The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-07-27

been led 70 u~nderstaaa, would psruea
his beloved father unlimited plqust a.
his club, to say nothing Of regenorat-
Ing the family chateau. Yet these are
hardly matters to be gosslped OF. II
Is enough to know that the Baron
|Ronault de Palliac when he discovers
himself at table between Miss Bipes
and the adorable Miss Higbee, bacomes
less s%aturnine than has for some time
been his wont. He does not forget pre-
vious disappointments, but desperately
snaps his swarthy jaws In command
able superiority to any adverse fate.
The other alien, Taunton Oldaker, wa
present under terms of honorable truce,
willingly and without Interior motive
saving-as he confessed to himself
a consuming desire to see chow the
other half lives" He was no longer
the hunted and dismayed being Per-
cival had met In that far-off and i'm
possible Montana; but was now I'M
troubled, remembering, it is true, that
this stunning expedition" as he
termed 1t, had taken him beyond the
recognized bounds of his beloved New
York, but serene in the consciousness
that half an hours drive would Land
him safely back at his club.
Oldaker observed Miss Psyche Bines
approvingly.
w are SO glad to be in New York;"
she had confded to him, sitting at her
right.
ms hpar yntn0 rznrnav - he u,o,Aal
her, you haven't reached New York
yet" The talk being general and loud,
he ventured further.
This is Pittsburg, Chicago, Kansas
City, Denver-almost anything but
New York"
"Of course I know these are not the
swell old families"
Oldaker slipped his glass of old Olo-
roso sherry and discoursed.
And u prominent families, the
ones whose m you read, are not
New York any more, either. They are
rather London and Paris. Their furni-
ture, clothing, plate, pictures and serv-
ants come from one or the other. Yes,
and their manners, too, their interests
and ~sympathies and concerns, their
Observation-Disclosures, their-er-
morals. They are assuredly not New
York any more than Gobelin tapestries
and Fortuny pictures and Louis Seize
chairs are New York"
"How queerly you talk. Where is
New York, then?"
Oldaker sighed thoughtfully between
two spoonfuls Of tortue verte, claire.
"Well, l suppose the truth is that
there isn't much of New York eft in
New York. AS a matter of fact I think
it died with the old volunteer fire de-
partment. Anyway the surviving
remnant is coy. Real old New Workers
like myself-neither poor nor rich-are
swamped in these days like those pre-
historic animals whose bones we find.
There comes a time when we can't
live, and deposits form over us and
we're lost to memory"
But this talk was even harder fol
Miss Bines to understand than the
English speech of the Baron Ronaul
de Palliac, and she turned to that nobl,
gentleman a the turbot with sauce
Coral was served
The dining-room, its wall wainscot'
ed from floor to ceiling in Spanish
oak, was flooded with soft light from
the red silk dome that depended from
its crow of gold above the table. Tn,
laughter and talk were as little SUBJ
dued as the scheme of the rooms. II
was an atmosphere of prodigal ant
confident opulence. From the music
room near by came the soft strains o.
a Haydn quartette, exquisitely per
formed by finished and expensive artists
"Say, Higbee!" it was the oil chic,
from Texas, "see If them fiddlers O
yours can't play Ma Honolulu Lulu!''
TO BE CONTINuEDl