The Red Cloud chief., 1906-11-16

parture from the hotel ut an
early hour. Her sol went with
J her. Their house was situated
on the outskirts of the town, and, al
though Stanhope would gladly have re-
manned with the two men to discuss
the events of this night of surprises,
he felt that his mother demanded his
present attention.
Indeed, her ladyship had much to
say to him. She, like the others, had
been impressed by Mrs. Vansittart's
appearance, even under the extraordi-
narily difficult circumstances of the &C.
casiOn. The feminine mind judges It's
peers with the utmost precision. Its
analytical methods are pitilessly sim
pie. 1t calculates with mathematical
nicely those details of toilet, those
| delicate nuances Of manner, which dis
tinguish the woman habituated to re-
| fnement and good society from the
interloper or mere copyist.
1t had always been a matter OF mild
wonder in Penzance how Constance
Brand had acquired her French trick
of wearing her clothes. Some women
are not properly dressed after they
have been an hour posing in front of a
full length mirror; others can give
one glance at a costume, twist and pull
1t into the one correct position and
walk III perfectly gowned, with a hap
by consciousness that all Is well.
Every Parisienne, some Americans.
n few Englishwomen, possess this
gift. Constance had 1t, and Lady Mar
garet knew now that it was a llneal
acquisition from her mother. The dis
covery enhanced the belief, always
prevalent locally, that Brand was n
gentleman born, and her ladyship was
now eager for her sons assistance In
looking up the LANDED Gentry" and
other works of reference which define
and glorlfy the upper ten thousand of
the United Kingdom. Perhaps that way
light would be vouchsafed.
Being a little narrow minded, the ex-
| cellent creature believed that a scandal
among good" people was not half so
s~candalous as an affair in which the
principals were tradesmen cor worse"
She confided something Of this to her
son as they drove homeward and was
very wroth with him when he treated
the idea with unbecoming levity.
"My dear boy" she cried Eehemently,
"you don't understand the value of
such credentials. You always speak
and act as IL you We're on board n Of
your hectoring warships, where the best
metal and the heaviest guns are all i'm
portant. 1t Is not SO In society, even
the society Of a small Cornish town.
Although / I'M an earl's daughter, /
cannot afford to be quietly sneered at
by some who would dispute my social
supremacy"
AS each complaisant sentence rolled
forth he laughed quietly in the dark
ness.
Mother" said he suddenly, "Mr.
Trail and i have had a lot of talk
about Enid during the past two days.
l have not seen you until this evening
before dinner, so / have had no op-
portunity to tell you all that has oc-
cured"
"Some new imbroglio, I SUPPOSE"
she said, not at all appeased by his
seeming carelessness as to what the
dowager Lady Tregarthen or Mrs.
Taylor-Smith might say when gossip
started.
well, 1t Is, in a sense" he admitted.
"You see, we are jolly hard up. 1t Is a
squeeze for you to double my pay, and,
as l happened to inform Mr.. Trail that
l was going to marry Enid. long before
he knew she was his daughter, 1t came
as a bit Of a shock afterward to hear
that he intends to endow her with
100000 on her wedding day. Now the
| question to be discussed is not whether