Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-08-11
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CHAPTER XIV.-(Continuedl

CHAPTER AIN.-tContinued.)
..You are Fortunate" says Lady Sta
mer. waving her fan slowly to and fro,
and pretending to suppress a very supe-
rior smile.
Still. my dear mother, you have not
mentioned your objections to him." says
Eaton.
Mrs. Coventry has suggested your
right line to you, Eaton says Lady
Stamer. pleasantly. You should
have been an NJ. z. rather
than soldier; in the House you
would have made yourself heard. l think
if | were a betting man l should back
YOU literally to reduce even the Irish
members to silence, through sheer perse-
veranee alone. As il is, you are COM
petely thrown away"
But about Col. ID Arcy," says her son,
with that persistency that has not en-
deared him to her. You object to him.
Why!'
For many reasons For every rea-
SON." with a touch of the temper that
has hitherto been vigorously kept under
control HE is a person impossible to
place, but as | regard him, he is posi-
lively insufferable. He says just what
he chooses about most things, and has
evidently no respect of persons"
by which you mean that he speaks
the truth in season and out of it. A GU
rious accusation to bring against a son
is perhaps a tritle sardonic. Where was
he born, then, that he never came with
in touch of his barney stone?"
Where indeed | am not his keeper,
says Lady Stamer as pleasantly as ever,
and as unpleasantly. lie may have tray
cled all over the known globe, so far as |
know. What | do know is, that he is
hpnGufIn IN SInpuiar IprpaQ. a1AI th NJ
all such people are better out of society
than in it."
What on earth can he have been say
ing about youY' says Mrs. Vaudrey. Il
am afraid he has hOpelessly offended you
but how? 1t must have been inadvert-
emily, at all events. Perhaps be let out
something that was in his mind without
knowing it, This is highly suggestive,
and leads Lady Stamer into even a 1uore
indignant frame of mind
Something against me?' says she with
assumed cheerfulness. 'Oh, that would
be too amusing"
1T might be amusing, but one can't
tell. Mistakes are often more embarrass-
ing than truths. But you are so clever,
sou ought to know. OF course we can't
know, but now if you were a person who
could be rough, or proud, or could have
behaved yourself frowardly towards him
in any way, the situation might be I'm,
Sc w
all quite know how immaculate you are
and that therefore the quarrel cannot
have been of your seeking"
This is nearly as terrible as Lady Sta
mers descents upon her. There had been
day last year when Lady Stamer had
gone to local concert without remem-
herring to remove from cheek and brow
the telltale powder that lay thickly on
them. 1t cost her many a mauvais quart
d'heure afterwards, and her maid an ex-
cellent place, and the worst of it was
that not even these trials seemed to ex-
plate the offense. 1t was not forgotten
Just now everybody seems to remember
the. little folly as freshly as though ii
had happened yesterday. Mrs Vaudrey,
angered by that unciyil allusion to her
domestic troubles, has avenged herself in
very satisfactory extent.
1t is now Lady Stamer's turn to color,
slowly but perceptibly.
certainly not of mine; and as a fact
there is nc. quarrel. | was merely say
ing that do not think the D'Arcys good
FORM. As for the girl, she is only a hor-
nd little horse-breaker, no more"
something more, surely" says Eaton,
Who has grown rather white "A very
loyyGIy and charming girl for example"
On, my dear Eaton. as for you!" saws
Lady Stamer with a shrug and a badly
suppressed bitterness of tone I'VE can
not expect an unbiased opinion from YOU:
we know YOU are welded to the family.''
Not yet, not yet" says Mr.. Blount
Joylaii!y, with loud laugh, for which
Wltticism he is rewarded by stony stare
from both mother and son.
Some more tea, Bartholomew saws
lazy Stamer, in her most unpleasant
tone No? Then perhaps you will ring
1or Mrs. Coventry's carriage You look %
severely, las if you wanted something to
40. so sorry You must go so SOON" to
MS. Coventry. 1--WE hardly see any
thlng of you now. Goodby."
me others being prompt to follow Mrs.