Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 8, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 August 1889 — Page 2

Beautiful im

Continued from

"""Nothing mucli,- imswered Owen, "but the colonels going home to-morrow, bleea him." "H'm—field day first, of course.'* "(Hi, yes the nasal thing. Bat Mrs. Barnes got another baby this morning, and the colonel's going to stop a fortnight." "Another—that's Keren teen, tint itf By Jove! 1 don't know how that long suffering woman stands it. By the bye, have you seen anything of the Leslieer* "Yes they were at Mrs. Paget's tennis yesterday, some of them. WhyT* "Because 1 heard in town that the *66ond one is going to be married, that's «U." ""Ah very likely. By the byo, Mrs. Bston has a tea ou this afternoon—muala and all that. I promised to look in. Will any of you chaps comb?" "I will," said Beautiful Jim, promptly. He was always ready for feminino society, even though be had only just got back from a five days' leave spent amid the rush and hurry of the brat part of the London season. ••Jim," said Owen, us they walked down toward the town together, "tAat cousin of yours la very pretty, isn't shef "Ob, very!" returned Jim, without a moment's hesitation. "Did you go about with her a lot?" "A goodlsh bit," said Jim, vsguoly, yet In atone which convoyed to his comrade that be had spent the most of his leave in the company of Miss Nell Marchmont. "And are you likely to" "Oh, my dear chup, not a bit of it! Even if I were ass enough to go in for that kind of thing, Nell would just laugh In my face. Faith, no, Nell and I have done tlio brother and sister dodge too long for olthor of us to have any ideas of that kind. But why do you want to know, old chap!" "I just did want to know, that's ftli," Owen replied, lamely.

By John Strange Winter.

Beautiful Jim walked on for full five minutes in silence. "Have you ever seen her," he asked, at last. "Yes," returned the other, shortly. "H'm," muttered Jim, as If he began to aee light at lost then after another pause and with a total change of tone: Xee, she's a pretty llttlo girl and a good little girl, and I'd break any ftJlow's nock who said a word against her, but that's all. I never thought any further of her, and 111 •take my life that she never did of me."

And then they walked on In BUcnce again, yet feeling different, both of them. Oweii intensely relieved, for, although a handsome man and popular, he would not have cared to enter the lists against old Jim, who had boon Ills special pal ever since they had been together in the regiment.

As for Beautiful Jim, ho was greatly pleased at his discovery pleased as Punch, he told himself—wad yet he was so tickled by the Idea of such a man as Owen being seriously anxious lest little Nell Marchmont should have been snapped up by somebody else—llttlo Noll, wnom only tho other day he had caught sliding down the bannisters llko tho regular llttlo tomboy sho was still at heart little Nell, whoeo lately acquired airs and graoes Invariably gavo him tho most intense amusement—well, it was funny. But then, as Beautiful Jim reminded himself, to a man with an ordinary Insight Into our poor weak human nature and blessed with a t'nlr sense of humor, tho doings and undoings of most people, •nd particularly those whom wo know best, are funny, very funny.

And for old Owen to be "gone" on little "By Jove," laughed Jim to himself, 'old Owen's hair stand

Nell! •how I could mako

on end if I liked." Ay, how many a bit of mischief he and Nell had been up to together—before sho began to glvo herself airs and graces, of course. There was that thuo, for instance, when they had all been at Scarborough together, years and years before, when no and somo other fellows—yes, ho eollod them "fellows," though tliey vroro all llttlo better than children at tho time, and little Nell tho youngest of tho lot—had got themselves up In seedy garments one dark October night, and had gone round tho streets upon tho South cliff sir not only they, but also llttlo Nell, L. 1 up in a huge shawl, with a bandage tied over one eye. How well he remembered it! Her father and mother were dining out at a very smart house indeed, and this party of voung rufllans had ifono and sung outsid'e tho windows, and had reaped harvest, when Nell was su safe under tho wing of the old nurse vhad nursed her from a baby. Yea, the old nurse was easily bamboozled, and

a goodly

upposed tola old mm

Nell was an adept at that process. "Jove, how she'll twist old ..Owen round her fingers bv end by," chfcckled Jim to himself as he thought of It..

CHAPTER II. AX IWOISCUETIOJJ.

Mrs. -ton ws.« tho wife of the srfB&ior major of tho Uiankahire regiment. A pretty liulo woman who had boon brought up in a ir&y London set half society and hair hcivsuui. She was very much in love with her slow &iui stolto lord find master, and stood by hlca through many a dull and dreary time when her natural inclination wonfd have prompted her to

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aok up her thirijts ami luo herself back to mother's pleasant house to South Konrinr'on -It is tvwfn!." she said to Beautiful Jim, one day when hvy were first in Blankbamptcm. "I tu vcr was In such a hole In my life. I went out with Tom this morning, just for Uw sake of walking along the streets with some one, and every ono locked at ia© from under their eyelashes as if they weren't sure whether tt was quite proper to 1« seen with a man in uniform or not. And then this afternoon aome people csse and called, all women of course. iaakedone if the theatre here was nrettv good. and she said alto didn't know—ta* her position it didn't do to be M«n in anch phcea. 1 asked her when her day was. but s&e said she didn't have a day—if she waa in tl» tern* ste was always pleased to her fir1 ids if they would take he* as they fot her, ao I eoppewe If abe liap|WMd to ha in bed with an toflueusa ah» wee in Vrr bedroom. 1 oalv hope," ttic we? ...a -that I^^iueWenooghto call on that goodfady whesi abe is sot ta the houae.** ,, •Oh. go when fm know abek «*V

fSSatree, tEey woolSiT do In. our position'" "What is our positionr Inquired Jim with interest. "I dont kaow at all a very uncomfortable one, I think," Mrs. Seton rep|Wj.

However, the months had gone by, and thft Blanks hire regiment had settled down very comfortably, and had come, as other regiment^had dome before thorn, to look upon Blankhampton as an unusually desirable station.

But first and foremost in ail schemes and plans for enjoyment was little Mrs. Seton, who loved tho world dearly and paid herself In liberal coin of pleasure every day for sticking so faithfully to her gallant if stolid Tom, the major. Nothing of a pleasuring kind could be organized without her, ana mothers and daughters alike regarded her as an unmitigated blessing—a sort of social fairy godmother.

She had one of the very pleasantest houses in Blankhampton, and seemed never so happy as when it was- full of people, unless indeed you took exception to such times as she made ono of a crush elsewhere. She was a flirt, of course, for she flirted with all the men, young and old alike, and with her Tom the hardest of all but she monopolized none, and tho girls knew that if any of them should get engaged to one of Mrs. Seton'a men there would be no awkwardness on her part, tut that the very heartiest congratulations would come from her. "She's such a good little soul," said one Oxford—after she had wished him joy of l^ia engagement with Madge Triiilord and had tola Mm if he made Madge half as good a husband as her Tom mode her sha would be a happy woman—"some women ore so nasty to a fellow when lie wonts to get marriea. But she's not that sort. By Jove! she told me the whole duty of husbands today, as if she had been my sweetheart's mother and I hadn't at all the best of characters at the back of me. I ilka the little woman, she's so genuine." And a good many other men and women besides Marcus Oxford had the same opinion of Maj. Seton's gay little wife, so that she was on the whole one of the most popular women in the garrison.

When the two men reached the house they found the party in full swing—Mrs. Seton herself standing in the hall with a merry crowd around her, music going on in the drawing room, and in the rooms at tho bock of the house the ellnking of ioe plates and of tea eups.

As they presented themselves before her, Mrs. Seton began to scold them for their tardy arrival. "I was so afraid you not coming. What* You've only ot in from town?" 't know till twenty minutes ago that you had a party," Boautlful Juo broko in "if I haa known. Mrs. Seton, I should have come back by an earlier train

Jo,

es, I assure you I should. How do you Mrs. Traffordf* bowing to little Mrs. Trafford as sho passed on her way to the tea room. "I wanted you to talk to a girl who baa been brought by Lady Margaret," said Mrs. Seton In an undertone. "Miss Adair is not well—headache or something—and this girl has never stirred from lady Margaret's side, and must be simply bored to death. Not"—with a gay laugh— "that I wish to cast reflections on lady Margaret only you know what a lot of Kow-tow a dean's wife has to get through, men ow. trot her around, Mrs. Seton. Will you take xne to her, or must I ask Lady Margaret?" "Oh, 111 take you. What a good boy you are, Mr. Beresford one can always depend on you." "Oh, I hope so. We all depend on you for a good deal of our pleasure, Mrs. Seton," he said.

So Mrs. Seton struggled into the crowded drawing room, and Beautiful Jim faithfully followed, not a little to the disgust of more than one young damsel, who would fain have detained him beaidoher. But Jim was true to his trust and followed closely at his hostess' heels, and In time was formally presented to Miss Earle. "Pretty eyes," he said to himself .as phe returned his bow. "May I take you to have an Ice of SdiKe tea?" he asked. Then ho looked deprecatingly at Lady Margaret as If to say, "How can I take you both? I've been told of! to this girl, and"

But Lady Margaret saw and understood the look. "Yes. take 'F..rV," she saicf klndJy. "I nave pron^ ci with Maj. Setoh for a cup of tea in a few minutes but this poor t: ig 11 sn sitting by me all the time, u. nu Lu not only bored but fainting."

Miss Earle, however, .: any such fooling, tho**~h sho ir arm with alacrity wi»u he aug I that they should go off and aom«' to eat at once. "Do yr**. w, Miw L-..e," heaaid, "I'm so fc 'y I gry lean hardly stand up at alL I had anrt^ng to ntf -'-co I had wuiu** at the* this •The club here?" sno a» I "Oh, no ifc Arm" "nd 2*»vy. "Oh, in tt .u a have come from a

what \\rill you. Luv^- or ice? Mrs. Seton's cup is ex« at. Mlsa Goto, hrw.-u-r. c*: Jhn put her on aroualy Jav: ooT it-o a:td_»

wafers within iw whil. provided a tum^«jr of cu, sandwiches. 'You are tsyinj: ir. hr •nean--*-ed

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It be is v«*y odd, and It t: Ait oorr !ry jtarei, toowr Uwth for "Xaaa. A: what pan of towndoyoa 11 v« .r be i"iii«&s «w««rwwl "How y, 1 ae c\ no* wjr ft.: ith '.* Ant! you find Wank' bampt ao wonder. But the "N ly-l \ara gotng to bare a pioak weth. vols*

small afternoon dance, which" won't be

am sure not. And the Twenty-fifth,

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know. We sre very small potatoes." "Oh, but I take great intereptin your Tatdment." lfissEane exclaimed "because my young brother haa lust beenpsetted to i(, an? will join in September. "Oh really—yon don^ say sol How cluHTOimrri shall make much of your yo^tether. Miss Earle." "Yesf with a smile and brirfxt upward look which made him say to himself that her eves were out of the oommon pretty.

have gone cn from father to son since Haorv tke Seventh's time, and now we have come almost to the last, for my he are the only Earlea left.1* "Ton forget yourself," interposed Beautiful Jim, to whom Miss Earle wes a far more important perron than all the fathers siid sons of that house who had lived and died from Henry the Seventh's thnfl even until then. "Ah, but I am only a woman, and the women don't count," she said, simply, and with evident belief in the assertion.

Beautiful Jim burst out laughing. "Faith," he exclaimed, "but the women count for a groat deal more in some people's than the men, I can assure you." "OL perhaps,w blushing at the implied compliment "but not in a family tree, you know.** "Ko, perhaps not—and how old is your broUxarr "Nineteen, and such a dear boy—so good looking. •That goes without saying," said Jim, lyoking at her.

Mian Ewrle suddenly became interested in her ice plate. ,, He is so glad to be going to the Blank shire regiment. He has always had a fancy for it, ever Since he waa a child. Father wanted him to go into the cavalry, because so many of the Earles iaave been cavalry soldiers ——it was really wonderful how fast Miss Earle was talking— "but Stuart wouldn't he had set his rf. rm fri^inng4ng to the B1 snkshlre regiment."

I hope hell like it when he gets there," Jim remarked and surely never was a not-joined subaltern given so much importance before. "Oh! I thin* he will—of course I asked the Adairs all about the regiment, and they say all sorts of pleasant things about vou all. By the bye, Mr. Paunceforth is i" »r —ii

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Aa sho rose, he rasa too. "You are are staying some little time. I 1 11 look in at the IBaner? en Saturday, la a joking tor.—"you ad me a post card and teil me not to come." "Why should I do that?" in surprise. "Oh, well—you might, you know," they moveop toward door.

But if uu dont do that, I &L**1 come and look on at the tennis." "And dtn't you playf* "f^.y®.'-. en be' cr.e Vbett.T l-jidr.j.

^Beia such a nke fellow,"said Lady Mar$v*. after a minute or so. "Always justtl ame, juataa pleasant and charm!ng one time as another He ia charming iuqjlia|fhi* you call him ugtyT exclaimed Mitt fiisk. jba sonarlse*

LadTMtfcsr^g^d. •Well. I dont coll bin a beauty, certainly but he is alee tat himself tbstyou never notice his abasaoe of good looks aU the same, it laaUy is a shame of the otheratogivehim audi a

Mane."

"yhatdo they eall fcimr asked jjgjgs

Eerie, wondering that wnne tne

Jim'

the one whom you call 'Beautiful here?" Beautiful Jim's blue eyes opened rather widely at this, for be gathered that she hft/l not grasped his name at Mrs. Seton's lntrodudipn—but before he could rocover sufficiently to disclose his identity, Mm Earle went on speaking:

AJleen tells me he is too charmixig, and that the name suits him well in spite of his beiug so ugly." "Well, he is an ugly looking chap, not a doubt about that, said Jim, feeling the

**WM, h» iron ugly looking ehap. strongest inclination to laugh he had ev$r felt in his life, yet restrained by a sense that he must save the lady frout tho humiliation and shame of knowing what she had said.

Is he here?" she persisted. "I should so like to see him." "Wall—er—I haven't seen him about,' said Beautiful Jim, evasively.

I suppose he is very populcr—or he wouldn't havo such a name," she went on, being determined to collect as much information for the benefit of young Stuart as possible.

Yes, the fellows all like him pretty well, I fancy." "And don't youf* she asked. "Well, yes, Miss Earle. I—I—think old Jim's a—a—an uncommonly fine fellow myself—uncommonly—he and I are the1 best of friends. Ail the same, I don't know that his nickname is any nipllmcnt either to his personal appearance or to! his character. Most fancy names in the army are given in derision. It's only in fashionablo novels that men arc dubbed Venus or Adonis because they're so pood looking. Probably your young brother, like vou, will find himself

Snubby, or somo hideous

or other* just to protest against in being better looking than the majority of the others." •Oh, I see—oh! there is Lady M&rparet l/KtVteg tot mo. I must go," in a regret* ful torn*

forgive saidwl.

sT'etimea

He has. 1 :n into tu carriage, which waa waitlnc, and shut the tkior very carefully. "I hope you will come in on Saturday, said Lady Margaret, cordially. "I be charmed," returned Jim, with a look at Miaa Earle, a look v- liich reminded her of the post card suggestion, and made her wonder what ho meant. "Then good-bv Good-by and 1 the carriage rolled away, leaving him bareheaded in the sunshine look

jxev had

Wby-p-Beantiful Jim."

were on

the subject of nicknames, he not told

her his. I think I will have a shawl ra it is turning cold," said Lady Margaret. "Thanks, dear. What do tn

dear. What do they call him?

CHAPTER HL

A DEAB LITTLE WOMAS?.

Iter a moment Nancy Earlo felt as if tiM was going to choke. Then a mist *»m« in front of her eyes, and carriage, coachman, footman, Lady Margaret, and everything began to turn slowly round. Those few minutes seemed like hours, yet they could only have been minutes, and very few of them, for when she came to her right senses again, Lady Margaret was lalUng placidly on, and Beautiful Jim was the subject of conversation. really a general favorite," the wound up, and Nancy filled in the as best she could, and made haste to reply. "Yes, he seemed very pleasant and nice," she said, trying hard to steady her ffholrlTig voice, and succeeding very badly. "I am glad that Stuart will be in the same regiment with him he lcoks steady and xwiable. I shouldn't have called him ugly, though," sho ended, making a resolute standin her own mind for her first impression of him.

They were not very long In reaching

the Deanery, and Nancy was truly thankful for the shortness of the journey. She wanted to be alone to think over the awful thing which had happened—to think over what would be the best for her to do.

As in duty bound, she crept into Aileen's darkened room to inquire how the poor head was but, happily, Aileen was fast asleep, so Nancy crept softly out again, closing the door behind her and holding up a warning finger to Lady Margaret, who had come on the same errand. "She is fast asleep," she whispered. "Then it is all right," Lady Margaret whispered back. "When once Aileen falls asleep the headache is cured."

Then they parted—the lady of the house going to her own room, the guest to hers. She turned the key in the lock and sat down by the open window to think. The evening sunshine streamed down upon close the towers of oaiiea the cathedral in Blankhampton) called incessantly "Jak, Jak the voices of some children playing on the sward below rose up to her and a little further on there were two dogs snarling over a bone.

Generally Nancy Earle watched children and dogs and jackdaws with delight, but on that evening she took no heed of them at all. Her mind was fully fulfil up by trying to remember what she had said, and in trying to think what she should do.

It was but little use tryifcg to lessen the enormity of her idiotic blunder, in trying to minimise the meaning of her words. They seemed to stand out before her in letters of fire—"Aileen tells me he Is too charming, and that tho name suits him well in spite of his being so ugly." Yes, that was what she haa said—"in spite of his being so ugly." What a fool she had been to say it. What a fool— and how ill bred to say such a thing of ono officer of a regiment to another! Why, supposing that nis name really had been Paunceforth, and Beautiful Jim quite another person, still he might have been his best friend, in which case he would have resented It far worse than he done for himself. Oh, fool, fool,

she do now? What in

jt a weft she, nay, oould she do? !lAmsckofca2only herself whom she hsd byner stupid and thoughtless ajhmder, but also her friend, Aileen Adair. Oh! what must she do for the best?

She did not find the question bv any cans an easy ono to solve, and whilo she

trying to do so, she perhaps not unLurally found herself thinking about 'Beautiful Jim" himself. How well he

had taken it, how pleasantly he had passed it off, and how delicately he had conveyed to her that if she did not like to meet him afterward she oould just send him a post card to say he was not to come to the tennis party on the following Saturday. What a fine follow he was in every way, and how fervently did she wish that an unlucky fato had never led her into making those unfortunate remarks. However, dinner time came, and still she had not solved tho problem of getting over the difficulty of meeting him again. "I must,", she said, when she found her self back in her room for the night, "I must do something—yet what?"

At last, however, she aecided that It would be best to write to him—and—and guy-^woll, to bo accurate, she did not know exactly what. But she thought she would do it before she slept, or tried to sleep. So she got out her writing case ami began to write—which wn (|uiceeaSy at fir •. i' slie get ss far as "inankhaiaptou ituncrv. July U—

My dear Mr. Be res

ford," without tidy difficulty v.-iiatover. But after 11 ?raoe to astrrn4*iills*d did not ko' V. to say !•. .t. Wl"' could sho fcay Slio tried at least a ':i scnt.-nn tmt,' fir--..-- of thctr. either linked rlfciit cr grn'-csu aisd wanted her letter to be both.

At last. iiowev Mi'i completed a letter wirich U-u thou0^. \?ould, do. It ran thus: "My De Mr. r.iJUEt': v.! —I feel must rri^c y« !..

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i,1 made ay. 3 vt ivfvl Miss jii ui -t h'.rv by th«' -r. I I can't ..-away brunt i,£ jay utooly :3k •-ito

am i':• If it W u. Lot ness, I iutvc folly, I sfc u!» est train to-t toave her to Utf ter foolishness so I car nn-1 to try to fi

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Kb Ea'*" res f!eT:-r..r-thoughtit Mt a.. u." she would be a'i''to concoct tLattj *w manlike, sheod a acript woman .fike, t!w j.jt«t .Lt eont. whole salt si:. I savor of use tt sr. "P.8 -Aft- ..TT. lap that I ui~a*t &.-^ch a.—~ looks. N

Sadde thought it uld do Tti was woxiderftiUv comforted by Thiai tweat lying swake for a little tuM* it iOI over—and particularly w* hii oti

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fortunately not a aotu saw her, and aha

was able to pat her sailor hat, which she

always wore in the garden, in its customary place in the hall before any of the family came down to breakfast.

Meantime a postman had come along with a bag and had cleared tho box, so that it was already one stage further on its way toward its final destination.

In due time it waa sorted out from among its fellows and tossed on to the heapTor tho infantry barracks. And bofore it had waited very long the post corpor&l made his appearance, and after turning the heap over again, tumbled it into a Bag and carried it off on another stage. & in time it fell into the hands of its owner—"J. Beresford, Esq., Infantry Barracks, Blankhampton"—and Beautiful Jim opened it.

He read it with surprise—surprise so intense that several of the fellows who had been loitering about on the lookout for the post corporal noticed it. "Halloo, old chap, that letter seems to be a sort of surprise to you," one laughed. "Is it an offer? What's the bid for, Beautiful Jim?" "Oh, get out," returned Jim, folding the letter up and replacing it in Its envelope. "Yes. get out, of course but ls.it an offer?" Parsons persisted. "An offer? No! It's from my mother," returned Jim promptly and in a disgusted tone.

He made his escape to his own quarters in peace. But then, with the door safely locked, he pulled out the letter again and read it once more. "After all," he read, smiling, "it is pretty good proof that I didn't see much amiss with your looks." And then he folded the letter up again and put it safely away in the most secret recess of his dispatch drawer. "That's a dear little woman," he said, as he turned the key of the door. "I shall look in on Saturday." [TO BE CONTINUED.]

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