Evening star., 1896-02-22

Gertrude Clair, and with good for
| tune too"
| The colonel shrugged and made no an
| swer.
| Then there is no help for it," exclaimed
Lady Tevict, between genuinely bitter sobs.
| He must marry an American"
! AT the moment Of this dramatic climax
the door opened and Lord Teviot came into
| the room.
He was a handsome. boyish young fell
low, with almost feminine regularity of
feature. small of frame Celtic of coloring
| and pleasant of voice and manner. Ger
| tainiy there was nothing about him to sug-
gest the traditional black sheep. And his
attire was carefully and elegantly adjust
ca TO meet the last cry of the fashiona-
| BILE tailors.
marked. cheerfully. kissing her upon one OF
hef aeiicately marked eyebrows; Good
morning colonel Mornin. Cliff. Who's
| soin' to do it now?"
DO what, my sen?' answered the dow
ager, trying to maintain her dignity
Harry an American"
oh Teviot, do not jest about this. it is
your only hope" exclaimed his mother
tearfully. Col. Kilgore and Mr.. Cliff viii
| tell you that you have reached the last ex-
| tremity."
| .Tney have been telling me that any time
| this half dozen years." remarked his lord
| snip, grinninS, while the colonel and the
| lawyer looked things unutterabIe.
The last extremity" reiterated her lady
| snip, VINO felt, poor woman, va guely pleased
| 10 have acquired a phrase at once express
| Sive and Cnanswerable.
! A few days later a huge Cunard steamer
pic wing westward through rough autumn
Tai sea carried among her firSt-class pas
Sef.gers that ornament of hereditary Iegis-
latlon III the kingdom that disoanses civil
lzaiion to the word-the young Lord Tev-
iot! his only acquaintance on board was
his man servant, a discreet Rriton. But
as 10 sooner does enc touch the uuays at
Liverpool on the sailing day of crack
boat bound for America than distinct
atmosphere OF the states makes itself felt,
ieHiot began almost at orce TO be at home
among his fellow passengers. The greater
number OF them were in families returning
after a summer of travel in England and
On the continent. Before they had an
| chored OFF Queenstown to take on the latest
mails cur young lord was identified by
several aspiring members of the new world
society While he stood in q bored sort of
way watching the greedy gulls swarm
| IN the wake of the ship. and the gym
nastlcs of The young ladies' of Cork who
had come cut in their rowboats to DISPOSE
OF merchandise aboard, he was touched OF
the arm and accosted by a stranger in a
1ur-ined coat Teviots attention was inst
then riveted by the spectacle of wild
lEisn girf slipping recklessly down a line
from the upper deck into her boat below,
wherein nan lay mapping in the morning
SUM- He was not disposed to give ear to
the new conner But the stranger, waiting
patiently, ended by Offering his card with
the assurance that he and his family, who
were aboard, would be most happy to do
al III theIr power to secure the social en-
Joyment of Lord Teviot during his visit to
| the states -
Ny Lord Teviot, however, was not thus
! TO be thrown away upon a. chance acQuaint-
ance OF shipboard. The steamer sailing
| from southampton two days before his
| own had carried in its mail bags a letter
addressed by the countess dowager to an
acquaintance she had made in the Riviera
the year before-a Mrs. Harvey Wing a
lady OF high fashion at Newport and in
New York.
Mrs. Wing was, when the letter came to
her, still at her house at Newport, although
the season there had long since died a
natural death. She was feeling very tired
of everything. and uncertain what she