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1 if vas 5 “ty ies ae ite ee : oteailas MISS DIBBLE IS MADE CAPTIVE. LYING at full length upon the ground, Miss Dibble was more of a ~ painful object than a poetical one to con- template. For a brief spell those who witnessed her collapse were in a quandary. - ptr - oh pe j , f aed v : ~s oxvin. _ to do. i will you sicaae raise her head, while I fan her 2” | said Eveline, addressing the Spaniard. i ay _ He smiled and did as he was told, conveying by his looks tht it was for Eveline’s sake he did it. Eveline and her mother fanned the unconscious woman for a oe time, and then she opened her eyes. _ It happened that at that very moment Don Algua _Marbalo was bending over her and thinking of Eveline at the same time. There was a most tender expression We in his eyes. Miss Elegantine Dibble ear sighed, val nestled closer to him. i ” “Pardon,” he said, hastily, “ bie you are better. Permit me assist you to your feet.” ; “Tam still very faint,” murmured Miss Dibble. ) “ Pardon again,” said the Don, firmly, “ but it is 4“ i ~~. = 7 ay a3 4 AY Tkey did not know what tg necessary. My duties call me away. If you will not _ rise, you must be laid out on the ground.” © —- “ Hoity-toity, young man!” cried Miss Dibble, with i asnort, “I ean get along without your help. Out of - my way!” oy She elbowed him aside, and as he happened to be stooping with bent knees, she jerked him over into a sitting position. It was most undignified and ie ludicrous. _ cals _ Eveline laughed so heartily that she was quite ne shamed of herselt. Miss Dibble rose to her feet, and "shaking the enormous stick of the sunshade under his ; nose, said : | cm “Tf you think, you foreign jackanapes, that I want | your help, it is like your impudence. I consider your | touch an insult—contamination! Why don’t you get | pee instead of squatting there like a basket-maker ?” “Yam at liberty to do as I please,” he answered, “with afrown. “Keep a soft tongue, woman, or you aad find yourself arrested.” “TT should like to see any foreign popinjay who dares rest me!” said Miss Elegantine Dibble. “ Now, : fem, ” she added, turning to Mrs. Farrell, “please me how the sien aoe Bis waive i ry my sweet wv camo about. Mee hs ey = & tnt Wit daly Cea Be es we oie. we a a a ! a | | An ¥ A Set Pats MIS . i D BBLE aS! MADE CAPTIVE. “gang of ona | ney ana aeprtt ae ek Ca RE fg sti ik i rt} Hpi yt neo ub rip Kon 4 Let hn ed AYA C AT ¥ 4 PASSERINE iit Ave a Ra % (VE eA Na rth Mas * i at a a 4 ; ifs ‘ J ai } rN Le a) EF is COAL doris sd * Wes, is an ae Gs (}- 1 oth : ’ oh? ‘ jy (faa ; " ; 7 #2 A Fs : Ae ‘¢ ; ih i . aM ie i, . pit ie iN Vi: 4, - Seay ae 8 GES . i EAN) Be tf +k 3 | Spaniards,” replied Mrs. Farrell, fice none of the a boys lost their lives,” “None? Not even my SRR Fad “No.” “T might have thought it,” sighed Miss Dibble. “The perversity of that boy i is wonderful.” “Will you come up to the castle and see him: 4 asked Eveline. Je “The castle ?” | a “Yes, we have to live in a castle now.” bee * Built, I suppose, with the insurance money ?” * “The schoolhouse,” said Mrs. Farrell, ‘‘ was not ag insured.” : “Well, you are a rum lot of people,” said Miss Dibble. “ Yes, I will go with you. You, sir,” to the man vag who had been standing hard by with her small trun x0 looking on the scene with varied emotions, “ go on i ahead. I must keep my eye on you. If any of you | | foreign scaramouches think you can rob me, try it, | and see what will be the end of you.” ane Eveline wished te get away from the company of Don Algua, and, leaving him with her mother, she escorted Miss Dibble to the castle. _ | On the way there the elder lady talked without ceasing, but her eyes were never off the man with the trunk. Solong as he did not show a disposition LOR get too far ahead she let him be, but the moment he arated ahem a naturally active man—to get along quicker than was comfortable for the lady, she laid howd of his instep with the crook of her sunshade and pulled him up short. At first this method of procedure ita in his falling heavily with the box, and some wordy war fare, ie each in their own tongue, between him and Miss Dibble. The lady fired eighty-ton guns at him, and he answered with a feeble fizzle of small-arms. i But he soon got more wary, and was ready for ‘the crook, so that the moment it touched him he pulled up short. ing That he was terrified by the prompt ways ae Miss | Klegantine was certain. It was shown in the shifting of his eyes when they exchanged a few words, a Eveline was as much amused as she would have been — by the choicest pantomime on the stage. us The arrival of such a party caused the greatest " ie ‘surprise among the boys, who stopped their sports tor ae stare at the gaunt woman as she looked among them — for her nephew. But Dibble had already espied her, and, shaking i in ‘ his small boots, he bobbed down pouiHd Trimmer > i and in a whisper bade him report on the movements _ « of his aunt. | lat : “Does she look very savage P” he asked. Mie _“ Murderous,” replied Trimmer ; ‘‘ and she is staring about her as if she can a make up as mind whom to ae —) any CONG i a i: / A | " ’ : y i - RL yh Wi oe PT eb a ta “a WG Taye Sh bal Ge ¥ Ms MS ha at ya Vii aig co By oe iy