The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-01

eral Sadgrove opened the French case
ment. ~
"The daughter of sheitan came from
the fifth window, and has gone away,
even as the sahib predicted, in the cart
(which road did they takeg''
hib..o
Est. Adams, eha Then she's going
to catch the 3:15 up night NALL NUT
tered the general. "Well, good night,
old Jungle wallah. You we got, your Or
, ders,'' he added, closing and boiling
the window. -
The next morning there were two alb
sentees from the breakfast table,-Gen-
eral Sadgrove, who by overnight ar
rangement had breakfasted by himself,
SO as to be driven to Tarrant Road in
time for the 8 o'clock train to town,
and Mrs. Talmage Eglinton. who was
The news Of the indisposition was i'm
parted to Sybil by the maid, Rosa, at
her mistress door. and was accompa,,
MED by a regretful but firm refusal OF
admission to the patient.
| "Madame is so desOlee not to receive
you ma 'amselle, bu she ave re ma ma
| lady too strr-rong for speak even with
her dearest lfriend,' was the ultimatum
which sent Miss Hanbury from the
door with doleful face, which some
how took quite different expression
when she had turned the corner.
For some mysterious reason her
aloofness from her lover vanished that
on the best Of terms. They spent two
hours together wandering in the park,
where in one of the more remote glades
Azimoolah fitted up to them from the
|, bushes, and, regarding Sybil with awe
struck veneration, made a deep salaam
and was gone. The duke, who had
given his word of honor to the general
not to go beyond the park gates, passed
partly strolling with Leonie in the
! gardens and glass houses. The friend
ship between Beaumanoir and his beau.
tiful guest, so promisingly begun on
= board the st. Paul, seemed to have lost
> ground. Tho he was much in her SO
: eiety, he avoided intimate topics, ano
often puzzled her with a hastily avert
! ed look of wistful tenderness in strange
contrast to his assiduous but common
9 place hospitality
: Half an hour before luncheon Gen
: eral Sadgrove, returning on foot from
: the station and looking five years old
!. er for his run up to London, met tn,
! two young couples, who had now joined
: forces, as they were entering the man
= sion. Forsyth gave his uncle an anxi
GUS glance of inquiry, but the old mai
/ passed him by unheeding, and ad
:. dressed the Duke in a tone Of icy for
mality.
! IT shall be obliged if your grace vii
r give me five minutes in the library on
:. very urgent matter" he said, adding
= with Mr.. Ziegler this morning.
~ Beaumanoir, gone all pale and trent
J lous, made palpable effort at self-co1
4 4 trol as he replied:
4 "Come into the library by all means
q general But I am afraid you will fin
IS me quite as reticent as I am sure Zies
u Ter was.
o The interview lasted till long afte
le the luncheon gong has sounded, an
"a when at length the duke and the gener,
a. entered the dining room, two pairs Z
watchfu! eyes. observed that their rel
le generals usually impressive face vs.
ne working so painfully that Mrs. Sa.
as grove half rose from her chair at sigl
le Of her husband, checking herself wit
Of difficulty; while the duke bore himse
ID almost iauntily, and began ehaffir
d, mage Fglinton, who was still, by late
1t. bulletin from Rosa, ssuffereing re graz
er torments'' and unable to leave b
ns room.
10 The forenoon passed without exte
ys nal signs that the Homeopathy was Ii
ID, ing on the verge OF an active Voican
he but as 1t was growing dusk Forsyth,
an the risk of being. late for dinner, to,
he certain stile, by which the Prior Ts
~ 10 rant pastures We're approached by
,st short cut across fields from Tarrant 70,
' 'ar railway station. He arrived at the ST
- in the nick Of time to give. 9 helpil
hand to Mrs. Talmage Eglinton, w
hit had Just reached the spot from the {
ID posite direction. The hour was the o
zee when guests at the house might be {
Ill pected to be dressing for dinner, and
to also tailed with the arrival of a Le
,as don train at the station; but neither
"a obviously chance meeting.