The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-04

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 CHAPTER L FIFE DISCOVERY or AMERICA BF LORD
 LoTEI.AND.
 S- VEN the last resort has refus-
 ed me- oyeland broke the
 news to his mother when he
 @A had kissed her.
 Miss Mecklenburg ?"
 tsYes; I begin to, realize that I'm a sinking ship The early rats are de- serting. me or decllning to come on board Clever little animalsH'
 "You shan't sink," protested Lady Loveland, clasping the pretty. hands whence all save the wedding ring and It's guard had gone to pay visit of Indefinite length to Messrs. Battenbor- pugh .sThe idiot, to refuse you-with her nose tooF'
 ~She didn't do it with her nose, ma- ter, Her engagement to Doriana was Announced the moEnzng after she'd of fered to be 8 sister to me. It was the size of her purse, not her nose. which caught his eye. But sooner or later he'll beat her.''
 q hope so. She deserves 1t for talk ing him instead ofsyou- Oh. Val. what World!p
 Don't grouse, mater. might have beaten her if I'd got her. and then there'd have been a scandal I can't stand women with important looking teeth and noses which throw. their other features into perspective Be sides, Lillian Mecklenburg isn't as young as she's painted"
 '.SO few women are nowadays, dear est,'' sighed Lady LoveIand, who in living for her handsome son did not trouble to live up to the past of her complexion. .sOh, Val, it's hard you. should have to think of such creatures! But what are we to do?'
 .rrhat's just where want your ad- vice. said Loveland, who had come giong way to get it, for the distance from London to the north of Scotland Is formidable when birds are out of season.
 Lady Loveland was fattered that Val should ask for her advice, which. when offered gratuitousiy. he had snever been kpown to take.
 ssMy adviceT" she echoed sadly. That's all can give you now, al- though I did hope, dear boy, I must confess. IT have been trying for 4imericks. It was for your sake. and I hoped to win large sums l thought of lines all night long, and did sends in some splendid ones. a thousand times better than those for which oth- CT people (dreadful people, my dear, with names like Hogson and Dobbsl have won hundreds of pounds l gave the editors permission to use my name, too-one would have thought a valuable advertisement for their pa- pers- But all I've won after the great est efforts has been fifteen and six an insult-while these Dobbs and Hog sons-I believe the editors must be So- cialists. And the shillings for the postal orders have counted up into pounds. am crushed with remorse.'' Never mind, dear: you meant it for the best,' said Val, who cared more for his mother than for any one else Tn the world-except himself. And that he made this exception was large ly Lady Loveland's fault, for she had brought him up to believe in but one person of paramount importance. adorning the universe-Percival George Victor Edward Gordon. thirteenth marquis of Loveland. 'sThe ships too far under water to be raised with linn ericks.''
 Dearest, is it bad as that?'
 t'It's as bad as anything can be. Look out of your window at the snow falling Well. that's nothing to the way it's showing bills outside my win Gow. If you and can't think of something to clear the weather I shall have to chuck the army"
 What horrible creatures radesmen must beP' said Lady LoyeIand, whose opinions had come down to her crust rd and spider webbH from the cellars of the stone age. '.To think that we'd have had power of life and death over them if we'd lived few hundred years ago! I wish those times could come back
 .aThe world at large doasn't agree with you.''
 "It oughtn't to be at large" replied Lndy Loveland without the smallest idea of a joke Its reached a pretty pass when worms who make boots and uniforms and"-
 .sAnd sell wine''-
 "Oh, if you lilke''-
 'sAnd jeweIry"-
 "very we'll Admit the jewelry''-
 FAnd motors. I've wasted a good deal of substance in riotous motorcars, nater''
 ..Oh. I suppose men of your position have some right to enjoy their lives. AS I was saying. it's come to a pretty