Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-05-31
CHAPTER V.-CoNT1NUED.
Copyright, 1904, The Bobbs'Merrili Company

Ssh! Don't you dare to drag forth
any of those fool corpses of college,
or out you go bag and baggage" Jack
glanced nervously around the room
and toward the hall.
My dear fellow your wife wouldn't
believe me, no matter what | said
against your character. Isn't that
right, Chuck? Jack, you are lucky
dog, if there ever was one. A hand
some wife who loves you, kid, fine
home and plenty of horses. | wonder
if you married her for her money!"
Jacks eyes narrowed He seemed
TO muse. "Yes. l believe | can do it
as easily as | did Is years ago"
do what?' l asked.
''Wallop that kid brother Of mine.
Bob, hope you'll fall desperately in
love some day, and that you will have
a devil of time winning the girl. You
need something to stir up your vitals.
BY George! and hope she won't have
a cent of money"
"Loyable brother, that" Bob
knocked the ashes from his cigar and
essayed at laughter which wasn't par
ticularly felicitous. 'Supposing | was
in love, now, and that the girl had
heaps OF money. and all that?"
And all that" mimicked the elder
brother. What does and all that
mean?'
ooh, shut up!"
well, | hope you are in love. 1t
serves you right. You've made more
than one girls heart ache, you good
looking rufIian!"
Then he switched over to politics,
and Robert became an interested lis
tener. Quarter Of an hour later the
women returned, and certainly they
made picture which was most sat
isfactory to the masculine eye. Bob
jumped to his feet and kissed them
both, a thing / lacked the courage to
do How pleased they looked! How a
woman loves flattery from those she
loves!
Well, William is in front with the
carriage; the women are putting on
their Cloaks, and | am admiring the
luxurious crimson fur-lined garment
which brother Robert had sent to Nan
that he was not altogether thought
less lad. Good-by, Mr.. Robert. I
leave You and your guiding-star to bolt
the established orbit; for, after this
night the world will never be the same
careless, happy-go-lucky world. The
farce has its tragedy. and what trag-
edy is free of the ludificatory? Youth
must run its courses. even as the gay.
wild brook must riot on its way to join
the sober river
| dare say that we hadn't gone 90
minutes before Robert stole out to tb e
stables, only to return Immediately
with bundle under his arm and a
white felt hat perched rakishly on his
head. He was chuckling audibly to
himself
1T will frighten the girls half to
to death. A gray horse and a bay; oh.
| won't make any mistake. Let me
see: I'll start about u o'clock. That'll
get me to the spot just as the boys
leave. This is the richest yet. I'll
wager that there will be some tall
screaming" He continued chucllling
as he helped himself to his brothers
perfectos and fine old Scotch. | don't
know what book he found in the pri-
Yate case; some old rascaPs merry
tales, no doubt; for my hero's face was
never in repose.
we had left Mrs. Secretary f-the-In-
terior's and were entering the red
brick mansion on Connecticut avenue.
Carriages lined both sides of the street
and mounted police patrolled up and
down.
Poor boy! sighed Nancy. 'T won
der if he'll be lonely. It's a shame to
leave him home the very first night"
why didn't he come. then?"
Mrs. w. shrugged her polished shoul-
ders.
"Oh, my cigars and Scotch are fairly
comforting put in Jack, complacent-
ly. Besides, Jane isn't at all bad
looking, ,"-winliing at me- What do
you say. Charlie?"
But Charlie had not time to answer.
The gray-haired, gray-whiskered am
bassadOr was bowing pleasantly to
us. A dozen notable military and
naval attaches nodded; and we passed
chestra was playing "A Summer Night
In Munich. In moment Jack and
his wife were lost in the maze Of
cleaning shoulders and white linen.
It was a picture such as few men
once having witnessed it. can forget
Here were the great men in the great
world this man was an old rear-ad-
miral. destined TO become the nations
hero soon; there, a famous general,
of long and splendid service; cele-
brated statesmen, diplomats, fnaa-
ciers; noted English duke; a scion Of
the iIapsburg family; an intimate Of
the German kaiser; swart Jap; a
Chinaman with his peacock feather;
tens Of men whose lightcst word was
listened 10 by the four ends Of tho
world representatives OF an the great