The Jackson herald., 1906-10-18
CHAPTER XVIII.
\ SENSATIONAL TURN IN THE MIL
pRLNN InRTI'NEG

\ SENSATIONAL TURN IN THE MIL
BREY FORTUNES.
1t was a morning early in Novem-
ber. In the sedate Milbrey diningroom
brisk wood fire dulled the edge of the
first autumn chill At the breakfast
table, comfortably near the hearth, sat
Horace Milbrey. With pointed spoon
he had daintily scooped the golden
pulp from a Florida orange touched
the tips of his slender white fingers to
the surface of the water in the bowl,
and was now glancing leisurely at the
headlines of his paper, while his break
fast appetite gained agreeable zest
from the acid fruit
On the second page of the paper the
names in a brief item arrested his er-
rant glance. II disclosed that Mr.. Per-
cival Bines had left New York the day
before with a party of guests on his
special car, to shoot quail in North
Carolina. Mr.. Milbrey glanced at the
two shells of the orange which the
butler was then removing.
What hopeless brute that fellow
was!" he reflected. He was recalling
a dictum once pronounced by Mr..
Bines. Oranges should never be eaten
in public" he had said with that lord
ly air of dogmatism characteristic OF
him. The only right way to eat
juicy orange is to disrobe grasp the
fruit firmly in both hands and climb
into q bathtub half full of water"
The finished epicure shuddered at the
recollection. poignantly. quite as if
saw were being filed in the next ROOM
Mrs. Milbrey entered. news of inn
portance visibly animating her Her
husband arose mechanically, placed the
chair for her, and resumed his fork in
an ecstasy of concentration.
You really must talk to Avice," his
wife said.
Mr.. Milbrey sighed. deprecatingly.
He could remember no time within five
years when that necessity had not
weighed upon his fathers sense Of duty
like a vast bOwlder Of granite. He
turned to welcome the diversion pro-
vided by the rognons sautees which
Jarvis at that moment uncovered be-
fore him with a discreet flourish.
Now you really must" continued
his wife, and you'll rgree with me
when | tell you why"
But, my dear. I've already talked
to the girl eXhaustively. I've pointed
out that her treatment OF Mrs. Wybert
her perverse refusal to meet the lady
at all. is quite as absurd as it is rude.
and that if Fred chooses to marry Mrs.
WybeFt 1t is her duty to act the part
of a sister even if she cannot bring
herself to feel It. I've assured her that
Mrs. Wybert's autecedents are all they
should be; not iiuStrious. perhaps. but
eminently respectable. Indeed. | quite
approve of the southern aristocrary.
But she constantly recalls what that
snobbiSh Bines was unfair enos.h to
tell her. I've done my utmost to con-
vince her that Bines spoke in the way
he did about Mrs. Wybert because he
knew she was aware of those rdicu-
lOus tales OF his mothers illiteracy.
But Avlce is-er-my dear, she is like
her mother in more ways than one.
Assuredly she doesn't take it from
me-"
lie became interested in the kidneys.
If Marie had been a man" he re-
marked, feelinEly. Il often suspect that
her fame as a chef would have been
second to none Really. the suavity Of
her sauces is a neyer-ending delight
TO me-"
Il haven't told you yet the reason
a new reason-why you must talk to
Avice."
The money-yes, yes, my dear,
know. We all know. Indeed, I've put it
10 her plainly. She knows how sorely
Fred nseds it, She knows how that
beast or a tailor is threatening to be
nasty-and I've explained how inval-
uab.e Mrs. Wybert would be. remind
ing her OF that lady's generous hint
about the rise in Federal Steel. which
enabled me To net the neat little profit
of $40 900 a month ago, and how. but
! for that, we might have been Gcutely
! distressed. Yet she Smbbornly clings
TO the notion that this marriage would
he a mesallianCe for the Milbreys."
81 agree with her" replied his wife,
tersely.
Mr.. Ml,brey looked perp!exed, but
polite.
! Il quite agree with Avice," continued
| the lady THAT woman hasn't been
right, Horace, and she isu't right.
/ Young B,nus knew What he wGs talk
/ ing about. haven't lived my years
I without being able to tell that after
Ave inmates with her, clever as she is.
| can read her. Like so many Of those
women, she mas an intense passion 10
Ln lhuHGht respectahle and she's come