The Press., 1898-04-07

Waller that yun could have got -.'4..e- body to do that Have you any foreign postage sLamps about you!'
 Friendship between the two gentle men was cemented and made permanent by the prtductlon of several foreign stamps and an envelope to place them Ill People were coming up to the re- freshment tent now. the band having declded to rest for half all hour and re- cover breath. and Master Waller invited MT Bradley to take hIs char
 "You don mlnd!'" asked Bradley of Miss Llewellyn
 Mot at all. she said politely
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 "Let me strike the match. inter posed Master Waller. I'm awfuIly good at that. And tell us some of your adventures '"
 "They wouldn't interest Miss Llew- ellyn."
 "Girls don't count" said Master Waller. "Tell me. Make it one where you nearly lost your life.
 So 10 or 15 minutes were thus occu- pied, the small boy seated on Bradley s knee and staring at him with open mouthed astonishment. Miss Llewcllyn, her head bowe d. studied the band pro- gramme in apparently a laborious search for the misprints that a musical pro- gramme always offers. Bradley gold the story we'll, without Obtruding hIs own share in the adventure, and when he had finished punched the small boy hu- morously to bring him back from south America to Regent park "And is that story true?" asked the small boy respectfully.
 "It has that drawback, youngster." Well, " said Master Waller, I'm a man that's awfully fond of adventure, but shouldn't care for that. What did you think of when that fierce animal was waiting to spring upon you?'' "Guess.
 Can't" said Master Waller. Gan you, Miss Llewellyn?'' | She shook her head and again became interested in the band programme. Bradley looked at her and waited for her to speak, but she made TO sign. Now, silence may at times be tolerable for grown up folk, but for impatient young men like Master Waller it brings nothing but weariness.
 els there any chance of seeing these orchids. MT. Bradley?' asked the youth. ''It'll be something to brag about to my people if I could just get sight of them
 | "We'Il all go over to the marquee and have look Miss Llewellyn. will you come, or shall we leave you herei There's rather a crush. ''
 Let's leave her, " suggested Master Waller. Miss Llewellyn likes being alone"
 'I think will stay here," she said.
 "We shall be back in ten minutes, '' said Bradley.
 Master Waller had to trot to keep uI with the long strides of his new friend, but he did not mind this because he felt 8 kind of reflected glory ill being accom-. panied by the man who had brought home some of the rarest of the amazing specimens in the crowded tent.
 'aGirls are nuisance, aren't they?' said Master Waller. looking up conf. Identially.
 "Sometimes, " said Bradley.
 "She isn't so tiresome, though, a. some.
 ''I think agree with you there.''
 Works awfully hard-too hard, Thy mamma says.
 "No necessity for that surely" said B. Adley rather sharply.
 But Miss Llewellyn has to live, T urged the small boy. My mamma says that she was we'll off for year or two before her father died, but since that''-
 "Her father dead?"
 "Here, I say said Master Waller l"Don' grip man s shoulder like that. ,
 "Sorryr'
 "They come into money, so my mann ma says. a few years ago'-
 II remember that.
 And then Miss Llewellyn's govern or put all into something, and it never came out again: That's why she has tt manage the calisthenic school that gt to. And I say. Can you touch your toe with the tips of your fingers without
 Where does she live now?' MT Bradley seemed excited
 "In rooms,'' replied Master Walle, volubly. five been there to tea alone with my sisters tThat's fine orchit there. You can't see it now. A girl hats in the way) And Miss Llewel lyn's got awfully nice furniture ant photographs. and'- Master Walle slapped his knee suddenly. ''I remem Der now where I've seen your face be fore. MT. Bradley Only without tn short beard '' -%
 "Come outside. " said Bradley, "an, tell me ''
 They made their way through tn crowd and reached the exit. Bradle, held his breath and bent to hear tn small boys reply
 ''On her dressing table, . whispere, Master Waller confidentially, lin tn beautifullest frame you ever saw, and Where are you going?"
 "Back to Miss Llewellyn," crie' Bradley
 Well. butt. said Master Walle protestingly, wait for me ''
 Bradley did not obey the young man s He strode across the lawn. past tn band, which was playing quick marcl that was not quick enough to keep pac with him. Before Master Waller foun the two there had been swift exchang of low sentences that altered their view of the world and made them both thin 2 of it as place where happiness is to b found.
 And why did you refuse me before dear?''
 Because all my people pressed me t accept you, said Miss Llewellyn