Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-06
Then really cannot see." she said,
what you are doing here.
why not?" he asked doggedly.


what you are doing here
why not?" he asked doggedly.
She shrugged her shoulders.
I'm the first place." she said, YOU ought
to be rushing about among your supporters,
keeping them up to the mark. and all that
sort of thing. And in the second"
"Well?"
Are we not the very people against whom
you have declared war;"
Il have declared war against no people, +"
he answered. 1T Is systems and classes,
abuses. injustice against which I have been
forced to speak. I would not deprive your
order of a single privilege to which they
are justly entitled. But you must remember
that 1 am a peoples man. Their cause is
mine. They look to me as their mouth
piece"
Lucille shrugged her shoulders.
you cannot evade the point" she said.
"If you are the, what do you call 1t, the
mouthpiece of the people, I do not see how
you can be anything else than the enemy
of the aristocracy."
1.-THE aristocracy? Who are they?" he
asked. II am the enemy of all those who,
because they possess an ancient name and
inherited wealth, consider themselves the
God-appointed DULLES of the poor, dealing
them out meager charities lordly patronage,
an unspoken but bitter contempt But the
aristocracy of the earth are not Of such as
these. Your class are furnishing the world
with advanced thinkers every year. every
month! Inherited prejudices can never sur
vive the next few generations. The fusion
of classes must come"
She shook her head.
"You are sanguine, by friend" she said.
since the wonderful pages of history were
opened to us. And during all these years
how much nearer have the serf and the
aristocrat come together? Nay. have they
not rather drifted apart? But lis
ten! This is the great chorus. We must not
miss it,
$50 the prince has brought back the wan
derer." Lady Carey whispered to Mr.. Sabin
IoL To- Co. ~ OF
of sheep who has strayed from the fold?"
Mr.. Sabin raised the horn eyeglass. which
he so seldom used, and contemplated Brott
steadily. =
He reminds me more than ever" he re-
marked, of Rienzi. He is like man torn
asunder by great causes. They say that his
! speech at Glasgow was the triumph Of a
born orator."
Lady Carey shrugged her shoulders.
1T was practically the preaching a revo-
luton to the people," she said. "A few more
such, and we might have the red flag wav-
ing. He left Glasgow in a ferment. If he
really comes into power, what are we to
expect?"
ITO the onlookers." Mr. Sabin remarked.
"a revolution in this country would possess
many interesting features. The common
people lack the ferocity of our own rabble
but they are even more determined I may
yet live to see an English duke earning an
honest living in the states"
1T depends very much upon Brott, Lady
Carey said. For his own sake it is a pity
that he is in love with Lucille"
Mr. Sabn agreed with her blandly.
1T is" he affirmed, "a most regrettable
incident"
She leaned a little toward him. The box
was not a large one, and their chairs al
ready touched.
Are you jealous husband?' she asked
Horribly he answered
your devotion to Lucille, or rather the
singleness of your devotion to Lucille" she
remarked, 'is positively the most gauche
thing about you. It is-absolutely caliow!
He laughed gently.
did not always tell YOU" he said, that
when 1 did marry I should make an excel
lent husband?"
You are at least" she answered sharply,
"a very complainant one"
The prince leaned forward from the shad-
ows of the box.
Il invite you ALL" he said. ito supper with
me- 1t Is something of an occasion. thisi
For do not think that we shall all meet
time"
Your invitation" Mr. Sal remarked, 'is
most agreeable. But your suggestion is, to
say the least of it, nebuous. 1 do not see
what is to prevent your all having supper
with me tomorrow evening"
Lady Carey laughed she rose, and
stretched out her hand for her cloak.
Tomorrow evening" she sad ''is long
way off. Let us make sure Of tonight-be-
fore the prince changes his mind"
Mr.. Sabin bowed low.
Tonight by all means" he declared.
But my invitation remains-a challenger"
Go be continued tomorrow