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On the outskirts of the pretty village of Lansdale, and in the midst of a well-kept garden and lawn, stood a tasteful dwelling, of Gothic architecture.
A dozen intrepid tars from a British man-of-war to be seen in the offing are in the act of casting a net over him. It's an exciting picture, I assure you, Miss Lansdale. The net looks flimsy, and the wild person is not only enraged but very muscular " "I fail to see," she interrupted, with a slight lapse into what I may call her first, or Lansdale, manner. "Of course you fail!
"I didn't have myself from the first," I reminded her, "and I believe only a few trifles less than Jim does. I know that robins ascend without visible means, for example, if you run at them; but I believe it's good to run at them just the same, even more enjoyable than if they sat still to be caught." "We were speaking of dogs," said Miss Lansdale. "At any rate Jim had you from the first."
To Jefferson Davis and Robert Edmund Lee! To the Confederate States of America!" A black wind seemed to blow across the face of her servitor's fluttering eyelids. But I drank loyally to Mrs. Caroline Lansdale and whatsoever that woman would. I could see that Clem exhaled a deep breath. How long he had held it I know not.
"She looks almost as her mother's picture did," I said. When the child had gone, Miss Lansdale searched my face long before speaking. She seemed to hesitate for words, and at length to speak of other matters than those which might have perplexed her. "Why did they call you 'Horsehead'?" she asked almost kindly. "I never asked. It seemed to be a common understanding.
He walked away thoughtfully to his van, and a moment later there was a shrill whistle, and the Lansdale local ran out into the night. And it was a night! There was no moon, and not the least glimmer of a star overhead; an utter darkness shrouded the world. The wind was high and steady, and its mournful howling through the rocky cuttings of the railway sounded unspeakably melancholy.
She fell to the oars again with a dreaming face, in which Lansdale and the other were so well blended that it was indeed the face of visions that had long been coming to me. "You remind me again of the wild gentleman," I said, after a long look at her, a look which she was good enough to let me see that she observed. "Et ego in Arcadia vixi and I, too, was netted in my native jungle."
And at least one dinner was secured to me beyond the coming of this mistress; for Clem had conveyed to me, with appropriate ceremony, an invitation, which I promptly accepted, to dine with Mrs. Caroline Lansdale at six-thirty on the evening of her arrival, she having gleaned from his letters, it appeared, that I had been a rather friendly adviser of her servant.
In mental power, education, good looks, courtly manners, and general information Mr. Egerton was decidedly superior to any of the young men resident in Lansdale; and of this fact no one was better aware than, himself. He did not confine his attentions to Elsie, and soon found himself a prime favorite among the ladies of the town.
It would be a double delight giving you pleasure and ourselves enjoying the delicious tones of that splendid piano. Its fame has already spread over the whole town," she added, turning to Elsie, "and between its attractions and those of its owner, I know there'll be a great influx of visitors here." Elsie was a very fine musician, and for her benefit during her stay in Lansdale, Mr.
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