The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-05
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TnafF ne said, fmaQl1Ee. My orders IS to put you off this property says Tompkins, -or to throw you in the riv- err sWho7 gave these ordersY asked Mfr. Shaw. Lord Bazelhurst sir, dash youi-beg pardon sir 1t slipped out And who the devil is Lord Ba- zelthursty said he. Hurst said Tompkins. He owns this ground. Can't you see the notices on the trees! No Trespassln'r But Mir. Shaw said, Well. why don't you throw me in the riverY He kinder smiled when he said 1t T will,' says Tompkins and made rush for him. don't just remember why Iistarted in to help Tompkfns, but I did. Somehow, sir. Mir. Shaw got -- Don't call him MT. Shaw. Just Shaw he's no gentleman" exploded Lord BazeIhurst
 But he told us both to call him Mister sir, as long as we lived. I kinder got in the habit of it, your lord ship, up there That is, that's what he bold us after he got through with us. We'll. anyhow. be got the start of us, ant there's Tompxins' eyes, sir, an look at my ear. Then he pitched us both i'm the river"
 Good LOrdw gasped the duke.
 '.D1HD3er' sputtered' the count
 .SpIepdffr' cried Penelope, her eyes sparkling
 Hang it all. Pen, don't interrupt the coufftr' sIlprted Bazelhurst for want of something better to say and I perhaps hoping that Deveaux might 6say In French what could not be ut tered in English
 Don't say it in ;French, count,' said little Miss Folsom. ''It deserves Eng lssh."
 fgc son. Jamesr' -sternly. from Lady BazeEhurst
 Well, neither of us can swim, your ladySrip, an we'd "a drowned If Mr. if Shaw hadn't Jumped in himself an pulled as out. As 1t was. sir, Tomp- klrs was unconscious. We rolBed him on log, sir, am got keg of water out of him. Then Mr.-er-Shaw told us to go 'ome and get, in bed, sir
 sHe sem message to you, sir" add cd Tonpadns, shivering nightly.
 We1I, I'll have one for him, never fear" said his lordship, giancing about hraveiy. CT won't permit any man to assault my servants and brutally mal- treat them No, sir: he shall hear from me or my attorney" ~ ''.as '-
 He told us to- tell you, sir, that if he ever caught anybody from this place on his land he'd serve him worse than he did us.s said Tompkins.
 a'He says, T don't want no Bazel- hursts place a es.ss added sels7 u1 James in hnahtS.fr~ esrs.sssno, l,ae @a8ssss.
 .Go, to bed. both of youE' roared his lordshfp.
 4*Very good, sir, : in unison.
 ssrhey can get to bed without your help. I dare say. Pen,' added his lord ship causfically as she started away with them Penelope bfushed, and one party went to luncheon, while the eth CT went to bed sh7f oIus
 sI should like -te ,-see rthis terrible Mr. shaw" observed Penelope at ta- ble. sHe's sort of Jack the Giant Killer, fancy
 "He is the sort one has to meet in America 2 Iamented her ladyship.
 "Oh, say now" expostuiated the New York young man wryly.
 T don't mean in good society" she corrected. with unconscious irony.
 a%Oh," said he, very much relieved.
 He's a demmed cad, 2 said his lord ship conclusively.
 Because he chucked your men into the riyerg' asked Penelope sweetly.
 '.She's deoced pretty, eh?'" whispered the duke to Mrs. De Peyton without taking his eyes from his young coun- trywoman's face.
 .sWho?v asked Mrs. De Peyton. Then he relinquished his gaze and turned his monocle blankly upon the American beside him.
 'sI shall send him a warning that he'll have to respect, cad or no cad,' said Bazelhurst, absently spreading butter upon his fingers instead of the roll
 ''Send him a warning?" asked his queenIy wife. Aren't you going to see him personally? You can't trust the servants it seems"
 My dear, I can't afford to lose my temper and engage in a row with that bounder, and there's no end of trouble I might get into'-
 q shall see him myself if you WdH V Sd1u AcE httuJSHlp AT1Aiy' 1AcIS was frigid silence at the table for g full minute. relieved only when his lordship's monocle dropped into the glass of water he was trying to con vey to his lips. He thought best tc treat the subject lightly, so he laugh ed in his most jovial way.
 You'd better take mackintosf with you, my dear he said. "Re member what he told Tompkins and James,
 He will not throw me into the riv CT. It might be different if you went Therefore think'-
 Throw. me in, would he?" and Ba zelhurst laughed loudly. I'm nc groom, my dear. You forget that ii is possible for Mir. Shaw to be soused.
 'sHe was good enough to souse him self this morning." volunteered Pene lope "I rather like him.
 "By love, Cecil! You're not afraid to meet him. are you?" asked the duke. with .tantalizing cooiness. You know. if you-are I'll go. over and talk to the fellow:
 Afraid? Now. hang it all, Barmin pter. that's rather a, shabby thing tc