Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-10-17


and married pauper they might sweep
crossing, for they would never get a
penny of allowance out of him.
And so she had told her ardent sutton
that she would never marry him. In
consequence he had gone off to the
Rockies in search Of the grizzly. But
poor Una, having got rid Of her lover,
with feminine perversity longed for
him to come back; and when she saw
a paragraph stating that Lord Langley
was bringing home an American heiress
as his bride she began to lie awake at
night wondering why the universe was
not run on a totally different plan.
One day, however, there appeared a
new misfortune. Irene announced that
her brother BERTHE, aged %, was coming
back from a protracted tour on the con-
tinent. And he proved to be very much
the sort of little bounder that she had
expected. What Una had not antici-
pated, however. was that, finding a
'doosid pretty girl" established under
the maternal roof, he felt it his duty
to start "spooning."
Now Una Carew was by no means so
deficient in spirit as Mrs. Jones had
imagined; and when Mr. BERTHE began
paying her his somewhat exaggerated
attentions, she had no hesitation In
snubbing him heartily.
BERTHE himself was surprised and
disguised to find that mere governess
was not prepared to accept him quite
at his own valuation; and he took coun-
sci with a bosom friend at the club.
''Fact, assure you, dear boy! Spend
all my time maxim eyes at her, don't
you know; and don't get a bit for
raderi"
Fulwarton looked up. "Oh, the
'Balmy Bounder' relating his con-
quests Rough on the girl, anyhow !'' he
said to himself.
"Why didn't you try her with
gloves?"
"Just what I did! Hanged If she
didn't tell me she had plenty of her
own, and didn't want any Of mlne!"
And what did you say to thatY
Told her 1 should never have guess
ed it from personal observation. Ha!
ha hal"
Internal little cad! He wants kick
ing" murmured Reggie to his cigar.
"Gad! You should have seen the
way she blazed up! Thought she was
going to hit me over the head with her
parasol! Hang 1t all, she needn't give
herself such airs, If her name is Una
CarewI She's only a governess, after
ALL"
A telegram that Fulwarton wrote
was addressed to Lord Langley at a
hotel In Paris, and contained only two
words: "Wanted-Run."
The fact that Lord Langley had been
Fulwarton's flag at Elton may possibly
account for the curious wording of the
message. AS soon as Langley arrived
in London he went straight to Fulwar-
toms chambers to ask him what he
meant by dragging him away from the
Gay City with such peremptory wire.
"First Of all, old chap, about that
American heiress whom we have seen
udIAlg hAhlSO 1T III fdI4OuS papers
"a mere figment of the fertile Jour
nalistic Imagination! 1 hope to heaven
you haven't dragged me all this way
merely to hear me deny such an obvi-
GUS duck as that!"
mot exactly! The next question is
What about Una Carew?"
''My dear Reggie. after her fathers
death she went away somewhere as a
governess. But all my efforts to trace
her have failedw
"And you are still-?"
you internal idiot! OF course,
am still-as you gracefully put 1t. Only,
as you know, she refused mel"
"All right. Supposing 1 could tell
you where she ISL"
you don't really mean it, Reggie?"
well, look here. You know the Man
deville-Jones LOTT"
''I'ye heard of them"
very we'll. That's where Una Ca
rev IS doing the Jane Eyre turn! And
the 'Balmy Bounder' himself is trying
to introduce a little sunshine into her
existence !"
The next day when Lord Langley
called in Berkeley square and asked to
see Miss Carew, the pompous butler In