The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-05-22
CHAPTER vi.
A Deep Plot.

especial purpose which he had in view.
insinuated to his uncle a pretended be-
lief that their guest was not deriving
sAnyS very great amount of qualification
from his present residence at the man
sion.
sE Into very frequent fits of abstraction
s6ad Sydney fallen since he had been
Str Loghlen's guest, the cause of which
will be readily surmised by the reader:
and his guests great absence of MIND
had been more than once observed by
the baronet.
III And 90 Sir Loghlen was very easily
brought to believe that time was now
In reality passing rather slowly and
/ drearily with Sydney Drummond.
And what could be done for his
/ young guests enlivenment.
Stanley was ready with his answer
10 that question.
IN few young friends of his own, he
ssuggested, had better be invited; and
ffss his advice were adopted he could
4afely promise that Mr.. Drummond
] would soon be cured of the ennu with
which he was now so evidently trouD-
Sir Loghlen had conceived partic-
! sular liking for his present guest, ana
500 readily consented to that which
would make the young mans time pass
more pleasantly while beneath his en-
\ tertainer's roof.
sS Stanley, then. lost not a moment IN
sending out invitations to five OF SIX
Of the most reckless young men OF all
I his acquaintance; and by the follow
4 ing morning all whom he had invited
I had arrived.
And Stanley took good care that
neither his uncle's guest nor his niece
should again approach Sir Loghlen I'M
iii all the invitations were fairly on
their way and entirely beyond recall.
And recalled, if that had been posi-
+ Bile, they certainly would have been
when the lovers-we now may safely
term them so-had been told by the
baronet of that which his nephew had
said, and of that which, under permits
& sion, he had done.
Frances was furious against her
cousin for what she justly termed his
willy, underhaild conduct: and sydney
protested with sincerity which the
baronet could not doubt, that in all his
..aife before he had never known such
perfectly happy moments as mad peen
anany of those which he had already
*
And as so he said. Sydney. perhaps
-unconsciously to himself, glanced to-
ward Frances, whose eyes sank be-
meath the gaze, and whose face was
.once more suffused with rosy blush.
-Rut the mischief had been done. the
friends whom Stanley had invited had
arrived. and few and far between be-
came the opportunities for those con-
/, -ve-sations. in which indeed but little
3 had been said, and for those rambles
together which-forgctting for the
fine. how impossible. in the future,
= anneared the realization of the dream
Al which they were indulging- made
fhis greatly-abused world to them a
paradise.
Boisterous, "fast" young men were
f these friends Of Stanley's. who de-
s stroyed all peace and comfort within
flle house; and as deeply as the lovers,
though from far different causes, did
tho haronet detest their presence in
his mansion.
In the dusk of evening, four days be
fore that one on which the baronet had
Axed for his departure toward London
with Sydney, and his nephew, and
niece. Stanley Claremont and Abra
nam Mailer were together, and in earn
ast and almost whispered conversa
tion. in a thick plantation which be
ionged to Sir LOghlen O'Meara ant
,vhich was but a few hundred yard,
from his mansion.
The peddler was now we'll mufi1et
up and without his pack.
81 He had followed the instruction
which he had received from Stanley
and had taken good care not to be seel
IN a neigllborhood which it was gen
erallv believed he had quilted severa
days before.
3. After many words had been ex
changed between these two men-s
Nifferent in station. but so perfect
equal In rascality-the peddler. doubt
inely shaking his head, grumbled fortl
s.Tm! It will be very hard job"
ANot to man Of your genius, Abrs
man," fiatteringly said Stanley. An
continued: ITO but succeed in it, m
rnod fellow, and then shall be tn
6rst to say to my uncle. Behold
sydney Drummond the man whom 70
were seeking!"
whatever might be the secret whic
emitted the baronet to Sydney Drum
mond's family, Stanley knew his unc
zoo we'll to fear that he would recei,
within his own q man who, in the cyl
OF the world, should be dishonored.
"But how am to make my way
his room?' asked Abraham.
II viii contrive all that for you
was the reply. -.
It was perfectly dark that mig
when these two men quilted the pla
cation, stanley proceeding toward t
ss mansion, followed at some little d
3 4ancc by his accomplice.
Three evenings afterward. ana aga
ssS when 1t was nearly dark. Stanley q