The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-01

on every drawing-rOom table in Lon
don, thumbed like Boston blue-book.
Oh, yes. And Sir Brooke is the heir
presumptive of a dukedoom-the I'M
beetle old duke is some sort of a dis
tant cousin with no one between. He
has half a dozen continental titles. be
sides, that have fallen to him in much
the same way, and good ones, some of
them: but he never uses them; he pre-
fers to wear his little English one.'
Lady Christopher's husband was only
a knight.
"And a place for every one, l sup
pose" said Honoria.
"Places that are poems"
"And money to burn, dare say" said
poor Charley Osborne.
Yes, he owns, / won't say half the
iron and coal mines in England, and
about the same thing as whole cities.
but he has really fabulous wealth-and
enough of our securities to make 1t
very well worth his while to come
over"
He will not need to look for an
heiress then" said Lady Christopher
Nor have the chance. All the man.
mas in London We're pulling caps about
him last year-their frightful caps!"
said Mrs. bennett bennett, who never
allowed herself to be outdone in a rude
ness.
"They wear their own hair, don't you
KNOW" said Lady Christopher. And
the effect"
ooh, that's very plain" said Mrs.
fnr har oil k
and Sir Brooke was quite forgotten In
the agreeable excitement Of the skir-
mish
But over on the Pendragon, SiI
Brooke Beltanely was leaning on the
rail, nothing visible of him but the
spark Of his cigar, and looking down
and across at the Neckan.
by Jove. Billy" he exclaimed dc
you see that?" and the movement OF his
cigar Indicated the lighted deck OF the
Neckan and the beautiful young woman
standing there while q lark and slender
| ign-looking man dropped her wral
ron her shoulders. Tall. and rounded a.
Clytie might have been, and with a
mass of red-gold hair ripping from a
forehead almost as low and full and
=,
der the strong light with eyes like two
great topazes. and with mouth red
and sweet and parting in a. smile. she
was like a vision out here ON the dark
sea. She wore a white Venetian silk
which she had Brought along, in case
they dressed for dinner. because II
| would not cookie in the sea air; and on
her waist was one long stemmed wide
blown American Beauty rose. Charley
Osborne had whispered To her. as they
came out on deck that night, that she
and not the rose, deserved the name
But she had heard the phrase before.
DO / see what?" said the gentleman
addressed, who was called Billy by his
| friends chiefly because that was not his
name, lighting another cigar before he
| threw away the last and watched it,
| little spark hiss and quench in the wa
ter.
"That.'
''That." said Billy. after long gaze
| ''is "a demonstrative dangerous pronoun
relating in this case to Miss Honoria
| Hensler, the best equipped flirt in these
or any other waters"
you know her, then" said Sil
| Brooke, turning to look at him, rather
| Intellectually through the darkness IN
! that spot.
"To my cost" said Billy, rolling his
/ cigar between his teeth. That is tl
say" he added, after some moments
silence and recollection and decision
Il was over here last year. and made q
fool of myself, as every other man does
| lIb bn lN,,r
| fingers there, Brooke. She has the
beauty of a marble statue-and just as
much heart in her body"
| Married." asked Sir Brooke.
".Slnsle. In the late twenties. Lots
of rich relatives, but only about thou
sand a year herself. Five thousand
they call it here, with their usual big
mouth
You couldn't marry her on that
Billy" with some mems pleasant wa!
of stating brutal fact.
| "NO. That was the mischief Of it,
! said Billy, frankly. You can"
Not q marrying man. Billy"
II wouldn't trust the statue in TrafaI-
gar Square with her, if she chose to
turn it's head"
Had it bad. Billy"
| "Well if you know when you're in
luck, and you don't want it bad your
self, you'll put on steam and be out of
this by daybreak tomorrow"
| "Run away from danger. eh?"
| "By Jove, there's some dangers man
had best pass by on the other side"
| II don't know but you're right. Gree
turned her men to beasts. This damsel