Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-04
CHAPTER Nv

Grenville Rose, to speak metaphorical-
ly. has been padding his skiff through
troubled waters of late. Maudes short
wobegone little note of dismissal and his
aunt's indignant letter, were far from
pleasant reading to a man as much en-
tangled as he was in the love-gods meshes.
He sat and sulked-he sat and thought
They all ended in the same conclusion.
that Pearman would marry his darling
Maude and that he was, and ever should
be- utterly miserable.
Anathematizing, with an impartiality
quite beautiful to witness, everything and
everybody Mr. Rose once more enters his
sitting room in pursuit of breakfast. He
unfolds the Times. Again, as a prelmi-
nary, does he ascertain the extreme firm
ness of Coriander in the betting quotations
for the Two Thousand Not that Silky
Dallison's feed at Greenwich is anv OBJ
ject to him now-he is too miserable to
enter into such things; but he might as
well read about that as anything else
Why does the supplement. which he never
dreams of looking at, tumble so persist
emily across his plate?
Let's have look at the second col
umn." he mutters, "and see whether X
\ Us family are still in tribulation about
his absence; or whether 'Pollaky' is offer
ing his usual hundred for an absconded
young lady, aged nineteen, good-looking
and with rose in her bonnet-last seen
etc. 'Births'-hum! don't see much good
in them. There once myself, suppose
nice unlucky beggar's advent to put in
the papers. Marriages Suppose l shall
see hers before many weeks are ovr
Deaths ~ feel that's more in my line
just now. | hope there's a good lot OF
'em. How l should like to add one OF
two to the column-more particularly one
Halloa what's this2 At Mannersley
sitter very few days illness, in the sew.
enty-second year of his age. Samuel Pear.
man, Esq Wish 1t had been his son !.
muttered Granville; and then he sat down
TO think whether this could by any posi-
blity influence his prospects in any way
Ii is hard to believe that there Is nc
such thing as destinq. 1t is almost ludic
rous at times to think what trivial In
cident has turned the whole current Of
our lives. There is large and we'll
known Spectator on the turf at this time
"A man, doubtless, worth many ingots
and much stock and security-whose
ney-making career dates from the pre-
sentation of case Of razors, according t
popular report. Who can say? Many
such an instance might be quoted. Gren
willie Roses life turned on reading tbs
supplement of the Times, 1t may be saiC
by accident, that particular morning.
| fancy no human being ever saw tbs
generally light-hearted barrister thinking
so hard as he was upon this occasion. HI
has won many good cause since. but
of;en laughs and says, that was the big
gest he was ever engaged in; and no 80
lcitor to draw up the brief, mind
"Ah = he said at last, Il can almost
Ewear l saw it. l recollect laughing over
II at the time, and thinking what quaint
queer old deed it was. Suppose In
right wonder how it would aFec
things? l must go over and talk to DALI
son a bit
And while Grenville Rose crosses th'
Temple Gardens, let me say few word:
about George Daliison. He comes athwar
the loves OF Grenville and Maude but fol
few days. Yet he is destined to be thu
master of the situation of that eventfu
period. George Dallison is barriste
some two or three years senior to Rose