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Tembarom
, By
mason Hodgson Burnstt
Toronto--Witliau Brlgp,
(Continued from last week)
The dukes bow had a remote sug-
gestion of almost including a .kissed
band in its gallant courtesy. Not,
Iowever, that Early Victorian ladies
had been accustomed to the kissing
of bands; but at.the period when he
had beat known the type he had daily
bent over white' fingers in Continen-
• tal capitals.
"A glass of wine," Miss Alicia im-
plored. "Pray let me give you a
glass of wine. I ant sure you need
it very much."
He was taken into the library and
made to sit In a most comfortable
easy -chair. Miss Alicia fluttered a-
bout him with sympathy still delicate-
ly tinged with alarm. How long, how
long, it had been since he had been
fluttered over! Nearly forty years.
Ladiee did not flutter now, and he re-
membered that it.was no longer the
fashion to call them"ladies," Only
the lower -middle classes spoke of
"ladies." But he found himself men-
tally using the word again • as he
watched Miss Alicia,
It had been "ladies" Who had. flut-
tered and been anxious about a man
in this quite way.
He could scarcely remove his eyes
from her as he sipped his wine. She
felt his escape "providential," and
murmured such devout little phrases
concerning It that he was almost con-
soled for the grotesque inward vision
of himself as an aged peer of the
realm tumbling out of a baby -car-
riage and d col
g led over
on the grass at
i
the feet of
a man on whom
later
he
had meant to make, in proper state,
aeformal call. She put her hand to
her side. smiling half apologetically.
"My -heart beats quite fest yet,"
elle said. Whereupon a quaintly nov-
el thing took place, at the sight of
which the duke barely escaped open-
ing his eyes very ,wide indeed. The
American Temple Barholm put his
arm about her in the most casual
and informally accustomed way, and
led her to a chair, and put her in it,
so to sreak.
"Say," he announced with affection-
ate auth rity, "you sit down right
away. It'; you that needs a glass of
wine, and I'm going to give it to
you."
The relations between the two were
evidently en a basis not common in
England even among people who
were attached to one another. There
was a spontaneous, every -day air of
natural, protective petting about it,
as though the fellow was fond of her
in his crude fashion, and meant to
take care of her. He was fond of
her, and the duke perceived •it with
elation, and also understood. He
might be the ordinary bestower of
boons, but the protective curve of his
arm included other things, In the
blank dullness of his unaccustomed
splendors he had somehow encounter-
ed this fine, delicately preserved lit-
tle relic of other days, and had seiz-
ed on her and made her his own.
el have not seen anything as de-
lightful as Miss Temple Barholm
for many a year," the duke said When
Miss Alicia was called from the room
and left them together.
"Ath't she great?" was Tembarones
reply. "She's just great."
"It's an exquisite survival of type,"
said the duke. "She belongs to my
time, not yours," he added, realizing
that "survival of type" •might not
clearly convey itself.
"Well, she belongs to mine now."
answered Tembarom. "I wouldn't
lose her for a farm."
"The voice, the phrases, the car-
riage might survive,—they do in re-
mote neighborhoods, I suppose—but
the dress is quite delightfully incred-
ible. It is a work of art," the duke
went on. She had seemed too gond
to be true. Her clothes, however,
had certainly not been dug out of a
wardrobe of forty years ago.
When I went to talk to the head
woman in the Bond Street I fixed it
with 'em hard and fast that she was
not to spoil her. They were to keep
her like she was. She's like her
little Cap, you know, and her little
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them," exclaimed Tbmbarotr.
Did he see that? What
4 feature in a man of his sort
how thoroughly New Yorkldh
I that he Should march into a
able slop and see 'Ch he go
I he wanted and the wo$b of hi
e '. There had been no rash
the hope that the uraex Iored t
I might be a rich one. The man
plicity was. an actual complexi
had eaten iahbuainess=likee and aline1 about
his mouth which was strong enough
to have, been hard ;if it had not
li good-natured.
"That as confoundedly clev ' his grace commented 'heart}!
"confoundedly. I should never
had the wit to think .of it m
or the courage to do it if I had.
women make me shy."
• "Oh, well, I just put it up to th
Tembarom answered easily.
"I belive," cautiously translat
duke, "that you mean that you
them feel that they alone wse
aponsible."
"Yes, I do," assented Temb
the grin'slightly in evidence.
it up to them's the short way of say-
ing it."
"Would you mind my writing that
down?" said the duke. "I have a
fad for dialects and new phrases."
Ile hastily scribbled the words in a
tablet that he took from his pocket.
"Do you like living in England?"
he asked in course of time.
"I should like it if I'd been born
here," was the answer.
"I see, I see."
"If it had not been for finding Miss
Alicia, and that I made a promise
Pd stay for a year, anyhow, I'd have
broken loose at the end of the first
week and worked any passage back
if I hlydn't had enough in my clothes
to pay for it." IIe laughed, but it
was not real laughter. There was a
thing behind it. The situation was
more edifying than one could have
hoped. "I made a promise, and I'm
going to stick it out," he said.
He was going to stick it out be-
cause he had .promised to endure for
a year Temple Barholm and an in -
d to of seventy thousand pounds.
The duke
gazed xth'
him
as at
and
ream realized.
"I've nothing to do," Tembarom
dded.
"Neither have I," replied the duke
f Stone.
"But you're used to it, and I'm hot.
'm used to working 'steep hours a
ay, and dropping into bed as tired
s a dog, but ready to sleep like one
nd get up rested."
"I used to play twenty hours i
ay once," answered the duke, "but I
idn't get up rested. That's prob-
bly why I have gout and rheumatism
rmbined. Tell me -how you worked
rid I will tell you how I played."
Jit was worth chile taking th
'tie with him. It had been wo
hile taking it with the chestnu
steering peasants in the Apennines,
>metimes even with a stone -breaker
y an ••En;;lish roadside. And this
e was of a type more unique and
stinctive than any other—a fellow
ho, with the blood of Saxon Kings
d Norman nobles in hisi veins, had
nown nothing but the street life
thecrudest city in the world, who
oke a sort of argot, who knew no
rallels of the thing's which sur-
unded him in the ancient home he
d inherited and in which he stood
art, a sort of semi -sophisticated
vage. The duke applied himself
th grace and finished abilty to
awing him out. The question he
lied were all seemingly those of a
n of the world charmingly inter -
cd in the superior knowledge of
oreigner of varied experience. His
thod was one which engaged the
erect of Tembarom himself. He.
not know that •he was not only
estioned, but, so to speak, delicate -
cross -examined and that before the
1 of the interview the Duke of
one knew more of him, hie past
stance and present sentiments,
n even Miss Alicia knew after
air long and intimate evening talks.
e duke, however, had the advent -
of being a man and of cherish -
vivid recollections of the days of
youth, which, unlike as it had
n to that of Tembarom, furnished
egree of solid foundation upon
ch go to build conjecture.
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' But how dreadful not to be
right, precisely right, in one'
proach--quite four enough,
yet not a shade too familiar,
of course would appear cond�esc
ing! And be it said the delicae
the situation was added to by th
that they had heard sotnethi.,e
Captain Palliser's extraordinary lit-
tle story about hie determination to
know ladi.ee.'" !Really, if Willoeke
the butcher's boy had inherited Tem-
ple Barholin, it would have been easier
tc know where on stood in the matter
of being oivil and .agreeable to him.
First Lady Edith, ntade perhaps bold
by the suggestion of physical advant-
age. besbowed by the calor, talked to
.him to the very best of her ability; .
and when she felt .herself fearfully
'flagging, Lady Celia took him up and
did her very well-conducted best.
Neither she nor her sister were brit
n oR inn, He beautifully edged Lady Joan
grand out of her position, , e could not
es, by behave ill to him, he was far too old,
mite he sold to himself, ' leaving out tha
stag fact that a Duke of Stone ia, a too
clean respectable personage lie be . quite
Bo on! waxed aside
quite Tembarom began to enjoy himself
s ap- ,, little more. Lady Celia and Lady
which 11lttt1le bei to �y themselves a
aloe. Lady Maliowe was
end- I filled with Admiring delight, Cop-
y of tain Palliser took in he situation,
e fact ' and asked himself .que�.iona about
nes in
'a aim.
ty. He
n, but
of historical instruction on their lirst
morning in London, immediately af-
ter breakfasting on toast and bacon
n and marmalade and eggs.
"She meant me to go, but some.
evem of how it was put off. She almost cried
y. • on our journey home when she aud-
have denly remembered that we'd forgot-
ybelf, ten it, after all."
shop I "I am sure shq said it was a wast-
ed. opportunity," •auggester his grace.
em;' "Yes, that was what hit her so
hard, She'd never been to London
ed the before, and you couldn't make her
made ! believe she coeld elver get there again
e re- and she said it was ungrateful to r
Providence to waste an opportunity. ,
arum, She's always mighty anxious to be
"Put grateful to Providence, .bless Iter!" •
She regards you as Providence,,,
remarked the duke, enraptured. With
a touch here and there, bhe touch of
a master, he had gathered the whole
little story of Miss Alicia, and had
found it of a Whimsical exquisite-
ness and humor.
"She'a a lot too good to ire," an-
swered Tembarom. I guess women
as nice as her are always a lot too
good to men. She's a kind of little
eld angel. What makes me orad is
th think of the fellows that didn't
get busy and marry her thirty-five
years ago."
Were there—er_ntany of 'est?"
the' duke inquircel.
"Thousands of 'em, though most
of 'cm never sew her. I suppose you
never saw her thed. If you had,
you might have.done it."
The duke, sitting with an elbow on
each arm of his chair, put the tips
of his tine, gouty fingers together
and smiled with a far-reaching in-
clusion of possibilities.
"So I might," he said; "so I ruight.
Myloss entirely—my Ueel—
m
Y abominable
Y
fly.'
They had reached this point of the
argument when the carriage from
Stone Ilover arrived. It was a state-
ly barouche the coachman and foot-
man of which equally with its big
horses seemed to have hastened' to
an extent which suggested almost
panting breathlessness. It contained
Lady Edith and Lady Celia, both pale,
and news
whichhadbrought them t horrified
from Stone Hover without a mom-
ent's delay...
They both ascended in haste and
swept in such alarmed anxiety up'
the terrace steps and through the hall
to their father's side that they had
barely a polite gasp for Miss Alicia
and scarcely saw Tembarom at all.
"Dear Papa!" they cried when he
revealed himself in his chair in the
library intact and smiling. "How
wicked of you, dear! How you have
frightened us!"
I begged you to be good, dear-
est," said Lady Edith, almost in
tears. "Where was •George? You
mast dismiss him at once. Really—
really—"
' He was half a mile away, obeying
my orders," said the duke. A groom
cannot be dismissed for obeying or-
ders. It is the pony who must be
dismissed, to my great regret; or
else we must overfeed him until he
is even fatter than he is and cannot
run away."
Were his arms and legs and his
ribs and eoilan-bone and head quite
right? Was he sure that he had not
received any internal injury when he
fell out of the pony carriage? They
could scarcely be convinced, and as
thery hung over and stroked and
patted him, Tembarom stood aside
and watched them with interest. They
were the girls he had to please Ann
by "getting next to," giving himself
a chance to fall in love with them,
so that she'd know whether they were
his kind or not. They were nice look-
ing, and had a way of speaking that
sounded rather swell, but they weren't
ace •high to a little slim, red-headed
thing that looked at you like a baby
and pulled your heart up into your
throat.
Don't poke me any more, dear
children. I am quite, quite sound,"
be heard the duke say. "In Mr.
Temple Barholm you behold the pre-
server of your parent. Filial piety
is making you behave with shocking
.ingratitude."
They turned to Tembarom at once
with a pretty outburst of apologies
and thanks. Lady Celia wasn't, it is
true, "a looker," with her narrow
shoulders and rather long nose, but
she had an air of breeding, and the
charming color of which Palliser had
spoken, returning to. Lady Edith's
cheeks, illuminated her greatly.
They both were very polite and
made many agreeably grateful speech-
es, but in the eyes of both there
lurked a shade of Anxiety which they
hoped to be able to conceal. Their
father watched them with a wicked
pleasure. He realized clearly their
t well-behaved desire to do and say ex-
actly the right thing and bear them-
selves in exactly the right manner,
and also their awful uncertainty be-
fore an entirely unknown quantity.
Almost any other kind of young man
suddenly uplifted by strange fortune
they might have known some parallel
for, but a newsboy of New York! All
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"A young man of his age," his
grace reflected astutely, " has always
just fallen tout of love, is falling into
it, or desires vaguely to do so. Ten
years later there would peehaps be
blank spaces, lean years during which
he Was not in love at all; but at
his particular period there must be
a young woman somewhere. I won-
der if she is employed in one of the
department stores he spoke of, and
how soon he hopes to present her
to us. His conversation has revealed
so far, to use his own rich simile,
'neither hide nor hair' of her."
On his own part, he was as/ready
to answer questions as 'to ask them.
In fact, he led Tembarom on to ask-
ing.
I will tell you how I played" had
been meant. He made a human docu-
ment of the history he enlarged, he
brilliantly diverged, he included, he
made pictures, and found Tembarom's
point of view or lack of it gave spice
and humor to relations he had thought
himself tired of. To tell familiar
anecdotes of courts and kings to a
man who had never quite believed
that such things were realities, who
almost found them humorous when
they were casually spoken of, was
edification indeed. The novel charm
lay in the fact that his class to his
country di'd not include them as pos-
sibilities. Peasants in other 0011711-
tries,
oin-tries, plowmen, shopkeepers, laborers
in England --,all these at least they
knew of, and counted them in as
factors in the lives of the rich and
great; but ail_ dear young mart -el
"What's a crown like? I'd like to
aee one. How much do you guess
such a thing cost—in dollars?"
"Did not Miss Temple Barholm
take you to see the regalia in the
Tower of London? I am quite shock-
ed," said the duke. He was, in fact,
a trifle disappointed. With the .puce
dress and unelersleevee and little
fringes she ought certainly to have
rushed with her pupil to that seat
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haat talkers at any time, and limited
by the absence of any common fam-
iliar topic, effort was ,necessary. The
neighborhood he did not know; Lon-
don he was barely aware of; social
functions it would be an impertin-
ence to bring in; games he did not
play; sport he had scarcely heard of.
You were confined to America, and
if you knew next to nothing of Am-
erican life, there you were.
Tembarom saw it all,- -he was sharp.
enough for that, --and his habit of
being jocular and 'wholly unashamed
saved him from the •misery pf aw-
kwardness that Willocks would have
been sure to have writhed under. Hie
casual frankness, 'however, for a
moment embarrassed Lady Edith to
the bitterest extremity. When you
are trying your utmost to make a
queer person oblivious to the fact that
his world is one unknown to you, it
is difficult to know where do you
stand when he says:
"It's mighty hard to talk to a man
who doesn't know a thing that belongs
to the kind of world you've spent
'
Your life to
ain't it? Y I:u
td
don't
you
mind me
a np'
rrwte. I'm glad to be
talked to anyhow by purple like you.
When I don't catch on, I'll just ask.
No man was ever electrocuted for
and knowing, and that's just where I
ant. I don't know, and lin glad to
be told. Now, there's one thing. Bur-
rill said 'Your Ladyship' to you, I
heard hien. Ought I to say it, er
oughtn't I?"
Oh, no," she answered, but some-
how without distaste hi the momen-
tary stare he had startled her into;
"Burrill is—"
"Ice's a servant," he aided encour-
agingly. "Weil, I've mover been a
butler, but I've been somebody's
servant all my life, and mighty glad
of the chance. This is the first time
I've been out of a job,"
What nice teeth he had! What a
queer, candid, unresent.ful creature!
What a good sort of .smile! And
how odd that it was he who was put-
ting her more at her rase by the
mere way in which he was saying
this almost alarmingahing! • By the
time he had ender!, it wad not alarm-
ing at all, and she had caught her
breath again.
She was actually sorry when the
door opened and Lady Joan Fayre
came in, follnw•ed almost immediately
by LadyMalluwe and Captain Pal-
liser, who appeared ;.o have just re-
turned from a walk and heard the
news.
Lady Mallowe was most sympa-
thetic. Why n:rt, indeed? The Duke
of Stone was a delightful, cynical
creature, and Stone Hover was, de-
spite its ducal poverty, a desirable
place to be invited to, if you could
manage it. Her ladyship's method
of fluttering was not like Miss
Alicia's, its character being wholly
modenn; but she fluttered, neverthe-
less. The duke, who knew all about
her, received her ;uniabilities with
appreciative smiles, but it was the
splendidly handsome, hungry eyed
young woman with the line between
her black brows who engaged his at-
tention. On the alert) as he always
was, for a situation. he detected one
at once when he it t his American
address her. She did not address him
and scarcely deigmeil a reply when
he .spoke to her. When be spoke to
others, she conchrctod herself as
though he were not in the room, so
obviously did she chie.ae to ignore his
existence. Such a hearing toward
one's host had indeed the chatnn of be-
ing an interesting novelty. And
What a beauty she was, with her
lovely, ferocious eyes and the small,
black head poised en the exquisite
long throat, which was on the verge
of becoming a trifle 'oo thin! Then
as. in a flash he revered between one
breath and another the quite fiendish
episode of poor Jam Temple Barholm
—and she was the gid!
Them he became almdist excited in
his interest. He saw it all. As he
had himself argued most be the case,
this poor fellow was :n love. But it
was not with a lardy in the New York
department stores; e was with a
young woman who would evidently
disdain to wipe her feet upon hits.
How thrilling! As i,:ely Mallowe and
Palliser and the other." chattered, he
watched him, observing his manner.
He stood the 'hand'ome creature's
steadily persistent rudeness very well;
he made no effort to push into the
talk when she coolly hold him out of
it. - He waited without external un-
easiness or spasmodic smiles. If he
could do that despite the inevitable
fact that he muss. feel his position
uncomfortable, he was possessed of
fiber. That alone would make hien
worth cultivating. And jf there were
persons who were tai be made un-
eomlfortable, why not cut in and
circumvent the heaut\ somewhat and
give her a trifle of unease? It was
with the light and adroit touch of
accustomed'nesa to all orders of little
situations that his grace took the
matter in hand, with a shade, also,
of amiable imalice. He drew Tem-
barom adroitly into the center of
things; he .knew how to lead him to
make 'easily the odd, frank remarks
which were sufficiently novel to sug-
gest that the was actually entertain -
n' her part Miss Alicia was
restored to the happiness any lack
of appreciation of her "dear boy"
touchingly disturbed. In circum•
stances such as these he appeared
to the advantage which in a brief
period would surely reveal his won-
derful qualities. She clung so to his
wonderful qualities" because In all
the three -volumed novels of her
youth the hero, debarred from .early
advantages and raised by the turn
of fortune's wheel to splendor, was
transformed at once into a being of
the highest accomplishments and the
most polished breeding, and ended' in
the third volume a creature before
Whom emperors paled. And how
mere than charmingly cordial his
grace's manner was when/ he left
them!
'To -morrow, " he said, if (my
daughters do not discover that I have
injured some more than vital organ,
I shad! call to proffer my thanks
with the most imlmenae formality. I
shall get out of 'the carriage in the
Manner customary in respectable
neighborhoods, not roll out at your
feet. Afterward you will, I hope,
come and dine with us. I am de-
voured by a desire to become more
familiar with The Earth."
CHAPTER XXV
It was Lady Mallowe who perceiv-
ed the moment when he became the
fashion. The Duke o8 Stone called
with the immense formality he had
described, and his visit was neither
brief nor dull, A little later Tem-
barom with his guests dined at Stone
Hover, er and the
t dinner was further
removed from dullness a than
any
one
of numerous past dinners always not-
ed for being the most agreeable the
neighborhood afforded. The duke
managed t, d his guest as an impresario
might have ,managed his tenor, though
this was done with subtly concealed
methods. He had indeed a novelty
to offer which had been .discussed
with much uncertainty of point of
view. He presented it to an only
languidly entertained neighborhood
as a trouvaille of his own choice.
liere waits drams, here was atrnos-
phere, here was charm verging in its
character upon the occult. You
would not see -it if you were nut a I
collector of such values.
"Nobody will he likely to see hint
as he is unless he is pointed out to I
them," was what he said to his 1
daughters. "But being bored to I
death, --we are all bored, — once 1
adroitly assisted to suspect him of
being alluring, .most of them will
spring upon him and clasp him to
their wearied breasts. I haven't the
least idea what will fiappen after-
ward. I shall in fact await the re-
sult with interest"
Being told Palliser's story of the
"Ladies," he listened, holding the tips
of his` fingers together, and wearing
an expression of deep interest slight-
ly baffled in its nature.. It was Lady
Edith who related the anecdote to
him.
"Now," he said, "it would be very
curious and complicating if that were
true; but I don't believe it is. Pal-
liser, of course, likes to tell a fmod
story. I shall be able to discover
in time whether it is true or not; but
at present I don't believe itt."
Following the dinner party at
Stone Ilover came many others. All
the well known carriages began to
roll up the avenue to Temple Bar -
holm. The Temple Barholm carriages
also began to roll down the avenue
and between the stone griffins on
their way to festive gatherings of
varied order. Burrill and the foot-
men ventured to reconsider their
early • plans for giving warning. It
wasn't so bad if the country was go-
ing to take 'him up.
"Do you see what is happening?"
Lady Mallowe said to Joan. "The
man is becoming actually popular."
"iTe is popular as a turn at a mus-
ic .hall is," answered Joan, "IIe will
be dropped as he was taken up."
(Continued next week.)
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ThreQ Destroyed
One Roof Escaped
The picture tells the story.
Mr. Offer's letter confirms the fire-
resistant qualities of
Brantford
Asphalt Slates
He says:
"I covered the roof of 201 Marlborough Ave., Toronto, with
your Asphalt Slates some time ago. This house is one of a row
of four, the remaining three were covered with Cedar shingles.
"These houses were close to a railway track and on the night
of August 15th, 1918, these roofs caught fire from a spark from
a passing train.
"As you can see in the picture, the roofs on three houses
were completely burned through, including the sheeting boards
and rafters. The boards and rafters on 201 were also burned
through, so that the fire passed over and under your slates
without harming them iu any way.
"I have rebuilt the roofs and covered them with your Asphalt
Slates since I have had such good proof that if the four roofs
had been covered with your slates no fire would have occurred-"
And here is another' letter, from G. F. Wingrove of Waking -
ham, Ont., dated December 2nd, 1918.
Mr. Wingrove says:
"The house I live in is a large frame with dry pine rafters and
sheathing. I covered same with Brantford .Roofing last May.
"On November 24th, at eight in the morning, we discovered
that it was all aflame inside of roof of one part, 18 x 30, with a
fine breeze fanning it. But by the use of the telephone and the
splendid fire -proof qualities of your roofing, we got the fire out
and found spaces where the rafters and lumber were burnt out
from in under the roofing and the roofing still doing its duty of
resisting fire. Also remember this is out in the country where
it took the best part of ball an hour for help to arrive '•
The Inspector of the Waterloo Mutual Fire Insurance Com-
pany, has this to say about Mr. Wingrove's fire: —
"I inspected this risk after the fire. It was particularly evi-
dent that the fact that the roof was covered with Brantford
Roofing kept the fire confined below the roof. If it had been
possible for the fire to break through I do not see how they
could have saved the building. As it was the loss was com-
paratively trifling."
When roofing a building, it pays to put on a tire -resistant
roof as well as a beautiful one. Brantford Asphalt Slates (indi-
vidual size shingles) and Brantford Asphalt Slab Slates (four
shinglesbcautifu1, in one) are fire-resistant, durable, economical and
Samples and prices furnished on request.
Brantford Roofin Co ISmfesd
HEAD OFFoC$ AND FACTORY, BRANTFORD,
CANADA
Branches at Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, Winnipeg
For Sale by Henry Edge
and N. Cluff & Sons.
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