Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-14

pathized very cordially with the vicar when
that worthy found himself in a bunker
Harry. my dear boy, pray remember where
you are, he would say and, to give him
| his due, the vicar rarely forgot the number
or strokes necessary to extract himself
from one Of these many values of tears
which abounded at Moretown.
Other moments, 1t should be observed
Were those of mutual admira ton.
II you could only putt well as you
can drive. you might play Vardon," the
vicar would tell the doctor
To which the reply would be:
My dear Harry, Taylor could not play
better approach than that You'll be down
10 scratch II you go on improving in this
way"
Needless to say, such enthusiasm demand
ed complete absorption in the game and
tolerated no liberties. If any one had told
the doctor of the fall of Port Arthur at the
moment of his playing an approach that
man assuredly would have deserved any
| fate that overlook him. When the stove
IN the Vestry set fire to the chancel roof
ana ala I'VE hundred pounds worth Of dam
age TO Moretown Church. no one had the
courage to tell the vicar until he had hoed
out on the eighteenth green. Words won't
put the roof on again. the sexton wisely
said, and a precious lot of words you'iI
get from ZEE while 'ees piayin with his
BALL So the doleful news was reserved
for the club house. IT really fear I ought
not to play second round" the vicar ex-
claimed when he heard it; most yexing. I
must say"
These being the circumstances of the
weekly duei outrance, 1t certainly was
astonishing to discover the vicar and the
doctor talking of any other subject but golf
on day of July some three weeks after
Count Odin's arrival at Melbourne Hall.
Strange to say, however, they discussed
neither the merits OF the cut nor the doubt
full wisdom Of running I'D approach. but
playing their strokes with some indtffer
ence as to the attending consequences thew
spoke OF my lord of Melbourne and of the
frlry fSpir ~ L.
eutn aIlalrs az the nan were taking To be
entlreiy candid, the vicar left the main part
OF the talk to the DOCTOR for the secret
wh1ch he carried he had as yet no courage
to tell to any one
Most extraordinary-no, tba soua ~,
Sir, by twenty years. If he were a woman
L would call it neurast henia and back INV
opinion Tor Haskell What do you think
OF sane human being letting lot Of dirty
gypsies nave the free run of the hail. in
and out like rabbits In a warren-drinking
nus pest wines and riding his horses and
lots more besides that the servants hint at
but won't talk about? Why. they fell me
that he's up half the night with the sclrrn
sometimes, as wild the rest of them
when they fiddle and caper in the long
gaHery. Whats common sense to make OF
ft9 What do you make OF it, leaving COM
mon sense out of the matter?"
The vicar looked somewhat askance at
the dubious compliment; nor did 1t encour-
age him TO tell of the strange sights he had
seen in Melbourne Park some twelve hours
before this epoch-making encounter.
Il hear the men are Roumanians" he
said, taking a brussie from his bag and
making an atrocious shot with it. ..Of
course. the earl-this is rniserable-the earl
was in Roumania as young man. Perhaps
he Is returning some courtesies these wild
fellows showed to him. You play the odd,
think
odd or the like. don't care a-that is to
say, 1t Is most extraordinary. Why, they're
bandits. Harry-bandits, I tell you and
unless Mrs. Fillmore looks out they'll carry
her off to Matlock Tor and hold her out to
ransom-perhaps while we're on the links
A pretty advertisement you'd get IL that
came off. A Wears wife stolen by brig
ands. The reverend gentleman on the q.
Tee Think of 1t In the evening papersl
How some of them would char you!''
The vicar played an approach shot ana
said: This is really depiorable" He
would have preferred to talk golf. but the
doctor gave him no rest and 80 he said
presently:
81 wonder what Lady Evelyn thinks of 1t
all? She went by me In the car yesterday
and Bates was driving her. Now, I've
never seen that before. - God bless
me- what shocking stroke!"
He shook his head as the ball went skim
ming over the ground into the deepest and
most terrible bunker on Moretown links
the doctor following 1t with that sympa-
thetic IL hypocritical gaze We turn upon
an enemys misfortunes Impossible not
to better such miserable exhibition. he