Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-12-12

precocious What, under proper
training, would have been clean.
clear, pure sportsmanship as thorough
as that of Lady Diana herself. became
in him a mere gaming spirit. He
gambled with nice observance OF eti-
ouette and Of honor, but still he de-
fed chance. AS a result he got into
the hands of the money lenders, and
what wasn't entailed was mortgaged.
There were women, too, in this
Young mans life, but of these Lady
Diana knew nothing. But, though
they came and went, they never SEEM
ed to have penetrated TO the core of
the young Hubert to infect him with
the virus Of diseased imagination. The
boy seemed asleep and too good ma
tured to put his house in order. His
friends predicted that if he ever real
" aroused himself he would rid him
self of them effectively, cleanly and
finally.
Dismissing the supposedly dissolute
young earl from her thoughts, Lady
Diana came to the last fence which
separated her from the glen in which
the Falconhurst kennels and stables
stood. From the level plateau i'm
mediately above the glen there float
ed down to her the shouts Of the lads
on the backs Of the prides Of the
marquis stables. Beverley had held
q? q? for the moment jockeys in
stern repression, but the stimulating
air, the vast tonic Of the nervous
horseflesh beneath their knees and the
thrill Of the mad motion could not
keep the lads entirely silent.
In revolt Of the things that she dim
ly sensed as governors of her whole
after life, Lady Diana set her mouth
at the stifly rallied fence before her.
AS the pack, scenting the food wait
ing in the kennels, swept through the
fence, Lady Diana went over 1t.
In midair she saw picture, vividly
and anxiously. Under the royal oak
sat an artist sketching, though far on
So intent was he on his outline OF the
kennels and mushroomed stables that
he gave no attention to the hounds
and apparently was not conscious Of
the approach hurtling through the air
of the lady on her palfrey.
The original impulse Of Lady Di-
ana's leap would have carried woman
and horses squarely into the person
of the artist. But the moment the
girl had seen him a paralyzed inhibi-
tation had stayed the force Of horse
and girl almost in the air, and both
lost their carrying power, making a
very bungling finale Of what had been
originally very fine movement.
But, as it was, the easel, made on
the moment by the artist out OF
twigs and dead branches, had been
shattered by movement of one of
the hunters sleek legs, and worse, an
iron shod hoof had made an ugly
mark upon the artists left wrist,
which had laid at rest on the moss
while his right hand sketched.
In a trembling hurry Lady Diana
swung from the saddle. Her mount,
| disregarded, was allowed to amble
away and browsed without restraint.
"Oh, I'm so sorry! Pray tell me
that you are not hurt-severely!" she
said and raised her eyes to the strang-
er's face.
She saw clean cut features, black
eyes with just a shade of amusement,
of whim, in them, though there must
have been pain in that wrist, and
wavy black hair. The man was in
| rough tweeds, and a cloth hat of his
suits pattern lay a little way off.
Not bit." he returned carelessly.
1T was really very stupid of me not
to have noticed pack in full cry for
it's kennel feeding and so inspiring an
object as their mistress"
He had covered his hurt with his
handkerchief and knotted and twisted
it before the girl could offer to minis
ter to him. Such absorption can only
be e..cused in a very great artist, and
such I assure you I can scarcely hope
| to be-"