San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-03

agined hei -ensations when she weut
into thar rocai, expecting the embraces
of lover, 20 be asked to play the part
of mother 10 me. Oh, il was too good
almost TO keep TO myself If Mr.. Valois
had ever made downright love to me,
as an Englishman or an American
would certainly have done under the
circumstances, would have told Della
Price all about il and let her laugh
with me, but it would have been tame
love story whose only incident was the
Joke with which it reached its climax
But was merciful in one respect-I
timed my return SO that the embarrass-
ment should DO as short as possible for
Mrs. Wallis.
After Mr.. Valois Che was something
more than that now had explained
himself I would tome in. looked at
my watch as / went up in the elevator
itbey call them lifts and assenseurs
over here) and calculated that Henri
had been with Mrs. Wallis about three
quarters of an hour. Invent through my
own room. took off my hat, fuffed up
my bangs and softly opened the parlor
door.
1t was empty.
AS stepped in, little bevildered,
Mrs. Wallis door opened on the other
side, and she rushed across the room,
and throwing herself into my arms
broke into the widest peals of laughter
I was frightened to death. Had the
woman gone stark mad over her disap-
pointment? She left me as suddenly as
she had clutched my neck, and picking
up an engraved card from the table
held it before my eyes.
"Oh, Jean, Jeanr" she fairly
screamed between her ha-has
"If we aren't greenl That man is a
courier He wanted me to hire him to
travel with Us, and because wouldn't
he is furious. He made me pay for the
theater tickets and carriages and
everything we had in Liverpool and
London. And, oh, yes-he said the tele-
gram from Queenstown was IL shil-
lings, and he wanted $40 for the time
he wasted taking us about after he
found that wouldn't have him travel
with us over here. :"
There was the engraved card that he
sent to the prince" Henri Valois,
courier, speaks French, Italian, Ger
man. Russian, Spanish, English.
We changed our minds and went to
Switzerland with the Prices.
Last winter, down on the lake of
Como, we were sitting with group of
tourists who were talking of the short
comings of couriers very much as
American ladies talk of their servants.
''There is one man," Sir George
Shelby said, who has been simply
ruined by being allowed to look and act
like a gentleman. He was the best
courier in Europe ten years ago, but
there is 10 living with him now"
"Who is that?" Mr.. Donaldson Of
New York asked "Valois?"
THAT'S the fellow.
well" Mr.. Donaldson said, 81 re-
greet to say that Americans are response
BILE for it. An American family of
wealth and some position in one of our
large western cities employed Valois
mere IOr year, anu Iuen eooh hin
home with them for visit, and actually
introduced him to their friends as de-
sirable acquaintance.
There were various EXPLANATIONS Of
wonder and disgust from all the Ameri-
cans. The English were too polite to do
more than smile at our national ways,
but of all the group nobody expressed
such wonder and almost incredulous
establishment at such ignorance as Mrs
Wallis and myself.
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