The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-07-13
CHAPTER IN.

I'm not wasting the day, Bob,
DEAR" said the person appealed to.
II have my hands as full as they can
hold. It's Lillian Lees birthday to-
morrow, and If I'm to have this fin
ished in time shall be at work till
midnight" ~4
ooh, bother Lillian Lees birthday.
I've no more than fortnight's leave,
and we've hardly had day together.
/ call it downright unsisterly. It's
simply beastly."
"They don't teach We manners on
board ship, do they, Bob, darling?"
said Miss Molloy, looking up at her
companion with roguish eyes. "Ah,
then, what's the use of your trying to
be out of temper? Sit down now, like
the good boy We can be when We like.
Ye can smoke if We want to, and we'll
be just as happy here as VIC would be
on the river"
Cali right" said the young man, in
q tone which indicated that all was
wrong. His sister, who was engaged
In the fine embroidery of some silken
mystery, sat on the shady side of the
veranda which surrounded a pretty
little bungalow overgrown with Vir-
ginia creeper and roses. Her brother
bestowed his flannel-clad figure in a
long cane lounging chair, lit a pipe,
and lay smoking for while with an
air of injury. "Ye're mighty fond of
Miss Lillian Lee all of sudden" he
said. II never heard of her till came
home this leave"
"Oh, yes We have, then" responded
Miss Molloy, "only we've forgotten.
We've been friendly this three years."
The young man, yielding to the sooth-
ing influence of tobacco, lay quiet for
. while, putting rings of smoke into
the tranquil air.
"Oh, Belle" he said suddenly. "I've
news for We. Ye're going to have a
new neighbor. The newspaper man
what's his name again?-Truscott-
is going to get married"
That's an interesting fact in itself,
but I don't know the man be sight"
said the young lady. Who's he mar
rying?"
tits some tremendous swell, 1
know" said young Molloy; "but I've
forgotten her name. got the news
from Billery. You remember Billery?"
Faith I do, then" his sister an
swered. tits the little man that ruin
ed himself, and is always tellin' other
people how they can make fortune"
That's the Johnny" said young
Molloy. "But I've not told you me
news yet. say yere going to have
a new neighbor."
rs the newspaper man leaving when
he marries?"
HE is, and it's your own knight of
the rueful countenance that's taken
over his lease and is coming to live
down here"
Eye can't be meaning that Brangwyn
man." cried Miss Belle, dropping her
work into her lap and looking at her
brother with an all Of great dlspleas-
ure.
II am" he said. "No less. Mr..
Aloysius Brangwyn takes up his ten
ancy in about week, so Billery tells
me. Yell not be wanting for society
now, Belle, me darlin'."
Society" cried Miss Molloy with
a tone of great acerbity. rs it soci-
ETY.? Upon my word of honor if were
shipwrecked with the man upon a
desert island I'd live on one side of it
and Danish him to the other"
"Ye would not, them" her brother
responded. I'm not saying like him
meself, for don't, but never met a
soul in me life that had half the mans
charm when he likes to use it. It's not
six months since we were stationed at
Villefranche, and saw a great deal OF
him there. He'd lovely yacht-the
Seagull-a little thing of about three
hundred tons, and dined aboard with
him. He was good enough to remem
Der me, and at first it struck me that
he was lot too patronizing, but in q
month we were as thick as thieves
and tell We, Belle, he was the idol OF
the place. The women were round
him like shoals"
"Oh, the women" said Miss Belle
with a mighty disdainful infection.
Il know your opinion Of your owr
,charmin' SEX said Master Bob, '.ant
needn't tell you that share ut
You, We whippersnapper," cried hi.
sister; IAN what right have you to al
& opinion? The;women are little enough
to brag of. They're fighty and hollow
headed enough, poor things. blu
4 they're wisdom's self with any NAL.
creature Of your age and experience
That's as may be- said Bob, com
I placently. But thought ye'd be in
terested In knowing that your owl
J special bete-noir was coming to liy,
within q hundred yards = ..5s
@fss Il suppose this IS your mean X
{; venge, because I could e come on til,
river, z said Belle, yiciously. bitinl
B With hen white teeth at 4 piece of scar