The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-17


and the Regent g park with Mrs. Buzz
ton before he turned to Lady Angela.
He meant that everyone, Lady Emscott
especially, should see that it was al
most a sacrifice he had made in having
lady, Angela next him. But he trusted
impression from the mind Of that young
woman herself. It would serve no end
to record their conversation. They got
on well together, because, as later
events proved, they were destined to &
get on well. And Charles Edward kept
once aid i journey toward the Riviera
and reach Monte Carlo.
What do you think Of Mrs. Tramp
ton e looks9o inquired Angela Is
Thai, replied her host, 9 depends
ySag qG = e fnE ha St S fRhs gpt a
think perhaps it was nicer when
il was q brighter red. You liked her
1ml1Isn6enPsely, expect. All men do.
Mother is too funny taking care Of
Helena: You know what she is like.
tendant swains: She had great diff
IT should hate to say anything
against inc your mothers memory. !, ~.
,.ai .I ih sounds ag i she were 9 higtor-
and Charles Edward was again safely
flushed flush a. with victory: t vas lis e;
IN the conversational vigor Of his guests
when be and Lady Angela both heard
The explorer had become expansive
under the influence Of pleasant sur
roundings.
TO Lady Emscott, deserving Asian wilds
ho as a n tops na t5h ad most mp Their
traordinlyary. idea for tonight: Of course
he didn t carry it out when he found he
could get you people. He told me he
w peon Get ssgethsT pa .so1p a Of
geI; explained in somewhat greater de-
Charles Edward cursed Napoleon.
Charles Edward does not hesitate to
use the most hackneyed Of phrases. and
asserts that emo pen could describe
eTept slowly " over the A eompa sgsp'e T6e
| conversation became general after a
curdling pause. without daring to ;,
watch any one, he could feel the inter
ment. he relied on Mrs: Revell to stem
the tide. She knew who he was. No,
she only knew who he said he vast
Thru the lntermediat of Mrs. Wild
ing. much reached his lordship's ear.
At first he smiled rather scornfully. but
Charles Edward that brought that
youths eyes up from his plate as an
ELECTRIC shock might have done. He
left Mrs. Buxton to struggle for her
right rig II hand ian neighbour attention as best
"Welg' inquired the young woman.
"Yes, it g so. Are you very angryso
eyes, I am.'' This she said very
gravely: Then, with a sudden laugh.
"But it's so ridiculous.'
THAT was the idea. I hoped it
would be amusing"
My father hasn't your sense Of hui
NOR. Didn't you face the fact in tho
beginning that if you. were found out
we should 81 be angryYv
matter quite so much as it seems to
"What do you mean?'
! II suppose now shall never be al
lowed to see you again.
nYou only see me now by cheating. -
II was a fool, I suppose, not to wait
and slE try to be properly introduced
q Lady Butler Warren is my cousin cousin.
She's an American, you know. But she
Glild0eLA warren! Ch, DuC now
can I tell you are speaking the truth
noW2",
81 don't know how you can. But I
am. don't SO much care what the
others think. I dislike having you
think [ am hopeless bounder.''
NWhat possessed you to do this9''
st dined,' said Charles Edward, Sat
, far from your table,"
, If Lady Angela's subsequent conduct
; seems to any one to deviate from that
lofty standard Of ladylikeness to which
her birth would seem to have destined
her, or If Charles Edward Is speeches, as
, here reported, seem inadequate to have
soothed her anger, it must always be
earlier In the dinner "got on very
T well.'
"By-the-by, Mr.. Austin" Lord Ems.
!, colt launched at his host across tho
l table.
ttHere it comes" said Charles Ed
. ward beneath his breath.
Then Lady Angela crossed the Rubi-
con. @- ..~ H.
+ "Isn't it extraordinary, father" she
Q said, "that mother never told me about
! Mr.. Austin 3 being Elizabeth Butler
q Warren g cousinf''
n WPerhaps not SO strange" retorted
o Lady Emscott, and as the conversation
- seemed to include the whole c1rcumfer-
: ence Of the table, every one stopped to
y listen. Charles Edward says HIS heart
nearly stopped, too.
q "When first sew MIR. Austin tonight
- I couldn't make OUT" Lady Angela
9 went on, 'twhy his face was so extra.
Is ordinarily familiar to me. But when
:, he spoke of. his cousin I remembered
'99 at once. She has large photograph
Il of him standing on q writing table il
her boudoir. Elizabeth used to tell me
J. about him often. But somehow
y didn't realize that our, Mr.. Austin ant
!: Elizabeth g were the same.o
u Lord Emscott felt solid ground be
% meath his feet once more. IF one could
% not count on the untrustworthines Of
4 Caroline g memory, on what could one
. count9 Just then a waiter called upor
him to choose between fine champagne
10 chartreuse and kummel dore, and, ap
u plying his mind to this problem, b,
So forgot the other. Singer started afresl
3 the discussion with Bdxton on the adj
~ vance Of Russia toward India, and tn,
8: dinner, reported afterward by ever,
u one to have been especially successful
K passed on beautifully to it's end.
~ II It tell you what you are
n murmured the host to his left-hant
9. neighbor.. cat least not on so shor
to an acquaintance.
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