The Indianapolis world., 1900-01-27
When a
Mans Single.
BY J. M. Barrie,
CHAPTER XV-Continued.
By J. M. Barrie,

Bly even VI ueE DEOLueF snare IN los
tering it. If so, she was too proud to
end it. He found that if he mentioned
Rob to her she did not answer a word.
NelFs verbal experiments in the same
direction met with a similar fate, and
every one was glad when the colonel
reappeared to take command.
Colonel Abinger was only in London
for a few days, being on his way to
Glen Quharity, the tenant of which
was already telegraphing him glorious
figures about the grouse. Mary was
going, too, and the Merediths were
shortly to return to Silchester.
There is a Thrums man on this
STAIR" Dick said to his father one af-
ternOon in Frobisher's Inn, "a partic-
ular friend of mine, though l have
treated him villianously."
"Ah," said the colonel, who had just
come up from the house boat, "then
you might have him in and make your
difference up. Perhaps he could give
me some information about the shoot
ing"
Possibly" Dick said; "but we have
no difference to make UP, because he
thinks me as honest as himself. You
What did you say his name was?"
4"His name is Angus"
81 can't recall any Angus"
"Ah, you never knew him so well as
Mary and 1 do"
"Mary?" asked the colonel, looking
up quickly.
EYES," said Dick. "Do you remem-
fber man from Silchester paper who
was at the castle last Chrstmas?
"Whatr' cried the colonel, IAN un-
.derbred, poaching fellow who"
>'r(Ot at ALL" said Dick, "an excellent
gentleman who is to make his mark
here, and, as 1 have said, my very par
ticular friend"
'"That fellow turned up again."
groaned the colonel.
Il have something more to tell you
Of him." continued Dick, remorselessly.
<'I have reason to believe, as we say
on the press when hard up for copy,
that he is in love with Mary"
The colonel sprang from his seat.
-''Be calm," said Dick.
81 am calm," cried the colonel, not
saying another word, so fearful was
he of what Dick might tell him next.
-"That would not perhaps so much
matter" Dick said, coming to rest at
the back of a chair, ''if it were not
that Mary seems to have an equal re-
gard for him."
Colonel Abinger clutched the edge
of the table, and it was not a look Of
love he cast at Dick.
~'Tf this be true" he exclaimed, his
voice breaking in agitation, Il shall
never forgive you, Richard, never. But
Il don't believe it."
Dick felt sorry for his father.
at is a fact that has to be faced"
ne said, more gently.
"Why, why, why, the man is pau
peri"
Not a bit of it," said Dick. "He
may be on the regular staff of the
@Wire' any day now"
'""You dare to look me in the face and
TeH me you have encouraged this,
this cried the colonel, choking in
rush Of words.
"Ouite the contrary" Dick said; II
have done more than had any right
to do TO put an end to it"
"Then 1T is ended?"
%'I can't say"
at shall be ended" shouted the col
,Dnel. making the table groan under his
d1st
.Tn q manner" Dick said, you are
resDonsible for the whole affair. DO
you remember when you were at Glen
eOuharity two or three years ago ask
gnp4a parson called ROrrisOn, father of
'ROrrison, the war correspondent, to
s,se his sons press influence on behalf
of n Thrums man? Well, Angus is
that man. Is it not strange how this
has come about"
E'It is enough to make me hate my
self" replied the irate colonel, though
It had not quite such an effect as that.
When his father had subsided n lit
tIe. Dick told him of what had been
happening in England during the last
month or two. There had been q
change of government, but the chief
.event was the audacity of plebian in
casting his eyes on a patrician's
daughter. What are politics when the
mines in the bath room burst?
$50 YOU see," Dick said. in conclu-
sion. "I have acted the part of the I'M
,relenting parent fairly we'll, and I
don't like it,
HAD L DeeH III gOul plhNC' lNp'lCN
the colonel. "I would have acted it a
good deal better"
"You would have told Angus that
Won considered him, upon the whole,
the meanest thing that crawls. and
thot if he came within radius of five
miles of your daughter you would
have the law of him? Yes; but that
sort of trespassing is net actionable
oowadays; and, besides, [ don't know
.yhat Mary might have saidt'.
"Tresspassingr echoed the colonel
"I could have had the law Of him for
trespassing nearly year ago"
you mean the time you caught him
fishing in the Dome? I only heard OF
that at second hand, but l have at
-Seast no doubt that he fished to some
effect"
"He can fish," admitted the colonel
tT should like to know what flies he
used"
Dick laughed.
~Angus," he said. ''is n NJ with a
natural aptitude for things does
not. l suspect, even make ike d
beginner"
lyon are on his side.
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