The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-06-23

ladies good day. l do not recollect
when have enjoyed ten minutes more
thoroughly.
An hour in the shopping district,
that Is to say, up and down Pennsyl-
Vania avenue, where everybody who
was anybody was similarly occupied,
. shopping, nearly took the spine out
OF our jehu. Everywhe he imagined
he saw Nancy. And half a dozen
times he saw persons whom he knew,
/ persons he had dined with in New
York, persons he had met abroad.
But true to human nature, they were
looking toward higher things than a
groom in livery. When there was no
more room for bundles. the women
started for Mrs. Chadwick's apart
ments.
Said Mrs. Chadwick in French:
where, in the name of uncommon
things. did you find such a handsome
groom?"
Il was rather lucky" replied Miss
Annesley in the same tongue Don't
you see something familiar about
him?" Warburton shuddered
Familiar" What do you mean?"
! 1T is the groom who ran away with
us"
/ Heavens. MOI" Mrs. Chadwick
raised her lorgnette Whatever pos
sessed you?"
! Mischief as much as anything"
but the risk"
am nOi ofroiJ rN1,orr ,,,c ,,.>,,o
thing about him that appeared very
much like mystery, and you know
how ! adore mysteries"
And this is the fellow VIC saw in
the police-court. sitting among those
light o loves?" Mrs. Chadwick could
not fully express her surprise.
Il can't analyze the impulse which
prompted me to pay his fine and en-
gage him"
And after that affair at the
carriage-door! Where is your pride?"
TO tell the truth, believe he did
make mistake Maybe l hired him
because liked his looks" Betty
glanced amusedly at the groom, whose
neck and ears were red. She laughed.
| You always were an extraordinary
child. do not understand it in the
least. am even worried. He may DO
a great criminal"
mo, not a great criminal" said
Betty. recollecting the ride of that
morning: but a first class horseman,
willing and obcdient have been
forced to make James serve as butler.
He has been under the hands of our
cook, and ] have been Watching them
How ! have laughed! OF all droll
scencs!'
So she had laughed, CHI? Warbur-
toms jaws snapped. She had been
watching, too?
81 rode Pirate this morning"
"iou rode that horse?" interrupted
Mrs. Chadwick.
Eyes. and he ran away with me in
fine style Ii it hadn't been for the
new groom. ] shouldn't be here, and
the dinner would be a dismal failure,
with me in bed with an arm or leg
broken. Heavens! l never was so
frightened in all my life. We went
SO fast against the wind that ! could
scarce breathe. And when it was all
over, fnintcd like Il ninny."
! PAINTED! l should have thought
you would. should have fallen off
the animal and been killed Betty,
you certainly have neither forcthought
nor discretion. The very idea of your
attempting to ride that ANIMAL"
well, | am WISER and none the
worse for the scare James, stop.
stop!" Betty cried suddenly.
When this command struck his
sense Of hearing, James was pretty far
away in thought. He was wondering
II all this were true. If it was, no
must make the best of 1t; but If IL
was a dream, he wanted to wake up
right away. because IL was becoming
nightmarish.
james, The end of parasol
tickled him in the ribs and he drew up
somewhat frightened. What was go
ing to happen now? He was soon TO
find out For this was to be the real
climax of the day: or, AT least, the
incident was pregnant with the posi-
blities of climax
Colonel surely you are not going
to pass us by in this fashion," cried
the girl. They were almost opposite
the Army and Navy club.
"Why, is that you, Miss Betty? Pass
You by? Only when ! grow blind"
roared a lion-like voice. VERY glad
to see you, Mrs. Chadwick"
That voice, of all the voices he had
ever heard! A chill of Undesirable
terror flew up and down my jehu's
spine, and his pores closed up. He
looked around cautiously. IT, was he.
he of all men; his regimental colonel,
who possessed the most remarkable
memory Of any army man west of the
Mississippi, and who had often vowed
that he knew his subaltcrns so we'll
that he could always successfully
prescribe for their livers!
~ was just about to turn into the
club for my mail" declared the colonel.
at was very good of you to stop me-
I'll wager you've been specializing in
the shops, touching the bundles with
his cane
"You win," laughed Betty. But
III give you hundred guesses in
which. to find out what any one IF
these packages contains"
Guessing is bad business. What
ever these things are, they can ado
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