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They went back to the 'house, and
Miss Alicia filled cups for them and
presided over the splendid trey with
a ,persuasiys= suggeg on in the matter
of hot 'or bold' things Which made it
easy to lead up to any subject. She
'was the best of unobtrusive' hostess-
.
Palliser talised of his visit. at Deteh-
worth,'which held been shortened be-
cause he had.,gorie to "fit in" and re-
main until a' large but uncertain
party turned up, It'had turned up
earlier than. had been antieip ed,
and of course he could only de Gate-
ly slip away.
"I am sorry it has, happened, how-
ever," he said, "not only because one
does not wish to leave Detchworth,
but because I shall miss Lady Mal-
lowe and Lady Joan, who are to be
at Asshawe Halt next week. I par-
ticularly wanted to see them."
Miss Alicia glanced at Tembarom
to see what he would do. He spoke
before he could catch her glace.
"Say," he suggested,, "why don't
you bring your grip over here and
stay? I Isiah you would."
"A grip means a Gladstone bag,"
Miss Alicia murmured in a rapid un-
dertone.
Palliser replied with' appreciative
courtesy. Things were going extreme-
ly well.
"That's awful kind of you," he an-
swered. "I should 'like it tremend-
ously. ' Nothing better. You are
giving me a delightful opportunity.
Thank you, thank you. If I may turn
tip 'on Thursday I shall be delighted."
There was satisfaction in this at
least in the observant gray eye when
he went away,
CHAPTER XX
Dinner at Detchworth Grange was
most amusing that evening. One of
the chief reasone—dn fact, it would
not be too venturesome to say the
chief regain—for Captain Palliser's
frequent Presence in very good coun-
try house, was that he had a way of
making things amusing. His rela-
tion of a;:ecdotes, of people and
things, was distinguished by a man-
ner which subtly declined- to range
Itself on t' -e side of vulgar gossip.
Quietly and with a fine casualness he
conveyed the whole picture of the
new order at Temple Barholm. He
did it with svenderfully light touches
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1t rsti' Palliser ui¢ •fifth his
ankle 'sf'm not re that I''ve
on to ;hint' shags er yet. That's
expressive New rk phrase of
own.' Butt .when a were stroll
Iabout together, he made revelatio
apparently �ithoutJpeing in the least
aware that they wee revelations. He
was unbelievable. My fear was that
i' he would not go os,'
"But he did ;go err?" asked A
bel. "One mu'at 'lfgrr something
. the revelation." - +
Then was. given itthe best possi
form. the little drama of the talk
the garden. No shade of Mr. Tem
pie Barholm's characteristics'
lost. Palliser gave . occasionally a
English attempt at the reproductio
of his nasal twang, but it was onl
a touch and not,su ently persiste
in to become undigied...
"I can't do it," he said. "None o
us can really do it. 'When Eng'is
ban u FF
a t)o;
aces
long' -
nett
Am
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dd
indeed'li
am told that
feeling.
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ex method.
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dual thing = I Was sura.- couldn't happen
got
Look. at Chia 'T` inple Barholm song
aa;
and dance ' Look at T. 'ua he Was
his .half-gtrang�liag: in the'hlizzard up at
ng' Hari andt)sanking,his stars little
n . Mulish didn't kick him out of his
coif very store less than a year
age long as I'm 1. `.
$ rigal ',right,
you're all right. But I wanted you
fixed, anyhow." .
He paused and looked at her ques-
tioningly for a moment. He wanted
to say something and he was not sure
ho ought. His reverence for her lit-
tle finenesses and reserves increased
instead oqf wearing away. He was al-
ways finding out new things about
her.
"Say," he broke forth almost im-
petuously after his hesitation, "I
wish you ,wouldn't call me Mr. Tem-
ple' Barholm."
"D -do you?" she fluttered. "But
what could I call you?" -
"Well," he answered, reddening a
shade or so, "I'd give a house and lot
if you could juat call me Tem."
"But it woud sound so unbecoming
so familiar,'. she protested.
"That's just what I'm asking for,"
he said—"some one to be familiar
with. I'm the familiar kind. That's
what the matter with me. I'd be
familiar with Pearson, but he
wouldn't'let me. I'd frighten him
half to death. He'd think that he
wasn't doing his duty and earning his
wages, and that somehow he'd get
fired some day without a character."
He drew nearer to her and coaxed.
"Couldn't you do it?" he asked al-
most as though he were asking a fav-
or of a girl. "Just Tem? I believe
that would come easier to you than
T. T. I get fonder and fonder of you
every day, • Miss Alicia, honest In -
jun. And I'd be so grateful to you
if you'd just be that unbecomingly
familiar.
He looked honestly in earnest; and
if he grew fonder and fonyder of her,
she without.doubt had, in the face
of everything, given'her whole heart
to him.
"Might I call you Temple—to be-
gin with?" she asked. 'It touches
me so to think of your asking me.
I will begin at once. Thank you—
Temple," with a faint gasp. "I
might try the other a little later."
It was only a few evenings later
that he told her about the flats in
Harlem. He had sent to New York
for a large bundle of newspapers, and
when he opened theni he react aloud
an advertisement, and showed her a
picture -of a large building given up
entirely to "flats."
He had realized from the first that
New York life,, had a singular at-
traction for her. The unrelieved
dullness of her life—those few years
of youth in which she had stifled
vague longings for the joys experi-
enced by other girls; the years of
middle age spent in the dreary effort
to be "submissive to the will of God,"
which, honestly translated, signified
submission to the exactions and do-
mestic tyrannies of "dear papa" and
others like him had left her with
her capacities for pleasure a freshly
sensitive as a child's. The smallest
change in the routine of existence
thrilled her with excitement. Tem-
barom's' casual references to his
strenuous boyhood caused her eyes to
widen with eagerness to hear more.
Having seen this, he found keen de-
light in telling her stories of New
York life .stories of himself or of
other lads who' had been his compan-
ions. Shewould dropher
work and
gaze at him almost with bated breath,
He was an excellent raconteur when
he talked of the things he knew well.
He had an unconscious habit- of
springing from his seat and acting
his scenes as he depicted them,
laughing and using street -boy phras-
ir"It's just like a tale," Miss Alicia
would breathe, enraptured as he
jumped from one story to another.
"It's exactly like a wonderful tale."
$he learned to know the New York
streets when they ,blazed with .heat,
when they were hard with frozen
snow, when they were sloppy with
meting slush or bright with spring-
timd sunshine and spring winds
blowing, with pretty women hurrying
abort in beflowered hats and dresses
and the exhilarating of the world-o:d
springtime joy. She found herself
hurrying with them. She sometimes
hung on with him and his companions
on the railing outside dazzling res-
taurants where scores of gay people
to rich food in the sight a e g t of their
boyish ravenousness. She darted in
and out among horses and vehicles
to find carriages after the theater: or
opera, where everybody was dressed
dazzlingly and diamonds glittered.
"Oh, how rich everybody must have
seemed to you -how cruelly rich,
poor little boy!"
"They looked rich, right enough,"
he answered wi,'n she said it. "And
there seemed a 'at of things to eat
all corralled in :: few places. And
you wished you c• mid be let loose in-
side. But I don't know as it seemed
cruel. That was the way it was, you
know, and you couldn't help it. And
there were places where they'd give
away some of what was left. I tell
you, we were in hely then."
There wan some spirit in his tell -
hag it all—a spirit which had surely
been with him thrnugh his hardest
days, a spirit of young mirth in rags
—which made her feel subconsciously
that the whole experience had, after
of
hle
in
was
n
n
y
d
f
h
actors try it on the stage, it is not
in the least the real -thing. They
only. drawl through their noses, and
it more than that."
The people of' Detchworth Grange
were not noisy people, but their
laughter was unrestrained before the
recital was finished. Nobody had
gone so far as either to fear or to
hope fpr anything as undiluted in its
nature as this was. • j
"Then he won't give ria a chance,
the' least '"'chance," crieill Lucy and
Amabel almost in unison, "We are
out of the running." '
"You won't get even a look in—
because you are not 'ladies,'" said
their brother.
"Poor Jem Temple Bar'ialm! What
a diffese�nt thing it would have been
if we had had him for a neighbor!"
Mr. Grantham fretted.
"We should have had Lady Joan
Fayre as well," said his wife.
' At least she's a gentlewoman as
well as a 'lady," Mr. Grantham
said. "She would not have become so
bitter if that hideous thing had not
occurred."
They wondered if the aew man
knew anything about Jem. Palliser
had not reached that part of his rev-
Aiation when the laughter had broken
into it. He told it forthwith, and
the laughter was overcome by a sort
of dismayed disgust. This did not
accord with the rumors of an almost
"nice", good nature.
"There's a vulgar horridness about
it," said Lucy.
"What price Lady Mallowe!" said
the son. `I'll bet a sovereigr she
began it."
"She did," remarked Palliser; "but
I think one may leave Mr. Temple
Barholm safely to Lady Sean." Mr.
Grantham laughed as one who knew
something of Lady Joan.
"There's an Americanism whit* I
didn't learn from him," Palliser add-
ed, "and I remembered it when he
was talking her over. It's this:
when you dispose of a person finally
and forever, you 'wipe up the earth
with him.' Lady Joan will, 'wipe en
the earth,' with your new neighbor."
There was a little shout of laugh-
ter. "Wipe up the earth" was er-
tirely new to everybody, though even
the cpuntry in England was at this
time by no means wholly ignorant of
American slang.
This led to so many other things
both mirth -provoking red serious,
oven sometimes ,cry serious indeed,
tea' the entire evenir,r at Detch-
worth was filled with talk of Temple
Borism. - Very natue,rlly the talk
did not end
b confining itselfto
bye one
household. In due time Captain Pal-
liser:: little sketches were known in
revere places, and it bsearne a habit
to discuss what hal happened, and
What might ..possibly hanpen in the
-future. There were those who went
o the length of cal'inn• on the new
men because they wanted to see him
fa•:e to face. People heard new
things every few days, hut no one
Yealized that it was vaguely through
Palliser that there developed a gen-
eral idea that, crude and self -reveal-
ing as he was, there lurked behind
the outward candor of the intruder
a hint of over -sharpness of the Am-
erican kind. There seemed no neces-
sity for him to lay schemes beyond
those he had betrayed in his inquiries
about "ladies," but somehow it be-
came a fixed idea that he was' cap-
able of doing shady things if at any
time the temiptation arose. That
was really what his boyish 'casual-
ness meant. That in truth was Pal-
liser's final secret conclusion. And
he wanted very much to find out why
exactly little old Miss Temple Bar -
holm had been taken up. If the man
wanted introductions, he could have
contrived to pick up a smart and
enterprising unprofessional chaperon
in ,London who would have- done for
him what Miss Temple' Barholm
would never 'presume to attempt.
And yet he seemed to have chosen
her deliberately. He had set her
literally at the head of his house.
And Palliser, having heard a vague
rumor that he had actually settled a,
decent income upon her, had made
adroit inquiries and found it was
true. •
It was. To arrange the' matter
had been 'one of his reasons for go-
ing to see Mr. Palford during their
stay in London.
"I wanted to fix you—fix you
safe," he said, when he told Miss
Alicia 'about it,."I guess no one can
take it away from you, whatever
old thing happens."
"What could happen, . dear Mr.
Temple Barholm?" said Miss Alicia
in the midst of tears of gratitude and
tremulous and strongand—everything!
u are sog! young
vgrythitugl Don t
even speak of such a thing in jest.
What could happen?"'
"Anything can .happen," he answer-
ed, "just anything. Happening's the
one thing you can't bet ori. If I Was
betting, Pd put my' money on the
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anythiu'g, You just, i%$.d to keep
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became in rim ;;familiar with
M1�rs. Bowee% boar jn'ghouse , and
j5oarless. She know Mrs. Peck and
Mr'. Jakes apd the yonpg lady/ from
the notion' counter (those wo derful
shops!). Julius and:', Jem d the
hall bedroom and the+ tilts chairs
ant: eland of smoke she saw so often
that she felt at home With them,
"Poor Mrs. Bowls," she said,
"must have been a most respectable,
motherly, . hard-working creature.
Really a nice person of her class."
She could not quite visualize the
"parlor," but it must have been warm
and comfortalble. And the pianola
—a piano whieh you; could play
without even knowing your notes—
What a clever invention! America
seemed full of the most wonderfully
clever things.
Tenvbarom was actually uplifted in
soul when he discovered that she laid
transparent little plans for leading
him into talk about New York. She
wanted him to talk about it, and the
Lord knows he wanted to talk about
himself. He had been afraid at first.
She might have hated,it, as Palford 1
did, and it would have hurt him some- i
how if she hadn't understood. 'But
she /lid. Without quite realizing the
fact) she was beginning 'to love it, to
wish she had seen it. Her Somerset
vicarage imagination did not allow of
such leaps as would be implied by s
the daring wish that sometime she 1
might see it.
But Tentbarom's imagination was 1
more athletic. 1
"Jinks! wouldn't it be fine to take fit+
her there! The ' lark in London a
wouldn't be' ace high to it."
The Hutchinson were not New s
Yorkers, but they had been part of o
the atmosphere of Mrs. Bowse's. Mr.
Hutchinson would of course be rather n
a forward and pushing man to be
obliged to meet, but little Ann! She t
did so like Little Ann! And the dear f
boy did so want, in his heart of
hearts, to talk about her at times. It
She did not know whether in the cir-
cumstances, she ought to encourage
him; but he was so dear, an,l looked g
so much dearer when he even said h
"Little Ann," that she could riot help lY
occasionally leading him gently to- Ii
ward the subject.
When he opened the newspapers
and found the advertisements of the
flats, she saw the engaging, half -
awkward humorousness come into his e
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look '
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t:,
n,
like.'
seen a splendid little reeking elle
in Second Avenue for five dollars, o
of the padded kind .that ladies
He had seen an arm .chair fig, a man
that was only seven; but' the
mightn't be room• for both, and -you.
have to have the rocking -chair.
had once asked the price of a lot of
plates and cops and saucers with
roses on thein, 'and you could get
them for six; and you didn't need a
stove' because there was the range.,
He had once heard Little Ann talk-
ing to Mra. Rowse about the price 'of
frying pans and kettles, and they
seemed to cost next to nothing. He'd
looked into store windows and notic-
ed the prices bf groceries and vege
tables and things like that—sugar
for instance; two people wouldn't use
much sugar in a week—and they
wouldn't need a ton of tea or flour
or coffee. If a fellow had a mother
or sister or wife who bade a head and
knew about things, you could "put it
over" on mighty little, and have a
splendid time together, too. You'd
eyen be able to work in a cheap seat
in a theater every now and then. He
aughed and flushed as he thought of
t.
Miss Alicia had never had a doll's
house. Rawcroft Vicarage did not
run to dolls and their belongings.
Her thwarted longing for a doll's
house had a sort of parallel in her
imilarly thwarted longing for "a
ittle boy."
And here was her doll's house so
ong, so long unposseasedl It was
ike that, this absorbed contriving and
Ing of furniture into corners. She
iso flushed and laughed. Her eyes
were so brightly eager and her cheeks
o pink that she looked quite girlish
nder her lace cap.
"How pretty and cozy it might be
rade, how dear!" she exclaimed.
And one would be so high up on
he eleventh floor, that one would
eel like a bird in a nest."
His face lighted. He seemed to
ke the idea tremendously..."
"Why, that's so," he laughed.
That idea suits me down to the
round. A bird in a nest. But there'd
ave to be two. One would be lone -
Say, Miss Alicia, how would you
ke to live in a place like that?"
"I am sure any one would like it
if they had some dear relative
with them."
He loved her "dear relative," lou-
d it. He knew how much it meant
of what had lain hidden unacknowl-
edged, even unknown to her, through
a lifetime in her early Victorian spin-
ster breast.
"Let's go to New York and rent
one and live in it together. Would
you come?" he said, and though he
laughed, he was not jocular in the
usual way. "Would you, if we wak-
ed up and found this Temple Bar -
holm thing was a dream?"
Something in his manner, she did
nut know what, puzzled her a little.
"But if it were a dream, you would
he quite poor again," she said, smil-
ing.
"No, I wouldn't. I'd get Galton to
give me back the page. He'd do it
rluick—quick," he said, still with a
laugh. "Being poor's nothing, any-
how. We'd have the time of our
lives. We'd be two birds in a nest.
You can look out those eleventh-
sc
t fr windows 'wayover er
to the
Bronx
and get bits of the river. And per-
haps after a while Ann would do—
like she said, and we'd be three birds."
"Oh!" she sighed ecstatically. "How
beautiful it would be! We should
be a little family!"
"So we should," ile exulted. "Think
of T, T. with a family!" He drew
his paper of calculations toward him
again. "Let's make believe we're
going to do it, and work out what it
re"
'd
lie
eyes.
"Here's one that would do all
right" he said—"four rooms and a
bath, eleventh floor, thirty-five dol-
lars a month."
He spread the newspaper on the
table and rested on his elbow, gaz-
ing at it for a few minutes wholly
absorbed. Then he looked up at her
and smiled.
"There's a plan of the rooms," he
said. ."Would you like to look at it?
Shall I bring your chair up to the
table while we go over it together?"
He brought the chair, and side by
side they went over it thoroughly.
To Miss Alicia it had all the.interest
of a new kind of puzzle. fie explain-
ed it in every detail. On ' of his se-
crets had been that on several days
when Galton's manner hail made him
hopeful be had visited certain flat
buildings and gone into their intric-
acies.
He could th ref..
e to describe
i e
with color their resources—the jani-
tor; the elevator; the di/nib-waiters to
carry up domestic supplies and carry
down ashes and refuse; tale refriger-
ator; the unlimited supply of shot
and cold water, the heating pan; the
astonishing little kitchen, with sta-
tionary wash -tubs; the tieephone, if
you could afford it,—all the conven-
iences which to Miss Alicia accus-
tomed to the habits of Rewcroft Vic-
arage, where you lugged cans of
water up -stairs and down if you took
a bath or even washed your face,
seemed luxuries appertaining only to
the rich and great.
"How convenient! llow wonder -
full Dear me! Dear me!". she said
again and again, quite flushed with
excitement. "It is like a fairy story.
And it's not big at all, is it?"
"You could get most of it into
this," he .answered, exulting. "You
could get all of it into th:,;. big white
and gold parlor."
"The white saloon?"
He showed his teeth.
"I =guess I ought to remember to
call it that," he said, "but it always
makes me think of Kid MaoMurphy's
on .Fourth Avenue. He kept what
was called a saloon, and he'd .had it
painted white."
"Did you know him?" Hiss Alicia
asked.
"Know him! Gee! no! I didn't
fly as high as that. He'd have
thought me pretty fresh if I'd acted
like I knew him. He thought he was
one of the Four Hundred. He'd been
a prize fighter. HO was the fellow
that knocked out Kid Wilkens in
four rounds." He broke off and.
laughed at himself. "Hear me talk
to you 'about a tough like that!" he
aided, and he gave her hand the lit-
tle apologetic, protective pat which
always made her -heart heat because
it was so "nice."
He drew her back to the advertise-
ments, and drew such interesting pic-
tures of what the lives of two pee •
ple—mother and son or father and
daughter or a young married couple
who didn't want to put on style—
might be in the tiny compartments,
that their excitment mounted again.
This could be a bedroom, that
could be a bedroom, that coulde
the living room, and if you put a
bit of bright carpet on the hallw p
and hung up a picture or so, it would
look flrstrate. He even went into I
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would cost—for three. You know
about housekeeping, don't you?
Let's write down a list."
If he had warmed to his work be-
fore, he warmed still more after this.
Miss Alicia was drawn into it again,
and followed his fanciful plans with
a new fervor. They were like two
children who had played at make-be-
lieve until they had lost sight of
commonplace realities.
Miss Alicia had lived among small
economies and could be 'of great as -1
sistance to him. They made lists
and added up lines of figures until
the fine, huge room and its thousands
of volumes melted away. In the
great hall, guarded by warriors in
armor, the powdered heads of the
waiting footmen drooped and nodded
while the prices of pounds of butter
end sugar and the value of potatoes
and flour and nutmegs were balanced
with a hectic joy, and the relative sig-
nificance of dollars and cents and
shillings and half -crown's and five cent
pieces caused Miss Alicia
a mild de-
lirium.
By the time that she had- estab-
lished the facts that a shilling was
something like twenty-five cents, a
dollar was four and twopence, and
twenty-five dollars was something
over five pounds, it was past mid-
night.
They heard the clock strike the half
hour, and stopped to stare at each
other.
Tembaroru got up with yet an-
other laugh.
"Say, I mustn't keep you up all
night," he said. "But haven't we
, had a fine time—haven't we? I feel
as if I'd been there."
They had been there Iso entirely
that Miss Alicia brought herself
back with difficulty.
"I can scarcely believe that we
have not," she said. "I feel as if I
didn't like to leave it. It was as
delightful." She glanced about her.
"The room was huge." she said—
"almost too huge to live in."
"Doesn't it?" he answered. "New
you know how I feel." He gathered
his scraps of paper together with a
feeling touch. "I didn't want . to
crime back myself. When I get a
hot of a grouch I shall jerk these
out and go back there again."
"Oh, do let me go with you!" she
said. "I have so enjoyed it."
"You shall go whenever you like,"
he said. "We'll keev it up for a sort
of game on rainy days. How much is
a dollar Miss Alicia?"
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"our( and twopence. And sugar
is six cents a pound."
"Go to the head," he answered.
"Right again."
The opened roll of newspapers was
lying on the table near her. They
were copies of The Earth, and the
date of one of them by merest chance
caught her eye.
(Continued next week.)
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