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Toronto—William Briggs.
(Continped from last week.)
U he...had been a duke, he would not
have regarded the servants' point of
view; it wouldn't have mattered what
they thought. Perhaps, she hastily
decided, he was like this because,
though he was not a duke, boot -black-
ing in New York notwithstanding he
was a Temple Barholm.- There were
few dukes as old of blood as a Temple
Barholm. That must be it. She was
relieved.
Whatsoever lay at the root of his
being what he was and as he was, he
somehow changed the aspect of things
for her, and without doing anything
but be himself, cleared the atmosphere
of her dread of the surprise and
mental reservations of the footmen
and Burrill when she came down to
dinner in her high -necked, much -
cleaned, and much -repaired black silk,
and with no more distinguishing
change in her toilet than a white lace
cap instead of a black one, and with
"poor dear mamma's" hair bracelet
with the gold clasp on her wrist, and
a weeping -'willow made of "poor dear
papa's" hair in a brooch at her col-
lar.
It was so curious, though still
"nice" but he did not offer her his
arm when they were going into the
dining -room, and he took hold of hers
with his hand and affectionately half
led, half pushed, her along with hint
as they went. And he himself drew
back her chair for her at the end of
the table opposite his own. He did
not let a footman do it, and he stood
behind it, talking in his cheerful way
all the time, and he moved it to ex-
actly the right place, and then eau.
ally bent down and looked under the
table.
"Here," he said to the nearest man-
servant, "where's there a footstool?
Get one, please," in that odd, simple,
almost aristocratic way. It was not
a rude, dictatorial way, but a casual
way, as though he knew the man was
there to do things, and he didn't ex•
pact any time to be wasted.
And it was he himself who arrang-
ed the f ,h' stool, making it comfortable
for her, and then he went to his own
chair at th' head of the table and sat
down, smil'ng at her joyfully across
the glass and silver and flowers.
"Push thi.t thing in the middle on
one side, Bi still," he said. "It's too
high. I can" see Miss Alicia."
Burrill fot id it difficult to believe
the evidence of his hearing.
"The eperg. •, sir?" he inquired.
"Is that what it's called, an apern?
That's a new one on me. Yes, that's
what I mean. Push the apern over."
"Shall I remove it from the table,
sir?" Burrill steeled himself to ex-
act civility. Of what use to behave
otherwise? There always remained
the liberty to give notice if the worst
came to the worst, though what the
worst might eventually prove to be,
it repuired a lurid imagination to de-
pict. The epergne was a beautiful
thing of crystal and gold, a celebrated
work of art, regarded as an exquisite
possession. It was almost remark-
able that Mr. Temple Barholm had 1
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not said, "Shove it on one side," but
.Burrill had been spared the poignant
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indignity of being required to "shove."
"Yes, suppose you do. It's a fine
enough thing when it isn't in the way,
but I've got to see you while I talk,
Miss Alicia," said Mr. Temple Bar -
holm. The episode of the epergne—
Butrill's expression, and the rigidly
restrained mouths of Henry and James
as the -decoration was removed, leav-
ing a painfully blank space of table-
cloth until Burrill silently filled it
with flowers in a low bowl—these
things temporarily flurried Miss Alicia
somewhat, but the pleased smile at
the head of the table calmed even
that trying moment.
Then what•a delightful meal it was,
to be sure! How entertaining and
cheerful and full of interesting con-
versation! Miss Alicia had always
admired what she reverently termed
"conversation." She had read of the
houses of brilliant people where they
had it at table, at dinner and supper
parties, and in drawing -rooms. The
French ladies, were brilliant conver-
sationalists. They held "salons" in
Which the conversation was wonder-
ful—Mme. de Steel and Mme. Ro-
land, for instance; and in England,
Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Sydney
Smith, and Horace Walpole, and sure-
ly Miss Fanny Burney, and no doubt
L. E. L., whose real name was Miss
Letitia, Elizabeth Landon—vihat con-
veration they must have delighted
their friends with and how instruc-
tive it must have been even to sit
in the most obscure corner and listen!
•Such gifted persons seemed to have
been chosen by Providence to delight
and inspire every one privileged to
hear them. Such privileges had been
omitted from 'the scheme of Miss
Alicia's existence. She did not know,
she would have felt it sacrilegious
to admit it even if the fart had dawn-
ed upon her, that "dear papa" had
been a heartlessly arrogant, utterly
• selfish, and tyrannical old blaekguald
of the most pronounced type. He had
been of an absolute morality as far
as social laws were concerned. He
had written and delivered a denuncia-
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revealed a perception of which she was
not aware. 'Be had combined the ver-
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quentlY, brilliancy of convertation at
table had not been the'attractive habit
of the household; "poor clear PtPa"
had confined himself to scathing crit-
icism of the incompetence of females
. who could not teach their menials to
I "cook a dimier which was not a dis-
grace to any decent household."
When not virulently aspersing the
mutton, he was expressing bit opin-
ion of muddle-headed weakness which
would permit household bills 'to mount
in a manner which could only bring
ruin and disaster upon a minister of
the gospel who throughout a pro-
tracted career of usefulness had sap-
ped his intellectual manhood in the
useless effort to support in silly idle-
ness a family of brainless. and mad-
dening fools. Miss Alicia had heard
her character, her unsuccessful phy-
sical appearance, her mind, and her
pitiful efforts at table -talk, Apscribed
in detail with a choice of "Idjective
and adverb which had broken into ter-
rified fragments every atom of cour-
age and will with which she had been
sparsely dowered.
So, not having herself been gifted
with conversational powers to begin
with, and never having enjoyed the
exhibition of such powers in others,
her ideals had been high. She was
not sure that Mr. Temple Barholm's
fluent and cheerful talk could be
with exactness termed "conversation."
It was perhaps not sufficiently lofty
and intellectual, and did not confine
itself rigorously to one exalted sub-
ject. But bow it did raise one's spirits
and open up curious vistas! And
how good tempered and humorous it
was, even though sometimes the hu-
mor was a little bewildering. Dur-
ing the whole dinner there never oc-
curred, even one of those dreadful
pauses in which dead silence fell, and
one tried, like a frightened hen flying
from side toiside of a coop, to think
of something to say which would not
sound. silly, but perhaps might divert
attention from dangerous topics. She
had often thought it would be so in-
teresting to hear a Spaniard or a
native Hindu talk about himself and
his own country in English. Tem-
barom 'talked about New York and
its people and atmosphere, and he did
not know how foreign it all was. He
described the streets --Fifth Avenue
and Broadway and Sixth Avenue—
and the street -cars and the elevated
reailroad, and the way "fellows" had
to "hustle" "to put it over." He
spoke of a boarding-house kept by a
certain Mrs. Bowse, and a presidential.
campaign, and the election of a mayor,
and a quick -lunch counter, and when
President Garfield had been assassin-
ated, and a department store, and
the electric lights, and the way 'he
had of making a sort of picture of
everything was really instructive and
well, fascinating. She felt as though
she had been taken about the city in
one of the vehicles the conductor of
which described things through a meg-
aphone.
Not that Mr. Temple Barholin sug-
gested a megaphone, whatsoever that
might be, but he merely made you feel
as if you had seen things. Neer
had she been so entertained and en-
ard. If she had been a beautiful
girl, he could not have seemed more
as though in amusing her he was also
really pleasing himself, He was so
very funny sometimes that she could
not help laughing in a way which was
almost unladylike, because she could
not stop, and was obliged to put her
henclkerchief up to her face and wipe
away actual tears of mirth.
Fancy laughing until you cried, and
the servants looking on!
Once Burrill himself was obliged
to turn hastily away, and twice she
heard him severely reprove an over-
powered young footman in a rapid
undertone.
Tembarom at least felt that the up-
lifting heaviness of atmospherewhich
had surrounded him while enjoying the
companionship of M. Palford was a
thing of the past.
The thrilled interest, the surprise
and delight of Miss Alicia would have
stimulated 'a man in a comatose con-
dition, it seemed to him. The little
thing just loved every bit of it—she
just "eat it up." She asked question
after question, sometimes questions
which would have made him shout
with laughter 'if he lead not been
afraid of hurting her feelings. She
knew as little of New York as he
knew of Temple Barholm, and was,
it made him grin to see, allured by
it as by some illicit fascination. She
did not know what to make of it, and
sometimes she was obliged hastily to
conceal a fear that it was a sort of
odom and Gomorrah; but she want-
ed to hear more about it, and still
more.
And she brightened up until she
actually did not look frightened, and
at her dinner with an excellent op -
petite.
"I really never enjoyed a dinner so
much in my life," she said when they
went into the drawing -room to have
their coffee. "It was the conversa-
tion which made it so delightful.
Conversation is such a stimulating
thing!"
She had almost decided that it was
"conversation," or 'at least a wonder-
ful substitute.
When she- staid good night to him
and went beaming to bed, looking
forward immensely to breakfast next
morning, he watched her go up the
staircase, feeling wonderfully normal
and happy.
"Some of these nights, when she's I
used to me," he said as he stuffed
tobacco into his pipe in the library—
"some of these nights I'm darned if
little old thing and hug her in spite
I sha'n't catch hold of the sweet,
of myself. I Sha'n't be able to help
it." He lit his pipe, and puffed 'it
even excitedly. "Lordl" he said,
"there's some blame' fool going about
the world right now that might bave
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OHAPTER XVI
A fugitive...fine day which had stray-
ed into the month from the approach-
ing spring 'appeared the next morn-
ing and Miss Alicia was -uplifted by
-the enrapturing suggestion that she
should join _her new relative in tak-
ing a walk, in fact that it should be
she who took him to walk and show-
ed him some of -his possessions. This
it had revealed itself to him, she
could do in a special way of her own,
because during her life at Ternple
Barholm she had felt it her duty to
"try to do a little good" among the
villagers. She and her long -dead
mother and sister had of course been
working adjuncts of the vicarage,
and had numerous somewhat trying
tasks 'to perform in the way of im-
proving upon "dear papa's" harrying
them into attending church, chivying
the mothers into sending -their chil-
dren to Sunday school, and being un-
sparing in severity of any conduct
which might be construed into imply-
ing lack of appreciation of the vicar
or respect for his eloquence.
It had been necessary for them as
members of the vicar'S family—al-
ways, of course without adding a
sixpence to the household bills—to
supply bowls of nourishing broth and
arrowroot to invalids and to 'bestow
the aid and encouragement which re-
sulted in a man of God's being regard-
ed with 'affection and gratitude by
his parishioners. Many a man's ca-
reer in the church "dear papa" had
frequently observed, had been ruined
by lack of intelligence and effort on
the part of the female members of
his family.
"No man could achieve proper re-
sults," he said, "if he was hampered
by the selfish influence and foolish-
ness of his womenkind. Success in
the church depends -in one sense very
much upon the conduct of a man's
female relatives."
After the deaths of her mother and
sister, Miss Alicia had toiled on pa-
tiently, fading day by day from a slim
plain, sweet-faced girl to a slim, even
plainer and sweeter -faced middle-
aged and at last elderly woman. She
had by that time read aloud by bed-
sides a great many chapters in the
Bible,
had given a good many tracts,
and bestowed as much arrowroot,
barley -water and beef -tea as she
could possibly encompass without do-
meatic disaster. She had given a
large amount of conscientious, if not
to intelligent, advice and had never
failed to preside over her Sunday
school class or at mothers' meetings.
But her timid unimpressiveness had
not aroused enthusiasm or awakened
comprehension. "Miss Alicia, the
cottage women said, "she's well mean -
in', but she's not one with a head."
"She reminds me," one of them hail
summed her up, "of a hen that lays'
a' egg every day, but it's too small
for a meal, and 'u'd never hatch into
anythin'."
During her stay at Temple Barholm
she had tentatively 'tried to do a little
"parish work" but she had had noth-
ing to give, -and she was 'always afraid
that if Mr.Temple Barholm found her
out, he would be angry, because he
would think she was presuming. She
was aware that the villagers knew
that she was an object of charity
herself, and 'a person who was "a
lady" and yet an object of charity
was, so to speak, poaching upon their
own legitimate preserves. The rector
and his wife were rather grand peo-
ple, and condescehded to her greatly
on the few occasions of their acci-
dental meetings. ' She was neither
smart nor influential enough to be
con'sidered as an asset.
It was she who "conversed" dur-
ing their walk, and while she trotted
by Tembarom's side looking more
early -Victorian than ever in a neat,
fringed mantle and 'a small black bon -
ret of a fashion long decently inter-
red by a changing world, Tembarom
had never seen anything resembling
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harbit of boolps, Everything she told
him was new: Mid .quaint and very
often rather 'Welching. She related
. anecdotes about-her/elf and bee poor
little past 'Without knowing she was
doing it. Before they had talked an
hour he had an astonishing clear
idea of "poor deer par's" and "dear-
est Emily" and "poor darling mama"
and existence at Rowcroft Vicarage.
He "caught on. -to" the fact that
though she was -very much given to
the word "dear,"—peofile were "dear"
and so were things and pLiBes,--ohe
never even by chance slipped into
saying "'dear lioneiroft," which she
would certlainly have (Lei if she had
ever spent a happy moment in it.
As she talked to him he realized
that her simple- accustornedness to
English village life and all its ac-
companiments of country surround -
1 ings would teach him anything and
everything he might want to know.
Her obscurity had been surrounded
by stately magnificence, with which
she had become familiar without
touching the merest outskirts of its
privileges. She knew flames pnd
customs and families And things to
be cultivated or avoid -I, and though
she would be a little startled and much
mystified by his total ignorance of all
she had breathed in shire her birth,
he felt sure that she would not re-
gard him either with -private contempt
or with a lessened liking because he
was a vandal pure -and simple.
And she had such a nice, little, old
polite way of saying things. When,
in passing a group of children, he
failed to understand that their hasty
bobbing up and down meant that they
were doing obeisance to him as lord
of the manor, she soeke with the
prettiest apologetic courtesy.
"I'm sure you won't mind touch-
ing your hat when they make their
little curtsies, or when a villager
tushes his forehead," she said.
S`Good Lord! no," he said, start-
ing. "Ought I? I didn't know they
were doing it at me." And he turn-
ed round and made a handsome bow
and grinned almost affectionately at
the small, amazed parry, first puzzl-
ing, and then delighting, them, be-
cause he looked so extraordinary
friendly. A gentleman who laughed
at you like that ought t•t be equal to
a miscellaneous distribution of pen-
nies in the future, if not on the spot.
They themselves grinip- I and chuckl-
ed and nudged one another, with
stares and giggles.
"I am sorry to say that in a great
many places the viilagers are not
nearly so respectful they used to
be," Miss Alicia explained. "In Row -
croft the children were very remiss
about curtseying. It's autte sad. But
Mr. Temple Barholm was very strict
indeed in the matter ,•f demanding
proper respectfulness. Ile has turn-
ed men off their fame, for incivility.
The villagers of Tempi, Barholm have
such better manners.sban some even
a few miles asway.1'
"Must I tip my hat to all of them?"
he asked.
"If you please. It really seems
kinder. You—you needn't quite lift
it, as you did to the children just now.
If you just touch the brim lightly
with your hand in a sort of military
salute—that is what they are accus-
tomed to."
After they had inns -ed through the
village street she paused at the end
of a short lane and looked up at him
doubtfully.
"Would you—I wonder if you would
like to go into a cottage," she said.
"Go into a cottage?" he asked.
"What cottage? What for?"
He had not the remotest idea of
any reason why he should go into a
cottage inhabited by people who
were entire strane•es to him, and
Miss Alicia felt a trifle awkward at
having to explain anything so wholly
natural.
"You see, they ;11'0 your cottages,
and the people :11'(` your tenants,
and—"
"But perhaps they mightn't like
it. It might make 'em mad," he
argued. "If their water -pipes had
busted, and they'd asked me to come
and look at them or -anything; but
they don't know 111,yet. They might
think I was Mr.• Bu t
"I don't quite—" she began. "But-
tinski is a foreign name; it sounds
Russian or Polish. I'm afraid I
don't quite under -land why they
should mistake you for him." •
Then he laughed—a boyish shout
of laughter which brought a cottager
to the nearest window to peep over
the pots of fuchsias and geraniums
blooming profusely against the dia-
mond panes.
"Say," he apologized, "don't be mad
because I laughed. I'm laughing at
myself as much as at anything. It's
a way of saying that they might
think I was 'butting in' too much—
pushing in where I wasn't asked.
See? I said they might think I was
Mr. Butt-in-siti! It's just a bit of
fool slang. You're not mad are
you ?"
"Oh, no!" she said. "Dear me! no.
It is very funny, of course. I'm
afraid I'm extremely ignorant about
—about foreign homer." It seemed
more delicate to say "foreign" than
merely "American." But her gentle
little countenance for a few seconds
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