Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-18
why are you here and alone?" asked

Again the khansamah made answer
The mem-sahib and his sister tool
the two ponies and left dandy''-point
ing. No eoolies-no one to call Il. Mem
sahib ride pony, and take boy-Miss
sahib take dog-chubrassi take jewe
| case
4 call this a pretty fix you are left in,
said Sir Paul, addressing the girl. his
/ face red with anger.
They could not help it," she pro
/ tested. Mrs. Passingham was terri
| fed, and so was Miss Moray. They were
nearly crazy"
well. they are not too terrified tc
remember the jewels and the dog"
Il know they will send back for me
/ they promised to do se.".
Send" with angry scorn. "'Who
would come here? There is only one
way out of it. You will have to walk
| The khansamah will accompany you
| to the next bungalow. would go with
you, of course, only don't like to leave
| my old bearer alone"
I cannot walk" she answered, with
| tears in her eyes. Il upset a kettle OF
water this morning and scalded myself
very badly and she held out a shoeless
| foot, swathed with baDdages.
Sir Paul was literally at his wits end.
He stood speechless.
You want this" she continued, hold
| ing out a prayer book, open at the serv-
ice for the burial of the dead. And
will come with you if you will help me, y
and she hobbled down the steps.
%
side of the veranda table, he said:
Your name is very familiar one to
mel saw it in your prayer book"
''Jones-it is a familiar name to
everyone, fancy"
Il mean your Christian name-Ar-
moreiI. 1t is family name?"
Il am called after my godmother.
Lady Nane."
Lady Vane is my aunt" A pause.
Does she know that you are out here?
''Oh, yes. She hears of me fire.
quently."
she shall hear of you again very
shortIy-from me-"
''Oh, Do"-with a face of unmistaka-
bic distress. please do not mention
me, or say how you have met ne"
why not? if I may presume to ask
-godsister; for she is my godmotheT,
too
Il suppose shall have to tell you,"
she said, leaning her head on her hands
and looking down at the table-'and
then you will understand"
We'll. 1 must confess that 1 should
like to understand"
E. ~,
where the Vanes live-she is my moth
er's cousin. The living was small and
he had large family. 1 am the eldest
of five girls. am 30. And there are
two boys
when my father died my mother
was left very badly off. and we had, of
course, to leave the dear old rectory.
My mother took little cottage in the
village and friends were very kind to
her and helped her to send the boys to
college. My fathers sister, who is the
wife of = planter out here, offered to take
ME, and came out nearly three years
ago.
My aunt was not the least like my
father. She is a woman of ungoyerna-
BILE temper. She took an inveterate
dislike to me-which increased day by
day, and finally came to a climax-when
I-I-refused to marry to please her-a
man l loathed. She then turned me
adrift and washed her hands of me.
My aunt and uncle went off to Aus
tralia for six months and left me to
shift for myself. a school fellow took
me in for a time, but she and her hus-
band were obliged to go to England. !
could not go home, for had no money,
and I was determined not to add to my
mothers burdens
Il seemed to have no foothold in the
world when l found myself with 25
rupees in a third-clasS boarding house
in Calcutta. 1 had advertised in the
Pioneer for a situation as governess or
companion. No answers. It ended in
my remaining on in the boarding house,
as bookkeeper and help, in exchange
for board and lodging.
u was there for more than a year
for two whole hot weathers! The lazy,
fat old Eurasian landlady left all the
10 me. and-oh, the heat.
the sitting atmosphere, the quarreling
and complaints OF the boarders.
Il advertised for a place as maid or
nurse. Mrs. Passingham engaged me,
ana mere 1 am
Here you are, indeed" emphatical- |
y. And what do your people say 70
They know nothing about it, My /
mother believes that l am on a delight /
al visit. as 4 sort of companion TO Miss
Moray. My sister Rose is in the secret,
md il is such q relief to tell her the
ruth In years time Bobby will be
ut in the world-and then l shall go
home. Now you know why you must
lever tell Lady Vane-that you have
ONE acr0ss Amorell Jones'"
BY dint of enormous brides the khan
amah allured sufficient coolies to con-
ey away that evening Miss Jones and
he bearer. Sir Paul accompanied the
arty on foot. They went by goat
rack over the hills. thus avoiding the
alley of the shadow OF death, and ar
ived at the next bungalow ere mid
light.
1T the first resthouse Sir Paul en-
ountered an old Indian friend. Mrs.
Upper Beach. and under her notherIy
are Miss Jones Travelled the remaining
our days journey. AT the railway ter
minus SIR Paul found his trusty Bhootia
ony tied. casually, to tree, and in the
-aiting-room Mrs. Passingham and
arty. who received him with effusion
5 a long-Iost friend.
I'VE got your chit two days ago. So
cod of You to have looked after poor
ones for u.s." said Lila, who had !
,iSSad her soreIx