Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-02-01
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nOuncement in the Times. AS Lady
Avon's eyes fell upon it, she truly thought
they must be playing her false; that her
sight was failing her.
The living of Great Wilton was be-
slowed upon the Hon. and Rev. Wilfred
EIh0tsen, a personal friend Of the Earl
OF Avon.
Her ladyship called out for her daugh
ter in commotion she sent her maid.
Charity to hasten her. Grace feared her
mothe was worse, and few to the room
with rapid steps.
''What can be the meaning of this
Grace?" gasped the countess. Henry has
not given the living to Mr.. Baumgarten
after all he has given it to young Elliot
senw
"Oh, indeed said Grace, carelessly.
"Harry can do as he likes, l suppose"
mo, he can't, in such a case as this.
At least he ought not. Once his promise
was given to me, it should have been
kept. cannot understand his going
from, it. 1t is not like him"
"Well, mamma, don't see that it mat
tiers to us, whichever way it may be-"
But it does matter. don't want
SimPering young fellow like Wilfred FL
liOtsen down here, and whose wife goes
In for rank Puseyism besides. She has
only been waiting for his appointment to
church, report says, to make him play
all kinds of antics in it; she leads him by
the nose"
Grace laughed.
ut is no laughing matter" reproved
her mother, "fOr me or Mr.. Baumgarten.
! shall be ashamed to look him in the
face. And he had begun to lay out plans
for his marriage with Miss Dane and
their life at Great WhittOn"
''HOw do you know that2" asked Grace
quickly.
'Mrs. Brice told me so when she was
here yesterday" replied Lady Avon. 'She
knew from the Danes that Ryle Baumgar
ten was to have Great Whitton and to
marry Edith. Why Henry should be so
chRngeable / cannot imagine"
Lady Avon was evidently very much
annoyed, and justly SO annoyed at the
fact, and annoyed because she was I'M
able to understand her son, who was
neither capriciOus nor inconsiderate. She
wrote a letter of complaint to him that
day, and awaited his answer.
The i'll news broke abruptly upon Mr.
Baumgarten. The little hard-wOrked, in
offensive Mr.. Brice, who had kind heart
and never failed to have a kind word for
his patients, CHANGED to see in the Times
the same paragraph that Lady Avon saw
and on the same morning.
and on the same morning.
BLESS my heart" he exclaimed what
an unlucky thing How could Baumgar-
ten have made such a mistake? He said
Lady Grace told him. Perhaps it was she
who mistOok the matter /"
Away he FASTENED to WhittOn Cottage.
the newspaper in his pocket, and into the
clergyman's presence, who sat in his lit
tie study writing a sermon. And when
he got there, he felt at fault how to open
the ball. 1t, seemed SO cruel thing to
do. Mr.. Baumgarten, who looked gay and
unconscious, led up to it.
Have you heard any particular news
this morning. began the surgeon, after
a few words had passed.
No." lightly replied Mr.. Baumgarten
tive not seen any one to tell me any
have been busy since breakfast with
my sermon for next Sunday Nearly the
last l shall preach at Little Wilton,
expect"
Mr.. Brice coughed. "Have you heard
from Lord AvOnY he asked.
"NOt yet. l rather wonder at it. Every
morning | look for letter from him, but
It does not come, He may be in France
again for all know myself; l don't like
to call at Avon House unfit my appoint
ment is confirmed. 1t would look push
ing; as If were inpatient"
well, IL saw a curious paragraph
In the newspaper just now, about Great
Wilton being given away; but it was
another name that was mentioned, not
yours" said Mr.. Brice 81 thought I'd
como here at once to see if you knew
anything about It,"
'NOt anything newspapers are always
making Mistakes" smiled Mr.. Baumgar-
ten.
Mr.. Brice took the paper from his
pocket. Finding the place, he laid it be.
fore the clergyman, who read it. Read il
twice over, and began to feel somewhat
less easy. He read 1t third time, aloud.
1--WE are authorized to state that the
valuable living Of Great Wilton, Home
shire, has been bestowed by its patron,
the Earl of Avon, upon the Honorable
and Reverend Wilfred HlliOtsen."
There ensued a pause. The two gen
tlemen were looking at one another, each
Questioningly.
1t must be a mistake" said Mr.. Baum
sarten. "LOrd Avon would not give the
living to me, and then give it to some one
sise."
The question ls-did he give it to
your" returned Mr.. Brlce. Perhaps the
mistake lies in your having thought So"
IL saw it In his own handwriting, In his
better to his mother. Lady Grace showed
It to me; at least, portion of it. He
wrote in answer to an appeal Lady Avon
had made to him to give me the living.