The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-01-08
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PART
Story Of the Physician and tie
Saratoga Trunk

and harmless disposition,
INR8YDlH which was the more to
HSl0 his credit as he came
from New England,
quarter Of the new world not precisely
famous for these qualities. Although
he was exceedingly rich, he kept note
of all his expenses in a little paper
pocketbook, and he had chosen to study
the attractions of Paris from the sew
enth story of what is called fur
nished hotel in the Latin quarter.
RIGHTEOUSNESS, and his virtue, which
was very remarkable among his asso-
ciates, was principally founded upon
diffdence and youth.
The next room to his was inhabited
by lady, very attractive in her air
and very elegant in toilet, whom Oh
his first arrival he had taken for
countess. In course Of time he had
learned that she was known by the
name Of Nine. Zephyrine and that
whatever station she occupied in life
it was not that Of a person of title.
Nine. Zephyrine, probably in the hope
of enchanting the young American.
used to f1aunt by him Oh the stairs
with a civil inclination, a word, Of
course, and Touchdown look out of
her black eyes and disappear in a rus,
tie of silk and with the revelation of an
admirable foot and ankle. But these
advances, so far from encouraging Mr..
ScuddamOre, plunged him into the
denths Of depression and bashfulness.
She had come to him several times for
a light or to apologize for the mag
mary depredations Of her poodle, but
his mouth was closed in the presence
of so superior a being, his French
proIaptly~ ltft~him and he, could only
stare and stammer until she was gone.
The slenderness of their intercourse
did not prevent him from throwing out
1nsinuations of a very glorious order
when he was safely alone with a few
males.
T he room on the other side of the
American's-for there were three rooms
on floor in the hotel-was tenanted
by an old English physician of rather
doubtful reputation. DR.. Noel, for that
was his name, had been forced to leave
Lol 1don, where he enjoyed large and
increasing practice, and it was limited
that the police had been the instigators
of this change of scene. At least he,
who had made something of a figure
IN earlier life, now dwelt in the Latin
enlrter in great simplicity and solitude
and devoted much of his time to study.
Mr.. Scuddamore had made his &C.
quaintance, and the pair would now
and then dine together frugally in
restaurant across the street.
Silas Q. ScuddamOre had many little
VICES of the more respectab BILE order and
was not restrained by delicacy from
1ndulging them in many rather doubt
full ways. Chief among his foibles
stodd curiosity. He was born gossip,
and life, and especially those parts of
it in which he had no experience, in
teres ted him to the degree of passion.
He was a pert, invincible questioner,
pushing his inquiries with equal per.
tinacity and indiscretion. He had been
observed when he took letter to the
post to weigh it in his hand, to turn it
over and over and to study the address
with care; and when he found a flaw
in the partition between his room and
Nine. Zephyrine's, instead of filling II
up, he enlarged and improved the open
ing Ind made use Of, it as a spy hole on
his neighbor's affairs.
One day, in the end Of March, his
curiosity growing as it was INDUCED,
he enlarged the hole little further, SO
that he might command another corner
of the room. That evening when he
went as usual to inspect Nine. Zephyr.
ines movements he was astonished to
find the aperture obscured in an odd
manner on the other side and still more
abas he'd when the obstacle was sudden
~ withdrawn and a litter of laughter
..hed his ears. Some Of the plaster
had identity betrayed the secret of his
spy hole, and his neighbor had been re"
turing the compliment in kind. Mr..
Sculdamore was moved to a very
acue feeling of annoyance. He con-
DENIED Nine. Zephyrine numerically.
He sven blamed himself, but when he
fou1d next day that she had taken no
meas to balk him Of his favorite pas
tim61e continued to profit by her care
less IS and to crafty his idle curios-
ity.
That next day Nine. Zephyrine re-
ceived long visit from a tall, loosely
built nan Of fifty or upward, whom
Silas hid not hitherto seen. His tweed
suit AMI colored shirt, no less than his
shaggy side whiskers, identified him as
Britisher, and his dull gray eye af-
fected silas with sense of cold. He
s KEPT sccewing his mouth from side to