The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-16
PART III.


PART III.
Margery's pretty, merry face was
white with anger as she moved haugh-
t:ly away; Carr. very red. with three
white stripes on his cheek, was the first
o. the four TO recover composure. He
moved off with muttered apology and
forced Jest about striking arguments,
and. seating himself within the shadow
of the broken wall, where room had
once been, began TO smoke fiercely.
..Hard hit for once, my good Wilfced,"
brandon said. joining him, after civil
good morning TO Rosalind. Jolly lit
lie girl that. straightforward. No
nonsense about her. Hits out as if she
meant il"
"---!" observed Sir Wilfred, briefly.
"Wretch!" Margery sobbed, under
the shadow of cedar that reached
from the ruined upper room whittier
she had fed 10 the wall under which
the two men were smoking. NASTY,
horrd-"
"Nonsense, child," interrupted Rosa
lind. After ALL perhaps it served US
right for letting them think us"
"Us, indeed nobody kissed you'll"
"Or you, either; come. come!" con-
tinued Rosalind, drawing her cousin
gently along the narrow path on the
first story of the ruin to deep-recessed
ogee window IN the cool thickness of
the wall, where they could sit comfort
ably. ''You had the best of il, Margie.
j don't think he'll want any more
ginger-pop just yet, do you? oh, hush!
look!"
Both peeped through the unglazed
window, which was partially hidden
by cedar,boughs, and saw. Immediately
lpeneath them the subjects of their con-
versation. Carr, the white marks still
on his flushed cheek. was speaking with
unusual energy.
"If goad looks were virtues, he'd soon
be In Paradise" whispered Rosalind.
"Ah! Miss Dragon, he'd have got no
ginger-pop from you," murmured Mar
gerry, laughing, with the tears still on
her peach-like cheeks and in her merry
Eyes.
'I don't care" Carr was saying, en-
phatically, 'I must have her, or shall
be clean stone broke"
"Whatl marry rpiteful, frumpish
old maid for an owls nest and a heap OF
ruins?"
"And half the county and heaven
knows what besides. It'spositively sim
ful for all that fine property to be
thrown away on a woman. 1t ought
not to be allowed in any Christian coun-
try"
"Well, but what would stone broke
youths do with no heiresses to marry?'
Positively sinful" he repeated, with
pious energy. "And here am /, with at
least two-thirds of my rents unpaid,
and all kinds of burdens on the estates,
and the masters jointure, and her
house, and the girls portions, not to
speak of their keep, and mortgages here
and there and everywhere, and n run OF
ill-luck at Monte Carlo last March, and
losing heavily on 'Glendower,' and that
beast of trainer letting Young Loch-
invar' be got at, besides-one must have
ones fling now and then; one can't al
ways live like an anchoritc--"
"Did you ever" drawled Brandon,
slowly, ''ah-try?"
II cannot understand the principles
Cn which this beast of world is gov
srned," complained Carr, pathetically.
'sHere is this --!-What's this creep
ing inside my collar?" he said, putting
up his hand. Little Stones"
"Old crone?"
unmarried woman, positively roll
ing in riches. Dover saws she has n
whole coal mine to herself"
ITO roll imp"
"And here am I-Oh! I'll make the
plunge-though she's as ugly as sin. as
old as Methuselah, as stupid as an owl,
as illtempered as q sick bear, and as
wicked as the devil--I'll have her, say.
Confound It'll" he cried, putting up his
Land TO his collar again, "what can this
be %
THE family ghost protesting" ex-
planned Brandon, with delightful grin.
MS his eye followed thin stream of NOR
tar from inside Sir Wilfred's collar TO
its source in slender hand vanquish-
ing in the window. "But suppose she
won't have you? She must be dab at
refusing by this timer"
"She's woman" returned Sir Will
fred, with singular smile--"oh! Con-
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