The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-18
CHAPTER xxvI.-contInued.
A Hot Day in New York, with News Of an
Interesting Marriage.

a Hot Day in New York. with News Of an
Interesting Marriage.
We'll be under way as soon as they
fetch that luggage OUT" Percival assured
his guests.
It's been frightfully oppressive all day,
even out here said Mrs. Drelmer 'but
the engaged ones haven't lost their tenn
pers once. even if the day was trying
And really they are the most Unconditional
and matter of-fact couple I ever saw.
0! do give me that stack of papers until
catch up with the news again"
Percval relinquished to her the evening
papers he had bought before leaving the
hotel and Mrs. Drelmer, in the awninged
shade at the stern of the boat was soon
running thru them.
The others, had gone below, where Per-
clVal was allotting staterooms and urging
every one to order whatever cold stuff
you like and get into as few things as
the law allows For my part, I'd like to
wear nothing but cold bath
Mrs. Drelmer suddenly betrayed signs
OF excitement. She sat up straight in
the wicker deck-chair, glanced down
column Of her newspaper, and then looked
up
Mauburns head appeared out of the cab
ms gloom. He was still speaking to
some one below. Mrs. Drelmer ratified
the paper and waved it at him. He came
up the stairs.
What's the row. .
Read it!'
He took the paper and glanced at the
headlines. 7r
II knew she'd do it. A chap always
comes up with something Of that sort
and l was beginning to feel chippy!"
He read: ~
London. July 30.-Lord Casselthorpe to-
day wed Miss Connie Burke, the music
hall singer, who has been appearing at
the Alhambra. The marriage was per-
formed, by special license, at st. Michaels
church, Chester Square, London, Rev.
Canon Mecklin, sub-dean of the Char pei
Royal officiating. The honeymoon will
be spent at the town house of the groom
in York Terrace. Lord Casselthorpe has
long been known as the blacklist sheep Of
the British peerage, being called the Cos
ter Peer on account of his unconven-
tional language, his coarse manner and
slovenly attire. Two years ago he was
warned off Newmarket Heath and the
British turf by the Jockey club. He is
SO years old. The bride, like some other
lights of the music-hall who have become
the consorts of Britan's hereditary ligis-
lators, has enjoyed considerable ante
nuptial celebrity among the gilded youth
of the metropolis, and Is said to have been
especially.admired at one time by the next
in line of this illustrious family, the Hon.
Cecil G. H. Mauburn.
",The Hon. Cecil G. H. Mauburn. men
been rather well known in New York So
ciety for two years past. His engagem ent
to the daughter of a Montana mining mag
nate, not long deceased, has been per-
silently rumored.'
Mauburn was pale under his freckles.
"IIave they seen it yet?" s..-z ..
II don't think so,'' she, answered. I'VE
might drop these papers over the rail
here
That's rot Mrs Drelmer; it's sure to
be talked Of and anyway I don't want
to be sneaky, you know
Percival came up from the cabin with
q paper in his hand.
II see wou have it, too" he said, smil-
ing. "Burman just handed me this"
isn't it perfectly dsreputable!" ex-
claimed Mrs. Drelmer.
why? 1 only hope I'll have much
interest in life by the time L m that age.
But how will your sister take it?'
asked Mauburn; "she may be afraid this
will knock my title the head, you
know"
"Oh, see," said Percival; II hadn't
thought Of that"
"Hang it all, that blasted old beggar will
be 80. you know, in fortnight. There
simply can't be any issue of the mar
rage, and that-that blasted"
Better not try to describe her-while
I'm by, you know" said Mrs. Drelmer
sympa thetically.
''Well-his wife-you know, will simply
worry him into the grave a bit sooner,
fancy-that's all can possibly come of it >
well, old man. said Percival, Il dom
pretend to know the workings of my sis
ters mind, but you ought to be able tt
win girl on your own merits, title Of
title
lawfully good of you, old chap. In
sure she does care for me-
But of course it will be only fair tt
sis to lay the matter before her just a.
it is"
''To be sure!' Mauburn assented.
And now, thank the Lord, we're unde
way. Doesn't that breeze save your life
though? Well eat here on deck"
The Viluca swung into midstream, anc
was soon racing to the north with
crowded Fall River boat.
a. But anyway concluded Percival afte
he had explained Mauburn's position to hi
sister. hes a good fellow, and if yol
suit each other even the unexpected
wouldn't make any difference"
"Of course not she assented {" the
rank is but the guinea's stamp 1 know
but I wasn't meaning to be married fo
quite time yet, anyway,-it's such fur
just being engaged
"A mint julep?' Mauburn was in
curing of one who had proposed it
Does 1T have whisky in it?"
1T does replied Percival overhear
ing the question; whisky may be said t,
pervade even to infest it. Try five O
six. old man; that many make a grea
overnight trouble cure. And can't hav