Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-02-06

The dreadful rumor that he was not
marrying man began to be whis-
pered.
Lady Letchford was in despair.
Tnen she began to think that she had
made a mistake. the selection had
been too large, too imposing. She
thought that she would thin it down
and, having skinned the creme de la
creme, exhibit it for his approval. 1t
happened at that time, just a few
months before Mays arrival at Ores
ham House, that society had set up a
new fashionable, who, unlike many of
her kind, possessed, in addition to her
fatal gift of her exceeding loneliness,
the advantage Of decent antecedents.
AS Lady Letchford was aware, not a
| few of the formidable beauties had
arisen, like Venus Aphrodite, from the
waters-not by the sea, but by the
gutter, in which they had been dis
covered by some connoisseur in fe-
male charms.
! Rose avaSour was an exception to
the too general rule. She was not
only beautiful, but was respectable,
being the second daughter of Sir Ed
ward Vavasour, whose responsibility
was proved by his being a distant-a
very DISQUALIFICATION of the great
Letchfords.
When Lady Letcnford heard that
Rose Vayasour's photograph, in va
rious picturesque attitudes, was being
exhibited in the shop windows; that
the society papers were full of para
graphs referring to the same young
Iady's nose and eyes, and feet even;
that a prince of the blood had waltzed
with her three times in one evening;
| that people were wearing Vavasour
Jackets and carrying Vavasour walking
sticks; when Lady Letchford heard all
this, and a good deal more, she was
not horrifed-that sentiment Of emo
ton was far too pronounced for her
patrician breedirg-but simply filled
with a cold wonder and contempt.
/ But as rumors of her young and dis
tant kinswoman's exquisite loneliness
reached her, and people spoke of the
young ladys manifold charms and ac-
complishments, the old noblewoman
grew thoughtful.
Ordinary beauty was evidently pow
erless to produce any effect on Sir
Heron-perhap the extraordinary and
manifold charms of Rose Vavasour
might move him.
She remembered that among Roses
brothers there was a certain Vane,
whose name she had heard Sir Heron
mention as that of one Of his London
friends; and, with promptitude
which characterized her, she informed
Sir Heron that she meant to invite
Vane and his sister to spend a fort
night at the Void
Sir Heron-the were at breakfast
looked up from his letters.
'Vane. Very we'll; he is a good
sort of fellow. Tell him to bring his
gun; not that there is much to shoot.
By the way, what have you done with
! all the birds, mother?"
left them to every poacher in
Crawford" said the old lady. "You
are the most popular man in the
county"
Sir Heron smiled-the smile was SO
fine reproduction of hers.
We'll ask him to bring his gun.
And which of the sisters shall you
ask"
81 thought of Rose" she replied.
Rose. You are ambitious, good
mother. Are you aware that the high
and mighty ones of the earth scheme
and plot to obtain her as their guest
and that she declares country houses
g mistaken"
Lady Letchford's nostrils expand
ed.
Indeed! | remember when an in
vitation to spend a day at the Void
would have sent a VavasOur mad with
delight
Times have changed. A people
have arisen who know not Joseph.
Rose Vavasour is the queen of the
hour; but ask ner if you want her.
She may come I remember she gave
me two fingers when l saw her last,
and that is more than she usually
gives my Lord Duke of Osmond. She