, 1912-11-14

ne rescued us. SIR" mumDied
Tompkins.
You mean
ii throwed us In and then had to
jump in and pull ia out, sir. Begin
your pardon. sir, but dash him!"
And you didn't throw him In after
ALI BY love. Extraordinary"
ID you mean to tell us that. he
threw you great hulking creatures
Into the river? Single handedY' cried
Lady B~azelhurst, aghast.
He did. Evelyn inserted Penelope.
II met them coming home, and poor
Tompkins was out of his senses. I
don't know how 1t happened, butt
at was this way, your ladyship."
put in James, the groom .'Tompkinsl
n me could see him from the point
there, sir, a-fishin' below the log. So
we says to each other Come on and
up we went to where he was a-fshin'.
Tompkins. befn' the game warden, says
he to him, Hi. therer He was plainly
on our property, sir. a-fshin' from a
boat for bass, sir. Hello. boysr says
he back to us. Get of our land says
Tompkins. 4 am says he; it's water
out here where I am Then
You're wrong" broke In Tompkins.
HE said it's wet out hero where
am"
you're right. 1t was wet. Then
Tompkins called him a vile name, your
lordship-shall 1 repeat it, sirr'
mo. mol" cried four feminine voices.
"Yes, do" muttefed' the dnke.
Fl didn't wait after that. SIR. he
rowed to shore In a flash and landed
on our land. What do you mean by
thatr he said. madlike. MY orders is
to put you Off this property, saysi
Tompkins, or to throw you In the riv-
err Who gave these ordersY asked
Mr.. Shaw. Lord Bazelhurst, sir,
dash you'-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 e the notices on the treesi
No Trespassin'?' But Mr.. Shaw said,
We'll, why don't you throw metin the
riverY He kinder smiled when he said
1t. I WILL says Tompkins and made
a u for him. I don't Just remember
why I started in to help Tompkins, but
1 did. Somehow. sir, Mr.. Shaw got"-
Don't call him Mr.. Shaw. Just
Shaw; he's no gentleman" exploded
Lord Bazelhurst
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
told us after he got through with US.
Well, anyhow. he got the start Of us,
an'-there's Tompkins' eyes, sir. an
look at my ear. Then he pitched us
both in the river"
Good Lord!' gasped the duke.
"Diable!" sputtered the count.
"Splendidw cried Penelope. her eyes
sparkling.
Hang II all. Pen. don't interrupt
the count!" snorted Bazelhurst for
want of something better to say, and
perhaps hoping that Deveaux might
say in French what could not be ut
tered in English.
Don't say it in French. count" aid
little Miss Folsom. "It deserves Eng
lish."
"Go On. James!" sternly, from Lady
Bazelhurst.
well, neither Of US can swim, your
ladyship. an we'd "a drowned II Mr.
II Shaw hadn't jumped In himself an
pulled us out. AS it was, sir, Temp
kins was unconscious. We rolled him
on a log, sir, an got a keg Of water
out Of him. Then Mr.-erAShaw told
us to go 'ome and get in bed, SIR"
he sent a message to you, sir" add
ed Tompkins. shivering nightly.
''Well, I'll have one for him, new
fear" said his lordship, glancing about
brnvely. 81 won't permit any man to
assault my servants and brutally NAL
treat them. No, sir; he shall hear from
me or my attorney"
HE told us to tell you, sir, that If he
eve caught anybody from this place
on his, land he'd serve him worse than
he did u.s. said Tompkins.
"He says I don't want no Bazel-
bursts on my place." added James in
flnality.
go to bed. both of your roared his
lordship.
"very good. sir" in unison.
'sThey can get 10 bed without your
help. I dare say PEN added his lord.
ship causticaHy Is she started away
with them. Penelope blushed, and one
party went to luncheon. while the 9th
er went to he'd.
81 shoulo like to see this terrible
Mr.. Shaw" observed Penelope at ia,
BILE. Hes a sort of Jack the Giant
Killer. l fancy"
"He is the sort one has to meet in
America" lamented her ladyship.
"Oh. 1 say now" expostulated the
New York young Ia wryly.
II don't mean In good society" she
corrected. with unconscious irony.
"Oh." said he. very much relieved.
"He's a demmed cad" said his lord
ship conclusively.
Because be chucked your men into