The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-16


Warburton shuddered.
nFamiliar9 What do you meant
1T is the groom who ran away
with u.s.
" Heavens, mol !" Mrs. Chadwick
sessed youq"
".RMisc HE las IS much as anything"
am not afraid. There was some
thing about him that appeared very
much like mystery, and you know
how l adore mysteries.''
And this is,the fellow we saw in
the police court, sitting among those
light o. loves9'' Mrs. Chadwick could
not fully express her surprise.
prompted me to pay his fine and en-
gage him.
s" And after that affair at the car
riage door! Where is your prideq''
'..To tell the truth, / believe he did
because I liked his looks eI Betty ai,
glanced amusedly at the groom, whose
neck and ears were red. She laughed.
You always were an extraordinary
child. [ do not understand it in the
least. I am even worried. He may be
a great criminal
No, not a great criminal" said
Betty, recollecting the ride Of that
morning; but first class horseman.
willing and obedient I have been
forced to, make James serve as butler.
He, has been under the hands Of our
cook, and T have been watching them.
scenes!'' &c 51.> -
So she had laughed, ehq Warbur.
tons jaws snapped. She had been
| watching too9
u rode Pirate this morning.
"You rode that horses" interrupted
| Mrs. Chadwick.
eyes, and he ran away with me in
fine style. IF it hadn It been for the
new groom, I shouldn't be here, and
the dinner would be dismal failure,
| with me in bed with an arm or Leo
broken. Heavens! I never was SO
frightened in all my life. We went SO
fast against the wind that I, could
over I tainted like ninny.''
Tainted! should have thought
you would. 7 should have fallen off
the animal and been killed. Betty, you
certainly have neither forethought nor
discretion. The very idea of your at
tempting to ride that aninalO
vorss for tb am sc wiser and none the
stop, stop!' Betty cried suddenly.
When this command struck his sense
|
in thought. He. was wondering if all
this were true. If it was, he must make
the best of it; but if it was dream,
he, wanted to wake up right away, be-
cause it was becoming nightmarish.
| James!', The end of parasol
tickled him in the ribs and he drew up
somewhat frightened. What was going
to happen now9 He was soon to find
out. For this was to be the real eli
max of the day; or, at least, the Incl
dent was pregnant with the possibili-
ties of a climax. -. sH. !
Colonel, surely you are not going
to- pass us by in this fashion" cried
A Arm any Nays KS5e c abost opposite
"Why, is that you, Miss Bettyg
Pass you by? Only when I grow
blind!' roared ion-like voice. every
glad to see you, Mrs. Chadwick -
4 That voice, of all the voices he had
ever heard! A chill of indescribabie
terror flew up and down my iehu s
spine and his pores closed up. He
looked around cautiously. It was he, he
possessed the most remarkable memory
OF any army man west Of the Missis
sippi, and who had often vowed that
, he knew his subalterns so well that he
, could always successfully prescribe fol
their ivers!
| was JuSC dDOuI TO Turn into the
club for my mail,'' declared the col
onel. 1T was very good Of you to STOP
me. LII wager you We been speculat
ing in the shops''- touching the bun
dies with his cane.
"You win,' laughed Betty. "But I u
-. give you hundred guesses in which tt
! find out what any one of these packages
!, "Guessing is bad business. What
d ever these things are, they can add bu
: little to the beauty of those who will
0 wear them; for l presume Mrs. Chad
: wick has some claim upon these bun
: dies
:, Chadwick, who loved silken phrase
/ night9' u
/ "All the battalions, of England cogl'
t board,'' the colonel vowed. lAnothee
l. spasm for the groom!) "And how i
f that good father of yours9''
o Gas kind and loving as ever.''
- 81 wish you could have seen him i
IS the old days in Virginia. said tn
colonel who, like all old men. contin
"Handsomest man in the brigade, and
q fight made him as happy as bull PUP
y your ~s1 mother ciae j - 'sHow she hu
IS inflated him because he wore the blue
is She was obliged to feed him--fortune
y Of war; but I could see that she hope
j. each mouthful would choke him.
[ "What! My mother wished that's
Mrs. Chadwick laughed. The groom
ID chin sank into his collar.
k "Wait moment! She WASH It in Low
with him then. We were camped o
d, that beautiful Virginian home of your
for nearly month. You know ho,'
q, courtly he always was and is. Wei
k, to every rebuff he, replied with smi]
Y. and some trifing favor. She never ha
re to lift her finger about the house. ,Br
i. one thing he was firm in: she shoul
IF sit at the same table during the meal
And when Johnston came thunderin
D. down that memorable day, and you
er father was shot in the lungs and fe
le with dozen saber cuts besides, 70
should have seen the change! He We
I the prisoner now, she the jailer. !
t. her own white bed she had him place
n and for two months she nursed him. A
that was the -prettiest love affair tt
d. world ever saw e..~...
ly "And why have you not followed h
n example ~ asked Mrs. Chadwick.
ly The colonel gazed thoughtfully at h
ne old co1nrade s daughter, ard he sa
ne pity and unbounded respect in her eye
N, ''They say that for every heart there
y. a mate, but I do not believe it. Som
$; times there are two hearts that SEE
lis the same mate. One or the other mu
at win or lose You will play for me
ed PAS often and as long as y,
he please, ''-graciously. She was We