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' Branch Office - Hensall
Hensel' - Seaforth
Phone 113 Phone 173
MEDICAL
•
SEAFORTII CLINIC
DR. E, A. MCMASTER, M.B.
:,Graduate of University of Toronto
The Clinic is fully. equipped 'with
complete and modern X-ray and other
up to -date, diagnostic and therapeutics
equipment. '.
Dr. F.' J. R. Forster, Specialist in.
diseases of the ear, eye, nose a{rd,
threat, Will be'at the Clinic the first
Tuesday In every month from 3 to 5
Free Well -Baby 'Clinic will be held
"en the second and Iatit Thursday in
every month from 1 to 2 p.m.
JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D...
Physician and Surgeon
IN DR. H.H. ROSS':OBTICE
Phones: Office 6-W Res. 54.
tSeaforth '
MARTIN W. STAPLETON, B.A., M.D.
' Physician and Surgeon
Successor to Dr. W. C. Sproat
Phone 90-W - ' Seaforth
DR. F. J. R. FORSTER
• Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of
Torbnto. '
Late' assistant New York Opthai-
uiei• and Aural Institute,•, Moorefleld's
Eye and. Golden' Square Throat Hos-
pital, Iondon, Eng.. At COMMERCIAL
HOTEL, SEAFORTH, THIRD WED-
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to. 4.30 p.m.; 'also at 'Seaforth . Clinic
first Tuesday of each month. 53
Waterloo Street- South; Stratford. •
AUCTIONEERS
HAROLD JACKSON
Specialist is Farm and Household
Bales.
Licensed in Huron and Perth Coun-
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For 'information, .etc., write or phone
HAROLD- JACKSON, 14 on 661, Sea-
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•
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auction sales pertaining to farms,
stock, implements and household -ef-
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perienced assistant.' Satisfaction guar-
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LONDON and CLINTON
NORTH
A.M.
9.00,.
10.17
10.34
10.43
10.55
11.20
London, Lv.
Exeter
Hensall
Kipper
Brucefleld
Clinton,' Ar.
SOUTH _
Clinton, Lv.
BruceSeld
•Klppen
Heneali
Exeter
London, Ar.'
SUNDAY ONLY
Toronto to Goderich
(Via London and Clinton)
Toronto, iv.
London
Clinton
Goderich, Ar.
C.N.R. TIME TABL
EAST ,e
• A.M.
' 6.15 •
6.31
6A3
6.6'9
7.017.',
7.12
7.25
Gotlerieh
Holmesville
Clinton
$eaforth
St. Colu'mban
Dublin
4 Mitchell
Mitchell
Dublin
St. Coluniban
19eaforth
Clinton
Goderich
WEST
11.27".
11.37
11.40
11.51
12.04
12.35'
(Continued frgm.•last w.eek),
And Farquhar welcomed both the
laugh, and the chalacteristly remark•,
He needed a yeti' active partner,
alert and full of .courage. Yes. ae
had begun. to like this :Women..
"You look as though you had Come.
out of your ressing-room in New
York," 'he said; "and not as though
you had• covered a • great slab of the
map during the .last ten days."
• She was, grateful• for those kind
words. "I can return the compli-
ment," she said. "Well let's face
this"' thing."
The hotel appeared to be more than
half empty. There Were no tourists
waiting in strange garments .for the
arrival of the. Iift. The, one armed
'Man who wore thie Croix de Guerre
glanced at them with obvious approv-
al, He was almost inclined to .,;be
lieve that they were French. The
smartly -dressed clerk, Who wore his
.inevitable buttonhole in a black, coat,
rose from his desk and bowed as they
passed. The name of Farquhar,
which he.. was quite unable to pro-
nounce, was very well known to him.
In addition to which the Duchesse de
Borcy had impressed upon, him the
necessity of paying her relations the
greatest attention. Re, too, glanced
at 'Helen with marked approval. He
said to himself with a smile of na=
tional „rid'e, "Made may - come
from . America but she dresses in
Farquhar handed his wife 'into a
glistening Renault and • they were
driven with French swiftness through
what is perhaps the most •beautiful
quarter of that most beautiful city:
Spring • had touched the trees with
her fingers, and the clear light had
not yet begun to fade. In spite of
the falling -franc and underlying pan-
. ic, • and the indescribable chaos and
defeatism of all, political factions,
life went 'en as usual. Under the
trees .in the Champs Elysees. children
played, or sat in excited rows listen-
ing
istening to the' age-old domestic quarrels
of Punch and Judy. The Marigey
.glistened whitely between the trees,
and innumerable cars purred-on"their
way . to and fro along the polished
road.
There must have been at least a
hundred cars ranged up outside the
de Bercy- with history all over its
,face.
"What did she say?" asked Farqu-
har. "A' little gathering? Why, good
lord, this is a function. Everybody's
here." '
"Yes,''' • said Helen. "It looks like
one of my parties, doesn't it?" and
she showed -rhea beautiful .teeth:
The dooms -of' .the. house was open.
There were as 'many footmen in the
foyer . as may be found in a motion
Picture' offashionable- life •-•ing' TIolly-
wood. A •grave man, who looked ,like
a Deputy, led them up the wide'stair-
case. The drawing -room was so
crowded with women' that it was •im-
possible to get in. The absolute still-
ness, pf the room was broken by the
notes of a" piano: Rising on his toes
Farquhar could see the slight, well=
waisted figure of a young man seat-
ed at the instrument at the, •far end
of the. room, • Bent a little forward;
he was, playing like one in a dream.
His power was amazing, his tone as
'clear as a bell, and his- technique so
'faultless, so perfect, that it would
almost have been mechanical had 'it
not been for a feeling of poetry which
gave it the human touch.
Farquhar listened •with bated
breath. He found himself strangely
stirred. He was hardly able to do
more than make .a mental. note of the
fact that tbe player's face was the
handsomest of its kind that he bad
ever seen. As white as alabaster,
delicate,, mediaeval; hair black and
thick; and a little too long, so that
it fell forward in a sort • of fringe;
hands long, thin supple ' • and com-
manding. . •
When the music came to an end,
he- found himself joining in , the al-
most wild applause 'of that crowded
audience. jle was not' in the least
surprised when all the women about
him tittered. little noises of ecstasy.
During alt this tumult the ,musician
'sat erect,. unmoved, with his hands
on the notes. Re Might have been
sitting. to a 'sculptor as the aloof and
elusive figure of Thought. And - it
was not until silence fell once more
upon that. room that, after a prelim-
inary wander over the keys, he' went
into 'one of: -Chopin's Preludes with
tbe most exquisite understanding of
that Mastees mood.
In• the somewhat dim light Farqu
har could see two famlller figures sit-
ting side by side on a sofa with its
back to a heavily -curtained window.
Otte was graceful, sophisticated, no
longer young, beautifully dressed;
the other that of a slip of a girt, with
a boyish -head, an ecstat�c expres-
sion on her lovely face and her hands
Clasped round, her knees. One was
the; Duchesse de Bercy and the other
was Jean.
He turned towards Helen. Ile saw
'that she, too, had Toned her daugh-
terin that crowd. Her lips were
trembling, and there were tears in
her eyes. ' He put his hand on her
arm' and his mouth to her ear. "No
wonder she's in. love with that boy,"
he said in a whisper. "He is• the new
Paderewski. He has genies. And,
any Gbd, What a face. Is this 'to go
through? Are we beaten?" x,
• Helen's eyes remained for a mom-
ent on the musician,• and they were
filled with admiration. But when she
turned her head and looked at her
husband her lips tightened, her shoul-
ders squared, and 1. she' shook ,her
head. She said. nothing aloud or ev-
ei>;'in ail. tinder,tohe. She was afraid
of being hushed down. But he saw
that her lips formed the words: "It's
impossible. He le a Jew•' '
P.M.
3.10
3.32
3.44
3.53
4.10
5.25
P.M.
6.00
9.40
11.55
12.20
P.M.
2.30
2:50
3.13
3:21
.3:27
3.35
3.47
10.33
10.44
10.56
11.10
11.36
C.P.R. TIME TABLE
EAST • "
P.M.
4.35
4.40
4.49
4.58
5.09
) Gtloilerich
Meneset
Tt4cOaw
Auburn
Walton
10Naught
Toronto
Toronto ..t..
McNaught
Walton
WEST
11.
'Wit .........b..•..♦ ..?.y-'•
y3itetjbeet
5.21
5.82
9.45
A.M.
8.20
P.M
19.04
12.15
12.$9
12.41
1$.54
Max 't!oi'benstein rose from; the Piano
suddenly and,• without tekingthe
slightest 'notice of feminine hysteria
and adulation, swept 'back hisfringe-
of hair with both his hands :and .left
the room, asking for water. Where-
upon, seeing no chance of basking in
reflected ,glory by crowding round the •
star, but delighted to have received
something for nothing in the:'usual.
Society way, the- women, who refire.
rented 'sail Paris," instantly made for
thestrest, There w s nothing more
to get. 'Why wait? Why stay long
enough even to murmur ,au revoir and
offer- thanks to the •Duchesse for pro,
aiding ,them with this;:. -treat? Life
called. Let's get on- with -it_--_,
There was a jostle and serum on
the staircase; a competition, almost
a championship, for a first place un-
der .the. portico. Cars `rolled up in
quick succession and thein doors were
opened . and -slammed. 'Thlere 'were
high-pitched voices, scattered laughs,
a,. -trail of scent, dictatorial honking,
and silence eventually.
1a an incredibly 'short _ space of
time Farquha_rsand Helen found them-
selves in a room • that was deserted
-except by several footmen, who had
gel about removing the :superfluous
chaise -and Jean.
Farquhar looked at his wife: He
felt strangely excited and, in spite of
the gravity of the Situation, grimly
amused. It was on account of Jean
and her problem - that he had travel --
led from Italy 'to England; 'from Eng-
land to' America,, from America to
England', and from England to
France. In order to see this girl,
this child,' this baby, he had cover-
ed something like seven ' thousand
miles in, roughly speaking, five weeks
deviating from. the path of his own
desires for the second time in his life.
Amused? That was hardly the word.
"Jean;. at last,", he said.
Helen laid •a restraining hand on
his arm. He was astonished to see
that she had adopted her New York
manner again -=the glitter, the flip-
pancy, and the old mechanical smile.
"Strategy," she said, giving him
the explanation she could see that he
required.• "We must be perfectly cas-
nal. We must approach this thing
with the utmost tact and cunning. It
will be fatal to ,say or do anything
that will -give Jean the chance to put
on the martyr's wreath. Do you see?"
"I see," he' said. "But -what are
we doing here?"
- "I'm in Paris for the usual annual
reason -clothes." -
"Arid I?" •
"got so easy. Er -suppose we say
that 'you've grown to dislike me a lit-
tle less and have graciously seen me
over?"
That will do," he said. Was she
unable, even at such a moment, to
refrain from being "clever"?
"I'm •sorry," she added immediate-
ly. "Habit's so damnably strong."
Something round -his mouth had told
her that hre shaft had gone under
his • skin.
He bowed in his .old-fashioned way.
"Can you do 'it? Have you ever
acted before?" She asked.
"No, 'never. But I'll. follow your
lead. I . think you're on the right
track."
She whipped out her powder-hox,
did quick'things to her face and drew
in 'tier breath with. a catch. •
"All right then -'=shoot;" she said. .•
A . little in advance of her husband
she sailed across that typically stiff
Parisian room td` the sofa by. the win-
dow. On this Jean was sitting in a
;sort 'bf melodic coma, with her hands
clasped. round her knees. She was
wearing one of the frocks, which had'
been supervised by her mother, and
the,. v, rginal string of pearls that she
had received on Christmas morning
from her father in Italy. In all out-
ward respects she,was the same Park
Avenue Jean, as clear and cool a$ a
new moon, though nothing like as
shy. To herlpowerless parents it -.was
immediately obvious that inwardly
she had changed: This astonishing
thing was clear from the fact that
she had remained in one attitude, sit-
ting, for twenty minutes at least.
With a superb simulation of ordin-
ariness Helen bent down and touch-
ed the girl's cheek with her lips. "He
plays very well, she said. "Amazing-
ly. .But don't you, want some 'air?
The room's rather stuffy, I think."
And a moment later, after making'
a sort of flying circle, Jean came
down to earth. -She-iooked- up at her
Mother .as though she had sat on her
bed that morning and joined her at
lunch. "Is it, Mumaie?" • she said.
"Yes, I suppose it is.",
Then she looked up and saw' that
•all •those women had fled. And she
laughed. "The barnyard's empty,"
ghe said; •
She saw her father, He was stand-
ing in what he took to be a casual'
attitude, though 'behind his smiling'
eyes there: was an astonis•h.ment, a
depression, a tragic -sense of not be-
longing that was heavy on his soul.
She waved her hand. •
"We're dining here tonight," said
Helen. "I think we ought to go back
and change. What are you doing, my
dear?"
"Let me see," said Jean. "Oh; yes,
I know. We're having dinner with
Serte, the artist. ,He's one of Max's
friends." -
Helen laughted-her old Park Av-
enue laugh. "Don't you think you
might introduce roe to your fiance?"
she said. ' "I'm in the mood for -a
thrill."
"What 'a joke. You don't know
-Max? I'd` forgotten that. He's' prob-
ably drinking water -pints of it. He
always does after• playing. I'll go and
see where he is."
She sprang to her feet, and with-
out the slightest realization of the
fact that heir father and mother had
come all that way to see her, touoh-
ed her ialother s• cheek ,with, her fin-
ger, straightened" her father's ties and
'datteed .ghily* out of the • roam. •
There Ltillowed a Moment in the
PART VI
The eYttempore recital: ilii the liouos
of the Dticliesse came to an -end when
lives. of Farquhaf `F rand ':Helen during;
Which the •.whol+�;:: , their past came
up and Swept' oye1';them like a tidal
wave. A lovelea ,marriage, a total-
lyindifferent chip.. • • .
With her eyes, shut Helen sat rig-
id,' •,She didn't cou'at any longer. She
had- been dropped,''
As for Farquhar, the man who had
acquired anxiety',; be was quite unable
to speak. He felt, like a man on''a
parachute dropliiing from a balloon.
He
meant no. more to' his, daughter
than, a chance acquaintance, the fa-
ther of one of the boys with whom
she danced. An old bird, useful if he
had money and was indulgent and..
got quickly out of :the way. He ought,
perhaps, to feel Sather 'flattered to
have been recognised..
It .said something in favour of his
short apprenticeship to unselfishness
that he was able at that moment to
put his hand on his wife's and. say,
"I'm frightfully sorry." And when
Helen seized 'it and held it with the
grlp of a drowning woman, to be
sufficiently humble to ask himself if
there were any -hope, by the grace
of .God, that he and his wife might
make up to each other for the deser-
tion of this dliild. "
But when the Duchesse de Bercy,
returned from looking graciously of
the' black -haired lion among ladies -
she found two perfectly composed
and conventional. people. They had
the frozen faces that belong to the
civilized world.
"Ile is most wonderful, this Lor-
benstein. A charming. man. A musi-
cian of the highest, flight. It was my
wish that you should meet him now,
but he 'bas gone.: ,:He and your Jean.
are in Bohemia tonight but they have
promised me to toile in after dinner.
He will escort her home."
"Yes, but -don't we -aren't we to
see Jean again fora moment before
she '. ..." Farquhar found himself
stammering. - •
"Oli, no, no, not My dear, when
and, where,..L,or:benstein goes, Jean
goes. They have ,disappeared toge-
ther."
Helen broke the pause with her
high light voice. "You dine at eight.".
"Less a quarter, cherie. I am ear-
ly here. I bridge. • Afterwards we
will talk. Yon ha.*?? 'decided on • a
plan oi' action?"
Helen shrugged her shoulders: She
had only been in Paris for a few
hours but she was:,„already French.
And. , so Farquhar answered the
question. "Yes, we have a sort of
"tan, but I doubt. if -it will work. We
appear,�`to have died several -weeks
ago and to be wandering about like
ghosts." • •
The Duchesse raised her eyebrows,
and stretched out ,,both her hands.
"Canute sat 'in front„ of • the waves,
saying to them 'Back.''' But all the
same they came on: The sea is like
the •,young . I do not know. Some-
times I say 'Hall Mary' in gratitude
to the fact that 1. am childless. And
yet, again, at other times . ,,• . ."
And once more she raised her eye-
brows and stretched out both her
hands. ..,
At the other end of the room a
man disappeared With -The last of the
golden chairs.
II
The Due de Bercy dined at home
"that night. •
•He was a -strange Ulan; not quite,
'it is to' be hoped, typically 'French.
He was tall and thin:,, with a large,
fine nose, lantern jaws, wiry eyebrows
and tufts that clime out of his ears:
His eyes Were narrow, brown, and
keenly observant. -They( missed noth-
ing. • He took no exercise,, and was,
as a natural result, anaemic, dyspep-
tic, and quick, tempered. It was,.'his
proud boast that never in his life had
he done more than walk t0 the door
of his house, drive to wherever he
had made up his mind to go, , and
then walk from .the carriage or car
to -the nearest comfortable chair. His
head was entirely hairless, except for
a fringe which was goemetrically
parted at the back and. brushed round
over his ears. He took great pride
in his baldness and his dome was pot=
ished by his valet: He had a special
barber for his moustache, which re-
quired• daily attention. It' was _what
he called' a Stuart moustache, because
it was shaved down from the nose
and upwards from the lip. It was' dy-
ed a raven black. There ' Was a small
tuft under his lower lip which he
caressed with very long fingersin
moments of contempl'h.tion. He was
excessively- well-dressed and set the
fashion in Paris.
It was bis habit before the war to
speak English' from time to time,
but since the Treaty of Versailles he
had never spoken a word nor allow-
ed it to be spoken in hie hearing. He
,"was one of those numerous French-
men• who told that the Allies had
done nothing to help France *in the
war, and he regarded most of the
subsequent troubles as the resuof
the.. perfidy of Albion. resell. He was a Roy-
alist, and if ever he prayed, which is
doubtful, it was that his beloved
France might see a king again. -
He rose' at•.Sweive•po'eloali enjoyed
a light meal in his room and ipreceed-
-ed to his Club. There he played
bridge until it was time to dress for
dinner. He dined at home, returned
to his Club, and played .ecarte anti
precisely one o'clock in the' morning
A sleepy and unconsidered chauffeur
drove him to his house, He was re
ceived by his majordomo, toyed with
a bottle of champagne, a'tew delicious
sandwiches and his . teat cigar. At
three he went to his rocen, spent half
an hour with his favbltrite prints
*llIch he kept in portfol'ioe, and the'ii
• Was put to bed. He prided himself
upon saying no more' 'than the fewe
est' itvmbei' of words, 'Upon leaving
Perla • once a year for a month' he
"drank the Waters at 'Cfibl%y'. He kept
a most Minute diary 'afid hie eh:tried
Con'disted''inaihly std•
losses- at -cards. 11610"""i'i;lid : then : he
'l+epoe�,,:ra Gon�era�li�'dl�^�1���
or ra Ile% with ssn antief
ldu no• ii.nds••.`-:; and
til e spirit knoved him, tie t'ne d
tor most s r'caatic words
of • the "'world's volitici,aris. • iii, ;'
great • zespect for his w2te;
I ijowing the , eccentricity" o:
I?uc ` K leu and arqubar
French. The drones was a;
comfortable business, pugctuaVec
pauses„•, and served in a room th _
fag as XRp el es tl�e ' ori •T M • 7
}crag cold to hip gt�tets,z�:oAkedt
(ipon .�merlca ap the enemy nfi Ali
ope, ` aud, eve n - Blore ;than England;'
;the enemy of'ranne. it was his fix
ed idea; that the fright>ei^ fluctuations:
of the franc were dile entirely to,
what was called ,in Europe the S#y,
loekistn of "Washington.. -.1e 1144 h$an;'
heard to say that instead of 11'rn.11•ee'a ,
being in debt to America, Ainezea
owed. to France the whole 'of the cost
of the war- It• was: the recited: French
Opinion that America had been saved
from Germany by- four .years' blood
and sacrifice.
At nine o'clock he rose to tape his
leave.i
Nothing except h'
g xc pt deal , or the
sort of illnessthat kept him in his
bed, could prevent his seating him-
self at the ecarte table at precisely
half -past , nine. ,He placed his -thief
lips on his wife's hand, bowed eoldiy`
to her relations, left the room with
rapping heels, was helped into one or
Other of his numerous overcoats by
one servant, took his hat and• elicit"
from another, and proceeded to, his
car. In this he smoked, his fifth cigar
through a special cherrywood holder.
Everybody sighed with relief, ' in-
ciuding'Madame la Duchesae de Bercy
who said, with a curious eurl of her
lips: "A wonderful . I was going
to say man, but that would not be
true. At any rate, for me, .a wonder-
fur husband: I say 'for me' because
it vias desired that I should bear his
name, arid, like a girl in a shop, have
my evenings off." She gave one „of
her silent laughs. "I think . it would
be more pleasant," she added, "if we
drank -•coffee in my room. We shall
be uninterrupted for our discussion
of the affair of Jean."
She rose,tall, slight and ..thorough-
bred, amazingly well preserved, -beau-
tifully dressed. She led the way to
the door and stood back for Helen to
pass. The French and American aris-
tocrats made their way slowly' up
the wide staircases, arm in arm. Hel-
en's frock, though made in Paris by
Tao, was shorter and more girlish
than that of her relation, who did not
conform to American' standardization
and never permitted herself to imi-
tate other women. She wore, ate,
thought and spoke precisely what she
liked. In her hobbies she was equal-
ly original. She feared neither gos-
sip nor, the press.
Farquhar followed them. And as
he . did so he said to himself: "Poor
swine ... old, old! A few years ago
I would no more have subjected my-
self to sucb a dinner or to following
on the • heels of. these two women
than have been on the books of a lun-
atic asylum."
He felt like a racehorse in the
shafts of a cab.
There was less stiffness and form-
ality in the Duchesse's -room: The
furniture was not French, nor were
the pictures. It was; in fact, the on-
ly easy and comfortable room in the,
house -the sort of room in which a
man might smoke a pipe. And it was
here, over coffee and a most excel-
lent assortment of liqueurs, that
these three strangely detached people
devoted• a considerable time to "the
problem."
Standing in his usual attitude, bUt
without his friendly pipe, Farquhar
began by refreshing the Duchesse's
bow ewer
ale its pxeet'gi
that , t;ne man who m
a ,r
eboul'd add tlta.t rale ttt li
ord0ri as thei"e was nir son,': wttl
fl i l?`t Barry it WV
loan in Whom they bel4;.
there had been six augaet
Ile. 'poattied: gut, with ixlit,
the. deep rooted rpreaucygft
isted in. Americair tiociety" a, '4
Jewish peoplds The mese idea
.handing on the, b'argilhar nahle at
traditions to' a full-blooded 'Hepreu
howenren talented• Slid doled tztg 7i.,.
Might be, was not to he eensidered.,
It was impossible and --absurd• Eves'
under such cloak
h a he would not' be'.
received into a .single exclusive' house;
He,and with ItensJeau.,•.sPouid be cele:..
gated to serpi-society; 1nusieaLe:ud the-
atrical circles .and 'careless Bohemia:
The door of every self-respecting
Club would be bolted' .and parsed.
"It wpuld be a disaster," he "said
finally. We should be traitors to.
the family if we allowed it to ,go
thh."
Torougall of which the Duchesse listen
ed with the greatest 'attention and
interests -and finally with surprise.
She lit one .cigarette . from another
and appeared to inhale the i a11:
"Whit to the matter •with the Unit-•
ed; Stateer she . asked, when Fasqu '
har.came to an end. :'Why do you
people cling to those strangely ol'd-
fashioned ideas? `I do not know if it.
is true, but it is generally said that
in New York, for example, every fifth
man is a Jew. Indeed, I have heard
America called "our Jewnited States."
In London, for a long time, and 'More
recently 'in. Paris; ' most of us have
ruled out this . racial prejudice. -Bar-
riers are gone: • Here, I suppose, they
were swept away by the war. ' The
need of money, .,perhaps. All is dif-
ferent
ifferent- now. Race . and religion eount
no longer. A man' is judged and ae-
cepted on what he is and does. We
do nottake the trouble to look et
the shape of his nose, or discover in
which of the many ways it is , bis hab-
it to Worship God. We are not con-
cerned. Integrity, brilliance, cultiva-
tion, fastidiousness, pride and power
-especially power ... if a man has
them, that is all. Of course there are
those in France, the belated, but very
few, who cling to pre-war prejudice
and are. anti -This' and That, dust as
they ..are against one .politiciau and
another. It is. the/French character-
istic to be 'against.' And in England
perhaps, a few -the middle class:
What I have heard called the 'also
rens.' But with us, the aristocracy
• . Oh, my dears, can you not ask
America to grow up to the times, to
rid herself of naivete, to be more
confident? This Lorbenstein, .as I
have seen for myself, is a gentleman.
He is the son, as I hear, of a remark-
able old man, the genius of finance,
whn lives a fine and simple - life
among a gally arts TTs
feeling for bieautiyerof and is ae pb;hailan-
thropist. I have read of his giving
away such sums as would put our
poor franc on its feet once more. Is:
it that youask me to believe your
America will cling to a prejudice so.
uufair against one of whom several
olds countries would be proud? If it
is so, then truly It is • for you, the
►f the eyl
t. be attest
Jean Mal'
woxds•he
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Earquhars�; to make an uXi} a%
effect a change. It, is youlr' 4
„pads ask you to nags this•.`n,
open minds;, wails un,aulidieed , x ?
W1 n, 3�Dnwxltat,thexe Rs love ins' a
If eer(u lia,Xe ,#:et bwn•.yetlu .t►el
plc so dei ght€li't } so .xeafre$hingX
and .so w4onderfuUy' in, l.Qtee. ae- you
dear Jean and thifl; "1 bad gl2upst�,aa3
=transmig'ration'of a lgre t.soul,
more than'?'•'I have d{ine.� `
4,, First Warminster, the Qiehbrd, .and
then the Duchesse. de Bercy; the' lead
er of French Society. E1tr'ope versus
America. :
It remained for Farquhar to .say
l7`Nevertheless, .it's quite impossible. I
may agree with you privately that,'our
racial- prejudice 'in. this: respect is •
cruel and Out .of date, but it exists,
and we meet conform. Either We.
succeed
succeed in smashing this engagement'•
-God.'kuows hove -Or• Jean .must •be.,.
numbered among expatriated Ame1i
cans and that's theend, of it. ' '
The Duehesse waved her 1ong,
'arette-holder. "Very well;7•°she said.'
"What do you propose? How 'are :you:
going to proceed with : a child who •
has taken her life into her own hands'
and will no more think of asking, your'`.-
perthission to carry out her inten-
tions than flytothe moon, andatars'
It is difficult, my friends.''.,.r,.
Then Helen, took" it up. "Erskine
and I have agreed," she ;said -"we
'are accusidine'd to, agreeing --4e play
a 'careful hand: We're going to ae-
cept this engagement outwardly with• '
out a murmur of disapproval . It's
perfectly, obvious that Jean would • be
amazed at any opposition and wouldi•'
completely ignore it if we' put it •up:.
She's out of our reach- and controL
And so we're' going'to be strategic . •
as a first step.
"And then?" ,
"We've got no further than that. •
Driving here in your car I said. . to
Erskin: 'It, seems to me that our
seeend step is, somehow or other, "to
capole Jean into -coming home with
this boy. Then to announce the en
gagement and let her ba.,:bur1 d 'un
der the avalanche of horrifying pini. ,t•�
hefty which will fall upon our heads.'
Not from us, but from her friends
must come disapproval .and appeals
so that she will, find out at on-Wwhat
her future is going to be. A feeble
idea, db you think?"
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