to lose them
selves for very considerable time, but
were far less taken up with the loveh
ness of the Knowle gardens than that o.
each others faces, "did you notice
man who passed the balcony while W.
were having tea? saw him IN TIT
street as we drove by, and he must hav'
followed us in. He looks too shabby Il
be visitor here.
Fallen in love with my sweetheart,
said Will, putting her hat straight ant
! feeling in his pocket for his cigarett
case. "By Jove. darling. I've left it Il
the house! won't be gone two min
utes," and with kiss TO stave over tn
enormous length of absence he vapishe
behind one of those groups Of cactuse
that gave semitropical air to the eA
I auisite Devonshire garden.