The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-07-14
CHAPTER VII.

Helen's eyes rested for q moment on
her brothers face. With an almost i'm
perceptible movement Of lid and eyebrow
he treasured her.
"What time Is dinner2 I told him to
come at O'clock" said he, holding out
his cup for more tea.
THAT Is right" answered Helen.
"You would have done BETTER" said
the Admiral, still unpacifed. ito have
given the man a dinner at your club"
"Oh" replied his son, serenely, 81
wanted you and Helen to make his ac-
quaintance besides, could not have in
vited Muggins to the club"
"Muggins" growled the old gentleman,
interrogatively.
"The dog"
"Ah! Is he a presentable sort of fell
low, then, that you want your sister to
meet him?"
"The dog?" inquired Grace, with much
innocence.
NO" laughed his father, despite him
self; "the man-Tyre, or Sidon, or what
ever his name Is"
"Tyars. Yes; think so. Tyars is
distinctly presentable, or else would not
have suggested his coming to dine with
Helen-and Agnes Winter"
Helen had moved away toward the
window, and was now leaning against the
folded and old-fashioned shutter. She
turned and looked at her brother as he
spoke, with that gentle, womanly scru
tiny.
Like her brother, Helen Grace favored
to some extent a gravity of demeanol
when in repose and her face was Of that
refined type which possesses great mo
bility. Some faces there are which seen
to have brought from old times a recol
lection Of gay knights, full of poetry ant
| full of fight of troubadours and patient
women. Oswin and Helen Grace were o.
this mold. In profile the chiseling o.
either face was perfect, for Helen wal
but a refined miniature Of her brother
and in smiling their gray eyes lighted vi
with the self-same soft merriment.
As she stood In the soft sunlight look
| ing sideways toward her brother her ten
derness was visible. These two were tn
only children Of dead mother, who i
she had never quite understood her hus
band had at all events possessed the pow
err of loving her children. Oswin Grac
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must, and during the short spells Above,
to him by a grateful country as recrea
ton he had not learned to know his sis
ter very well-not well enough to forge
that he owed to her the respect due to al
women.
The two men now started a converse
ton upon very nautical matters, employ
ing such technical terms and waxing $
Interested that Helen sought a chair nea
the window and settled down to liste
with respectful silence. When the Al
miral had left the room Oswin crosse
the floor and stood beside his sister, hi
scrutinizing glance cast downward.
allow is Agnes Winter2" he asked.
.She is very we'll. Did those flower
remind you of herr"
"Ye-es," he replied, slowly. I wonde
whyT
Because she arranged them, l SUI
pose," suggested the girl, looking up SUI
denly, as II struck at the possibility
her idea being of some weight.
Perhaps SO. She is not engaged yeti
Helen threaded a needle with SON
care and stopped over her work.
"No; she Is just the same as ever. A
ways busy. always happy, always a Il
vorite. But-one never hears the sigh
est rumor of an engagement, or even
Irritation"
"While," added Grace, airily, her dei
: friend firts here and firts there. b,