The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-06-08

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Lord Tottenham turned sharp off and
began to walk away, holding Noel by
the collar. We caught up with him and
! asked him where he was going, and he
said: ITO the police station"
So then l said: well, don't take
Noel-he's not strong and he easily
| gets upset. Besides, it wasn't his do
ing. If you want to take anyone, take
met was my idea entirely"
Dicky behaved very well. He said:
eff you take Oswald I'll go too-but
don't take Noel; he's such a delicate
little chap"
Lord Tottenham stopped, and he said:
''You should have thought of that be-
FORE"
| Noel was bowling all the time and his
face was very white, and Alice said:
''Oh, do let Noel go, dear, good, kind
Lord Tottenham, he'll faint if you don't
Il know he will; he does sometimes.
| Oh, 1 wish we'd never done it! Dora
said il was wrong"
Dora displayed considerable COM
mon sense" said Lord Tottenham, and
he let Noel go, and Alice put her arms
| round Noel and tried to cheer him up.
Then Lord Tottenham said: Twill
you give me your word of honor not to
| try to escape?'
So we said we would.
Then follow me-" he said, and led the
way to bench. We ali followed, and
Pincher too with his tail between his
legs. He knew something was wrong.
Then Lord Tottenham sat down, and he
| made Oswald and Dickie and II. o.
stand in front of him, but he let Alice
and Noel sit down. And he said: "You
set your dog on me, and you tried to
make me believe you were saving me
from it. And you would have taken
my half-sovereign. Such conduct is
most-no, you shall tell me what it is,
sir, and speak the truth
So had to say it was most ungentle-
manly; but said hadn't been going
to take the half-sovereign.
Then what did you do it for?' he
asked. "The truth, mind"
So I said: ~ see now it was very silly,
and Dora said it was wrong; but it
didn't seem so till we did it. We want
ed to restore the fallen fortunes of our
house, and in the books if you rescue an
old gentleman from deadly peril he
makes your fortune; and there wasn't
any deadly peril, SO we made Pincher
into one-and So" I was so ashamed
l couldn't go on, for it did seem an aw-
fully mean thing. Lord Tottenham
said:
ga very nice way to make your for
tune-by deceit and trickery! have
horror of dogs. If I'd been a weak
man the shock might have killed me.
What do you think of yourselves, eh?"
We were al crying except Oswald,
and the others say he was, and Lord
Tottenham went on:
"Well, see you're sorry. Let this be
lesson to you; and we'll say no more
about it. mi an old man now. but 1
was young once"
Then Alice slid along the bench close
to him and said: II think you're very
good to forgive us, and we are really
very,very sorry. But we wanted to be
like the children in books, only we
never have the chances they have. But
we are sorry-very sorry. And 1 know
Oswald wasn't going to take the half
sovereign. Directly you said that about
tip began to feel bad inside, and L
whispered to H o. that 1 wished we
hadn't"
Then Lord Tottenham stood up, and
he looked like the death of Nelson"
for he is clean shaver and it is good
face, and he said:
always remember never to do dis
honorable thing, for money or for any
thing else in the world
And we promised we would remem-
Der. Then he took off his hat and we
took off ours, and he went away and we
went home. never felt so cheap in all
my life.
| Dora said: 81 told you so;" but we
didn't mind even that so much, though
| it was hard to bear. 1t was what Lord
Tottenham had said about ungentle-
manly. We didn't go on to the heath
for aweek after that; but at last we
went, and we waited for him by the
| bench. When he came along Alice said:
Please, Lord Tottenham, we have
| not been on the heath for week, to be
| punishment, because you let US off.
And we have brought you present
each, if you will take them, to show
you we are willing to make it up"
He sat down on the bench and we gave
| him our presents. Oswald gave him a
sixpenny compass; he bought it with
his own money on purpose to give him.
Oswald always buys useful presents.
| The needle would not move after I'd had
it day or two; but Lord Tottenham
used to be an admiral, so he will be able
to make that go all right. Alice had
made him shaving case with rose
worked on it. II. O.gave him his knife
the same one he once cut all the but
tons off his best suit with. Dickie gave
him his prize "Naval Heroes" because
l.