The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-07-20
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B1'alllgVvy11 Mystery

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/ grass to clean his pipe and flushing a
little, perhaps with the exertion. II
! think you know her-a Miss Lillian
Lee He was dying to talk about her,
even to rival.
oh, yes the other answered. Il
| have had the honor to know Miss Lee
/ for more than half a lifetime. Come
along, Billery. What an unconscion-
able old slowcoach you are!"
you don't carry my flesh, Alexis"
said Billery, STOPPING over the stile to
set down black bag he carried and
you haven't arrived at my years" He
| climbed ponderously into the road
and stood to mon his brow.
Your years, Methuselah." said the
other. Hes fifteen months older
than ] ann, and he's always asking
consideration for his years"
"Ah,' replied Billery. Il drudge in
an Office when i am finding anything
to drudge at. You boat. you ride, you
| golf, you play cricket and football
frivolous occupations for your time of
life, but all tending to the conserva-
tion of the figure and the wind Be
sides, I've had this confounded bag to
carry"
Shut up" said Bob you've run
to seed through applying too much
liquid to the soil" Billery took this
bludgeon stroke unmoved.
My chief wanted about half ton
of documents from the office Of
course, I'm the man for a job like
that | suppose he thinks that eXer-
else does me good. So long, you fell
lows, Shan't see you again, sup
pose?"
He made off with the bag the 9TH
&, ers calling their farewells after him.
81 say, Brangwyn," said Bob Mol
10y, thrusting an arm through his com
panion's, I'm jolly glad to see you.
Belle and | We're talking about we only
this morning. suppose We know
your cousins coming to live here?"
'Billery told me so. We met by
accident at Waterloo and travelled
down together"
You don't see much Of each other?"
asked the boy.
No We have barely mot for years
We don't get on very we'll together. Ii
happens so sometimes in families"
Il say, Brangwyn," said BOP again,
"how long did you say you's known
Miss Lee?"
Il knew her. answered Brangwyn,
when she was; a child"
81 never saw her until this morn
ing said Bah. I've knocked about
lot. I've been on two commissions,
and I've seen em all-French, Span
ish, and Italian and Greek, and Cinga-
lese and Japanese-by lingo! but it's
my machure opinion that a well-bred
Englishwoman bangs the lot"
That's your mature opinion, is it.,
Bob" said Alexis. We'll, I'm not in
c!ined to quarrel with it,
"And if | were Paris" Bob declared,
II know where I'd bestow the apple"
Bob" said Alexis, smiling up at
him, for the boy was slightly the tall
er of the two, you're a man of taste,
and the first chance we have we'll
drink a toast together"
Right you are" Bob answered. 81
say, Brangwyn, think there ought to
be a recognized code of honor amongst
gentlemen about a thing like this"
"A thing like what, Bob?' Brangwyn
asked.
Why, what l mean is this" said
Bob IF there's to be a rivalry be-
tween two fellows it ought to be an
open one. Don't you think so? It's
only fair to let you know that mean
to enter for the running Miss Lees
not engaged, l know, for my sister
Belle told me SO this morning just be-
fore she called"
Bob" returned Alexis, pausing and
facing him with an enigmatic counte
nance, in which Il mock seriousness
tried in vain to hide the dancing
dash your hopes so early. But the
fates, are against you. Miss Lee is en-
gagged, and can speak with authority
because she is engaged to me-"
Bob's countenance fell ruefully. but
he made fight against his natural
emotions.
YOU'RE lucky beggar," he said
II might have known that something
would happen. 1t always has in my
experience. won't say l wish ye JOY
for that's supertluous. You've got the
pick of the basket, and if ye're not 6
happy man, We ought to be-
u Better luck next time, Bob. Yor
can hardly hope to command the fleet
before you're thirty. and it won't be
worth while to think of marriage until
then"
"Ah! go away with your chaff," Bot
answered, I'm in no mood for it
Belle oughtn't to have put me in {
, hole like this"
: 1T isn't your sisters fault, assure
, you,' said Brangwyn. THE news is
barely twelve hours old, and happier
to know that Miss Molloy was intend
} ed to be the first to hear it."
/. Then We knew" said Bob, that
Miss Lee would be here this morn
ing?" Alexis nodded solemnly. "And