Show S QUITS I HEN EN one is isn n 11 u haired if ift f y haired t S S cherry rry tempered tem tern I and andI twenty three years of age age age- age I and hUle Lady f Loveday was a. 1 c all aU three one does regard with unmixed rapture the prospect of a n holo whole weeK wih with the British Association for the tho advancement advance advance advancement ment of Science But Dut Sir James ates had been elected President for tho the year e r and his his' wife as in duty bound duty wa Wl 1 Lv Him m m. m Tub The town of u chester with its it forest of taU tall chimneys And nd it its gloomy pall pal may may possibly represent the tile sin sinews ws and strength of England but it i exactly an nn ideal idel place in which to spend tho the early days of September Elsewhere there are blue skies heather clad cad moors and grouse on the wing but for some inscrutable r reason aBon preserves the same gray ray and depressed appearance appear ance anco year rear in iii 1 and year out Sir James Loveday however full ful of the temporary temper temper- ary importance which attaches to tho the nry scientist who is Pr President of the he year was delighted with the tile whole Je thin and of h thing especially I proud showing oil his pretty young wife to his scientific colleagues wh whose ose tol l uniting in I their persons the manifold virtues of the British matron could hardly lay ay claim to either cither epithet He had only been married marre a year They had met on a homeward bound and though this peculiar ship had beaten the record there had been time enough for Sir James Tames to become enamored of Miss Iss Lena Lena Gardner who finding no iio one ono younger to her taste on board had smiled on the elderly scent scientist st until he lu had 1 offered her his name and fortune She Sho was a sensible young woman with a n nice appreciation of the good things of gf this life and in six weeks from the time of their landing at Liverpool they were wre quietly married in London Quite a n little murmur of admiration and a n notable craning of masculine n necks greeted Lady Loveday as she shem m modeller m leher appearance in the Town Hall Hallof Hallof Hal of on the night of tho the opening address Jt It t was her first in introduction introduction introduction in- in to Lo the scientific world and men of science much Hk like other men are not at apt to appreciate good looks In her white brocade mantle a boa of ostrich feathers flathers encircling her pretty throat and amI some diamond arrows thrust through h her blond hair she looked a vision of youth and beauty inthe crowd of ill dressed dressed i-dressed gawky women who made up the feminine por portion tion of the audience Devotion to the toilette forms no part of the pro gramme of the ladies who attend meeting of the British Association the advancement of science being m more ore important in their eyes than the plaiting plait plait- plait in lug ing o of hair and wearing weal oJE ol o gold And so 80 Lena Lena was WI able to makes make a little sensation She Sue entered the large largo hall haiL hal alone atone for Sir James was already in his place on the platform and aud was cv even ovell n giving the preliminary cough which precedes recedes the opening address fly By Jove Joye said a bronzed young man to himself himself himself-a n a young youn man who had Imd strolled in late and now found himself at the theer very er back of the vast hall if hali hal uj if that isn't Lena IAna Odd that I should see sei se her the first week I arrive in What the tile deuce is she doing doing do do- ing here Wonder tonder it ii i she sue has forgotten Well Well its its it's three years ago The he opening address was an enormous enormous enor enor- success as ns it always alwn's is During the time week the popular enthusiasm cooled by many scientific lectures may abate bu but on the opening ni night ht no judge on the Bench Dench is surer of a n laugh lauh than titan the eminent scientist who opens the meeting The fhe mildest joke joke- joke lets Itts are Arc received with rapture the feeblest similee get a n round of up- up Lady ednY Loveday was surrounded surround surround- ed by admiring c chemists biologists an and l. l botanists by tl tim tho time timo tho the large audience was WiS filing out come with our expedition on Thursday Lady ady Lovejoy wont won't you urged urge a it thin young professor from a n Scotch University whose appearance ap sug sted the suspicion that ap he had bad recently come come out of an eye eye- hospital Lady Loveday smiled and made made up tip her Lad mind to the tho inevitable After all al ho was only a little worse than the rest All AU Al the young men at the tile meeting meet meet- in ing wore turn tur down collars and coats which had bind apparently been m made de for for- for somebody elseI else ele S I 1 shall be delighted she said in S her most cordial tone Where are you going and ane what are you going to todo todo todo do to improve e me Oh Ob its it's an expedition down a s salt lt mine We shall shaH have havo to take you rOl down in r a bucket You wont won't mind wi you urged the weak-eyed weak young man eagerly Not At nt all LII ni if i you will wi insure the rope not breaking But all al the tue same when Thursday arrived and Lena found herself alone alono at the railway station for station for Sir James had a committee e meeting that morning morning morning morn morn- ing anti and could only join her later on in tile the day she day sho felt ft somewhat depressed de do de pressed at the prospect before her There tesse was Wf m a. a l large Iare and weird looking cirp I eird-I okin oking cr crowd on 01 the platform A slight drizzle was falling and the theL L P young ladies of tho the par party parly y had elected to appear in bag hk bag waterproof garments though to b bE sure their male kind ran them harin harein hardin hare hard in the matter of curious raiment Most of the travellers had invested ir lii paper bags bagi full fut of Bath Dath buns for ar an expedition with the British Association Association tion ton is generally fraught with peril peri inthe it in in inthe the tho matter of supplies Tho The weak eyed cred young youna man was in a state of excitement ex ment bordering on n delirium Lady Loveday L sighed as ts her eyo eye ran over the mass of pushing perspiring be be mackintoshes human beings on thE tin platform There isn't a soul hero here that I wan want to speak to she sho thou thought ht settling into into in in- to the comfortable place corner to the youthful professor had secured foi fot her and then as her eye eve caught thE th square-shouldered square hack back of a n check coated man in the distance she added add ed mentally That looks like a nice man His Hs hair is cut cub beautifully short and hes he's got a n brown neck and anda a n properly ironed collar Ho lo reminds me of poor Dick But nut directly after the train steamed steam ed cd out of the tile station and Lady Loveday's Loveday's Love Love- Le days day's reminiscences came to an end She had to make conversation with her cicerone for the day and n a n whole of other people By Dy the time they had arrived at the pits pit's mouth and were waiting their turn to go down Lena Lena was not sure that she wanted to engage in such a a perilous peril peri ous experiment Only about a quarter of the of people could be accommodated under un un- un tier der del tho tue shed which covered the shaft the tho rest were waiting outside Finally Finaly however she was jammed with some seven or eight other people including her scientific admirer in the baize cov ered bucket and was emptied out after an uncanny descent through a ablack ablack black void into th ern er at the tho bottom The Tho mine had been decorated d with thousands of ol candles in honor of he the event cent and each v visitor was provided pro ide with a a. tallow tallow tal tal- low di dip stuck into a n wooden handle Down diJ in I tho the depths of tile the mine the theS S Scotch C v. pelo l t not to o say tender en ere er This man is ig getting a n boyd bore thought Lady Loeda Loveday I must really real real- ly Jy evade him somehow and with another another an an- other turn tur of the rock she managed to slip away from him Candle C in hand she followed a n group of people in front of her Presently enty one of the party party the tho young youn man whose whoso back she had seen on the platform stopped and with an au action acton which she recognized recognized nize at once struck a n match stooped stoop stoop- ed his bis head and lighted a a cigar cigar- ette S 55 Why it is Dick she murmured and just then he ho turned and saw herI her herI I thought you were we-re in in Afghanis tan she went on hurried hurriedly h as he lie stood gazing gazin at her So I have been for the tho last two years That frontier business took longer than I thought bt And nd you Lady r Loveday blushed and looked down Here was wad an adventure after her own heart helt She was a n curious mixture of practical worldliness and theoretical sentimentality She had liked him bim handsome penniless Captain Cap Cap- tain tam Bramwell more than any man she had ever eyer known and he well he-well bewen well she Bile was quite quit aware that he had bad worshipped the very ory ground round she had trod on But nut all al that that was three years ears a ago o and in in three years there are many changes S I saw saw you th other thi-n thi night ht presently you camo came in an anaw aw awfully fetching cloak coak with a white whito huffy fluffy thing around your neck Ive I've lve been trying to find you yon out ever sh since ce but nobody that I asked could tell tel me anything about Miss Gardner Lady Loveday Lo smie smiled He did not know of her r marriage th then n Fhe The Tue caprice caprice ca ca- cn price took her not to tell tel him just ye yet she she wanted woman like woman to see if i he had remained faithful all ni these years rears 0 01 I am such an insi insignificant person per son in the thc midst of all aU these thes bigwigs Dick smiled back at her her her-he he hn had a l charming smile smile and and they wandered along together each with a tallow dip flickering and sputtering and fitfully I lighting their handsome young faces hn had not altered one bit ho lie said and she bed be d declared h e he was n as Lr brown n na a aa as asa a and would have haye to be bo scraped white Time flies fes when old lovers overs meet and anti nearly an hour had gone before Dick had told her lief that he had come down own to the A As Association S- S to read a a. paper in in the time geographical section W Would she conic come and hear it Of co course rsc of course she sho would Poor POOL old Dick Why ho he was just as hard hit she firmly believed as n ever When they at length got ot back to the tho Bottom of the tho shaft there wa was wal not a soul to be seen The awful truth bean be be- be gan an to dawn upon them that they had been ben left behind How easily that might be with the tho five or sir SIX bundred bun bun- hUI Ired dred people who had come como with the excursion they both saw at n a 1 glance What was to be done Nothing Nothing- absolutely nothing Lady Jady Lve Loveday ay turned greenish w white bite as she leaned against tho the rock Sir James Jamea Jamel she moaned moaned Sir Sir James would ne er never let me die like a dog in a n hole Sir James sai said Dick surprised You mean the time President Is he a great friend frend of yours lie He is is iaO 0 my poor Dick Dick he Dick my he is my is-my my husband she faltered not daring look ook at him now noW Captain Bramwell gave avo a n little litte whistle whistle and turned away What a t farce and how like Lena the whole thing was Lady Loveday Lo did not see him smie smile Forgive me mel she murmured stepling step step- pin ping ling nearer to him hint and laying a caress ng mug lJ hand on his arm She was was' very ery fond of the drama and that was always what the they said in plays when the he lover camo came back from India and found the heroine faithless I My poor child he nn answered gravey grave grave- y forgive you ou anything anything as as lon lonas long as we ever get out of this infernal pit Lena Lna could hardly conceal her disappointment disappointment dis dis appointment Was it possible possible ack po possible that possible that sible-that that he did diel not care that hat he ne did be he had loved her too well wel He He must be pretending just to look as asi asif asif if i he were indifferent They waited a alon along long time and it was 1 4 o'clock before tho whirr of tho bucket buck et was heard coming to their relief An explanation of Captain Bramwell's Bramwells Bramwells Bram Dram wells well's equanimity with regard to her marriage was afforded Lady Loveday on their arrival at the top jop of the the shaft Hurrying towards toward the pits pit's mouth was seen Sir James Jame accompanied nied med by a pretty girl gir in Ira blue a a girl irr whose naive delight at seeing Captain Dram Bramwell wel was as obvious to all tl the by standers And who who who-who who is tho the exuberant young woman in blue queried Lena Lna with not quite a n pretty prett smileS smie smile smile- S That Tl t dear Lady J Loveday said ick quietly mUty f as s ho lie handed his corn com panion put out to onto terra firma that thatis is my wife wife-Th wifel T London World Word 0 y |