The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-20

GIVE got the makirgs of a terma,
right if you rule me with a velvet
glove,' she had remarked within five
minutes of their first kiss.
In fact, Miss Sybil Hamburg was a
bit of a hoyden; but a very capable lit
tie hoyden for all that, and absolutely
fearless.
The two girls had naturally paired
off together, and the subject of their
talk was, equally naturally, the new
duke-Alec s friend, SYPHILIS cousin, and
Leonie' S chance acquaintance on the St.
Paul.
sybil, after listening to Leonie's
father hi ha lthns or description mippm sS of ting ths
known a as HMr. H an b Sne owned ned
frankly that she had never heard any
good of her cousin, but she fastened
to add:
"He's given my prejudice a nasty
knock, tho, in behaving SO well to my
young a Gave him a billet as pri-
yate Sec: that enabled. Alec to-you
wrong 'un who'll stick to old pals
when they have no claim on him.
Leonie tried not to show surprise at
the vernacular.
"He seemed very kind and consid-
crate. I don It think he can ever have
p p29S anything dish0n0r"0ls'" she re-
tha nS"'p sSBil s sysa accuse" Hft n h5@t on iT
that he was extravaganza, and that my
grandfather got tired of paying his
debts. You see, he wasn't the next
heir, and-well. perhaps they were a
little hard on. him; I'm quite prepared
to like him now.'
The conversation was interrupted by
the GntT9nna or q servant who an.
nounced: -
"A felloW countrywoman Of yours;
whispered. as a radiant vision in pale
sailed in, and was greeted with some
what frigid politeness by Mrs. Sad
grove.
= Ono; I am not acquainted with
either the name or the lady, Leonie
replied, struck with a strange antip-
athy to the bold eyes that seemed to
herself included. Indeed, Mrs. Talmage
Eglinton stared so markedly both at
Leonie and her mother that Mrs. Sad,
grove thought they must have met,
and promptly introduced them as
American friends staying in the same
house. The introduction was not a
success, for the Shermans knew every.
L o1S "OlGu NncT1uS Ill LII q Oo
, ciety, and the fact that they had never
so much as heard Of Mrs. Talmage Egg
linton argued her outside the pale.
| The elegant vision received he1
: %snubbing with cool u%nconcern, and af
ter a few g~eneralities turned again tx
. her hostess and engaged in the trihins
or two unsuccessful attempts to in
clude Sybil, to whom she had not beef
introduced, in the conversation.
"That woman is a BRUTE Sybi
said OF Leonie under her breath. "Iy
tell you about her when she s gomez
e The door opened, and there entere'
r an iron-gray man of 60, whose CON
ing might s!most have been tn b
Y Mrs. Talmage Eglinton, SO quickly di
4 she rise and begin her good-byes.
= emo, really I can't stay, dear Mrs
sadgrove. even to have the pleasure Q
: q chat with the general" she prattle6
too long already. Goodbye. Goodbye
70 general. Pray don't trouble to com
down" And with a half-impudent boy
q Of exaggerated respect to the Shel
; mans, she swept out, with the maste
V Of the house in attendance.
y General Sadgrove returned at once t
' the drawing-room after escorting tn
q who bore his years easily; singularl
le slow and scant of speech, but alert 9
eye and almost .iaunty in the erectnes
5e of his bearing. He had gained his G.. ]
for prominent services in the suppret
e. sion Of Thuggee and Dacoity, and h:
name is still held in wholesome drea
s by the criminals of India, whose metl
IF Cd is violence. It had once been sal
If Of him by a high official: "Jem Sal
grove doesnt have to worry about fin
le ing clues. He makes them for himsel
lie and they always yield a true seen
ID He's got the nose Of a fox-terrier an
n the patience and speed of a gre,
- hound
if But that was long ago, and it migl
he supposed that in such pleasant d,