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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-09-02, Page 7r .10 a (Continued from last week.) There was no mistaking hie eymp gathy. He asked so many questions .that they eat' down and talked instead of going through the gallery. He was interested in the detail of all that had occurred after the ghastly . moment when Jem had risen Leon the card -table and stood —'looking around, like some baited dying ani- mal, at the circle of cruel faces draw- ing in about him. How soon had he left London? Where had he gone first?. How had he been killed? He bad been buried with others beneath a'fall of earth and stones. Having beard this much, Tembarom saw he could not ask more questions. Mdse AIicia became pale, and her hands trembled. She could not bear to dis- cuss details so harrowing. . "Say, I oughtn't to let you talk about that," he broke out, and he patted her.hand and made her get up and finish their walk about the - gallery. 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N rrx c nanterdo Int )b WIT for what Fru can't belsp mititti ice,,, lie songetlrloa said rW4lten' t�� b opd`$ 04 ni "14 er en doge, zpe foto getJting: up at tlay4ri'eak KA�'9'G "iiR� �L'7A11i t A 0 � y +s. porm4l 04 l r e ore es'i1't, 4o tta v'or •.ops tau :Ilowtree 7_44, to ,pruBBf6ts. cyrpnlarq-•}res bad -re • l • GhoneY ifs tat, Teleae, i ssMo, the char . , nd ke pang not it! . Butt it.do You bet your lite on that." She 4ou4li see that he bad wanted to hear about .Tem, bu knew it was bad for her to things, and he would not allow to dwell on them, just as she knew would not allow himself to dwell 'little Miss Hutchinson, rem placed among, the joys of Ina bel New York.' Two other, incidents besides visit to Miles Hugo afterward ed that day when Mies Alicia loo 'back on it. The first was his un ing to her his :plans for the hove party, which was characteristic his habit of thinking things over deciding them before he talked ab them. "If I"m going to try the thing o as Ann says I must." he began wlh they had gone back to the libra after lunch "I've got to get goi I'm not seeing any of those Pictor ,girls, and I guess I've got to some," "You will be invited to dine places," said Miss Alicia, "'presen ly'," she added bravely, in fact, an air of greater conviction' theme felt. ' If it's not the law that they've g to invite .me or go to jail," said Te berm, "I don't blame 'em for not d ing it if they're not stuck on m And they're not; and it's natur But I've got to get in my fine wo or my year'(l be over 'before I' 'found out for myself; as Ann call it. There's where I'm at, Miss Alic —and I've been thinking of Lady Jo and her mother. You said y thought` they'd come and stay here they were properly asked," "I think they would," answered Miss Alicia with her usual delicacy. "I thought I gathered from Lady Mallowe that, as she was to be in the neighborhood, she would like to see you and Temple Barholm, which Abe greatly admires." "If you'll toll me what to do, I'll get her here to stay awhile," he said, "and Lady Joan with her. You'd have to show me how to write to ask them; but perhaps you'd write you self." "T!'.Ay will be at Asshawe Holt rex week," said Miss Alicia, "and we coul go and call on them together. W might write to them in London be fore they leave." "We'll do it," answered Tembarom His manner was •that of a practice young man attacking matter-of-fac deal.!. "Front what I hear, Lady Joa would satisfy even Ann. They sa she's the best looker on the slate. I I see her every day I shall have see the blue-ribbon winner. Then if she' there, perhaps others of her sort '1 come, too; and they'll have to see m whether they like it or not—and shall see them. Good Lord!" he ad ded seriously, " I'd let 'em swarm al over me and bite me all summer if i would fix Ann." He stood up, with his hands thrust deep in his pockets, and looked down at the floor. "I wish she knew T. T. like T. T. knows himself," he said. It was quite wistful. lit was so wistful and so boyish that Miss Alicia was thrilled as he often thrilled her. "She ought Co be a very hapfpy girl" she exclaimed. "She's going to'be," he answered, "5ute as you're alive. But whatever she does, is right, and this is as right tis everything else. So it just goes." They wrote their letters at once, and sent them off by the afternoon post. The letter Miss Alicia corn- pused, and which Tembarom copied, he read and reread, with visions of Jim Bowles arfd Julius looking over his shoulder. If they picked it up on Broadway, with his name signed to 1,1, and read it, they'd throw a fit over it, laughing. But he supposed she knew what you ought to write. It had not, indeed, the masculine touch. When Lady Mallowe read it, she laughed several times. She knew quite well that he had not known what to say, and, elbowing Miss Alicia to instruct him, had fol- lowed her 'Instructions to the letter. But she did not show the letter to Joan, who was difficult enough to manage without being given such ma- terial to comment upon. The letters had just been sent to the post when a visitor was announc- ed—Captain Palliser. Tembarom remembered the name, and recalled al- ae certain points connected with hint. 1'e was the one who was a promoter of schemes --"One of the smooth, clever ones that get up conypanies," Little Ann had said. That in a well-bred and not too in' nonmed way ho licked smooths and clever might be admitted, His effect was that of height, finished slenderness of build, and extremely well -cut garments. Ile ,Vas no long- er young, and he hail smooth, thin hair and a languidly observant gray eye. "I have been staying at Detch- oorlh Grange," he explained when Is. had shaken hands with the new 'Temple Barholm and Miss Alicia. "It govt. nu' an 'exce+llent, opportun- ity In come and pay my respects." ',here was a Hint of uncertainty in the observant gray eye. The fact was I.hat, he realized in the space of five minulcs that he knew his ground even less than he had supposed he did. Tim, had not spent. his week at Detch- worth Grange without making many quiet ihvesti.gatinns, but he had found out nothing whatever. The new man w•as an ignoramus, hut no one had yet seemed to think him exactly a fool. He was not excited by the new grandeurs of his position and he was not ashamed of hi.Oeff. Cap- tain Palliser wondered if " he was perhaps sharp—one of those New Yorkers shrewd even to light -finger- edness in clever scheming. Stories of a newly created method of busi- ness dealing involving an air of can- dor and almost primitive good nature —an American method—hadattracted Captain Palliser's attention for some time. A certain Yankee rawness -of a he manner played a, part as a factor, a on crudity which would throw a man off otely guard if he did not recognize it. The bele person who employed the method was of philosophical York nese. The New Ybrlc phrase was !hark- that "He jollied a man along." Ir- ked mense schemes had been carried told- through in that wdy. Men in Lon- e- don, in England, were not sufficient - .of •ly light of touch in their jocularity. and He wondered if perhaps this young out fellow, 'with his ,ready laugh and . ra- ther loose-jointed casual. way of ut, carrying himself, was of this dan- en serous new school. ry What, however, could be scheme ng. for, being the owner of Temple Bar- ial holm's money? It may be mention - see ed at once that Captain Palliser's past had been such as had fixed him in the at belief that every one was scheming t- for something. People with money with wanted more or were privately ac- he ranging. schemes to prevent other schemers from getting any shade the of better of them. Debutantes with shy m- eyes and slim figures had their little o- plans to engineer delicately. Some - e. times they were larger plans than al. the uninitiat6ed would have suspected as existing'I'n the brans of creatures in their 'teens, sometimes they were mere fantastic little ideas connected with dashing young men or innocent dances which must be secured or lovely young rivals who must,he evad- ed. Young men had also deft things to do --(people to see or not to see, reasons for themselves being seen or avoiding observation. As years in- creased, reasons for schemes became more numerous and amazingly more varied. Women with daughters, with sons, with husbands, found in each relationship a necessity for active, if quiet, manoeuvering. Women like Lady Mallowe—..good heaven! by what schemes did not that woman live and have her being—and her daughter's r- —from day to day! Without money, without a friend who was an atom t more to be relied on than she would d have been herself if an acquaintance o had needed her aid, her outwardly well-to-do and fashionable existence was a hand-to-hand fight. No won- der she had turned a still rather bril- I tient eye upon Sir Moses Monaldini, t the great Israelite financier. All of n these types passed rapidly before his y mental vision as he talked to the f American Temple Barholm. What n could he want, by chance? He must s want something, and it would be die - 1 erect to find out what it chanced to '' be. I If it was social success, he would - be better off in London, where in I these days you could get a good run t for your money and could swing your- self up from one rung of the ladder to another if you paid sonic one to show you how. He himself could show him how. A youngster who 'had lived, the beastly hard life he had lived would be likely to find exhilara- tion in many things not difficult to purchase. It was an odd thing, by the way, the fancy he had taken to the little early -Victorian spinster. It was not quite natural. It• perhaps denoted tendencies—or lack of tend- encies—it would ale) be well to con- sider. Palliser was a sufficiently finished product himself to be struck greatly by the artistic perfection of Miss Alicia, and to wonder how much the new man understood it. Ile did not talk to hint about schemes. He talked to him of New York, which he had never seen and hoped sometime shortly to visit. The information he gained was not of the kind he most desired, but it edified hint. Tembarom •s Knowledge of high fianance was a street lad's knowledge of it, and he himself knew its Emir tatioms and probable unreliability. Such of his facts as rested upon the foundation of experience did not in- clude multimillionaires and their re- sources. Captain Palliser passed lightly to Temple Barholm and its neighbor- hood. He know places and names, and had been to Detchworth more than once. He had never visited Temple Barholm, and his interest suggested that he would like to walk through the gardens, Tenrbarotn tools him out, and they strolled about for some time. Even an alert observer would not have suspected the fart that as they strolled, Tembarom slouching a trifle and with his hands in his pockets, Captain Palliser bear- ing himself with languid distinction, each man was summing tip the other and considering seriously how far and in what manner he could be counted as an asset. "You haven't been to Detchworth yet?" Palliser inquired. "No, not yet," answered Temibar- on+. The Granthmns were of those who had not yet called. "It's an agreeable house. The Granthams are agreeable people." "Are there any young people in the family?" Tembarom asked. "Young pople? Male or female?" Palliser smilingly put it. Suddenly it occurred to him that this might give him a sort of lead. "'Girls," said Tembarom, crudely— "just plain girls." Palliser laughed. Here it was, perhaps. "They are not exactly 'plain' girls, though they are not beauties. There are four Misses Grantham. Lucy is the prettiest. Amatbel is quite tre- mendous at tennis." "Are they ladies?" inquired Tern - rk, ve ed is an ou if (/niivEYo�iCew �a mof4tBuy 1V Sal yea can Promotes jfO Clean,ticshltyCe .hiss OUR E� t "Night Eye Remedy Night and Morning " 'Seep your ryes Olean, Clear and AiteellTey. Write for Free EyeCare Boot(:. damine rye anmedyco.. a$ael role f Yunt, CM,.gn 04' ant!'' in. Wbr stanYd'''r"d 1+'G quite u. rBarholui 1 quite aspens." d not, amazing to relate, look" k3 fool even' he -gave ,fo esbraord qquestloh. It 1► .. almost bu Ike .,serioua lis Web saved hhe, "I `mean, do ycr{-.•call tlte6tr Lindy Lucy and lady` AzURbel ? ". he answer - If he had`been Manger, less hard- ened, or 'lees finished, Captain Pal- liser would have` laughed outright; But he answered without self -revela- tion. "Oh, I see. You.'Were asking whe- ther the family is a titled one. No; it is a good old • name, quite old, in fact, but no title goes with the estate." "Who are the titled people about here?" Tembarom' asked, quite una- bashed. "The Earl of Pevensy at Pevensy Park, the Duke of Stone at Stone Rover, Lord Ii'ambrough at Doone. Doone is in the. next county, just over the border." "Have they all 'got daughters?" Captain Palliser Hound it expedient to clear his throat .before speaking. "Lord Pevensy has daughters, do has the duke. Lord Hantbrough has three sons." "How many daughters are there— in a bunch?" Mr. Temple Barholm suggested liberally. There Captain Palliator felt it safe to allow himself to smile, as though taking it with a sense of humor. "'In a' bunch' is an awfully good way of putting it," he said. "It hap- pens to apply perhaps rather unfor- tunately well; both families are much poorer than they should be, and daughters must be provided for. Each has four. 'In a bunch' there are eight: Lady Alike, Lady Edith, Lady Ethel, Lady Cella at Stone Hay - r; Lady Beatrice, Lady Gwynedd, Lady Honore, and Lady Gwendolen t Pevensy Park. And nit a fortune among them, poor girls!" "It's not the money that matters o much," said the astounding for- i igner, "it's the titles." Captain Palliser stopped short in he garden path for a moment. He mild scarcely' believe his ears. The rude grotesqueness of it. so far gut P he better of him that if he had not t oughed he would have betrayed him- e elf. I've had a confounded cold late- a y," he said. "Excuse me; I must get over." t He turned a little aside and cough- J d energetically, s After watching him a few seconds a embarom slipped two lingers into T is waistcoat and pnoduce•d a small the of tablets. "Take two of these," he said as >on as the cough stopped. "I al - aye carry it about with me. It's a ew York thing called •C. Destroyer.' stands for grippe," Palliser took it. "7hanks. With water i' No? Just ssolve in the mouth. Thanks aw- lly." And he took tw,, with tears ill standing in his eyes. "Don't taste bad, do they?" Mr. emote Barhotnt remarked encourag- gly, "Not at all. I thin; I shall be all ght now. I just needed the relief. have been trying restraint it.'' "That's a mistake." said '1'embar- 1. They strolled a pace or .o, mi he began again, as though he d not mean to let i:o subject drop. is the titles," Ifo said, "and the ted. How many of them are geed- okers?" Palliser reflected a moment, a.; ough making mental choice. "Lady Alice and lady Celia are ther plain," lie said, "and both of em are invalidish. Lady Ethel is ii and has handsomeeyes, but Lady ith is really the beauty of the fam- . She rides and (lances well and s a charming color." - "And the other ii:•,s," Tembarom ggested as he p:msel—"Lady Bea- ce and Lady Gwynedd and Lady mora and Lady (?.cendolen." 'You remember th, it names well," lliser remarked wi;h a half -laugh. `Oh, I shall remember them all ht," Tembarom answered. "I reed twenty-five per, in New York getting names down fine." 'The Talchestc+rs are really all ra- r" taking. Taleh.:ster is Lord vensy's family nano." Palliser ex- ined, "They are girls who have tty little noses and bright com- xions and eyes. Lady Gwynedd and dy Honors both hies quite fasein- n,g dimples." 'Dimples!" exclaimed his com'pan- "Good busines.:." ' 'Do you like dinrolos particularly?" liner inquired with an impartial *re i4�R11 M ,. r.,--- tient„alrpse• poked "ole :.1 • havin sit' i1 "She le slot the eamay'.lir Aiiidrh,rz. when toriau •old -•la'tlyr' 'WOO- Paliiecei�''•a ,' k'e- ivary Ihly '�She ,wears aiasborpugll irate sinew "and looks matte pus -Able eight” end thirty. She Is .a hatldeom° person herself.' • He was not aware Skit the. term "old lady" watt, among Americans of the class of Mrs.. Bawse's boarders, a sort of generic term signifying almost anything maternal which had passed thirty. Toolbar= proceeded. "Atter' they get through at the Asshawe Holt place, I've asked them to come here." "Indeed," said Palliser, with an in- ward stare ' The man evidently did not know •what other people did. Af- ter a11, why should he? Be had been selling something or other in the streets of New York'whep the thing happened, and he.. knew nothing of London. "The 'countess called on Miss Alicia when we 'were in London," he heard next. "She said we were relations." "You are—as we are. The con- nection is rather distant, but it is near enough to form a sort of link." "I've wanted to see Lady Joan," exiplained Tembarom. "From what; I've heard, I should say she was one of the 'Lady's Pictorial' kind." "I ant afraid—" Palliser's voice was slightly unsteady, for the moment— "I have not studied the type suf- ficiently to know. The 'Pictorial' is so exclusively a women's periodical." His companion laughed. "Well, I've only looked through it once myself just to fund out. Some way I always think of Lady Joan as if she was like one of those Beaut's from Beautsville, with trains as long as parlor -cars and feathers In their heads --dressed to go to see the queen, I guess she's been presented at court," he added. "Yes, she has been presented." "Do they let 'em go more than once?" he asked with casual curios- ty. "Confound this cough!" exclaimed Captain Palliser, and he broke forth again. "Take another G," said Tembarom, reducing lila tube. "Say, just take he bottle and keep it in your pock- (," When the brief paroxysm was over nd they moved on again, Palliser was looking an odd thing or so in he face. "I always think of Lady can" was one of them. "Always" eemed to go rather far. How often nd why had he "always thought"? he fellow was incredible. Did his e a e c 1 it e T h t at N G di fu st T ri on a di ki In th ra th to Ed ily ha su tri Ifo Pa rig ea by the Pe pla pre pie La ati ion Pal air "I'd always mak,' 'i bee -line for a diml!tle," replied ,lir, Temple. Barholm, "Clear the way, when I start." This was New Yori, phrasing, and was plainly humorous; but there was something more than humor in his eye and smile—so me;!dog hinting dis- tantly at recollection. "You'll find then, at Pevensy Park," said Palliser. "What about Lady .Joan Fayre?" was the next ingoir}. Palliser's side gla:.. ' at him was observant indeed. iie asked himself how much the man ,-,old know. Tak- ing the past into een;:deration, Lady .roan might turn out ;.+ be a subject requiring delicate handling. It wan not the easiest thing in the world to talk at all freely to a person with whom one desired I., keep on good terns, about a young woman suppos- ed still to cherish a traxic passion for the dead man who ought to stand at the present moment in the person's, figuratively speaking, extremely ill- fitting shoes. "Lady Joan had been from her first season an undeniable beauty," he re- plied. "She and the old lady are going to stay at a place called Asshawe Holt. I think they're going next week," Tembarom said. "The old lady?" repeated Captain Palliser. 'I mean her mother. The one a,t rr 41..di, `til .itiVI'' ,ukt n. izti�it?,J.I,.k�4n1,.3+3, rT..._'t$,k.:Yf,T.A� F Yciu /Mitt "SALADO: ORea tr Initiskaly Superier to ' the deISL alrilapat;se,.,;: - shallp, boyish face and his slouch► conceal a colossal, vulgar, young am- bition? There was not much ' con- cealment about it, Heaven knew, And as he so evidently was not aware of the facts, how would they affect him when he discovered them? And though Lady Mallowe was a woman not in the least distressed or hemp- ered by shades of delicacy and scruple she surely was astute enough to re- alize that even , this bounder's dull- ness might be awakened to realize that there was more than a tooth of obvious indecency in bringing the girl to the house of the Man she had tragically loved, and manoeuvering to work her into it as the wife of the man who, monstrously unfit as he was, had taken his place. Captain Palliser knew well that the pressing of the relationship had meant only one thing. And how, in the name of the Furies! had she dragged Lady Joan into the scheme with hear? It was as unbelievable as was the' new Temple Barholm himself. And how unconcerned the fellow looked( Perhaps the man he had supplanted was no more. to him than a scarcely remembered name, if he was as much as that. Then Tembarom, pacing slowly by his side, hands in pockets, eyes on the walk, spoke: "Did you ever see Jem Temple Barholm?" he asked. It was like a thunderbolt. He said it as though be were merely carrying his previous remarks on to their natural conclusion; but Palliser felt himself so suddenly unadjustea so to speak, that he palpably hesitat- ed. "Did you?" his companion repeat - "I knew him well," was the ans- wer made as soon as readjustment was possible. "Remember just how he looked?" "Perfectly. He was a striking fel- U1 ' low. Women :give einating eyes." "Sort of slant iota Outside .corners--upd, sorter sweeping toga-.,, Palliser turned yri%h: of. surprise, .. "How did you know? 1 that odd sort- of thing,'' w `l. "Ages Allele toldSI me. And "Ages a picture in the gallery that'n-i him." Captain 'Palliser felt as embayrs; "tied as Miss Alicia had felt, We was for a different reason. She ha felt awkward because she had !'earl she had touched on a delicate ject. Palliser 'was embarraslied (ta cause he was entirely thrown oat • ,..; all his calculations. He felt for the' moment that there was no calepla0- ing at all, no security In raring paths. You never know where they >, would lead. Here had he been Into tually alarmed in secret! Mid the oaf stood before him undisturbedly opening up the subject himself, "For a fellow like that to lose girl as he Iost Lady Joan was pretty tough," the oaf said. "By gee! i;r' was tough!" He knew it all—the whole thing,' scandal, tragically broken marriage, everything. And knowing it, he was laying his Yankee plans for getting the girl to Temple Barholm, to look her over. It was of a grossness one sometimes heard of in men of hie kind, and yet it seemed in its casual_' ness to outleap any little scheme of the sort he had so far looted on at. "Lady Joan felt it immensely," he said. A footman was to be seen moving toward them, evidently bearing a message. Tea was served in the drawing -room, and he had come to announce the fact. (Continued next week.) 'Grey Sox" Tubes nlii I ` I�IIi 5 "Auto -Shoes" Mean Mileage The mileage given by the best tire you ever used would just about approximate the average given by Ames Holden "Auto -Shoes" year after year. Ames Bolden "Auto -Shoes" are miles better than ordinary tires. The name ' `Auto -Shoes" is to help you to remember that—to make it easy for you to get the cheapest mileage you can buy. AMES HOLDEN "AUTO -SHOES" Cord and Fabric Tires in all Standard Sizes For Sale By "Red Sox" Tubes J. F. 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