Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-05

he watched them walk away together, Bel
lew noticed upon the face of Cassilis an ex-
preston very like triumph, and in his gen.
eral air a suggestion of proprietorshlp that
Jared upon him most unpleasantly.
XIHY do you frown so, Uncle Porgeso"
"I-er-was thinking, Nephew.
well, I'm thinking too, nodded Small
Porges, his brows knitted portentously.
And thus they sat, Big and Little Porges,
frowning in unison at space for quite awhile.
"Are you quite sure you never told my
Aunty Anthea that you were going to marry
herr" inquired Small Porges at last
"Ouite sure, Comrade- Why
"Then how did she know you were going
to marry her an settle down"
MARY her an settle DOWN.
eyes, at the full o the moon, you know.
"Why, really, | don't know, my Porges,
unless she guessed It"
81 specks she did-she's awful clever at
guessing things. But, do you know
@Wello"
"I'm thinking don't just like the way she
smiled at Mr. Cassilis. | never saw her look
at him like that before,-as if she was
awful glad to see him, you knows don t
think i'd wait till the full o the moon, if
were YOU | think you'd better marry her
this afternoon.
"That, said Bellew, clapping him on the
shoulder, as very admirable idea. I'll
mention it to her at the first available OPP
portunity, my Porges.'
But the opportunity did not come that
day, nor the next, nor the next after that;
for it seemed that with the approach of the
hop picking Anthea had no thought or time
for anything else.
oil
and, as the days wore on, possessed his soul
in patience, which is a most excellent precept
to follow-in all things but love.
CHAPTER Xxx Which Relates Most Ex-
traordinary Conversation
TN the days that now ensued, while Anthea
was busted out of doors, and Miss Pris-
ella was busted indoors, and Small Porges
was diligently occupied with his lessons, at
such times Bellew would take his pipe and
90 to sit and smoke in company with the
Cavalier in the great picture above the
carved chimneypiece.
A right jovial companion at all times was
this Cavalier; an optimist he, from the curl
inq feather in his broad brimmed beaver hat
to the spurs at his heels Handsome, gay,
and debonair was he, with lips upcurving to
a smile beneath his mustachio, and a quizzl-
cal light in his gray eyes very like that IN
Bellew's own. Moreover, he wore the know
ing, waggish air of one well versed in all the
ways of the world and mankind in general,
and, what is infinitely more, of the sex fernl-
nine in particular Experienced was he, be-
yond all doubt, in their pretty tricks and
foibles, since he had ever been diligent stu
dent of feminine capriciousness when the
Merry Monarch ruled the land.
Hence, it became customary for Bellew to
sit with him, and smoke, and take counsel
of this pren1 eheoaIier upon the unfortu-
nate turn of affairs. Whereof ensued many
remarkable conversations, of which the fol
lowing was one:
BELLEw: aNo, Sir, emphatically do not
agree with you! To be sure, you may have
had more experience than l in such affairs;
but then it was such very long time ago.
THE CAVALIER, interrupting, or seeming
BELLEw: again, beg to differ with you.
Women are not the same today as they ever
were Judging by what have read of the
ladies Of your day, and King Charles's court