The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-11

heard all about too. So you see we're
both of the United States of America,
and very much at your service. +"
II am very glad to have met you"
answered. my name is De Norman
Vile, and hail from London"
"Not DIR. De Normanville Of Caven-
dish square surely?"
| eyes, the same. Cavendish square
was my London address two years ago.
But how do you come to know it?"
"Well, now, if that isn't real extraor-
dinaryl / thought l recognized you di-
rectly set eyes on you. But it's mighty
plain you don't remember me. That's
not much of q compliment any way you
look at it, is it, Mrs. Beecher?'
The elder declined to commit herself.
so Miss Sanderson once more turned to
me.
"Just think now, DIR. De Norman
try to remember where we have met be-
FORE
/ looked and looked, but for the life of
me could not recall her face, and yet
somehow it seemed strangely familiar to
me. AL the time l was watching her
she sat gazing at me with an amused
smile upon her face and when she saw
that it was useless my cudgeling my
brains any more gave another little
silvery laugh and said:
'Do you remember just three years
ago being called into the Langham ho-
tel to attend young American lady
who had fish bone stuck in her throat"
II remember the circumstance per-
fectly," answered, "but that young
lady was only one or two and twenty"
"You think, then, look older than
that? Well, 1 reckon you are really not
very complimentary. But you must re-
member that that was three years ago,
and ! was only girl then. When once
we get grown UP and past certain
point over on our side, we age pretty
fast. That's so, reckon. Well, now
you know me, don't you? What day
that was, to be sure, wasn't it? Lor,
how pap and mammie did go on Any
body'd have thought l was going to
kingdom come right away to have heard .
them. D'you know, must have got the
marks of that bone in my throat to this
day."
cit was very nasty scratch. If I re-
member rightly" answered, glad to
have at last discovered who this talka-
tive creature was and where had seen
her face before.
care you remaining very long in
Java, Mrs Beecher?" asked the elder
lady, feeling that so far she had been
rather neglected.
"No, l think not she answered
thoughtfully 1--WE are trying to make
up our minds whether to take British
India steamer home from here or to go up
to Singapore and intercept Peninsular
and Oriental there. Miss Sanderson has
taken q great fancy to the east, and l |
must confess l am very loath to leave
it,
"You are quite right said. 81 can
fully sympathize with your feelings. 1
am sadly reluctant to go back to foggy
old England myself after my trip out |
here
"And do you intend going back very !
soon?" asked Miss Sanderson, who had !
been smoothing out her gloves upon her |
knee
"Within the next month or so," |
with sigh. "My business
in the east is at an end, and have no
excuse for staying longer.
From this point the talk drifted on to |
general topics, and when tea was finish
ed l seized the first opportunity that |
presented itself, and making an excuse |
Just as l stepped from the
veranda one oS The small native dos-a-
dos carts entered the grounds and drew
up near the end of my corridor. Two
ladies descended from it, and having
paid the driver entered their rooms.
One was tall and the other rather short
er AT last felt convinced Allie had ar
rived
AS they disappeared the gong warn.
ed us to prepare for dinner, but heed.
less OF my costume l seated myself out
side my door and waited. Though I re.
manned there for some time, however,
they did not emerge again, and at last |
was compelled to go in and make my
self presentable without having seen
them.
At dinner, which was served in the
palatial marble dining saloon standing
in the center of the gardens, discover
ed to my annoyance that my place was
laid at long table at the farther end,
exactly opposite those occupied by the
American ladies with whom had taken
Tea.
From where I sat it was quite impos-
sible for me to see all over the room.
and i'll consequence / could not tell
whether Allie was present or not. AS
soon, however, as the meal was over 1
rose, and before walking out looked
about me- Some of the residents were
still dining, and at the end of the mid
die table, farthest from me, were, with
'ut doubt, the tw9- ladies whom 1 had
'een arrive. At the distance was from
hem 1T was quite impossible to tell who
hey were, but from the poise of her
head and the shape Of her beautiful