Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-02-06

fer some reason OF stiler bIl,slled right up
TO her pretty eyes.
{: Was not until the carriage was out OF
sight ;aa. tc hooked al The card in his
nand.
Miss Mefrvweatner. Mil!iner ana La
dies outtitte,, ~. High ST.. Craigdocn.'f he
|, read.
Then he turned to me. WAS hat the
address you gave the cabman just now.
Rcggie?' lhe said.
J nodded s'8ut ] don't believe the girl
; Is q millincr. ail The same" j said.
WHY not?" said Captain Herrick.
Plenty of ladies go in for that sort OF
thing nowadays, and besides. it doesn't
make . scrap of difference to the fact that
the younger Miss McrrTwcather is an ex.
tre1nely nice girl, and about as keen n
sportswoman as they make them.
why. she landed Il thrve-pounder in the.
stream ct Cgaigdorn only las Week.. and
she"---
.'Oh. she fishes n Craigdorn. GOES sl,e?''
.Of course: why not said Captain Her
rick. sharply.
''Only that she'd better not lie, Lore
~Craigdarn catch her at it," said /. ''fe's
awfully down on poachers."
Q
a couple of days later when L heard Caps
tain Herrick ask Uncle Jack il he nigh,
take the cutter. as he was going across to
Craisdorn, I snlellea a rat.
"Do you mind my coming with you. SIR"
I said, lat least. il you are going 10 cal.
upon Miss Merryweathcr.'
Captain EcrriclS looked rather sick for Il
minute then nc laughed.
You certainly were included in the in
v%itation, Reggie" he said. $50 come
along"
AS we flew across the bay in the cutter
] thought of what Captain Herrick's
mater would say if she knew he was going
TO have tea in the back parior of q shop
; In Craisdorn High street. I've only seen
Lady ieTricls once, and then she looked
at me through u long-llandled eyeglass.
and told my parer J. was really Il very
pretty little boy.
! OF course that was ages ago, but I re-
member / thought it rather cheeky of her
to cali me q little boy when I'd just got
! into the second footer team at ST. Olave's.
| Sir James Herrick had 81 ripping place lii
! Worcestershire; but. of course, that went
to the eldest son, and they say Lady Her
rick had made up her mind that Rupert
that's Captain Herricls, YOU know-had got
| to marry an lleiress by hook or by crook.
OF course, marrying Il woman for her
money is a cadd!sh thing to do anyway. SO
Captain Herr:clS wasn't likely to be taking
any, and l expect he jolly well told his
| master so.
We got to CraIgdorn Just on i o'clock.
and to see the way Captain Herrick strobe
4 ot, 4AioA ~ sWOuIo dt lIsOuSlEG
he was in a mortal uni of being late.
When he came 70 40 he had to stoop his
head under the low doorway. and even
then he nearly went a header down two
steps into the little shop. l suppose 1t was
tho women's fal lals hanging across the
| window that made it SO dark. but 1 gave
| q regular jump when q little cracked voice
came from behind a pile OF b~ardboxes and
asked us what we required.
II want to see Miss Merryweather IL she
Is at home said Captain Herrick. as
coolly as you please.
II am Miss Merryweather., said the
! owner OF the cracked voice, and a little
gray-headcd woman came from behind the
boxes and stood smiling at us over the
counter.
I've often wondered since how he did
1t. but Captain Herrick never turned q
hair. only pretended he had some in to
get some gloves for his mater, and felt
sure he could rely ON Miss Melryweather,s
taste to select them for him. He bought
six pairs. and though he led the CONVEX
sation round to old ladies with mushroom
SNAPPED hats and young ones with auburn
hair and brown eyes, we came out of the
dark little shop us wise as we went IN.
Captain Herrick hardly said a word the
whole way back to Blairnch, and when we
met the butler in the hall and heard Uncle
JACK had visitors, we were just making
tracks for the gunroom when we heard
LIZ SOAAIO " a Slxl6 low aORl.
Captain Herrick stopped a moment as IL
he'd been shot. and then marched straight
into the drawing room.
1 followed and was just in time to heas.
Uncle Jack say:
Kiss Seaton, may ! introduce my friend
Captain Herrick, Lord Craigdorn. l think
| you have already met"
To see the cool way Captain Herrick
shook hands with the girl, and then exc
planned to her father that he had already
had the pleasure of meeting his daughter.
you would have thought that he'd known
all along who the girl was.
l must say clothes do make a difference
even to a pretty girl as you would jolly
well nave said Il you'd seen Miss Seaton
in the ripping white frock she wore that
afternoon.
l asked how the old lady was just by
way of putting a stopper on, and he said
she was pretty fit only suffering from a
slight attack of rheumatism which pre-.
vented her leaving the house.
She hoped, however. to see us all at the
castle for a few days if Uncle Jack would
arrange 1t.
As a matter Of fact Uncle Jack COULDN'T
at least, not for himself-he'd got a lot
more chaps coming up for the shooting.
SO it ended by Captain Herriclk and
going to Craigdorn castle by ourselves.
and. by George! we did have a ripping
time with the trout!
At least. I did. Captain Herrick might
have caught no end. only he was busy
teaching Mary Seaton q new cast with a
special kind Of fly. At least, that is what
they said they'd been doing when they
came In late for tea two afternoons run
ming. All I can say is that when / came
across them on the third day. they didn't
look like fishing one bit.
Mary seaton had On her white frock,,
with a rose In her belt, and Captain Her.
rick was putting in all he knew to get