The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-08-13

laughed low-"I believe know who It
isl think I've seen him somewhere"
"Have your Sophy's question was
breathless.
"Yes, l know! When we were at
York. He was one of the officers there.
He was i'm box. Sophy, it's the Earl
of Dunstanburyw
Sophy did not speak. She looked.
The young mamie could be hardly
more than twenty-came on. Sophy
suddenly hid behind her friend C'To
save my pride not her own" generous
Julia explains; Sophy herself advances
no such excuse). but she could see. She
saw the riders eye rest on Julia. Did
II rest I'm recognition? 1t almost seemed
so, yet there was doubt. Julia blushed
but she forcbore from smiling or from
seeking TO rouse his memory. Yet she
was proud If he remembered her face
from across the footlights. The young
man. too, being but young man,
blushed a little as he gave the pretty
girl 10y the gate such glance as dis
creetly told her that he was of the
same mind as herself about her looks.
These silent interchanges of opinion on
such matters are pleasant diversions as
one plods the highway.
He was gone. Julia sighed I'm salts
fed vanity. Sophy awoke to stern re
alities.
"Gracious," she cried. "he must have
come to lunch! They'll want salad!
You'll be here tomorrow-dow And she
was Off up the drive and around TO
her own regions at the back of the
house.
81 believe his lordshlp did remember
my face" thought Julia as she wander
ed back to Woodbine cottage.
But Sophy washed lettuce in her
scullery, which, save for its base pur.
poses, was a pleasant, airy apartment,
looking out on path that ran between
yew hedges and led around from the
lawn to the Offices Of the house. Dill
gently she washed. as Mrs. Smillier
had taught her. whether rightly or not
is nothing to the purpose here, but how
many miles away was her mindI So
far away from lettuces that II seemed
In no way strange TO look up and see
Lord Dunstanbury and his dog on the
path outside the window at which she
had been performing her task. He
began hastily:
"Oh, say, I've been seeing my mare
get her feed, and-er-do you think you
could be so good as to find bone and
some water for LorenzoP
"I orenzof" she said
any dog, you know" He pointed to
the handsome beast which wagged an
expectant tail.
"Why do you call him that"
Dunstanbury smiled Because he's
magnificent. l dare say you never
heard Of Lorenzo the Magnificent"
"No. Who was he?"
"a duke.-Duke of Florence; in Italy"
He had begun TO watch her face and
seemed not impatient for the bone.
"Florence2 Italy?" The lettuce drop
ped from her hands. She wiped her
hands slowly on her apron.
"Do you think you could get me oneT
"Yes; I'll get it,"
She went to the back of the room and
chose bone.
"Will this do?" she asked, holding It
out through the window.
"Too much meat"
"ohp She went and got another
"This one all right?"
"Capital Do you mind IL / stay and
see him eat itF'
mo"
"Here, Lorenzol And thank the
ladyp
Lorenzo directed three sharp barks at
6ophy and fell to. Sophy filed and
brought out a bowl Of water Lord
Dunstanbury had lighted cigar, but
he was watching Sophy. A new light
broke on him suddenly.
II say, were you the other girl behind