Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-02-26

NO You viii have to swear to this
l shall have you to accompany me TO
the next Office to a solicitor. You
have to swear that the parties are of
age and that one of you has resided in
the parish fifteen days. You are pre-
pared to do so, presumed"
1t is to be feared that Yorke was
prepared to do anything to obtain his
Leslie, and he was led off-he felt like
criminal of the deepest dye-to an
other dingy office, and there repeated
the oaths gabbled out by the solicit
tor. Then he returned to the proc
tors office, and, after waiting quar-
ter OF an hour, the clerk handed him
document.
What have l got to pay?" asked
Yorke, prepared for a demand, say OF
fifty pounds only two pounds two
and sixpence!" he said, with a surprise
that made even that solemn clerk
smile.
Only two pounds two and sixpence
for the privilege of marrying Leslie!
He stood and gazed at the mystic doc
ument and laughed aloud, so that the
seedy man who had conducted him to
the office eyed him rather fearfully,
and pocketing the half sovereign
Yorke gave him, scrambled off, fully
convinced that the young man was
mad
And, indeed, he could scarcely be
considered in full possession of his
senses that day Nearly every hour
he took out that precious license and
read it through, or gazed at the impos-
ing coat of arms on top and the arch
bishops signature at the bottom, and
every time he put it away again in his
breast coat-pocket he patted the coat
to feel that the document was there
safe and sound.
From Doctors Commons he walked
to the Dorchester Club. Everybody
knows that aristocratic institution. 1t
is not so magnificent as some Of the
great political clubs-some of these are
palaces compared with which those OF
the Caesars were very small potatoes.
1t had no marble entrance hall and
oak paneIed dining-room, and its smok-
ing-roOm was not so vast as church,
but it was snug and comfortable to
degree. You had to have your name
down on the list of candidates full
fifteen or twenty years before you
could hope to be balloted in, and some
fathers put. their sons down when
they were eighteen months old.
Yorke was we'll known at the club,
and the hall porter, in his glass box,
bowed to him a mixture of respect and
recognition which he accorded to very
few of the members.
There are no letters for me,
Stephen, 1 suppose?" said Yorke.
mo, my lord, none"
"Ah, we'll, expect one or a tele-
gram directly" said Yorke, trying to
speak casually. IF one comes, just
send it into the smoking-roo or din
ing-room, or drawingroom, in fact, and
see if I'm in the club. I want it d.
rectly it comes. You understand"
Certainly, my lord" was the re-
Spouse. IF your lordship is in the
CLUB Wnon the leIISf arrives, L Will 0CO
that you have it at once
Yorke sauntered into the drawing
room and took up paper; but he did
not see a word Of the page he gazed
at. He was calculating how soon
that letter could possibly reach him.
Then he went out, and, making his
way to Regent street, examined the
shop windows carefully, and ultl-
mately made several purchases.
He bought large ulster-a wonder
full garment of camel's hair, soft as
lambs wool, and as warm, with cuffs
that could be let down over the hands,
and a hood that could be drawn com
pletely over the head. Nobody with
this marvellous ulster on could be
cold. even while crossing the Channei,
where, as everybody knows, it is pos
sible to be frozen even on a summers
night. He also bought travelling
rug Of Scotch tweed.
To be continued.