Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-10-17

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and -and-generally impossible. Re
member she said, as she shook your
hand Enid will be an heiress-her
uncle's favorite. Above all things, she
must marry WELL Now, Mr.. Vance, you
must help u.s. 1 can just imagine
mammals earnest way: Now, Mr..
Vance, you must help u.s.
"Miss Stranegeways," protested Den
I'll ''is this kind?"
Here's a thing, and a very pretty
thing" laughed Enid to a bunch Of
nodding roses; "who shall be the owner
Of this pretty thing?"
"Why do you repeat it all-like
thisY
The roses were shaken rather VIC
lently as the voice behind then pro-
ceeded:
"T will call the owner you at once
cried, thereby allaying to a great ex-
tent the family apprehensions. 'Fortu-
nately,' you said, L have somebody who
will take the pretty thing off your
hands"
Remember, / had not seen you
then"
'All the more praise for your gener-
Gus choice. Now, if it had been a mere
chance, haphazard suggestion on your
part"
"a haphazard suggestion, he repeat
ed, with more than usual seriousness.
"Yes; that would have been differ
ent."
"And supposing- began Vance,
with the air Of penitent.
But Enid cut him short. "Of course,
you are a lawyer and a man of the
world. Mamma has such perfect conf
dence in your judgment that she fell
in with your scheme at once"
Miss Strangeways, l assure. you
never dreamed for an instant my sug-
gestion would have been taken up. Can't
you see how it all happened? The
drawing room full of people chattering
about you, drawing imaginary pictures
of your taste, appearance, and so on.
Uncle Herbert, in one corner, saying
you ought to be worth at least rail-
road president Aunt Sophie coniding
to her opposite the difficulty of getting
off some of her sisters children?"
"Yes, dear Aunt Sophie"
"You see, the whole thing was in the
air, so to speak you were to be thrown
into the society Of some one"
"It was tremendous joke"
"All sorts Of impossible peoples
names were mentioned said Denzil,
half in self-defense.
ITO save me from which you very
nobly suggested Alfred"
ooh, only in fun. We were all laugh
ing"
"You knew him?'
"We have always been close friends"
"And you promised mamma" said
EHlNl1 SlIOhIuS a IOoC OO1l1J wv
throw us together"
81 had not seen you. If 1 had only
known"
"Oh, but that increased your latitude.
1 might have been simply horrid."
81 was half in jest. 1 never thought
for moment the thing would be re-
ceived so seriously"
''Of course not. 1t isn't really seri-
Gus at all. Marriages nowadays
Don't be cruel Surely you can see
how 1 have melted out my own punish
ment 1 would give anything not to
have said It, The only consolation 1
have is that Alfred is my best friend"
1t was strange how the briary stems
of the roses would hang themselves on
the sides of the bowl and refuse TO be
placed in an orderly manner, and when
they kept tumbling about they drew
so much water away with them that
soon the little rosewood table was in a
state Of flood. Vance took out his hand
kerchief and built up little cambria
dyke Enid watched him unproteSt-
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for a few moments. Presently she said :
after all, Alfred is not so bad. He
has at least one idea in three weeks,
which, as men go nowadays, is encour-
aging, isn't it?"
He's better than hundreds" began
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