The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1911-01-21
CHAPTER XIX.
In the Red BUNGALOW.

What do you think" cried Mrs.
Atchison, glowing before Jerry and
Ardmore on their return; 1--WE have a
new guest!"
"In the coal cellar?" inquired her
brother.
mo, in the blue room adjoining
Miss Dangerfield'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. 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 Os-
borne, with only maid, was stopping
at that wretched hole called the Ma
jestic hotel. had met Miss Osborne
in Washington last winter. and you
may forget, Tommy, that on our moth
er's side am a Daughter of the Sem
mole War, a society of which Miss
Osborne Is the president general.
hope Miss Osborne's presence here
will not be offensive to you, Miss
Dangerfield. She seemed reluctant to
come, but l simply would not take no.
and / am to send for her at four
o'clock"
Miss Osborne's presence is not
only agreeable 20 me, Mrs. Atchison,"
responded Jerry, "but l 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 l feel that the commonest Chris
tian charity demands that l 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"
Ardmore 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.
1T 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 Wen 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, well have to
find Gov. Dangerfield 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,
Jerry-a pleasing figure to contem
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 a house as
Ardsley. At Appomattox and II
many other cases that he recalled, the
opponents met in humble fai mhouses
They finally agreed on the red bunga
low as convenient and sufficiently
modest for the purpose. And SO 1t was
arranged.
4 lew minutes before five the fat
sf n rth Carolina was hung from the
vida yeranda of the bungalow. AT thu
door stood an armed militiaman. Col
Daubenspeck had been invited to b'
present, and he appeared accompanie,
by several other officers In full uni