Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1910-09-28
CHAPTER XIX.
In the Red BUNGALOW.

What do you think" cried Mrs.
Atchison, glowing before Jerry and
Ardmore on their return; I'VE have a
new guest!"
In the coal CELLAR" inquired her
brother
No. in the blue room adjoining
Miss Dangerfields, And what do Won
think! 1t is none other than the
daughter of the governor of South
Carolina"
On Nellie!" gasped Ardmore.
why, what's the natter" demand
ed Mrs. Atchison. 81 had gone in to
Turner's to look at that memorial
church we're building there, and I
learned from the rector that Miss "a.
Dotne' with only maid, was stopping
at that wretched hole called the Ma
1estic hotel. l had met Miss Osborne
In Washington last winter, and you
may forget. Tommy, that on our moth
ers side l am Daughter of the Sem
inole War, society of which Miss
osborne is the president general.
nope Miss Osborne's presence here
VIII not be offensive to you. Miss
Dangerfeld. She seemed reluctant to
come, but simply would not take no.
and l am to send for her at four
o'clock"
! Miss Osborne's presence is not
only agreeable to me, Mrs. Atchison,"
responded Jerry, "but shall join you
In welcoming her. | have heard that
the ancestor through whom Barbara
Osborne derives membership in the
Daughters of the Seminole War was
afterward convicted of robbing an
orphan Of whose estate he was the
trusted executor, and such being the
case | feel that the commonest Chris
tan charity demands that l should
treat her with the most kindly consld-
Grafton. l shall gather some roses,
with your permission, and have them
waiting in her room when she ar
rives, with my card and compliments"
Ardmore had rarely been so busy
as during the afternoon. Several more
newspaper correspondents were found
proving about the estate, and they
we're added to the bowling mob In the
Ardsley cellars.
1T has all happened very handily
ACA hSf odlu COilluSt We We got the
highest-priced newspaper talent in the
world right under our hands. and be-
fore we turn them loose we'll dictate
exactly what history is to know Of
these dark proceedings"
When we've settled with Griswold
md proved 70 him that he's lost out
and that the real Mr.. Appleweight is
IN his jail, not ours, wen have to
hnd Gov. Dangerheld and be mighty
quick about H." replied Ardmore.
Paul says there's a battery of South
Carolina artillery guarding the Dill
well county Jail and that they've
tooied the people into thinking they're
North Carolina troops. and nobody
can get within four blocks Of the fail
They must have somebody i'm iaU at
Kildare. | don't Ike the looks of IT,"
Jerry-a pleasing figure to contem.
plate in white lawn and blue ribbons
suggested that the meeting take
place i'm the library as more like an
imperial council chamber. but ARD
more warmly dissented from this. A
peace should never be signed he
maintained. IN so large q house as
Ardsley. At Appomattox and I'm
many other cases that he recalled, the
opponents met in humble farmhousen.
They finally agreed on the red bunga-
low as convenient and sufficiently
modest for the purpose And so st was
arranged
A few minutes before five the flag
Of North Carolina was hung from the
wide yeranda Of tho bungalow At the
door stood an armed militiaman. Col.
DaubeDspeck had been invited TO be
present, md ne appeared accompanied
~ sevsrs, ether officers ~ full uAI-