Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-03-08
n this they wronged him.
CHAPTER Nv.

heavy with heat, the desire for action that
lies in every breast takes fire. They are
all tired Of doing nothing. The tennis
courts lie invitingly empty, and rackets
thrust themselves into notice at every
turn: as for the balls, worn out from
cnnui, they insert themselves under each
arched instep threatening to bring the
owners to the ground unless picked up and
made use of.
who wants a beatingT' demands Mr..
Dicky Brown at last, unable to pretend
lassitude any longer. Taking up racket,
he brandishes it wildly, presumably to at
tract attention. This is necessary. As a
rule. nobody pays any attention to Dicky
Browne. He is a nondescript sort of
Young man, of the negative order, with no
feature to speak of, and a capital opinion
of himself. Income vague. Age un-
known.
well! That's one way Of putting IT,"
says Miss Kavanagh, with a tilt of her
pretty chin. a...r
lis it a riddle:y asked Dysart. ''If so l
know it. The answer is-Dicky Browne"
"Oh, l like that!' says Mr.. Browne un-
abashed. See here. III give you plus If
teen and a bisQue. and start myself at
minus thirty, and beat you ip canter-"
Dear -Ar. Browne, consider the day! !
believe there are such things as sun
strokes" says Lady SwansdOwn, in her
sweet treble.
Lord Baltimore, drawing up a garden
on It. His head is SO hard. The sun
makes no impression upon granite"
"Ah, granite! that applies to. q heart,
not a head" says Lady Swansdown, rest
ing her blue eyes on Baltimore for just q
swift second.
1t is wonderful, however, what her eyes
can do in a second. Baltimore laughs
lightly, returns her glance four-fold, and
draws his chair a quarter Of an inch closer
to hers. To move 1t more than that would
have been an impossibility.
Lady Swansdown makes q slight move
ment. With q smile seraphic as an angels
she pulls her lace skirts a little to one
side, az II to prove to Baltimore that he
has sncroached beyond his privileges upon
her domain. people should not crush
people. And why do you want to get 20
very close to mew This question lies
within the serene eyes she once more
raises to his.
She y Q lovely woman, blonde, serene,
dangerous! In each glance she turns upon
the man who happens at any moment to
be next to her, lies an entire chapter on
he "Whole Art Of Filtration" Were she
reduced to penury, and the world a little
more advanced in its fashionable ways
she might really make a small fortune in
teaching young ladies How to Marry
Well" No man could resist her pupils,
once properly finished by her. and turned
out to prey upon the stronger sex. 1.-The
Complete Angler" would be q title they
might flch with perfect honor and call
their own.
She is a tall beauty, with soft limbs,
graceful as a panther, or cat. Her eyes
are like the skies in summer time. her 1ps
sweet and full The silken hair that falls
In soft masses on her Grecian brow is light
al corn in harvest, and she has hands and
feet that are absolutely faultless. She has
even more than all these most con-
yepient HUSBAND who is not only now, but
apparently always, in position OF trust
abroad. Very much abroad. The FIJI OF
the Sandwich Islands for choice. One
can't hear from those centers Of worldly
dissipa ton in a hurry. And, after all, II
really don't very much matter where he is.
There had been whisper or two in the
county about her and Lord Baltimore
Everybody knew the latter had been Q
little wild since his estrangement with his
wife, but nothing to signify very mucn.
nothing one could lay ones finger on, until
Lady Swansdown had come down ias'
year to the Court. Whether Baltimore
was In love with her was uncertain, but
su were agreed that she was in love Win
him.
"Whose hearth" asks Baltimore, apro
nos of her last remark. "Yours?
II ia a leading remark. and something
in the way it is uttered strikes unpieas-
sntly on the ears Of Dysart. Baltimore is
bending over his lovely guest, and looking
1t her with an admiration too open TO De
hnite respectful. But she betrays no re-
eentment. She smiles back at him indeed
In that little SLOW. seductive way OF nerA
.nd makes him an answer IN a zone 100
low for even those nearest to ner 10 near
II i. n sort of challenge, tacit achho"
edement that they two are alone even ~
the midst of all these tiresome peopN'
Baltimore accepts it. VI % ,a'e ..iIns
grown a little reckless. Inc -
against circumstances has peeh ,To "u ~.
for him. He has gone under, 80,
sistent coldness Of his wiie' nel g.. 90.
TO hear or believe in him, mas nau .''
feet. A man Of naturanv ,ron
kindly disposition, thrown thus o.eH u -
himself, he has now given q oose .. ~
the carelessness that has oeeu r;,, 70
his nature since his motnef sase ~
the world, and allows himsen ~ ~. no
go down with the tide that cs1rie' A''
upon its bosom. ND kind.
sha ,s.r. toward Baltimore, her lovev
o"e "a ,~nuth smiling. de9