The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-19

course, when she was seven and half
miles from home. she punctured the tire
of the hind wheel, and SAT disconsolate
on a messy bank, not knowing what
to do with it. There was a repair kit
along, but she knew nothing Of its use,
thinking it had been put there to ball
ance the wheel, or something Of that
sort.
At this junCture-OT perhaps II would
be more accurate to say at this pune
tUre-there happened along a nice
young man. who also rode a wheel He
sprang off. on seeing a maiden in dis
tress and asked'politely if he could be
Of any assistance. He could, and he
was. The girl sat there, and admired
his deft handling Of a tire that had IN
expectedly gone as limp as a rag.
There" said the young man cheer
fully, 1T is all right now, my lady,
80. you know who / am, said the
girl flushing slightly.
yes. my lady. but as it is not likely
that YOU recognize me, may l have the
pleasure of introducing myself2'
CThese board schools in England do
enable a young man to express him
self beautifully. Pretty soon there Will
be no more dialect stories written for
which mercy let Us be truly thankfully
Il should be pleased to have you 90
sc" replied Lady GwendOlen with dig
nifty, that l may know to whom L am
under obligations.
There is no obligation my lady: 1t
was a delight to serve you. 1 am John
A. Biggs. son Of the blacksmith in
P0dbury- GOsset. the village under the
shadow of StobcTOss castle, as one
might say, although it is five miles
away. We Go cycle repairing, and II
ANYTHING ever goes wrong with your
wheel. we will put it right as cheaply
as any other reliable house in the
trade.
"Cheapness has no attra stion for my
father" saiG Lady Gwendolen with
some Of the hauteur of the gentleman
she had mentioned. I'VE have never
been in the custom of haggling about
price"
The young man bowed and was silent.
He was well aware of the earl's tinan-
cial principles.
The two rode together along the lane
toward the castle, and chatted in the
most amiabIe manner OF the various
merits of different machines. and when
they parted at last, the girl impulsiVely
held out her hand and if he kept 1t in
his own a little longer than was strictly
necessary. who shall blame him Not
1. for one: I've done il myself. He made
/ bold to ask her if she was accustomed
to cycle often in that lane, and she an
swered in a low voice that she was.
But where is the use of my dwelling
on these details2 I know the reader
has already fathOmed my shallow plot.
There is only one story TO write, and
that has been written over and over
anG over again. Still ! am encouraged
to proceed because l an dealing with
T o. 10 =
plain. unenameled record of actual
events tall except the Noah story,
which ] am not responsible for; the
monk wrote thsO, and as long as
stick rigidly TO the truth | don't see
how l can be found fault with. II
were writing fiction. I would call the
young man Reginald TrevOur instead #
John A Biggs. / don't see much r0-
nance about the name of BigEs my
self. although he was fine, stalwarJ
young fellow. deeply read in clippings
stolen from the American comic papers
and consequently possessing such a
vast fund of information that it was
an education in itself for any lady in
/ the land to talk with him. But the
( reader who thinks everything Is going
smoothly from now on, is much mis-
+ taken. Neither of the young people
gave a thought to the proud earl, who
/ paced the battlements with his chin
/ in the air, and who was SO unliterary
I that he didn't even take in a Sunday
/ paper The willy reader who keeps his
] eve on that naughty earl. win run the
j best chance of gaining the guinea prize
/ offered for a solution Of the ''StObcrOss
I Mystery
/ The TWO young people met often 1T
/ that leafy lane and talked most absorb
ingly OF let US say Of bicycles
/ and the component parts thereof. And
the arrogant earl kept his nose 50 per
pendicular that he saw nothing of What