The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-11-27

observed is Lands 10 SiwaGd 81.
the ha.e ID from of the fireplace
TIE season oVeus today in this eouu
ty. you see she shrugged her prety5
shoulders-"uud tae Omeh Who dom
shoot make the first field luncheon q
function
She turned, nodded her adieus. then
over her shoulder casually. IF YOU
haven't an appointment with the san =
man before dinner you may find he
In the gunroOm"
I'm be there in about three min
utes," he said. And what about. this
dog" looking down at tie Sycamore
pup who stood before him waggiug,
attentive, always the gentleman to the
tips of his toes.
Miss Ian lis laughed. Take him TO
your room if you like. Dogs have tie
run of the house."
So he followed a servant to the door
above, where a smiling and very orua-
mental maid preceded him through a
corridor and into that heavy wing Of
the house which fronted the sea.
"Tea IS served In the gunroom. sir, &"
said the pretty maid and disappeared
to give place to a melancholy and ST.
lent young man, who turned on the
bath. laid out fresh raiment and. whis-
pering scotch or Irish, sir?" present
~ effaced himself.
Before he quenched his own thirst
Siward filed a bowl and set it on the
floor, and 1t seemed as though the dog
would never finish gulping and SLAB
bering in the linpid Icy water.
"Its the salt air, my boy" comment
ed the young man, gravely reilling
his own glass as though accepting the
excuse on his own account.
Then man and beast completed alb
buttons and grooming and filed out
through the wide corridor, around the
gallery and down the broad stairway
to the gunroom, an oaken vaulted
place Illuminated by the sun. where
mellow lights sparkled on glass cased
rows Of fowling pieces and rifles, on
the polished antlers Of shaggy moose
heads.
Miss lands sat curled up in a cush-
toned corner under the open easement
panes Offering herself a cup of tea.
She looked up, nodding invitation. He
found a place beside her A servant
Scotch or Iri4 4, sir9' then
set the crystal paraphernalia at his
elbow
No sotd Sopoo+bipO q hort tba colt
air casually. The girl gazed medita-
lively at space
The sound of wheels on the gravel
outside aroused her from a silence
which had become a brown study, and I
to Siward presently she said, Here {
endeth our first rendezvous"
Then let us arrange another i'm
he said, stirring the ice in .
his glass
The girl considered him with specu
alive eyes. Il shouldn't exactly knc
what TO do with you for the next hour
f didn't abandon you"
"Why bother to do anything with
ne? Why even give yourself the
rouble of deserving me? That solves
he problem"
II really don't mean that you are a
,roblem to me, Mr.. Slward," she said,
unused. Il mean that / am going to
rive again"
~ see.''
mo; you don't see at ALL There's
elegram. I'm not driving for pleas
re-
She had not meant that either, and 1t
nnoyed b"r that she had expressed
erself in such terms. As matter of
act, at the telegraphed request of Mr. |
rossing to meet his train from the ,
lkes and drive him back to Shotover. ,
he drive, therefore, was. of course, a
rive for pleasure. ,
IT see." repeated Siward amiably. ,
perhaps you do" she observed, ris- I
lg to her graceful height. He was on
Is feet at once, so carelessly. 50 good ,
acquiescent that withori. a
ny reason at all she hesitateG ,
81 had meant to 81 t.
70 cliffs, the kennels and STA !;
,rry," she concluded, lin.
I'm awfully sorry, III.
1t meaning anythia& g.
hat was the trouble "h d,
)parently EIeant so
With the agreeable a
6 regretted she leu"
If, then walked th9
I'd hall, Siward sire,
The dog followed III,
toward the doc
ross the terraced
iveway, where a tG 4.
avn up, faultlessly a. D.
IRIS mania was tandem she tho
rather nice of her to remember tn -
She Inspected the ensemble withou q
sible interest for a few moments. g
lie wind freshened from the sea, flut q
ring her veil, and she turned toward q
e east to face It. In the golden q
lendor of declining day the white q
lis of yachts crowded landward on o
9 last leg before beating westward 81
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