New-York tribune., 1903-01-27
0be Fortune Of Flora.
BY ELLA HEPWORTH DIXON.
IN TWO PARTS-PART 1.

h talk turned on the -o G house Ssd Tas bes5 s e
tied yet and II had been decided that Laurie
and Flora should pay a visit in the Cromwell Road
find what they wanted There nothing am
biguous, to be sure, in what they wanted. the
comedy of the situation lay In the fact that each
would ife erSyd B & hoped ss mat te een
uate. Whlch tney ooth 50 ardentiy desrso., , Lne
paternal mansion in the Cromwell Road had been
London was still in the throes Of the 15esthetic'
movement; but time. fog and smoke had not made
tie yellow green pomegranates the walls any
more delectahle. nor ad1ed to the meagre attraG-
embroidered kind of hybrid apple In worsted.
whether this was the latest style in London She
guessed she would like to have the last thing
Heavens! Mo- he cried I'VE must be gay and
century. l win not hang autotypes Of Rossetti on
my walls, few Bartoozzis-if you hke-and some
We snail BALL. nave LITTLE stT2ed papers OF course ana
heaved a private sigh of relief You never knew.
latest style On the whole. the young lady pre-
n Ps The s @ Of the & an S das bnH an
white dining room; ...,...
found the man." said Laurie's anxious mother TO
for the young gong who does ne
think is going to pay the butcher, the baker and
such lot of candlesticks!'
Our dear children suggested La Lady Worthing
thing pretty and in good taste
smile. Though her mother and T. he continued
gazing with pride his lovely daughter why
We boarded, right in the city. And
Sonng oR aS Makes them 9OGd
And to Lady Workings alarm she could get nota, n
for for his isir daughter1and @ MD her PHi SON "''''' -
There was guest at the dinner d on fbaf whom nom
Apn GhaToe Lady Workings easS: sister otSsr
hand was am amused @ spectator @ Of the whole
intrigue A spinster OF original turn. with a
had been CONGRESSES but Lady Workings fort
had 6ag ag2 Se5 1T In
been traveller all her life In the States she had
She knew that though he would let his daughter
dress at Worth's. would cover her In Jewels and
at the Carlton in London. he would. in all proba,
billty make no sort OF legal settlement on MS cnd
and there was evidence that he was he would
income. Sometimes these curious transatlantic
parents were extraordinarily fantasticaLy seneg-
pective sonsinlaw, and coolly advised them to earn
them e 0Wn And Vng R 9n who a o2d
of Laurie; and had. indeed, been the chief means
States. wondered what would be the outcome Of
walking biindfold. She had hinted these things
to her sister brt the hints had not been well re-
see the affair as 1t rally was. For what with Lit
tlehampton's 0ebts, and the girls fast coming out
boy should be settled somehow.
sailed the bridegroom-eIect In all his jocund days
everything had always turned out all right Why
gRtfal as ali In his other Experiences? And at school
at college; he had always been fsvorite Laurie
that he had been sent down: or at the worst he
earser eng IN WRich Don With very red face and
very white hair, who somehow suggested jack,
n-the had got extraordinarily yexed and tried
to say unpleasant things. And after all. 1t had
turned out charmingy, for he had spent that May
shd sfstss sune IN LONDON anu 'nen nAo gone ~
annonnead s5da ur as HS he the orda5.
array of presents spread out the day before MS
marry the whole of society at once takes per-
fe,yd in n Gq thew TRH & 6eS Py s3d m
porting you your wife and your family. especially
m enparR yIa Ssceor or spnster society takes no
terest whatever. It is better to be charming than
tainiy on the whole if it solid help it is
The first blow fell when they were still on their
honeymoon in ST. Petersburg. city which they
was ambassador there a handsome check Of Mr..
Dodge's enabled them to enjoy it They had danced
Winter Palace; they had been made the spoiled
eiegance and her husbands attractive manners had
made them welcome in the most amusing drawing
rooms of the Russian capital Socially the young
be owned talked the French which is considered
correct in Milwaukee; but Laurie, on tne % oIner
hand who had an uncanny gift for strange tongqes @
had sleghed and shopped in the Nevsk1 Prospeskr
Flora had laid in formidable stock OF turquoises
bazaar.
in the Hermitage and his afternoons in getting up
little dinner and supper parties in the restaurants
on the Islands; in short, they had had as they
both avowed. a beautiful time. Nothing amused
Laurie more than watch the shaggy, red ol0used
ever smiling moujk custom could not stale Flora S
interest in the drovsky drivers Noahs Ark costume
in his padded shoulders and waist. his long nair
and his voIuminous pleated pelisse- They had
taken trip to Moscow. had been pumped and
banged over the cobbe paved hills OF the Holy
Cty had got their first glimpse of the InneInoriaI
East in the sinister. haremlike rooms OF the old
palace in the Kreml1n. had wandered aston1sned
through those magnificent modern arcades wh,6n len
nut anything of the same kind in Europe 10 the
blush.