The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-04-09
CHAPTER XIX.
In the Red. Bungalow.

NnaL 90 you tnlnk cFle0 Mfss
Atchison, glowing before Jerry and
Ardmorc on their return; I'VE have
new guest"
"ln the coal cellar?" inquired her
brother
NO. in the blue room adjoining
Miss Dangerield's! And what do you
think! 1t is none other than the
Carolina"
ooh, Nellic!" gasped Ardmore.
"Why. what's the natter" demand
cd Mrs. Atchtson. II had gone in to
Turner's to look at that memorial
church we're building there, and
learned from the rector that Miss o.
borne. with only maid. was stopping
Mt that wretched hole called the Ma
testic hotel. had met Miss Osborne
in Washington last winter, and you
may forget. Tommy. that on our moth
er's side I am Daughter Of the Sem
mole War, a society Of which Miss
Osborne is the president general. I
hope Miss Osborne's presence here
will not be offensive to you, Miss
Dangerfield. She seemed reluctant to
come. but 7 simply would not take no.
and ! 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 or the Seminole War was
afterward convicted of robbng an
orphan of whose estate he was the
trusted executor, and such being the
case feel that the commonest Chris
tian charity demands that ! should
treat her with the most kindly consid-
Grafton. shall gather some roses,
with your permission, and have them
waiting in her room when she ar
rives, with my card and compliments"
Ardnore had rarely been so busy
as during the afternoon. Several more
newspaper correspondents were found
prowling about the estate, and they
were added to the bowling mob in the
Ardsley cellars.
at has all happened, very handily
for u.s." said Collins; we've 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
and proved to him that he's lost out
and that the real Mr.. Appleweight is
in his Jail, not ours, we'll have to
find Gov. Dangerfeld and be mighty
quick about it" replied Ardmore.
paul says there's battery of South
Carolina artillery guarding the Dill
we'll county Jail, and that they've
fooled the people into thinking they're
North Carolina troops. and nobody
can get within four blocks of the jail.
They must have somebody in Jail at
Kildare don't like the looks OF It.. 4
Jerry--a pleasing figure to conter'-
plate in white lawn and blue ribbons
suggested that the meeting take
place in 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 house az
Ardsley. At Appomattox and IN &
many other cases that he recalled, the n
opponents met in humble farmhouses.
They finally agreed on the red bunga- q
low as convenient and sufficiently a
modest for the purpose. And so 1t was "
arranged. M
A few minutes before five the flag
of North Carolina was hung from the
wide vcranda of the bungalow. At the
door stood an armed militiaman. Col. 81
Daubcnspeck had been invited to beM
present, and he appeared accompanied II
by several other officers in full uni n
form. Word of the meeting place had q
been sent through the lines to the
enemy. and the messenger rode back
with Griswold. WHO was followed
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