Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-05-29


RE, in an undertone. Look at these
three great men to wait upon two
girls! | wish Sir Heron were here!"
so do l." murmurss May, with a
sigh; eff it were only to carve this
duck. What agony it's mother must
have suffered at parting from it after
living with it for so many years.
Carrie laughs, as she always does,
at all Mays witticisms, and the din
ner proceeds.
So far as the diners are concerned,
it is an elaborate farce; the veal and
ham pie, boar's head and tarts are too
recent an experience to permit of
their having any appetite, but the
farce is played out at last, even to the
bottle of port which the waiter places
solemnly before May.
''Papa must be ILL.," she says, ris-
ing and going to the fire thoughtfully.
81 will take him cup of tea"
when you get it," says Carrie,
comically. Everything is done to or
der now, May. You won't get cup
of tea made before the proper time to
save your lie.
We'll see," says May, smiling, and
she rings the bell and requests that
tea may be brought at once"
The butler stares, but the tea is
brought, and May, cup in hand, goes
to the library door.
the cup still in her hand, and her face
troubled.
"Papa will not have any tea, and
does not like to be disturbed. We had
better go into the drawing she
says and they go into the gorgeous
room.
Carrie throws herself down on the
hearth rug. and leans her head against
Mays knee as she sits in a low chair,
and for a minute or two there is ST.
lence-only for minute or two, for
silence and Carrie do not agree.
"How soon do you think he will be
here?" she asks, leaning back to look
at the clock, a mosaic monster in
marble and ormolu.
'I don't know. Yop seem very
anxious for his arrival"
ri do" says Carrie, candidly. 'Pd
have him here every minute Of the
Jay if 1 could-and who could wons
der? There never was a much dearer
fellow in the world fancy
calling the great Sir Heron fellow!
! ought not to do it, ought I, May? You
are not angry, are your"
ANGRY? MOI" says May, laughing
softly. You can call him what you
like dear"
$50 that call him by his name"
says Carrie, shrewdly. "And
couldn't call him by any other. for he
is the dearest fellow in the world.
How kind he was today! Think of his
have left me to nope at home, and
treated me like child. May, un-
derstand now why people set such
store by gentlmen-real gentlemen,
mean, not your make-beiieve men,
veneered with politeness outside. but
plain deal within! know now what
real gentleman is, and people think
they are proud! Why, did you hear
how he spoke to the men and the land
lord and the 1andlady? Just as if
| he'd known and liked them all his
life! That is why common men
soldiers, and that sort of peopIe-fol-
| low men like Sir Heron into battle,
and are ready to die for them. May,
I'd go through fire and water for him"
81 told him today that if anything
| happened to me, he would easily SUP
ply my loss, Carrie"
Carrie laughs and shakes her heal.
| "May, it is my opinion that he is
great deal too good for YOU
"And that you don't care half enough
Tor him"
mop" softly
"No! Why, he loves the ground
you walk upon. saw him looking at
you as you went out of the room to-
day, and-oh, May, what a wonderful
thing love isl
May is silent, but her face colors
and her eyes grow dreamy.
"And, May, what a proud lady you
will be! Why, I thought the queen
hadn't more land and places than he
seems to have. and he talks about
them all as II they were nothing.
Now, see what a fuss we make about
our trumpry place. We can't have
gold and marble enough about it; how
] different it is at the Void. May, you
will be Lady Letchford of the Void;
and 1 shall be Lady Letchford's sis
ter
Counting chickens before they are
Matched, Carrie, is improbable CAL
culation''
eyes. know, but these chickens
are sure to be Matched, and grow into
fine pullet-isn't it pullets? They
must have had dinner by this time; Sir
Heron will want to smoke cigar with
Mr. Vavasour, and then-there is the
bell.
mo, that's the library" says May,
the color flying to and from her face.