Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-08
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.

SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS
The Earl of Thurso a young British noblemHn
goes with his sister. Lady Maud Stratton, to his
peasant tenants, among whom epidemic " ty-
phoid fever has broken out. While there series
tenants condition, nearly wrecks Thurso's health
To alleviate the pain he begins taking laudanum
The drug has remarkably soothing and exhilarat.
ing effect on him. While Maud is salmon fishing
she meets Walter Cochran, an American, who mas
leased the fishing from Ihurso; cochran Is =,
Christian Scientist and. as Maud learns in her tax
with him, has been pr9ctcing among the typh3h,u
such victims Of the disease as he has treated are
recovering Despite herself she becomes fsads
In the doctrine Of Christian Science ana le I
Walter on to describe its tenets. She ana W AFTER
are mutually in @ T 70 and herself ON the
following evening. He accepts the 1nvltatof
more addicted 10 laudanum and has reached t me
stage where he inclnes to be secretlNe as 10 its
Msnd When she asks II he has had recourse the
laudauum bottle She detects the prev*rcatioh
brother S can be guilty of falsehood decides that
she must have misunderstood him. Brother ana
Cochran sit up late talking Christian Science
and on the progress of the typhoid epidemic
CHAPTER III-Continued.
The two sat up rather late that night.
Maud. like all young strong folk, hated
going TO bed as much as If not more, than
she hated getting up. and 1t was usually
Thurso who proposed the adjournment
But tonight he was extraordinarily alert.
AS he had said, today had been the first day
in which there had been any break in that
tempest of Illness which was devastating
the village; today also he had been better
himself and spoke of other things than the
immediate pre-occupations that surrounded
them. Chief among them was London ana
the reopening of Thurso house. His
father. the last holder of the title, had
died Just a year ago, and next week the
house was to celebrate its re-entry into
London life with an adequately magnificent
ball His wife, who had stopped in town,
was seeing to this and when Lily under
took to see to thing, 1t was unnecessary
for any one else. however closely con-
cerned to feel any anxiety about the COM
pleteness with which 1t would be seen to:
Il heard from Lily this morning.. he
said: lat least / heard from her type
writer. She did not even sign 1t. She Is
up TO the eyes in a million things, and
really it seems to me as if the most of the
festivities as well all the charities in
this world would collapse unless she was
president of them all. The ball next week.
too! l shall go up for the night, of course,
though whether l stop depends on how
things go here. You will come, won't
your
Maud looked at him in studiedly mild
surprise.
Good gracious. Thurso," she said Did
you suppose that Thurso house was going
to- make its debut again and me not there?
OF course. / shall come. 1t will be cram
med with kings and queens like Alice In
Wonderland oh, Thurso. what good
thing Lily is smart / hate the word,
but she Isl she's magnificent. If you go In
for the world, there are only two sorts OF
party possible, either to have your grand
party as she's going to do now, with kings
and queens literally tre1dlng on each
others toes, have quiet little dinners, as
she does, with two or three real friends. l
hate the middling parties, where a lot or
,f,,+, ocl-a 70 cot
some Serene Transparency from lower
Germany. OF course you will go, and of
course I'll come with you. Do have spe-
cial train all the way to London 1t VIII
be so expensive. Lily said to me the other
day, If you don't have a special. go third
class She is quite consistent about 1t her
self too"
she usually has specials" remarked
Thurso.
But she does go third class. and talks
to the NAVY opposite. And on the tops of
omnibuses. l have often been with her on
the top OF an omnibus. But she doesn't go
In cabs; she says they are middling. When
the 25OOOOOO horsepower motor is there.
up she gets the omnibus. She never
She runs after them, and gets on quite
beautifully"
Gets on?"
yes, on the bus. and with all the other
people sitting on the top of It,
That's a new game. isn't it?'
Yes; it's becoming quite popular. owing
to her. She is splendid! l admire her
quite enormously"
Thurso laughed.
so do /. And It's something to admire
your wife when you've been married twelve
years"
Maud made a little sideways movement
in her chair as If her position had become
suddenly uncomfortable. Her brother con-
tinued:
ct don't believe woman ever existed
who was so clearly admirable he said.
eve went to the opera together the night
before / came up here. She going to
the Buckingham Palace ball afterward,
and was-well, suitably dressed"
Maud felt, as she always felt when
Thurso talked like this. as If file had
been drawn across her teeth. Often as ii
had happened. she never got used to 1t.