Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1900 — Page 2

Captain Brabason

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CHAPTER IY. —(Continued.) v” “Go on, go on; I’m just boiling to hear ~fh® sequel,” said Mr. Gee, nodding his head like a mandarin. “Glee me time, my dear sir. In a few days back came a letter, saying that the other was a hoax, and he had only sent it to try me, and feel the family pulse, •o to speak; and as I had responded in « liberal spirit I would never have any cause to regret my generosity.” “I wish to goodness a relative would play me the same trick. A sprat of ten pounds landing a salmon of forty thousand is ‘plenty good business,’ as they eay out here. And, by the way, about your cousin; did she tip him too?” grinding. "Not that I am aware of. She must bave been in short frocks at the time of this particular episode.” "Aud have you never seen her?” inquisitively. "Not to remember distinctly. There were two little girls at Aunt Jane’s when t went to say good-by, years ago. 1 recollect chasing one of them round the garden, and kissing her tremendously; but which it was I don’t know, and I suppose It would be a delicate subject to inquire Into.” "Pretty picture. But if she were as ugly as the pig-faced lady herself, I’d marry her and never think twice about it,” aaid Mr. Gee resolutely. "There’s a lot of spending in forty thousand pounds; but I can’t fancy an old stick-in-the-mud like you chasing and kissing any girl, young or old,” grinning. “Tell me some snore about her. Where does she live when she is at home? Has she any sister that would be likely to come in for money? Come, don’t he so glum, man alive.” "I would have to go into our family history,” said Miles. "I will read you a letter and enlighten you, for I know very little about her myself. There are lots to choose from. See what it is to come In for a fortune! There’s Mrs. Brabaxon's frightfully gushiug and full of delight, congratulation, and consent. It would be mauners to wait till she was asked 1 There’s Aunt Jane’s, that looks ats if it were written with a pin, crammed with advice. There's my sister Annie’s—” “That’s the one for my money,” interrupted Mr. Gee, loudly snapping his fingers. "Mrs. Curzon will tell us all about It, so fire away,” and his companion, having picked out the letter in question, began to read the following effusion: “My Dear Miles—Of course you have •opened aud read Mr. Barker’s letter, and .know the great news, that you are now a rich and an engaged man! 1 wonder bow you are taking it? I’m sure your lace is a beautiful study this minute; I wish I could see it. Do you know how it happened? No, of course you don’t; and you shall hear without further delay. Three years ago, when Esme was returning from sehool, just as the train was •tarting from Victoria, an old gentleman and his man servant came scuffling up. He was the queerest old fellow you ever beheld, in a white beaver bat, a blue cutaway coat and a checker tie, aud carried an umbrella that would frighten you. The carriage door was flung open, but the inmates showed no flattering desire for , his society; very much the other way, I squared themselves aud scowled. But Esme, who is good-natured, made room for him; in fact, did the honors of the compartment so agreeably, aud comported herself so worthily, that when he descended at a station he begged the favor of her name and address, which she gave, little dreaming that the yellow-faced old fogy was the renowned Uncle George. About six months later came an invitation, asking her to spend three days with the old gentleman. It seems that she made a very favorable impression on Uncle G., and the conclusion that she was to be rewarded with your hand, and that ft was a pity to divide the money in the funds. "Seriously, my dear Miles, she is a very , nice girl—pretty and lively, or would be the latter, only for her stepmother, who keeps these poor girls strictly in the background, and is the embodiment of a dozen wet blankets; consequently they are shy —at any fate, Esme is—and countrified. I should like her for a sister-in-law very much; and you have my full and free consent. Of course, you will come home at once. By the time this reaches you six weeks of the six months will be gone. You will never be so mad as to let the money go to the college in Calcutta; If you do, I shall consider that you are not responsible for your actions. Mind you tell off your little effects .without delay, and come home immediately to your affectionate sister, ANNIE CURZON.” "Sell off my little effects! 1 think 1 see myself!” exclaimed her brother, folding up her letter with deliberate contempt. "With the snipe just coming in, and the races on next month!” “Bnt there are heaps of racing and ahooting at home/’ observed Mr. Gee. “No sport to hold a candle to what wc have ant here. Thirty brace of snipe > within four miles at Ya Goo; or if you like to go down the river to Liriam, there are a eonple of hundred actually expecting yon! Besides all this, I’m going to have a shot for the gold cup with Destiny, and I’ve promised Patterson to ride Typhoon in the hunt steeplechase, sj I don’t stir for a month—if then.” "I’ll tell you what!” Mr. Gee’s favorite preamble, "you are too old to be talk- . ing such nonsense! A child would know better than to be playing with his—his fate in this way! And, as to Typhoon—a bad-tempered, poling little brute, with aa much mouth as a whale, he’ll nearly kill somebody yet!” D CHAPTER V. True to Mr. Gee’s doleful prophecy, Typhoon threw his rider in the races which took place a few days later, with the result thft Miles was laid np with three broken ribs. Captain Brabazon’s accident detained Urn more than a month in Rangoon. It was the first of July before rr*

BY B. M. CROKER

si on to fake his passage in the next steamer. Miles arrived in England early in the month of August, and spent some time with his sister at Folkestone, staving off the eva day, as he called it in his own mind, when he must present himself at Baronsford In the ridiculous character of an engaged young man who had never set eyes on his fiancee. Mrs. Curzon was a well-jointured widow, some years older than her brother, and any affection she could conveniently spare from her three idolized boys was bestowed on him. “There is no use in postponing the visit,” she declared for the tenth time. “It looks so extremely odd; it looks as if you did not' want to carry out the engagement.” "Neither I do,” muttered her brother. “You don’t know when you are well off!” said Annie, with decision. “It’s not young man In a thousand who has your opportunities. A pretty girl and a large fortune for the mere picking up. You would be mad not to go to Baronsford, at least to see her. Time is getting on.” In the end her eloquent counsels prevailed, and Miles sat down and wrote off a letter announcing his arrival for the following day. “Strike while the iron is hot,” was Mrs. Curzon’s maxim. The resources of Baronsford were large, its hospitality in old days famous, so he waited for no reply, but turning his back upon the attractions of Folkestone, set forth for Thornshire the next afternoon. In three hours’ time he found himself on the platform at Byford station, about four miles from Baronsford; and leaving his portmanteau to follow, set out across the fields, thinking he would make the old short cut and meet with familiar stiles and pathways. But ten years had worked a change. lie rambled about and lost his way, and nearly an hour and a half elapsed before the big red chimneys of the house he sought were to be seen shyly peeping through the surrounding trees. As he approached the gate all his dreamy speculations and nervous forebodings vanished; his mind was galvanized to sudden alertness as he noticed for the-first time the figure of a tall girl in white standing on the drive beyond the trees in the full light of the harvest moon. She was young and slender, aa well as he could judge. Her head was bent forward in an attitude of listening and her whole pose denoted eager expectation. She was, without doubt, waiting for somebody. Waiting for him? Impossible! The instant she heard his footsteps and caught au outline of his figure, she made a quick gesture of,,welcome, and, gathering up her dress, wi|h one sudden swoop came flying down to meet him with the swiftness of a white squall. He could now hear her running toward him in the dark—for it was dark—her hasty, high-heeled shoes pattering rapidly over the gravel. Nearer, nearer, nearer they came. His heart beat faster even than when in dense and distant Indian jungles he had heard the stealthy tread of a tiger creeping through the underwood and approaching the tree in which he was posted. She was at the gate even sooner than he was. She had ; dashed it open with hurried hands, and almost before he could realize the fact, her arms were round his neck. He drew his head back with a jerk, while she breathlessly exclaimed: "I can hardly believe it! I’ve been waiting for you for ages, and now you have really come. It seems too good to be true. But how funny and dignified you are. Let me have a look at you,” she panted, taking him by the arm and dragging him toward the light. To say that he was astonished at this reception but feebly conveys his feelings. The first shock over, and having successfully eluded her proffered kiss, his ueXt thought was his unhappy collar. However, he yielded amiably enough to her blandishments, and suffered himself to be almost hauled into the full, searching white moonlight to be inspected, As its first chaste gleams fell upon him, his companion stopped, as if she had been shot, gazed into his face with an expression of agonized incredulity, dropped his arm ivith a kind of smothered exclamation, and fled up the avenue like an arrow from a bow. He stared after her speeding figure in speechless amazement till she disappeared into the shrubbery and vanished like the Maid of the Mist. The whole adventure had been so sudden, and had passed so quickly, that it seemed a kind of dream. It could not be a ghost? Another White Lady of Avenel? But no; that hug was certainly human. ‘There is no use in my standing here and staring like a stuck pig,” he said to himself at last, having somewhat recovered his mental equilibrium; “I may as well be moving on, and ten to one I’ll find the 1 key to this riddle. It’s certainly some girl who has mistaken me for her lover; She was a lady by her voice, and young, decidedly. By Jove! she can run a bit. May be It’s Miss Augusta; there are only two of them.” Supposing it had been bis young lady! But, strange to say, this notion did not please him at all; and, turning over this very disagreeable idea ia his own mind, he reached the halt door. He was soon ushered into the drawing-room, just five minutes before dinner-time, rWhere be found Mrs. Brabazon dressed for the evening, awaiting the gong, with her hands lying idly in her lap, and an air of' pleasant anticipation pervading her aquiline features. Eight o’clock was her favorite hoar in all the twenty-four.. Florian was lounging in a deep arm-chair, absorbed in a yellow paper-backed French novel. Few and evil were the books that he read. Gussie was flitting about the room, patting away . papers, work and 1 magazines. “fik> It was not Gussie,” obserfNl the new arrival to himself, when he siad ,09re nnose made acquaintance “This ia quite an unexpected pleasure.” Mid Mrs. Brabazon, assuming her

rwSMwst company manners. ’T think It [Very nice of yon, taking ns unawatap like r thls, wmout nay formality.” ML “Unawares?” he echoed; “818 you not] get ray tetter?” a 9 | “Your letter will probably arrive hern, the day after to-morrow,” .said Fiorian, sarcastically. “Don’t yon grav tint we live in the backwoods here, wild have no second post? What did you put on the envelope? By ford?” “Yes.” J “Then that means that it slops in Bjford postofflee for twelve hours.” “You seem to be progressing since l was here test,” aaid Miles, with a laugh, glancing surreptitiously around in search .of another figure. “Gussie, my dear,” said Mrs. Braba-' zan, interpreting the pause, with her usual alertuess of onderstauding, “go and tell Nokes id see about a room at once, and Brown to lay another plate, and,” in a stage whisper, “let Esme know.” Gussie, having given some hasty directions to Ndkes, rushed into the school room with her great news. But it was empty. So was the dining-room; accordingly she ran up the shallow stairs, two steps at a time, breathless, to pant forth the intelligence to her sister, and plunged into their mutual bedroota headlong. At the first glance there was no one to be seen. Stay. What was that limp, crumpled object on Esme’s white bed? Esme herself? Never, Esme, who had cast herself down in at attitude of hopeless misery, and seethed crushed out of all shape and form. : “Why,’.’ pausing in mid-room, “what on earth is the matter? Are you ill?” demanded Miss Brabazon, aghast. “No,” returned a choked voice half buried in the pillows. » “Then what are you about? Get up this instnnt,” imperiously. “Mrs. Brabazon says you are to come down at once; Miles, your Miles is in the drawingroom.” No answer. “Esme. Do you hear me?” irritably. “Yes, of course, 1 bear you. I’m not stone-deaf,” she moaned querulously; then, all at once sitting erect, revealed scarlet cheeks, swollen eyes, and a very disheveled head. “Why, you’ve been crying,” exclaimed her sister, amazed. ‘Your nose is like a plum.” “I should rather think I have,” impressively. “Gussie,” she added slowly, keeping her eyes intently fixed on her companion’s face, ‘did you ever hear of anybody dying of shame? because I shall.” “Look here, Esme,” returned the other, severely, ‘this is no time for such nonsense. Dinner is just going in, and you must come down. Mrs. B. says so. “Here,” going over to the wash-stand, and hastily pouring out some water, “get up and bathe your eyes, and smooth your hair, and don’t be an idiot.” “What will you say,” inquired Esme, slowly, getting off the bed and rising to her feet, a tall and very much creased young figure—‘what will you say,” she reiterated solemnly, “when I tell you that I have seen him already, that 1 was a long way the first to welcome him?” with a rather hysterical laugh. “Have seen him? And when, If you please?” disbelievingly. “At the avenue gate! Oh, Gussie, I don’t think I ever can leave this room alive. I took him for Teddy.” “And what harm if you did,” replied her sister. “Harm!” echoed Esme; “just listen, and you will soon hear. Y'ou know since my last letter from Teddy announcing his home coming how I have been counting the days and hours till he came, and I was waiting for him near the white gate ever since 0 o’clock.” “Esme, how rash of you! (Supposing Mrs. B. had seen *him skulking about,” ejaculated Gussie. “I would not care two straws if she did. I would meet him on the hall doorsteps in broad daylight,” she panted, breathlessly. “But to go on. I waited ages for Teddy, and at last I heard footsteps, and saw someone that looked vqry like him coming along the road in the moonlight. Need I saw that I tore down to the gate, threw it wide open, canght him in my arms, hugged him like a bear, telling him I could hardly believe if, it was too good to be true, that I had been counting the days till I saw him and altogether was nearly beside myself with joy. I forcibly dragged him into the light to feast my eyes with a good look at him, and I then discovered that I had been hugging a perfect stranger—a dark young man, who did not seem to approve of it at all, and who my prophetic instinct told me was Miles Brabazon.” (To be continued.)

A Fromising Pupil.

A little girl who had Just entered school lately jubilantly announced to her father that she did better than all the girls Above her in the arithmetic class and went to the top. “That was smart of yop,” said be, encouragingly. “How was J.t?” “Well, you see, Miss Maggie asked the girl at the top how much was 8 and 5, aud she didn’t knovy, and said 12; then the next girl said 9, and the next one said 11, and the next 14. Such silly answers! Then Miss Maggie asked me, and I said and Mias Maggie told me to go up top. Course It was 13.” “That was nice,” said the father. “I didn’t think you conld add so welL How did you know ft was 13?” ' ‘ “Why, I guessed it! Nobody said 13.” <•; -::’J i :■« ”--4y4 Our Little Friend Once More. Her little brother was entertaining in the front room the young man who had Just called. ' n ‘ ‘Look here,” he said, suddenly, “are yod goln’ to propose to my sister tonight?” “Why— er—er—What do you mean?” asked the youth, with some agitation. “Oh, nothin’, only if you are, you aren’t goln’ to surprise her. At tea Jus’ now she bribed me an’ my little brother to go to bed at half-past 7. She’s hung four Cupid pictures on the drawing-room wall, got pa and ma to promise to go callin' next door, shut the dog In the cellar? and’s been practicin’ ‘Because I Love You Dearly’ on the planner all the afternoon! You’ll get her aU right, only If she MSXts talkUi’ ’bout Ifji bein’ sudden, tell; ber R don’t work With you.” The aterage length of a whale’s j4wbone la sevan

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Ancient Mines of Sinai.

History furnishes records of the working of the copper mines of Sinai from about 5,000 B. C. to 1200 B. C. These possessions brought on several bloody wars. The scepter of Pepl 11. of the sixth dynasty Is preserved In the British museum. The entrance, the ruins of the furnace, the crucibles, the huts of the miners and some fragments of tools still exist In the debris have been found remains of furnaces avd crucibles, slag and cinders.

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Practicing on Him.

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Danger in the Church.

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Bar Comment.

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Boa-on Aldermen and Theaters.

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