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and shake lands with yourself and
write to your tailor and order more
noticeable pnylacteries on the next new
suit. This is called Keeping up ii
healthy moral tone" and does IA great
deal OF good in the world.
THE AUTHOR.
S~calloway. Shetland Islands. 1894.
CHAPTER L.
THE ANTECEDENTS OF PATRICK
cAMBEL.
He has" said Fairfax. "a genial in
science of manner which seems rather
taking with some people. But | confess
l shouldn't have thought him the man
you would have cared to see twice,
Amy"
"You are prejudiced obviously. and
I've a good mind to say maliciously
prejudiced. | don't know how much
YOU saw of him because | can't be in
vltcd to Il Wanderers club Inner. You
don't know how much l saw of him be-
cause you missed some distant train
and didn't come here to the ball last
night. Put I'll tell you. l saw all l
could. He's perfectly and entirely
charming. He's been everywhe,e. done
everything. ami isn't "A bit blass."
II sea.d ,".saia- +a:-e1S that Mrs.
Shelf was trotting him around, last
night as the great traveller. Is he of
the advertised variety of "A globe trot-
ter: Did he sit in Il side room and hold
a small audience spellbound with d Sc
lection from his adventures"
J Miss Rivers shrugged her shoulders.
Not he. but you know what Mrs.
Shelf is when she gets any show per-
son at one of her functions. He had
to stand ii for II while because she
he'll ON to him as though he might
have been her fan. But he escaped as
soon as he decently could by saving
that hn nra n.nl ~, h.. ,,.A t., ,-'al 800.
TO give him the fourt waltz. l did
1T out of sheer pity. because l saw
Mrs. SholTs thumbscrews We're making
him writhe."
Shows how little a man nay know
1 had always imayined that, having
the pick OF thu men, you invariably
wrote down the best dancers, and
never saddied yourself With a stranger
who was a very possible ducfer."
Amy Rivers laughed. "Th~t's gen
eralizing. But It was different last
night because 4 am, so to speak, IA
member OF the household hc-e. \. ward
counts as Il sort of u niece, doesn't she.
or between that and an adopted
daughter? But anyhow il was ont of
sheer pity for Mr.. Camhel III the iirat
instance, and it was with distinct
qualms that l let him take me down 20
dance. l quite intendei after ha.e Il
round to say the room was too crowd
ed and go and sit somewhere. That is
to say. l made uo my mind to do i.lis
when he asked me
However,. when ! dropped my f...-
gers o. his arm to so down STATS. /
had my doubts. You lulow ate. Two
seasons one gets instinctiveiy 10 know
by the first touch how a man will
dance. And when he put his arm
around me and we moved to the music
I felt like going forever. WnitZ.nS is
hard inst nov haraNSp its in "A transit
ton state between two styles. on. his
dancing was something 20 drea.a
about. We started Off With the new
est quick waltz. Hamilton, it WAS just
lovely. He was so perfect that Just
for experiment I alter my step-bv da-
grees. you now Automatically. with
out anything being seen, he changed.
too. and we We're dancing the old slow
glide before l knew And his steering
was perfect. In that whiriirg. tenn
ing. tangled mob he never bumped me
once. l gave him two more legal
waltzes and cut another couple in his
favor"
(Which makes five in ALL" said Fair
fax rathe stiiily.
Amy Rivers took his hand and pat
ted 1T. Don't be cross. dear. You
know I love II good dance, and one
doesn't meet a partner like Mr.. Cam
bel every day. I suppose he's done
his waltzing in Vienna and Paris and
Yorkshire and New Orleans rs we'll as
here in London. and by averaging them
all up he can't help but be good"
, lis it from going to those places that
!, Mrs. Shelf called him the great
traveller"
) "Of course not. Hamilton. how
stupid you are abou him! Why. he's
+ rummaged about in every back corner
of the world. SO they say"
S they say. yes. Teheran to Tim
| buktu. But what does he say himsel1
lines? Shuffles mostly. doesn't he.
I And who's met him anywhere? Not q
soul who will come forward to speak
. / tell you. Amy. there's something un.
. canny about his Patrick Cambel.. He
turns up here periodically in Londor
/. after some vague exploring trip to &
place which isn't mapped. and you car
never pin him to tell exactly where
e he's been. He comes with money
spends 1t en- prince and then goes of
again. nominally perhaps to the Cob
d desert. and returns with another
d cargo"
How romantic!" said Miss Rivers.
d YES. isn't it," said her fiance dryly
III he'd lived a century earlier, on,
would AVE said he'd got a sound bus
It lness connection ~ a pirate some
II where West Indies way. AZ this yea
Is 1893 and that explanations barred
~ one simply has to accept him as a
o uncomfortable mystery"
Hamilton, how absurd you are
Wherever cid all this rigmarole com
- from?"
!. Prom the club and London gossip
Ing places generally. I suppose "
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