Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-16

Oh Ine treasury. The young man HIM
is barrister who, it is predicted.
public eye. Meanwhile, he is building
up large practice in London, where
the Balfour family have fine house.
His own castle is in Scotland, where
he will take his bride when. Here
we are again, at the wedding bells,
with half the romance still left I'M
told.
For two months, on the occasion of
Miss Sartoris' visit to London two
years ago, Archibald Balfour devoted
himself to making his country's at
fractions unsurpassed. He succeeded
not half as we'll as he hoped. He found
that Miss Sartoris had very decided
ideas about America and that she was
bent upon knowing 1t better. She
at the nations capital, where her
mothers girlhood had been passed and
where her grandfather had done the
| great things which had sent his name
down to history as one of the famous
presidents of the United States.
TO his intense regret Archibald Bal
four realized that the little American
fishing herself in life or even of falling
in love. He knew that when she
| laughed in his eyes at the end of a
couple of months and babe him goodby
He saw her sail off to the United
States without even having asked him
to correspond with her He knew that
she had gone as heart whole as She
had come. There was consolation In
that. He prayed that no American
would win her, and, meanwhile, he
| contented himself with hoping and
planning for her second visit
When she returned to Washington
little Miss Vivian plunged into life
of social gayety. Last year she left it
| in the very height OF the season to
who was seriously i'll. Her mothers
recovery sent her back full of enthusi-
asm, and heart for any pleasure. All
sorts of entertainments were planned
for her in the land where General
Grants granddaughter must always be
a popular darling. Had Vivian Sar-
toris had no other claim, this would
have been enough.
Gradually, the thing that Archibald
Balfour had feared came to pass. The
name Of Vivian Sartoris was linked
| with that of an American. Every
/ where, it was whispered that Timothy
Nichols, Of New York, had won her
heart. AT last it was announced in
the public prints that she was to be
self that her choice had fallen upon
an American.
This news probably Travelled over to
England, where Miss Vivian has MANY
friends. 1t is to be hoped that her
contraction went with 1t and that
Archibald Balfour's bad quarter Of an
hour really only lasted quarter of an
| hour.
Lately Vivian Sartori's younger Sis
ter, Rosemary, crossed the water to
spend a few months with her aunt, Mrs
| Gordon. What hope must have leaped
| up in her heart Of Mr.. Balfour at the
news!
1t was, indeed, the heard of her sis
| ter's coming. Two months since Wv
ian followed.
Mr.. Balfour began his siege again.
AT this time he found the fortress not
SO sercet to hersilf. The name of Aich-
| ibald Balfour came in the nature of a
! surprise to the ears of her mother and
grandmother.
They knew, of course, that Vivian,
or little Vivian, as they are more apt
to call her, and had no end of suitors,
but this especial one had scarcely been
mentioned to them. No letters had
been received. His name had only
been casually mentioned among a
hundder others.
| Suddenly, like thunderbolt out of
clear sky, there flashed over the
cables a message from Mrs. Gordon to
Mrs. Sartoris announcing briefly that
Mr.. Balfour had proposed for the hand
OF her daughter. Mr.. Balfour followed
this cable with another. less brief, In
which he urged his suit. Another fol-
lowed On this stating that Mrs. Gordon
was wonderfully well pleased with the
match, and hoped that Mrs. sartoris
would be equally 30.
Mrs. Sartoris has lived, as all the
world knows. many years in England.
She knows much about the Balfours.
What she knows she communicated to
her mother and SO 1t came about that
when she cabled he- consent she added