The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-18

of her inquiry was interesting enough to seem a grateful present to the guests.
 "Could any one doubt it7" replied Bald win. Tt is as evident as that the smart, lisagreeabie male is the husband"
 "Disagreeable?"
 The surprise, almost protest, in the Duchess tone had warrant. The young gentleman was tall. of elegant carriage and with the hallmark of breeding. His clothes were quite de rigueur Her grace would have pronounced him distinguished without feeling constrained to qualify his moral or intellectual traits. After an- other quick appraising look at the man she said bluntly, You think she is so very charming?'
 Your grace must see that she is charm lng," returned the young man calmly. 'It was the man, not the girl, who be- trayed his disagreeableness. Look at that!'
 The girl had drawn closer to her com- panion and said something. He com pressed his thin lips and gave short nod of his head in aceptance of her remark without turning toward her. He was inn patiently pushing on after the porter, the girl pressing after with a gliding brisk ness which kept her close at his heels.
 The Duchess smiled again.
 .Of course he might have turned" she raid induigently. But there's the lug gage"
 of course he should have turned. There's the bride" returned Baldwin dog maticallt.
 Granting you the merit of your dis eovery," the Duchess resumed with play lul sarcasm, there are other obvious points. For instance, they are Americans. That Is as palpable as usual"
 Accept an Americans thanks" mur- mured Baldwin; not for the truth. but your forgiving tone. Yet. do you know, Inc note of the thoroughbred American ls to be facilely cosmopolitan-solvitur cosmopolitando.'
 80 few of that kind come abroad" replied the Duchess absently. But how very rude of me! My dear fellow, never realize you as an American You always seem to me charming alien in- terloper at the United States embassy in London. Do American women Know Latin by the way?''
 Your grace knows everything" The young attache assumed the air of being driven into commonplace as he added, Ignorance with you seems a courteous Anectation."
 You have seen me put three Jumps of sugar in my tea" replied the Duchess archly, ''and know that I like sweet, things. Don't imagine that shall pro-  ky commitments"
 She smiled brightly. then settled back comfortably in her chair raised her lors- nette in businesslike manner and went on: Let us pursue our analysis of your interesting countrymen. Set me right if I go wrong. She is-eighteen? And from New York? Not acquainted as yet, aux fonds. with Mir. Husband? He is very rich?" Then, dropping the rising infiec- oId xrrith oalIra nH haf excluded doubt: She has a Raudnitz travelling gown on. She will wear snort Worth gown at dinner"
 'I need not tell you that you are right about the gown. I can only know that such an exquisite figure deserves to be clothed as acceptably as possible. As to her age. you are possibly right: almost certainly so as regards the disagreeahle husbands means. Girls of her type mar " money. As to her habitat, I hardly think it is New York The New York girl is quick and too proudly knowing to hes . itate in thought or movement. But she does not hurry. That is New Englandy or Western Yet her soft, gliding grace enthusiastically shows the Southern girl"
 By this time the couple under discus sion had disappeared within the hotel. They had evidently just arrived on the afternoon train from Alexandria. Shep-
 
 tie tables on the terrace in front of the hotel were nearly all occupied by people. chattering and laughing as they beguiled that delightful hour of the Cairo day with afternoon tea. New arrivals are lawful prey for lodgers comments. and to have come two days before is to hold a residents vantage ground, which war rants a critical inspection. Newly mar ried people. moreover. newly arrived or not are ever and wheresoever targets for tongue shafts Two youthful beings mated and licensed for happiness surely suggest the fullness of life. The human doubt as to whether they have 1t makes conjecture interesting.
 The young attache consulted the reg lster later and learned that they were Mir. and Mrs. Lucien Bonvale, whereupon he recalled what friends had told him of their marriage at the American chapel in Paris in the beginning of December. The groom was from Bordentown, and. as the Duchess had surmised, rich. He not only belonged by birth to the class which is not obliged Ito do anything for 4 living but electively pertained to that unhappy portion of it which assumes the ennui of an existence stimulated by no fixed ambition, frightened by no defn- ite endeavor. Such vital hardship has been known to drive a man to drink.
 The bride was one of two sisters cele- brated in European centers for esprit and beauty. They were of fine New England stock, both parents descending from fam flies of high repute for political and lit-