Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-07-14
CHAPTER III.

| 'Im 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 I shall be at work till
midnight"
"Oh, bother Lillian Lees birthday.
I've no more than a 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.
We can smoke if We want to, and Well
be just as happy here as we would be
on the river"
"All right" said the young man, in
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 pretty
little bungalow overgrown with Vir-
ginia creeper and roses. Her brother
bestowed his 1annel-clad figure in
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 a sudden he
said. II never heard of her till l came
home this leave"
ooh, 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
a while, putting rings Of smoke into
the tranquil air.
ooh, Belle" he said suddenly. give
news for We. Ye're going to have
new neighbor The newspaper man
what's MS name again !-lFuScOtL-
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
lrying?"
tits some tremendous swell, l
know" said young Molloy; ''but I've
forgotten her name. l got the news
from Billery. You remember Billery?'
Faith I do, then" his sister an
swered Its the little man that ruin
lpeople how they can make a fortune"
That's the Johnny" said young
Molloy. But I've not told you me
news yet. I say ye're going to have
a new neighbor."
SIS 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"
"Ye can't be meaning that Brangwyn
man." cried Miss Belle, dropping her
work into her lap and looking at her
brother with an all III great d1spleas-
ure
Il am" he said. mo less. Mr.
Aloysius Brangwyn takes up his ten
ancy in about a week, so Billery tells
me. Yell not be wanting for society
now, Belle, me darlin'."
"Society." cried Miss Molloy with
tone of great acerbity. SIS it soci-
Iety? Upon my word of honor if l were
shipwrecked with the man upon a
desert island I'd live on one side of it
and Danish him to the other
Eye would not, then" her brother
responded. I'm not saying like him
meself. for I don't, but | never met a
soulan me life that had half the man
charm when he likes to use it. It's not
six months since we were stationed at
Villefranche, and I saw 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 a
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"
ooh, the women" said Miss Belle,
with mighty disdainful infection.
, Il know your opinion of your own
> charmin' SEX" said Master Bob, land
I needn't tell you that share ut
"You, We whippersnapper," cried his
| sister; "an' what right have you to an
: opinion? The women are little enough
, to brag Of They're Eighty and hollow
headed enough, poor things, but
they're wisdoms self with any male
creature of your age and experience
That's as may be- said Bob, com
placently. But thought ye'd be in
terested in knowing that your own
!, Especial bete-noir was coming to live
within a hundred yards
II suppose this is your mean re-
venge, because | couldn't come on the
, river" said Belle yiciOuSly biting