Middletown transcript., 1897-01-02

| w the other people
in the room wished they could have
heard the mirth-proyoking remarks
and yet there was no great display Of
wit. Mr.. and Mrs. Kibble White were
in high spirits, for it was the second
day of their holiday, and they wert
prepared to laugh at anything. Mrs.
Yates, with Madame" had arrived
in Boulogne ouly on the previous,
day, but she had a knack of making
personal remarks about the other visi-
tors at the hotel that had quickly es-
tablished sort of intimacy between
her and her neighbors at table.
They were discussing man of FIVE
and-thirty who sat rather near them.
81 think he's English" said Mr..
Kibble White.
"Impossiblel" remarked Madame.
"He is too solid, too intelligent, to be-
long to your great nation; he is Ger
man."
mo, he can't understand English, !"
said Mrs. Yates, "for am sure he
must have heard our conversation,
and his face has never changed"
f. 81 hope be doesn't understand it, for
you have been rather rough on him; let
us listen to his accent when he speaks
to the WAITER" suggested Mr.. Kibble
White.
"No need" cried Mrs. Yates; II am
sure he can only say Ba'a Ba'a; don't
you see he is not a man, but just o
great Pink Sheep"
The party all laughed, and the stran-
ger was nicknamed the Pink Sheep
from that moment.
At the table d'hote that evening the
laughter was almost entirely subdued;
Mrs. Yates and Madame soon ad-
journ ed to the drawipg-room, whence
they were followed by the Kibble
Whites and by the Pink Sheep, who en-
sconced himself behind book.
~ ou have, no doubt, noticed that
Mrs. Yates is somewhat depressed" /"
said Madame; "and am not surprise d
at that, for she has had her pocket
picked and lost more than a25."
The Kibble Whites expressed their
deep sympathy. and after describing
the manner in which the loss had oc-
Cured, while she stood watching the
arrival Of the English boat, Mrs. Yates
grew communicative and told Of her
great disappointment. 1t was impos-
sible 10 continue her journey. She was
on her way to Brindisi to meet her hus-
band, who was coming home from In
dfa seriously i'll. Her anxiety to NEE
him wus the greater, for she had parted
from him iD anger caused by jealousy.
She had just learned her suspicion had
been entirely uDfounded.
And now she could 60 no further,
for, acting on Madame's advice, she
had taken ticket only as far as Paris,
and, being very badly off, she could
not afford to borrow the necessary
money, even had there been time to dc
so.
"Why didn't you let her take q
through ticket, MadameP" asked Mrs.
Kibble White.
''Indeed, wish lad, for now she
could have gone on, but I feared the
people in London would cheat her, and
since l know the manager of a tourist
agency in Paris, felt she was surf
to be properly treated if she took hel
tickets from him.
"You are over suspicious, Madame, -
said Mrs. Yates. Last night, when
we went to the Casino, you wanted
me to give you my watch and jewelry
to take care of, and yet, you see, nj
one attempted to take them.n
"And you are, perhaps, too conid'
: ing, Mrs. Yates. You see, if you hat
given me your money to keep for you
you ould not have lost it,"
ST am not so sure Of that, ;" said Mrs
Kibble White, looking hard at the las
speaker.
"What do you mean by that re
markPo asked Madame, Indignantly.
81 mean that / do not see why thl
money should have been safer in you
keeping than in Mrs. Yates's.''
There was an uncomfortable silence
Madame rose and went out. AS sool
as she had left the room Mrs. Kibbl
White asked:
/ 'Do you know her very well2
don't like her eyes at all. should no
trust her. Who is she2"
'Oh, ! think she is all right. She
the Marquise de Montereau.n
"Then why has she put her name Ii
the visitors book as Madame Cam
boux?"
: 'sShe said she liked to travel ineog
nita, b. cause II people knew her RAM
they would charge more at the hotels.
, "She does not look like an aristocrat
her dress Is so uutidy, and have you no
" noticed the high-water mark on he
neck2''
"Oh, these foreigners have snch cd
characters.'
II should say, BY the look of her, sh
had none, y said Mrs. Kibble White.
;. Then Mrs. Yates explained how sh
had answered an advertisement Il
l. "The Morning Post, 2 In which for
: eign lady of rank asked another lady t
join her In journey to Naples. Sh
told how Madame had promised I
give references to twakora "
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