Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-24
coPvRMnr 1895. 81 I'VE AurHos

From the club and London gossipin
places generally. l suppose we ought
be indebted to Cambel for providing Il
something to talk about. y
But tell me, if his antccedents are S
queer, how is it he goes about so niue
here? He's apparently asked everywher
at least so Mrs. Shelf says--and hc know
everybody who worth knowing"
Fairfax laughed. why does Londol
society take up with an ex- bushrange
from Australia or a glorilled advertiser!
cowboy from the wild, wild west9 Simpl,
because London society is extremely paro
chial and gets desperately bored with IT.
own little self undiluted. Now, Gamble
has undoubtedly wandered about outsid,
the parish and occasionally he let's droI
hints which makes one guess he's seer
some queerish rough and tumbles IL
places where polite society doesn't go
and, in fact, preserves good humored ret
icence about most of his doiugs. This
makes people thoughtful and speculative.
If Chinese eXtradition warrant was to
turn up tomorrow to arrest him for stick
ing up two hutton mandarin beyond the
great wall, nobody would be bit surpris-
ed, or if he We're to tell the city this after
b
mine in Paraguay which he wished to dis
pose of at reasonable rates we'd take ii
with pleased equanimity. Now, you
know, Amy, there 5 "a fearful joy in enter
tanning "a man of that stamp
Especially when he's as entirely fas-
cinatng as Mr.. Cambel can be when he
chooses. And such a Walter! But you
speak as if he were a savage from some
i,,- ~
for the first time He isn't that in the
least. He's gentleman distinctly"
my dear girl, never meant to suggest
that he was not. There's no particular Sc
cret about his raising. He comes of a
good west county family, was an Elton
boy and played in their eleven, went
through Cambridge and afterward found
berth in the diplomatic service Then
by way of variety he got engaged to he
married to girl who Tilted him, on the
strength of which he began to run wild.
He started on six months leave for n trip
into Tibet, but he staid beyond the linn
its of the postal system for two years and
a half, and when be got back to England
the diplomatic corps found that they could
get on very well without him. So he CON
tinued his rambles. He doesn't seem able
to settle down.
That's because he can't forget the girl
who threw him over" exclaimed Miss
Rivers. How awfully romanticl l Won
der who she was. She couldn't have been
any body nice, or she wouldn't have done
It, because hes regular dear. And fancy
his remei NJ hex all this time. just
love him for 1T.
Some fellows" remarked Fairfax ju
diciously, "wuuld get jealous If the girl
they were going to marry talked about an
otlor man this way
Miss Rivers reass ured him first praCti-
cally and then in word. You goose, said
she, If / cared for him in that way, don't
you see l shouldn't have spoken about
him to you at all!''
Fairfax did not answer directly, HIS
kissed her tAoughtfully, and after awhile
he said: I'm not superstitious, dear, as
general thing. Work in shipping office
tends to make one painfully matter of fact.
But for all that l wish this fellow CHsH bel
would either marry the queen, or get
crushed up in a cab accident, or have him
self safely fastened down out OF harms
way somewhere. I've got a forehoding,
Amy, that he's going to do had turn
either to you or to me, which means both
of US l know it's absurd, but l can't get
rid of it,
How creepy" said Amy Rivers But
what nonsense, Hamilton!