The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-24
you'll be wanting me to have the bay mined for you"

in we'll with the diplomats means
to new people like ourselves she add
ed. frankly, in her thoughts. But
how in the world did he know that
Eugenia was madame?"
Hilary's thoughts then ran on. as the
train began to beat out its noisy ac-
compartment. II am sure she looks as
young as I. And she is so beautiful"
And her glance turned rapturously on
| the quiet, dark face opposite; for Eu-
genia was evidently one of those we'll
balanced individuals who can preserve
strength and beauty by taking a mo-
ment of sleep wherever It can be found.
81 suppose" thought Hilary again, "he
has been chef in some house-at some
| legation-where he has happened to
see her" For Madame Martinez had
| been quite the toast in Washington
| during the previous winter; and even
| the servants in a house could take note
and make rumor of her beauty and her
| toilettes; and when she sang, without
| doubt the interior passage ways of
houses had their listeners. And she
sang so divinely that, for that alone,
she might have been a welcome guest
anywhere. In point of fact, the sing
ing was not equa. to a prima -donnas;
but it was the singing that off the stage
seems equal to anything upon it; and
if it could not be sustained for any
length of time no one was the wiser.
There were envious people who said
curious things about Madame Martinez
that she had been a lady's maid-that
she had been a minor opera singer
but no one could tell where or when;
and so they shrugged their shoulders
and said it was incomprehensible. but
they must acknowledge she was the
fashion.
1t was generally rumored also, but
not certainly known, that after she
had divorced he second husband, she
had resumed the name OF her first hus-
band, a gentleman who had been
charged with a delicate mission from
. the court of Spain to this country, at
least so Eugenia said; and it was
through some report of this sort that
she had become part of the diplomat
ic circle, or at any rate, supposed to
be upon it's outskirts, as it We're, where
questions We're not always in good
form. She had never gone to her hus-
bands home, she once told Hilary. but
had divided her time between England
and France and our own shores, but
nothing was known exactly concernins
her finances.
Hilary had been attracted by her
portrait in a studio, and then she had
gone wild, after her fashion, over the
beauty of the woman herself, wher
she met her, and subsequently had
been thoroughly enchanted by her sing.
ing; for Hilary was an enthusiast ir
music, as in everything else, and so il
CHANGED that she held herself now pc.
culiarly fortunate in having secured
such prize as this for season.
So with her two prizes she stepped
out at Bankside; and a groom drove
the chef up in the meadow-brook, an6
sent the victoria down for her; ant
she and Eugenia drove, at the latter.
suggestion, through the woods anG
around the lovely region an hour OF
so, to dispel remembrance Of the city
the crowded cars, and the cinders an6
smoke and heat, before they returned
; to Undercliff, and to the welcome there
which always awaited any friend that
; Hilary chose to bring-for her sister
Louise. q rather faded blonde, who