The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-07

cuIated to soothe the other man, al
ready rain-soaked and jaded. He said
angrily:
IF Miss Allin and 1 choose. vcu
mean. Your mistress will do as she
pleases, and T1l trouble you not to die
| tate to her"
Il am quite content with Jones
! plan, though I am sorry he should be
| put TO so much trouble on my account.
| 1t is very kind of him to come out af-
| ter u.s." said Lucille's voice, with a
| ring of dignity in it. and Dangerfield
was crushed for the minute. Jones
smiled at the mud and his heart
| thumped.
Thank you. miss" he said. Don't
bother your head about me; I'd sooner
walk than ride"
They toiled on. Dangerfield recovered
from his rebuke after a quarter-nlile
| of silence and began conversation
! that would exclude Jones from Miss
Allin's attention. He rode very close to
her; he had. it seemed, an intuitive
| knowledge of how best to punish the
| groom's impertinence and he leaned
! toward the girl at an angle of conf
dent familiarity.
You asked me to tell you the rea-
son for my coming out here" he said.
Il understood you were good enough
to be interested in my doings. Am 1
| right in supposing that?'
why, yes, of course; l should like
! to hear all about the mission that you
say has been entrusted to you." Miss
Allin said. 1T must be an urgent one
to make you leave the England you
describe in such glowing terms for
| Australia.
The young man laughed rather
doubtfully.
"England's the place to live in. no
mistake about that" he said. fBut
Australia has it's good points, too; only
a fellow doesn't realize them just at
first. And the best things in Australia
would bear transplanting; they would
shine better in an English setting.
know one
But that is not telling ne about
your mission" Lucille said swee-ly
and again Jones grinned to the pud-
dies.
There was another silent space;
Dangerfield must have swallowed some
mixed emotions in it. But he resumed
the conversation very soon. and he
leaned more closely to Miss Ailin than
before, and became more intrusivcly
confidential.
at has something to do with it,
lHOuSU. Inc WOTh L was sent on was
to decide my own future and that flu
ture can be very largely influenced by
Australian factors" he said. But he
did not venture beyond the ambiguity,
and Miss Allin ignored it. II was sent
out by my Uncle Mallow of Gresham to
trace his son, my cousin. You see,
Uncle Mallow is an old man, and q
wealthy one, and it has occurred to
him lately that the fate of his estate
when he dies ought to be definitely set
tied"
And have you settled it?" she in
quired.
81 have You see, Miss Allin--to be-
gin at the beginning-I am next of kin
to my uncle, failing the son I have just
told you about. He was a regular
young rip-a thunderin' bad lot all
round, and at last the old man got
sick of him, and turned him out, neck
and crop, with a fifty-pound note to
take him to the colonies. Then lie
made me his heir.
But when his health began to break
up he had some laundering, quite nat
ural of course, poor old chap after his
boy, and he dispatched me to find out
what had become of Herries-that's
my cousin-and if he were alive, to
try and bring him back for the pater-
nal blessing. My uncle had been
f1inty individual all his life through,
and he parted with Herries under very
strained conditions, but age and sick
ness had melted him, and he wanted
his son to know it.
= II undertook the errand gladly. l
don't want to wear another mans
shoes if he deserves 'em, and l should
have been quite content to step aside
in Herries' favor if the Fates had will
cd GO
are very big, Miss Allin, as you and
have agreed before, in rural England.
Besides, l could have forgotten myself
gladly in the pleasure. of seeing the old
mans last days cheered by the fulfill
ment of his hearts desire"
"Ah! 1 like you for that! That is a
splendid thing to set the thought of
your own prosperity asidei" the girl
cried, enthusiastically. GO on-go
on"
"Oh, that's nothing" Mr.. Dangerfield
said modestly. ANY fellow with pro-
per feelin's would do the same; I'm a
man of fine feelin's, Miss Allin, though
pr'aps l haven't the knack of putting
them into pretty language. Women
! don't understand me as rule"
Il understand; l sympathize with
you in that" Lucille said, and her i'm
| petuosity brought the countenance of
MS ardent instructor before Jones
mental vision in all its ingenious
charm So. with the glow of vision
airy upon her face, she had expounded
to him the Everlasting Yea: read
him. her voice trembling, the musings
! of Paracelsus. She was a stringed in
strument upon which great sentiments
rippled into light melody; the pity of it
was that the hand of a trickster could
work the transpositions as easily as
the masters of thought. And vet not
altogether a pity for therein lay an
| ignorance of evil too seldom met with
in a naughty world
Thanks" Dangerfield said in sig
niicant. accent Your appreciation is
more than enough reward for anything
l have done. YOU
But your cousin" Miss Allin inter
rupted desperately dashing back to
safe ground and dragging her sutton
after her.
oh, yes, to be sure, my cousin, .
Dangerfield said, his voice wrench
ed into its normal tones 81
was forgetting that had
not told you the sequel Well.
Miss Allin. L found my cousin; and
assure you it was one of the bitterest
moments of my life. For l found him
in low, riverside quarter of Mel
bourne: a physical and mental wreck
| and full of the vilest animosity to the
poor old man across the sea who was
yearning for reconciliation
How dreadful: how terrible for
! you! Lucille said feelingly. WASN'T
he grateful for your coming?''