Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-09
By
C.N.& A.MWuLIAMSON

aa1terward. like terrible red gargoyIes!
When we went into the chateau later the
custodian. or whatever you call him
showed US where the fine ironwork was
blood. ueno'S
was very angry with Aunt Mary be-
oalse she Kept her nose in her Baedeker.
a hu PIe1erred reading about the castle
~ 10 seeing 1t when she had the chance. I
take tho,u opinion Of people who won't
s tneir Baedeker in doses either be-
iU,e or after meals of sight seeing; but
thnt MARY spreads 1t so thick over hers
'n W whats underneath is lost.
away at th. 20 "a nice little hotel tucked
.euner, and to get rid of our luggage for
80 nave TO stop at Amboise till the four
n ,eny tires (Which Brown now wired
had So sn n,an arrive from Paris. We
tnn IN for I wanted to he or 70
P ns casiie. And to save time I insisted on
bat own iunching with us. That's hannened
Seem at alI stran times. SO that 1t doesn't
d. Ssseu at hrst. and even felt rather funny
i;es ne queer part Is it's SO much more
eant,an 70 remember that Browns not a
civil to him 'a as T. 10 o. make an effort to be
iot &c .ap 1I was beyond words, and SO are a
tor VI rrenchmen who ought to know het-
how 'd d;,1e II ao laugh at mel don't see
Brown nv Lulu eat any better than
thou1h S or nave nicer hands and nails.
.housn now he does it with the car to
cigan is more than can tell. ~
nov tr ue toward the castle, after deieu-
s Mnich was gay with booths and hIne
.. and pretty peasant girls hecause
t me market was being held We went right
where su une crowd. up, up .sloping path.
sslence, after the chattering and cha ffarinn
ana l felt as If we had got into g
notel OF SCOTS, for If we'd been his char
at sec ne Wouia have brought US up short
one whefe we had to knock one couIdn't
suess what would be on the other sjde of
t thae tower; and it was like walking on
through the next chapter of the sa,na So, o,i
walking slowly and with dipnit~ &c " tHe.
we me; might live up to- the author of our
peiHs' 10 wander up a steep road laadina
" plateau and reach the still formal
Sarden With the great castle rising ont Of
~, Oh inns plateau lovely thing simply took
ny eyes captive and wouldn't let them 90
cb.moI .ne most perfect gem of a little
chapei out of dreamland Brown s.id ~
was "a jewel of the pure Gotbic On. 81 49,
H iost preclous OF the forid kind in France"
ionic TO have ones chauffeur taking 70
u nner nae mat; isn't 1t? But I'm used to it
now. and feel quite injured if Brown han.
about. hs ask MIN
A never realized what an important ladv
to her " s 5rltt any was till was introduced
49, uei sweet little ermine at Blois Brown
limited then that 1 would keep on reaIio;nn
Il more and more as we drove through the
Was e b country; and nd so do This Chapel
having ' + rnu, for her. and I envy her
,s -; Couldn't you, dad dear inst
MAKE bid. and have it taken over for orr
garden at Lennox? But no, that wonId he
q 5os sacrliege- It's almost sacrilege even to
HIM rpou. Hi Yet, oh, that carving of st.
I ana his Ioly stag over the door,
I've no jewelry so lovely as that cameo in
stone; and I've got to leave it behind IN ~,
Europe. II oehno IN
co roor charles lie, the Eighth. too. seemed to
come to US like a human, every dav vouno
man one knew when we saw the low door
way where he knocked his head and liIIad
ten nSei running Haa FIN in great hurry to play
started ths ow III mttle he guessed when he
game and why! 1 wonder If Anne was
soIIy When ne died, or if she liked having
aiio.her wedding and being a queen all
Twelfth? o Houis the
,ia: should nave thought more about the la
an III analrs, only l got so interested in
80, ouo ,' and in perfectly Titanic
s souiiu lever. with an inclined plane cork
screwlng up. round and round inside ~ CO
pioaa anc SO gradual that horses and oar
f..a USED In Old, old days to be driven
t tt3m 'he sa town-level UP to the top only
.lih what tun, Brown" l couldn't helm
saying saying, IT We could drive the car up berei',
ne Idea" shifted Aunt Mary. AS if
tfeyd allow such thingw But Brown
oidn answer; he just looked thougbtfulIv
at the gradient.
we went up. too. on the top of one of the
great towers of the castle itself. and il
was glorious to stand there looking away
over the w1ndings of the river We we're
at pend midway between Blois and Tours
ana ever so far off we could see two little
norns sticking up over the fluctuations of
the land. They We're the towers of the
c eau OF Tours; and in that same direc-
tlon Brown showed me queer thing like a
tong, thin finger pointing at the sky-the
Lanterne of ROchecorbon. They used to
nash signals from it all the way to Am
boise, and so on to Blois, when any horror
happened with which they were particularly
pieased, like a massacre of Huguenots
Now, most patient gentleman, at last I've
nmsned my harangue. I'm ashamed to
THINK how long it is, but I'm writing wrap
PED up In warm coat, under a tilleul in
the chateau garden, where I've been al
lowed to bring my campstool. Do you know
what tilleul is? l don't believe you do
l didn't till the other day; but 1 shan't tell
you, except that the very name suggests to
me ielsured ease and Sauntering courtiers
You must come over to France and find out
and incidentally fetch me home-only not
yet, please. oh, not yet. AS for the tilleul,
body you'd love sitting under it, even in
winter. If it were summer with the lines
In bloSSom-well, the best way to express
my feeling is to remark that if, in June
moonlight. under tilleul. a man 1 hated
should propose to me, I'd believe for the
But you need not be frightened; 1t isn't
summer or moonlight, and there's no man
except Brown within hundred miles OF
your silly MOLLY.
(To be continued tomorrow