The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-03-07
CHAPTER XIX.
In the Red BUNGALOW.

What do you think" cried Mrs.
Atchison, glowing before Jerry and
Ardmore on their return; I'VE have
new guest!"
in the coal CELLAR" inquired her
brother
mo, in the blue room adjoining
Miss Dangerield's! And what do you
think, 1t is none other than the
daughter of the governor of South
Carolina"
"Oh, Nellie!" gasped Ardmore.
"Why, what's the natter" demand
ed Mrs. Atchison. Il had gone in to
Turner's to look at that memorial
church we're building there, and
| learned from the rector that Miss Os-
borne, with only a 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
er's side am Daughter Of the Sem
mole War. society of which Miss
Osborne is the president general l
hope Miss Osbornes presence here
will not be offensive to you. Miss
Dangerfield. She seemed reluctant to
come, but l 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 Irshall join you
In welcoming her. have heard that
the ancestor through whom Barbara
Osborne derives membership in the
Daughters Of the Seminole War wa:
afterward convicted of robbing ar
orphan Of whose estate he was thu
trusted executor, and such being thu
case feel that the commonest Chris
tan charity demands that l SHOULD
! treat her with the most kindly consid
,, Grafton l shall gather some roses
with your permission. and have then
T. waiting in her room when she al
rives. with my card and compliments.
Ardmore had rarely been so bus
as during the afternoon. Several NOR
newspaper correspondents were foun
prowling about the estate, and the
were added to the bowling mob in tn
Ardsley cellars.
IL HAS oil uoppSAS0 'Siy hoHNAA
. for u.s. said Collins; we've got tn
highest-priced newspaper talent in tn
world right under our hands, and b.
is fore we turn them loose we'll dictat
Is exactly what history is to know {
these dark proceedings"
when we've settled with Griswol
\ and proved to him that he's lost OF
and that the real Mr.. Appleweight
in his Jail, not ours, we'll have
find Gov. Dangerfeld and be might
quick about it," replied Ardmor
Paul says there's battery of Soul
Carolina artillery guarding the d
we'll county Jail, and that they
fooled the people into thinking they
North Carolina troops. and nobot
can get within four blocks OF the ia
They must have somebody In Jail
Kildare. l don't like the looks Of II
Jerry-a pleasing figure to contel
plate in white lawn and blue ribbo
suggested that the meeting ia
place in the library. as more like
imperial council chamber; but Al
more warmly dissented from this.
peace should never be signed.
maintained. in so large house
Ardsley. At Appomattox and
many other cases that he recalled,
opponents met in humble farmhous
They finally agreed on the red buns
low as convenient and sutficien
modest for the purpose. And so 1t
arranged.
A few minutes before five the f
of North Carolina was hung from
wide veranda of the bungalow. AT
door stood an armed militiaman. {
l,aubenspeck had been invited to
present, and he appeared accompan
ty several other onncers In full ,