Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-07-27
HIS FRIEND.

4 no ! NEIIND
81 do believe I'm the most unlucky devil
on the face OF this EARTH grumbled Gil
bert Fenton.
''Unluckyr' Jack Tracey burst out
laughing in the face of the spoiled child of
fortune. "All [ can say is, ninety-nine
fellows out of a hundred would be very
we'll satisfied with your luck. Why, man,
what more Go you want? You've youth
wealth. health -
Everybody is young once" interrupted
the other. land every body lives the same,
whether they have money or not. The
only difference is that chaps who have the
cash pay for those VINO haven [.
All the same, everybody doesn't man
age to own a derby favOrite of their own
breeding, nor yet to get engaged to the
prettiest. incest heiress in the kingdom"
4 dare say not but" Gilbert stopped.
He was as intimate with Jack Tracey
him, how could he say that the match
between himself and Miss Lambton wa 5
4 union of properties rather than of
hearts, a family arrangement, in which
he acquiesced because he was given to
understand that the girl liked him, and
because he at al events, liked no one
else Besides there was the fortune.
one whose income is inadequate to supply
his needs can be called wealthy. There
fore. Mr.. FentOn, to whom Il yacht. a
moor, racing stud and a hunting box
at Melton were necessities, who, more
over, fanCed himself as a judge of rae
ing and backed his opinion as freely as
he gave It, could by no manner Of means,
notwithstanding his $4,000 per annum,
be called a rich man. Yet never for one
moment when he pledged himself had he
realized the lettering influence his en-
gagement would exercise on his move
mentS. For instance, here was he
dragged Up town to dance attendance on
Miss Lambton at some ridiculous family
dinners, just when he was particularly
wanted at home, because only the day
before every chivalraus sympathy he pos
seSSad land he was no more of 4 brute
than his neighbours had been stirred on
behalf Of an unfortunate lady he found
not a mile from his own lodge gate. 1t
appeared that dismounting from her BIZ
cycle, she had slipped, Sprained her an
kle. and found herself by the roadside
quite unable to move. and suffering agony
which she Lore with fOrtitude nothing
less than heroic. He could not but adj
nlsre the pluck, patience and cheerfulneSS
she displayed, when, with some difficulty
he lifted the sufferer into his dogcart and
drove her to the pretty little cottage by
the north cOpSe, tenanted by an cid sarY-
art Of his family, where it appeared the
fair stranger was lodging. Except for
this tlresOme summons to town he would
have called today to inquire; in common
ciyllity he could do 40 less. He was in
terested. too, in the stranger; a charm
ing person, not exactly pretty, but win
ming and sympathetic, graceful. dainty
all III fact. that a woman should be.
Who was she, too? What had brought
her to the little cottage at Abbottsthorpe?
What But Jack was speaking.
By the way, how is the precious ami
mal* he was asking.
Animal, On, the great Solitaire. the
best 2-year-old of his year, the winner of
the two thousand the certainty for the
derby, or whom his owner had plunged
recklessly, and who now, alas. seemed
to be going the way of all certainties.
For a doubtful sineW in the derby favor
lite had caused considerable anxiety since
the two thousand to both the owner and
the trainer. 1t might stand with care,
but then again, it might go under the
strain of preparation. However so far,
no harm was done, and Wicks was always
4 croaker Besides, stable secrets must
be kept, at all events until the stable has
had time to hedge its money. And
The horse is all right so far as I
know" he said evasivels. ''but l haven t
set eyes on him since | saw him win
ut Newmarket. | shall run down and see
Wicks probably tomorrow"
In the meantime there was the dinner.
as dull an affair as ever he had the i'll
luck to sit out. Mr.. Fenton came home
from it IN the worst possible temper. If
Glare meant to deluge him with all her
snuffy old relations, life wouldn't be worth
having Also, if she must drag him up
TO town, and infiict these duty functions
on him, the best she could do was to
make herself agreeable in return And
this most emphatically she had not done.
He thought her eXacting. She was an
noyed at his want of courtesy and atten-
ton toward her family. In short. they
parted mutually aggrieved. ''Clare is get
ting abominably dictatorial," reflected
Clare's future lord and master. ''She
should remember that a man wants a
companion, not q gOverness, for wife,
How refreshing. then. in contrast with
Miss Lambton's attitude was bis recep-
ton at the hands of his new friend when,
on his way from the station, he stopped
ut his cottage to pay his respects to her!
How gladly she welcomed him! How
gratefully she thanked him for the few
flowers, which. as a trifling act of courtesy,
he had sent her! How meekly she sub
mitted to his reproaches On the score of
imprudence! For TO his horror he found
MIS-. Long walking already.
Il can't imagine what your doctor can
be thinking of not to keep you on the
sofa" he declared.
She smiled
81 have no DOCTOR she said. ''To
tell the truth, | have very little faith in
doctors remedies, and a holy horror IF
their bills, so l treated myself, most
successfully, as you must allow Oh, I
am quite well, | assure you. thanks to
the splendid air and quiet here
''Then you like Abbottsthorpe?"
Il love it, she sighed. 1T is a per-
feet paradise Of peace and rest after
knocking about the world, as it has been
my fate to do
And very hardly the world must have
treated her, that she should find a well