The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-01

So. This Little OH Beass She Could kiss.
English figure (although her back was
turned to the window)-stIopei aul
kissed a man, am elderly lookins gentle
man. who seemed acleep. His bald
head was tlsrown back in his easy chair
and rested on its cushioned head rest
He was a fat, plethoric. ruddy, jolly
hooking. round faced lEnglishman. 50
rhis little old Cat beast she could bring
herself ITO kiss. Burnett turned down
the cofners OF hismoush.
She kissed him affectionately. but did
pot otherwise touch or disturb the fat
Httle Englishman. He saw her glance
at her tiny jeweled watch. "Ah. she
realizes she must hasten back TO the
theater ard play the part she loves
Camille" he muttered half bitterly.
< Then he saw her do another odd thing
She had gone half way TO the door,
then turned back, and going swiftly
% the Englishman's side, laid her soft
whHe iftt1e> >Wouchoir over his fat face.
len she quickly left the room. ard he
AatcAed her, q moment later, corii7g s
|1uf Of the ladies' entrance OF the great
hotel, ard entering her cab drive quick
ly away. He looked after her a mo-
ment, ther, entered the hotel. and ap-
preached the office at the desk. The
clerk was talking to servant.
'sWhat did Miss Armitage want?" re
aalped Of the boy. The clerk. who knew
everybody. had seen her hurriedly en-
! DER.
Dunno, sir. The lady came in, asked
for Mr.. Lord Somebody-Lord Holton
--aslked II Mr.. Lord Holton had come
yet, an, II 20 I was to fetch i'm. She
( seemed In a tearsn' hurry. the lady
= dtd-yes. sir. An said yes and went
1lAer is room. sir; an he want in; no,
nor ahywheres to be found. You know
him as come tonight on the Teutonic." ="
Ibid you look in the reception room?'
IVY, no. sir. She went in there her
self, an wen she come out she said,
NO matter'-jest like that, NO mat
ter"
Burnett glanced over the register. A
recent signature-there may have been
half a dozen names below it-indicated
that J. p. Holton-Lord Holton, of Bir-
mingham. England, and valet-had ar
rived and taken suite No. 461. He did
not care to interrogate the clerk.
He hurried opt into the warm night
air. and jumping into a cab directed
the driver to take him to his club. Ar
irving before the spacious club house,
ne ran N and upstairs to the library in
hot haste. and got down the thick vol
ume OF Burke's Peerage. What was his
relefion to his goddess? He would
! hunt this little round fat Englishman n
10 Ms very ancestors! Burke's Peerage
record read as follows:
( H0lton (Sir John Philip Besmlth)-
Lord Holton, Baron Of Birmingham
county and Baronet.
Laneage-The family of Holton was
seated IN Lancaster. afterward Bir-
mingham, as early as 1881. Thomas
Ho1ton In 1872 married a Lancashire
lady, by whom he had ten sons and
three daughters. (Then follow two
columns Of lineage, then Lord Holtons
immediate family)
James Philip Holton m. Elizabeth, d.
~ Sir Thomas Few.
b., son, John r., b. 1897.
b., aof, Thomas, b. 1880, d. 1867.
b., dau., Elisabeth, b. 1876, d. 1892.
John Philip Besmith married Lady
Camilla Barton, 1869.
lssue-JOhn Philip. b. 1871. d. 1884,
{ Henry, b. 1871, d. 1875; Camilla Eliza
4 18th, b. 1873
Z Burke'e Peeruge thus showed that
Lord f1oIton had no son living. hence
1b)sanpr Armitage was either not his
6A1lhter Or, another conclusion. Flea
! -, n pot 6,iD daughter. had,no brother
4 ~ tou3d. n that case. draw the one
q -. - "a.