Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-08-28
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FLORENCE WARDEN

| "A practice! Are you lawyer, or
doctor them" the beauty asked with
| ingenious interest
I'm doctor, or at least shall be
when l get any patients"
well, hope"
But before she could get any further
with her speech the ponies, whether
of their own accord or not 1t was i'm
possible to say, had started off at
smart pace, and the young Yorkshire
| man was left standing in the middle of
the road feeling like the hero of
fairy tale when the spell has broken
and the enchanted palace melted away.
The cart in which the old villager had
brought him thus far on his journey
now logged up, and stopped for him to
mount into it again.
We'll what dost think O. t. leddy?"
asked the old man with interest.
why, she-she is very handsome"
the doctor answered stupidity; and he
turned to get up into the cart again.
AS he did so he caught sight OF
something on the snow-covered ground
at little distance from his feet With
a quickened pulse, and yet with a con-
science-prick. he made two steps for
ward, and discovered that it was in
deed as a sense even keener than his
bodily vision had told him, the same
little handkerchief that he had re-
stored to its owner a few moments be-
fore. An odd coincidence surely, that
she had dropped it again so soonl Or
was 1t little vile to secure that call
at The Crags on which her fancy
seemed so obstinately bent? Which
ever it might be, it was not in flesh
and blood of seven and twenty to re-
sist any longer the chance of another
glimpse of this lakeside goddess. He
got into the cart silently, wondering
more than ever at the strange in
fluence which seemed to have been at
work upon him that day, and so eff
fectually to have made havoc with his
usually sober and practical nature,
that he thought less of the appoint
ment at Glasgow, with the practice for
which he was signing, than of the
scrap of lace and cambria he had
hastily hidden in one of his coat
pockets from the cur! us e. es of his
peasant companion.
CHAPTER II.
The cart, with It's oddly-assorted oc-
cupants, logged on without further in
eident until, emerging from the
monotonous road, with its enclosing
walls of bare and steep hills, the old
man announced that they were how
nigh { village" There had been lit.
tie conversation between them since
the adventure with the sleigh, the vii
lager having been satisfied with the
strangers full acquiescence in the
local admiration of Lady Kildonan's
beauty A trifling incident however,
again brought forward the topic
They had come to a point where a
steep and narrow lane joined the
main road. Just within the lane
stood a tumbledown stone cottage
from the door of which, at the moment
the cart logged by, man was issu-
ing. The occupants of the cart saw
his figure against the faint light of the
interior of the cottage, and the old
man said:
Eth, but there's my ladys groom
a leavin' something good for poor old
mad Peg, I'll warrant. There's an
ovid frishwoman lives in that cottage
sir as won't let t parson come nigh
her. bein' one o them as worships T.
saints, as they cali 'em. And she
amt far wrong, for she's found as
good as saint to look after her.
There's hardly winters day goes by
but what my lady brings a pretty sub
stantial blessing of half a pound o.
tea or whatnot to t ovid woman. Good
eVenin to you, Mr.. Martin"
The man, thus addressed, answered
very shortly Good evening"" and hur- |
ried on towards the spot few yards
further on, where his mistress was
waiting in the sleigh. The young doc
TOR peered out at him in the darkness
eurlously, possessed with the odd idea
'ua' the man was Disgusting his
voice AS they passed the sleigh
the doctor heard the groom say some
'hihg about Peggy's humble duty. and
Sne mad been laid up since yesterday
win the rheumatic; and then a new
iuea concerning the mans voice oc.
CURED to him A moment later tbe
sleigh scudded rapidly by and its lam
terms We're lost to sight by a turn in
.he road though the jingling of IT'S
oeHS was heard in fact for some min
N'es' and in the doctors fancy for
/ some hours longer.
i should think this admiratio, ~
yours this Lady Kildonan. must ana q
rather dull in winter time to he chm
IN in country house with hook.
| worm for a husband"
Dull" echoed the old ma, a,a ~,
stopped TO give an admiriug lanrb
NDull' You don't know Lady KiIsonan
lRd We not see her face Shed enjoy
herself in the county gaol would her
ladyShip, bless .her!"
I suppose they keep the house fru
OF visitors >" '''
No, not SO much that: his lord
ships too Quietlike a man for MOT
But she goes ridin' an drivin' shout
as you've seen her. and she's sunshine
in herself, she is. She's settled down
a bit since her marriage. as laav
| should, hut Lord the nranEs sb> -,