The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-01-15

NO! Really? Hee-hee! l hope you
have enjoyed your rider"
Immensely Best ride I've ever
had"
"Where did you go, my dear?" said
Lady Jane. 81 didn't see you on the
hill"
NO." she replied. "For once the gate
Of the prison yard was unlocked"
And she laughed merrily
adorably, thought Lord Banford.
Lady Jane thought the new groom
had been disobeying her orders, but
it didn't matter now.
"And where did you go to?" she
asked, while Lillian descended upon
the toast, apparently much tickled by
this anxiety.
ITO Warrington, she said.
Lady Jane was surprised.
Cali that distance?" she said. "What
did you go there for? It's q very
dull roadr'
ITO get married" replied Lillian,
cheerfully, with her mouth full. Lady
Jane received rather a shock, but Lord
| Ddh1Olh GU D11llGSlL lldL 1S Gu-
tered into the joke.
"Hee-heew he said. Glow amusingp
eyes; isn't it funny?" said Lillian,
wagging her head at him. Her levity
was irresistible, though Lady Jane
thought it hardly in the best of taste
under the circumstances.
"But what did you really do there,
my dear?"
Got married." said Lillian abrupt
ly.
Lord Banford chuckled hugely-he
thought he had never met such a de-
lightfully humorous girl. And while
he, in his innocence, chuckled, a hor-
rid fear began to creep over Lady
Jane. But she tried to enter into such
joke as there appeared to be. and
said, with weak smile: And who
did you marry?"
williams" said Lillian lightly, pass
ing her cup for more tea.
Williams was the new groom's |
name! Lady Jane clutched her chair
tightly, to avoid screaming. Mrs. Barre |
look up in alarm. Lord Banford didn't |
know who Williams was, but he began |
to feel that there was something the
matter. Lillian ratified on, uncon-
cerned:
$50 funny, it was-by special license,
you know. Have you ever been mar
ried by special license, Lord Banrord?
Do, if you have not. 1t is most in
teresting. You've got to go into a
funny little room, and everybody looks
at you with interest, as if you were
doing something awfully wrong; and
please, the toast; yes-T wonder
where my husband is? 1 told him to
come in and have some tea as soon as
he had given the horses a bran-mash.
or whatever it is. I'm sure you will
like him awfully, if you haven't met
him already. You've always thought
him a splendid man, haven't you,
aunt? He showed me his references,
and they We're simply perfect, SO
knew it was all right"
"Lilianp she almost shreked-when
the door opened and Williams entered,
himself for the drawing
room by rubbing his mouth with the
back of one hand and busting bran
mash from his trousers with the other.
He grinned and pulled an oily fore
lock, while Lady Jane sank back and
moaned:
lord PSnford-oh-turn that-that
awful creature out! L Oh Lillian,
Lilianw r
Lord Banford moved a step toward
he intruder, but hesitated when Lillian
said: Come in, Jack, dear; the tea
S getting quite cold. Let me intro
luce you. This Is Lord Banford."
GLOW do, my boy?" said the groom,
:aking a chair and beaming upon him. {
Lord Banford rose and glared furi-
,usly, all his face turning the color of
lis mustache.
go out-felloww he began; but Lii
an. with an air of sweet pathos and
'eproof, checked him:
ooh, Lord Banford! My husbandw 1
He turned in despair to Lady Jane,
)ut she was beyond giving any help, {
Ind was staring in astonishment at
Williams, who, having drunk one cup
If tea, carefully and deliberately re-
moved first one whisker, then the I
'ther, then the greasy wig, and finally {
ubbed off the healthy glow upon his
lose and the unhealthy blueness upon
lis chin. The colors did not come off
-ery successfully under the dry hand
,qrphief b1t bp chanoad himself into | :
| handsome, sunburnt man Of twenty {
light, much in need of a wash, and [
lady Jane realized that this was Har-
eigh, the undesirable young relative s
e Lord Oltnn whom If had hnnn her