, 1912-11-14

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"C7E'S just an Internal dude. your
IA SIordship. and I'll throw him
in the river II he says a word
AA too much"
He has already said too much,
T~ompkins. confound him. don't you
know
Then I'm to throw him in whether
he says anything or not, sirT"
Have you seen him?"
NO, your lordship, but James has.
James says he wears a red coat and
Never mind, Tompkins. He has no
right to fish on this side of that log.
The insufferable ass may W the land
oil the opposite side. but. %confound his
impertinence, | own 1t ON this side"
This concluding assertion of the usu-
ally placid but now Irate Lord Bazel-
hurst was not quite as momentous as
1t sounded AS a matter of fact. the
title TO the land was vested entirely
in his young American wife. his sole
possession, according to report, being
a title much less substantial out a
great deal more picturesque than the
large, much handled piece of paper
down In the safety deposit ~vault-lying
close and crumpled among a million
sordid. homely little slips called cou-
pons.
1t requires no great stretch Of imagi-
nation to understand that Lord Bazel-
hurst had an undesirable neighbor.
That neighbor was young Mr.. Shaw
Randolph Shaw. heir to the Randolph
fortune. 1t may be fair to state that
Mr.. Shaw also considered himself to
be possessed of an odious neighbor.
In other words, although neither had
seen the other. there was a feud be-
tween the wner of the two estates
that had all the earmarks of an ancient
romance.
Lady Bazelhurst was the daughter
of a New York millionaire. She was
young. beautiful and arrogant. Nature
gave her youth and beauty. Marriage
gave her the remaining quality. Was
she not Lady Bazelhurst? What odds
II Lord Bazelhurst happened to be a
middle aged. Anticipated ass? So much
the better. Bazelhurst castle and the
Bazelhurst estates ,heavily cucumber
ed before her father anne to the res
cuej were among the Oldest and most
coveted in the English market. Her
mother noted. with unctuous joy. that
the present Lady Bazelhurst in baby
hood had extreme difficulty In master
Ing the eighth letter Of the alphabet,
certainly a most fattering sign of
natal superiority. Notwithstanding the
fact that her father was plain old John
Banks ~(deceased). formerly of Jersey
City, more latteriy of Wall street and
st. Thomas.
Bazelhurst was a great catch. but
Banks was a good name to %conjure
with. SO he capitulated with a willing
ness that savored somewhat Of sus-
pended animation. SO fearful was he
that he might do something to dis
turb the dream before 1t came true.
Tha was I'VE years ago. With ex-
quisite irony Lady Bazelhurst decided
to have a country place In America.
Her agents discovered a glorious sec
ton of woodland in the A~dirondacks
teeming with trout streams. game
haunts. unparalleled scenery. Her
ladyship instructed them to buy with
out delay. 1t was just here that young
MIR. Shaw came into prominence.
His grandfather had left him a for
tune and he was looking about for
ways in which to spend a portion of
1t. College, travel and society having
palled on him. he hied himself into
the big hills west of Lake Champlain.
searching for beauty. solitude and life
as he imagined 1t should be lived. He
found m bought 500 acres of the
most beautiful bit of wilderness In the