The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-16

AS charming story for light reading
this tale of My Lady Peggy Is sure
to meet with popular favor, In out
ward seeming alone the book would
win attention, for it is most attractive
ly gotten up with its pretty cover de-
sign in yellow and white, excellent IL
Illustrations, special designs for title
page and chapter heads, and clear type
printed in wide-margtned pages. Nor
does a perusal Of the story leave the
reader one whit disappointed in the
promise Of the book.
Lady Peggy, the heroine of the story,
ie an tmperious girl, who has grown up
with a twin-brother, sharing in all his
sports and developing thereby into an
unusually strong and athletic young
woman. She is. moreover large for
her sex and fully her brothers equal
in size as well as IN sporting skill.
Add to this the fact that she is beauti-
fun and has two ardent admirers, and
you have the setting for the story.
The plot opens with Lady Peggy's
impatient awaiting Of the arrival Of her
lover, Sir Percy de Bohm, who, al
though, as she supposed, four days
previously informed of her return from
a visit to her godmother in Kent, has
not yet been to see his mistress. Full
of indignation at this neglect, Peggy
will not listen to his excuse, but,
roundly fiounting him, sends him away
broken hearted by telling him that she
can find a better sutton in Sir Robin
Mozart, an insignificant little noble
man in Kent, whom Sir Percy has new
er seen.
Time passes; the lover goes to Lon
don, where he shares the rooms of
Peggy's brother, and tries to
drown his woes in the frivolities of So
ciety life. His misery is so evident
that Peggys brother Kennaston final
ly writes to her, begging that she take
Percy again into favor.
Meanwhile Peggy has found that her
message to Sir Percy had been delayed,
even as he had told her, and So re-
morseful at the pain she has unjustly
caused him, she takes her maid and
goes to London to. visit her brother
and, incidentally, TO make peace with
Sir Percy.
While she is waiting in her brothers
rooms for his return, the chamber
maid tells her Of what a fine gentleman
Sir Percy is. and of how he is wear
ing his heart out for a certain young
lady in London, by name Lady Diana
Weston. Then does anger and morti-
fication indeed run riot in Lady Peg
gy's breast. She would return home at
once, but she fears to meet her brother
on the way.
Suddenly a bright scheme presents it
self. She has with her a letter of in
PRODUCTION from herself to her brother
for Sir Robin McTart, which she had
forgotten to send to that gentleman
Hastily dispatching her maid for a wig
and other necessities she dons some
clothes she has brought for her broth
er, and after hiding her maid and
bundles in the loft, retires into another
part of the building until her brother
should arrive.
This he presently does, accompanied
by Sir Percy and several other young
gentlemen Their entrance is followed
shortly by the knock of Lady Peggy,
alias Sir Robin McTart, who tenders
to Kennaston her letter of introduction.
AS Sir Robin she is most graciously
received, but no sooner does Sir Percy
hear the name than he determines to
pick a quarrel with this thief of his