Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-12-03

"ViVu III lhShlohs whose portals VIII De
opened gladly TO welcome the bride OF
the mighty millionaire"
I BY Joyel Little Maggie has played
her cards well, unless this is a hoax!'
he said to himself, as he came to the
end OF the paragraph. He felt excited
and exultant and trife sorry that he
had not known of this brilliant match
which his sister was going to make, a
few weeks earlier. He hardly knew
what he would have done or left un-
done had this knowledge been youch--
safed TO him. But he felt vaguely
that he would have acted differently.
and felt rather inclined to blame Mag
gle for having kept the matter 50 quiet.
"0ld Gwenap must have eighty or
hundred Thousand year" he re-
marked To q man who strolled up at
the moment to ask about the special
correspondents billet.
Dare say! Who's old Gwenap?"
the man answered, carclessly, and
Shalto Graham looked and felt Of
Tended. Now that he was about to
become connected with the millionaire
he regarded 1t as piece OF imperti-
nence that any one should presume TO
be ignorant OF that gentleman's ex-
istence.
IF YOU ever looked at anything but
the cycling fixtures You would see his
name in nearly every paper you take
up
Really! Well, never mind him,
now Have YOU heard anything about
the specialists billet2'
mo! I'm thinking OF withdraw
ing my APPLICATION for IT, Shalto said,
ltndifferently.
why you were red hot about II yes
terday! What's up? 1t is true that you
are engaged? Is the lady averse to
your going to the front?"
IL am engaged, but my engagement
has nothing to do with my giving up
the post. The fact is, shall set some
thing much better. My sister Is to be
married very soon to Sir Andrew
GIenap.
He pointed out the paragraph, and
the other man read II carefully
II don't see myself why You should
give up such a jolly good chance Of
making your mark because your sister
Is going to marry Croesus. but IL
YOU do you'll have no objection to my
trying my hand with the Blectrifyer
people. suppose"
TRY 1t by all means, my dear fell
low. II you feel up TO the work; but
should hardly have thought 1t YVES
your line. You have never done any
press work. | believer And this will
be press work under circumstances OF
great danger ana difficulty
Uncon ,ciously Shalto Graham spoke
more patronizingly than he had ever
done before to his follow clubman.
But the latter only laughed good-tem-
peredly as he said.
III get It ! shall pull through,
think. | have done two or three royal
weddings and field days for the d. e.,
so they will take me on my merits and
not ON trust II they take me at all :"
You have, have you? You've kept
It pretty close. Are you on the stan? 7"
Sholto Graham asked, grudgingly. He
had wanted TO be on the staff OF the
Daily Electrifyer himself AMI was not
SO the grudging tone was human and
pardonable.
ION the staff Well, ! suppose
am. I'm retained by them TO write
for no other London daily. so | may
say without arrogance that I'm on their
staff. suppose,
He was fine, broad-shouldered.
well-grown, frank-faced young fellow
who said this. A man with broad
brow and blue eyes, that looked
straightly and steadfastly at every one
to whom he spoke. Though they we're
fellow-clubmen meeting each other
daily they were not very intimate. In
fact, this was perhaps the longest con-
yersation Sholto Graham and Edward
Thorburn had ever had together.
There was northern ring In his
name and his appearance gave further
and conclusive evidence II his descent
from some hardy Norseman who CEN
turtles ago had welded with some fair
daughter OF East Anglia. Indeed.
since he had left the quiet old Norfolk
homestead where he had been born
and his people had lived for genera
tlons, and had come up TO be an ad-
miralty clerk, he had often sat To Boz
hemlan artist friends as model for
vikings. a Morse god sprite Of the
north winds and seas and so forth. His
grand physique, his boldly, perfectly
chiseled face, deep-blue eyes and bright
golden, crisply curled hair were all
redolent and illustrative Of the bright
ness, strength and vigor Of the north.
you must be making very good
thing OF II II they retain you. Five or
six hundred year suppose2 BY
Jove, / wouldn't 90 on grinding at
Somerset house II | were you. Why
didn't you cut the admiralty and go
in entirely for journalism"
i've not too much work to do and
want every penny ! make" Thorburn
said, quietly.
You're not an extravagant fellow;
you neither drink nor gamble; but per-
haps you are married.
The red blood worked up TO the roots