THE SCRANTON TRIBUiNE- SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1899.
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They hud coniu up
on one another sud
denly round an angle In the hall and
they hnd greeted one nnother In the
above words In ncccnts of Indignant
consternation. Their ejaculations,
having been simultaneous, were fol
lowed by a pause, ami then by com
mon consent they moved Into the emp
ty library, the door of which stood
conveniently ajar. She spolco first.
She was a dark girl, short and sturdy
looking, but with that nameless nif
nbout her which Is only produced by
a long line of well-bred ancestors.
"Why have you not taken him
yachting?" she demanded brusquely.
"Because he would not go." he re
turned. His tone was as hostile as
her own, and his face showed his an
noyance even more cleaily. He wos
a man of rfbout thirty, apparentl Just
off a Journey. "Why are you not at
Davos?"
"Because oh what does It matter'.'"'
she answered wrathfully. Were do
ing these country house vl!ti first.
How long are you staying here'."
"A week "
"So are we1" she returned. "What
an abominable nuisance!"
His face blushed slightly, even
though his expression conveyed a
hearty endorsement of the words. In
truth, the pair were somewhat to be
pitied.
The case was this: Ralph Adams
and his brother Valentine were new
comers Into the London world. They
were fabulously rich, well educated and
well bred; nnd the fact that their
wealth had been bequeathed to them
by a more or less Impossible father
long deceased who had made his for
tune In what was vaguely alluded tj
as "oil or tallow, or something of that
kind," did not prevent their being ex
ceedingly popular. Pamela Knollys
and her sister Sylvia were by no means
new-comers in London society. Hut
various causes their father's death and
their mother's Illness among them,
had kept them from regular London
seasons This year a charitable aunt
had roused herself to declare that
something must be done and had
'taken the girls for a season," as she
expressed It.
What law of attraction operated be
tween Sylvia Knollys and Valentine
Adams it Is impossible to say. The
fact remains that they "spooned"
through the season like a pair of chil
dren In their teens. It would have
been an e xcellent match from some
points of view he had money and she
had family, he was a "dear fellow"
and she was "a sweet girl." All the
friends on either side smiled a little
broadly, perhaps, on the prospective
enijuRomPiit, with the exception of his
elder brother and her younger sister.
In Pamela's eyes Sylvia was the
most beautiful and charming creature
on the face of the earth. In consider
ing the "Adams affair" her mind never
dwelt upon the fact that Sylvia was
seven-and-twenty. All her energies
concentrated themselves on the fact
that Valentine Adams was barelv
twenty-one.
"A mere boy!" she had exDostulated
Indignantly with her sister. "Svlvla,
you would be utterly wretched! You
shan't do It'"
Ralph Adams, on the other hand, had
no Illusions with regard to his brother.
He was well aware that he was Im
pulsive, unformed and fickle. But he
passed over these items as comtiara
tlvely unimportant compared with the
fact that Sylvia was seven years Val
entine's senior.
"It's madness!" he declared hotlv.
"Why, she will be a middle-aged wo
man while you are still a boy! Don't
be an ass, Val!"
Pamela Knollys and Ralnh Adams
early became aware of their common
eentlments on the subject. That Is to
say, they became aware that each
was determined to prevent the mar
riage But neither cared to give form
to the motive underlying his or her de
termination. It was reserved, there
fore, for the gossip of a mutual friend
to supply a motive, thus: Miss Pa
mela Knolly considered, it appears,
that Mr Valentine Adams' birth nut
him altogether out of court as a suitor
for her sister- and Mr. Ralph Adams,
on the other hand, had stumg feelings
(s to th mistaken policy of allying
oneself with old and worn-out families
There had been from the first a touch
of undefined enmity In the relations of
the two and they accepted the atti
tude of antagonism thus provided for
them with alacrity. They were agreed,
but there was a difference In ttnlr
agreement. They had worked through
out the season to the same end, but
with unabated mutual hostility.
"I suppose you know that a week
here will be worse than a month in
town?" Pamela threw the words over
her shoulder, and Ralph Adams made
a grim eresture of assent.
"You musn't lose sight of your broth
er for a moment, that'B all!" she con
tinued. "By-the-bye" faclnc round
"whole Is he now 7"
"Where Is your sister, may I ask'"
was the vlndlctK'C response.
There was no direct reply to this. A
sound of voices rose In the hall. A
girlish figure In white flitted past the
door, and Pamela dashed hastily af
ter It, taking no notice of Vnlentlno
Adams as ho entered the llbrarv, ex
cept Inasmuch ns her hurried exit near
ly knocked him down.
Valentine was a remarkably coocl
looklng boy, very carefully and scrupu
lously got up. He sauntered to a table
and took up a paper.
"Mav I Inquire whether you lenpw
MlfcS Knollys and her sister were to be
here, Val?" observed his brother, with
ominous calm.
Valentine lifted his eyes vaguely.
"Eh?" he said: "Did I Oh, yes,
by-the-bye, I think I did."
"Then you are the biggest fool out
that's nil I have to sav."
"Oh, no, it Isn't!" was the nonchal
ant answer. "You've lots more to say.
But It's nwfully sensible of you not to
say It!"
"Pshaw1" remarked Ralph In the
finest "old style" and stalked out of
the room.
The other mentor, meanwhile, was
faring very little better. Sylvia Knol
lys was one of those weak and gentlu
personalities on whom argument Is
thrown away.
"Yes, Pam, I knew he was coming,"
she ?ald composedly. "I didn't say
anything because I know you don't
like him."
"I don't think at all about him,"
said Pamela. She paused, a moment,
and then said, aparently experiment
ally, "Freddy Cholmondelely was
worm twenty ot tins uoy.
"Freddy Cholmondeley was tire
some," answered Sylvia, petulantly;
"and Val is ever so much 1 Ichor." Bhe
added, parenthetically.
Pamela stamped her small foot ve
hemently. "I'm ashamed of you, Syl
via!" she said. "I would never have
believed that you could marry for
money!"
"He hasn't asked me to marry him
yet, said Sylvia; "and when he does,
I shall marry him for love, Pam."
"Pooh!" said Pam.
The house party was a large and a
merry one. But the lives led by
Ralph Adams and Pamela Knollys dur
ing the next five days was hardly to
be envied by the veriest slave. From
early morn to dewy eve they were on
duty. Their own tastes and inclina
tions passed into oblivion. They lived
only, it appeared, to participate in the
amusements of their respective brother
and sister, Valentine developed a pas
sion for early rising; and Ralph heroi
cally rose at 6 o'clock and followed,
literally, in his footsteps. Sylvia
Knollys carile to the conclusion that
there was nothing so delightful as a
day with the guns; nnd Pamela qulto
forgot that she had always hated "that
kind of thing, and tramped miles, un
complaining, but very tired, since her
sturdy-looking frame was by no means
so robust as the much slighter figure
of her sister.
"Really, Pam, this new craze of
yours for sport will wear you to a
shadow," said the other women stay
ing In the house. And they spoke, as
a rule, with a wicked laugh In their
eyes, for It was not the least among
the trial of this devoted pair of guar
dian nng"els that their proceedings were
perfectly understood by all observers
It was very unfortunate, under thej
circumstances, Mint they could find
no balm In fellow-feeling: and, taken
from the standpoint of mere physical
ease, the antagonism between them
doubled their fatigues.
A mutual understanding, a little tacit j
agreement, and one might have rested '
while the other watched But this wai ,
not to be. The trials through which
thev were passing seemed to exacer-
bate their tempers, and, so far from j
acting harmony, they were hardly able I
to speak civilly to ono another. It Is
to be observed In extenuation that they
were constantly thrown together undar
peculiarly ttylng circumstances. In
spite of all their vigilance, the, couple
under supervision constantly eluded
them, and they would then turn and
rend one aother.
There was one appalling evening when
their hostesc sent Sylvia and Valentino
Into dinner together, and then compli
cated matters by pairing Pamela and
Ralph, seating the two couples at op
posite sides.
"Never saw your pretty sister loolc
co charming, If 1 may say ho," said the
man on Pamela's right, lie was a
new-comer, nnd It was not until later
on that he understood why Pamela
abruptly turned her back on him.
He could hardly have supposed that
It was because she wished to hold con
verse with Ralph Adams, for three
courses went by before ho or she ex
changed a word. Then, under cover of
a general burst of laughter, through
which Sylvia and Valentine remained
absorbed In one another's conversa
tion, Ralph Adams said, savagely:
"We don't do much good by watching
what we can't prevent. Don't you
think we should make ourselves less
ridiculous If wo exchanged a few
words as dinner went on?"
Pamela started, and flushed angrily.
"I don't care In the least whether
I'm ridiculous or not," she retorted.
"Every ono knows what I think about
It, and I'm not at all ashamed!"
On the following day following this
a long bicycle expedition was organ
ized. Valentine and Sylvia were excel
lent riders, and they, of course, would
be In the "first flight."
"You'll come, I suppose, Adams?"
said the organizer In a tone of bland
unconsciousness. "And you, Miss
Pamela? That's all right!"
The goal of the ride was a ruined
castle some ten miles awav. No one
was very certain as to the right road,
and there was a good deal of ortn
moorlii'. to be traversed v'ih Innum
erable toads, all In mote or less poor
condition. The party naturally di
vided and sub-divided, and so It c.imo
to pass that at about G o'clock In the
afternoon the expedition having set
forth at 10 Ralph Adams, having
hopelessly lost sight not only of Sylvia
and Valentine, but of the entire com
pany, came upon a forlorn little figure
sitting on a bank In a lane.
Ralph Adams was on his feet In an
lnsant.
"Good heavens, Miss Knollys!" he
said and, singular to relate, his
breathless tones were quite destitute
of hostility you're not hurt?"
Pamela lifted a little white face and
sprang fiercely to her feet.
"Hurt!" she said. "No, of course,
I'm not hurt. But that Idiotic tyre Is
punctured, and oh, you don't mean
to say you are not with them?"
The despairing Indlgnutton of her
v i did not constitute a flattering
reception. No man cares to have hi
flag of truce flung roughly aside and
Ralph bent over the damaged blcyclo
with a singularly grim expression of
countenance.
"I lost sight of my brother, I re
gret to say, about five hours ngo," he
said.
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threw his cigar slowly away. Then
he said: "So l's all over!"
"We needn't have been so nnxloue,"
returned Pamela. "Sylvlu tells mo that
your brother says he will go away to
morrow. You will go with him, I sup
pose?" "Yes, 'said Rklph Adams absently.
"I shall go with him."
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Buller, withal, is at heart one of the
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So I thousht. nursued Pamela, "be
fore you went I K-ould just like to say Is perfectly straightforward: he Plavs
that I'm sorry for the times when I've . no personal game, nis ono raiding nrin-
been unnecessarily rude to you. I am,
Indeed."
Ralp Adams stopped her with an odd
little gesture.
"Please don't!" he said. "You have,
never been so rude as I have. We w.
rhall feci quite out of work, shan't
we?"
"Quite!" she returned a trllle Incc
herently. "Well, pood-lixe!"
Presumably as a token of penitence
elple Is to do the best with his means
and with his whole heart and soul for
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Kelly tilled Tammany, "Baby Mine" wai
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You could never have liked the con-
"Five hours ago!" echoed ramcla, nectlon," he said.
doing a rapid sum In her head. "And
I've not sfti Sylvia since luncheon!"
She pased u moment, nnd then added
with the calmness of desperations
"Then nil I can tell you Is, that ws
need not trouble ourselves any further.
They are engaged by this time!"
Ralph Adams made no direct answer,
"There were your principles to be
considered.
A pause.
"May I tell ytn something?" he said
suddenly. "It's rude! It wusn't your
sister's family 1 cared about I thought
her not young enough tor Vol."
Pamela was r;ulte unconacious of th'
On him also, the Immovable gloom ot sudden tlghtenfrig of tli" light clasp or
fatal conviction had fallen. her fingers.
I can't mend this," he sold curtly, I "That's why I wns so angry wltn
looking up from the punctured tyre, j you." she said. "I thought so, too'"
"As far as I can make out, we are "Then could you""
about eight miles from the Towers.! "Could you''
Can you wall: It'"
"Yes," said Tamela.
An eight mile walk with a bicycle In i
hand needs exceptionally extenuating? cour5P! The most ridiculous thing In
the wot Id. people said. But Mr, and
Mrs. Ralph Adams considered that of
no consequence whatever.
"Yes," he answered promptly.
,
And thev did' It wa. ridiculous, of
circumstances to render It tolerable.
In this Instance there were no extenu
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only words which passed between them
were brief explanations of the route on
his part, responded to on hers with
monosyllable assents.
"Shall we go round to the back?" said
Ralph Adanrs, with a glance at his
companion's pale little farje and weary
dust-covered flgur; as the Towers at
lart hove In sight.
Pamela only nodded.
They went round to, the b.iek. Sho
gave her bicycle to a groom, and dis
appeared into the house without a
word.
She disappeared, crushed nnd worn
out, mentally and physically. Llttki
more than half an hour intervened, and
shp reappeared at the dinner table.
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who was Introduced to Ralph Adams
ns "Sir Frederick Cholmondeley, who
Is staying with nelghbcis of ours."
Pamela was taken In by Sir Frederick
Cholmondeley, and she appeared to
find his conversation thoroughly de
lightful. It was Valentine Adtms gn
whom the mantle of her depression
seemed to have fallen. Ho had an air
of haggard gloom which he cultivated
assiduously. Sylvia was seated on the
same side of the tanle, separated from
Valentine by three or four places. Sb'
wns looking unt"ually sweet and pret
ty and a little shy.
Ralph Adams surveyed the company
with grlrn Incomprehension, anJ
awaited developments. Nothing oc
curred to enlighten him in the Inter
val after the woman left the dining
room. Valentine avoided him point
edly. Ralph had withdrawn to n de
serted corner of the conservatory nn.l
was ther smoking gloomily, when an
unusually small voice at his elbow
made him start.
"Mr. Adorns!"
It was Pamela Knollys, and he rose.
. "Yes, Miss Knollys?" he said stiffly.
"I thought I should like to tell you
I think you will be glad to hear that
that Sylvia Is engaged."
Ralph Adams paused a moment.
"You nre speaking Ironically, of
course," he said. "We are both aware
that we don't approve of the connec-
tlonl I really don't know what you
expect me to say."
"It's not your brother!" The small
voice was more uncertain than ever.
"It's we met Sir Frederick Cholmon
deley at Cannes last year and we saw
a good deal of him and and It Is he'"
"Good heavens!" ejaculated Ralph
Adams, nnd for the moment he said; no
more.
Then he added In a tone of blank be
wilderment: "But when? how? I beg
your pardon! Of course It's no aft
fair of mine!"
"They met him this afternoon with
the people he Is staying with, close to
their place, and they went In to have
tea, And he came back here with them
nnd and I always did believe she
cared for him. She has behaved very
badly."
"Good heavens!" ejaculated Rulph
Adams sgaln.
There was a pause, during which he
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He is not in his first youth, but he
carries his sixty years lightly; very
varied and eventful service has not
laid Its weight on him: his figure has
lost Its sllmness, but not its activity,
and Buller still rides In tho first flight
with the hounds: his brain power, too,
nlways of the (list order. Is quite un
impaired. Strength, solidity, unfailing
self-reliance self-confidence It might
be called, until wide and onerous re
sponsibility taught him better are his
most striking characteristics, plainly
seen In hU rather austere, impasslvi
face, plainly proved by his attitude In
trying situations, and his successful
conduct ot arduous affairs. Buller won
his first laurels In Ashantl. ulthough
he had already seen war In China and
on the Red river.
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It was In Ashantl that he Justified
Wolseley's keen Insight Into character,
and established hts reputation as n
young ofllcer who would cer.talnly
come triumphantly through any nnd
every task with which he might be in
trusted. After Ashantl he made ac
quaintance with the country In which
he Is now to play such a momentous
role; his name Is one to conjure with
at the Cape, and there will bo many
veterans In South Africa who will hall
with enthusiasm the return of their
dashing commander In tho famous
Frontier Horse; the man who asiced
no one to venture his skin whero he
would not thrust his own, and who re
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exercised In tho most critical moment
nt Tnmal and El Teb. It was Buller's
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The King of Zulus sued for peace; tho
Khedive left his throne;
Congress passed to tho Democrats; Re
publicans stayed ut homo;
While dilvlng In a Madtld street, ono
shot nt Alfonso;
King Humbert near went up tho spout,
twenty years ago.
Patngonla went to Argentine, by Bis
marck's Iron will;
Tho Helchstng, by a heavy vote, passed
the tariff bill;
Archery was the favorite sport; baso
ball was lying low;
And paper collars were the style, twenty
years aco.
Tho humorous artists of the day, were
Eytlnge. Bellew, Worth;
"The Banker's Daughter" ran qulto high
In theaters of mirth;
"She's a Lnmb," "She's a Dumpling'
were sung In every show
And boys did the courting then, twenty
ears ago.
Specie payments were resumed; sllvc-
enmo Into port;
Peter Cooper, opposed to Tammuny, was
elected In New York;
Victoria Woodhull preached free love;
women's rights too grow:
Men were shamed out of their boots,
twenty years ago.
The United Stntes was very rich In white
and yellow ore;
Sherman added to the pile fifty millions
more;
The treasury notes must stand nt par
and never fall below:
Four hundred millions were standing out,
twenty years ago.
Shnlt history repeat Itself In this war
BBOliiBt the Boers?
Must England hnve another strife to set
tie up old scores?
Britain fought them once beforo, end met
her Waterloo,
At tho battle of Majuba Hill, some twen
ty years ago.
Conpel truths were sternly taught In
every cllmo and land;
Preachers told the Inhabitants, "Th
Judgment wns nt hund,"
Tho weary ones would bo nt rest, the bad
to hell must go;
But the wicked "nourished like the rose,"
twenty yearn ago.
Charles H, Soper.
Scrnnton, Nov. 0.
I i
xjjLmi: ' w i - 1 1 tj..- iii - j " 'ffluaKi
The first critical period in a
woman's life comes at the pass
ing of her girlhood. How to
preserve the daughter's health
nt this crisis is the problem
that confronts every mother of
girls. Mrs. J. M. Riggs, of Car
terville, Mo., solved the prob
lem. She says:
"My dnuzhtcr Jonle during tho winter
of 1R97-H Bun'aroJ u complete breakdown
In health, bho was thai nnd pile, hnd
no appetite, nnd wm !;; tteulc Unit fche
wns unnblo to wnlk UjfoIiooI. TUobowIio
know her condition mid that sbo wns In
tlia first stnges of consumption. Shortly
nftcr nchtol clotc-d, on too ndvlco of a
neighbor, wo lititau RHlnt; tier Dr. Wll
Ilium' I'lnk P11W for l'nlo People Tho
rirr-rt on her condltiou wo nmrvclous.
Ileforo (ho lind tnl.en liVf n tox lior
condition wns Improved, und Miolccpton
pnltiluu. ppctltc, btrengtU nnd flcU until
tUo wsh entirely well.
"She took thrco bottles of tho pills
nnd to-diy tliero Is not n hoalthlar, moro
robust looking girl In Ciirtcrvllle. Bho Is
t'.fBlilcr mid buulthlcr than over beforo In
her Ufu." Mits. J. M. Itiucs.
Subscribed nnd sworn to before
inc. a Notary Public, this 15th day of
October, 189S. Wm. WotCOTT,
Notary Publlo.
Fiom the Journal, Curtervillc, Mo.
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