The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-10

llAed upon Clandonald and his COM
p,nons. He had, In fact, been under
their close observation whenever prac.
ticenblo since leaving New York hnrbor,
in tho course Of their owners predatory
walks, as she alternately drew near
ond reccded with graceful feline tread,
seeming to look at nothing. yet for
ever alert where the good-looking, lnzy
young Engllsfman was concerned.
The youthful steward who distends
himself for the publ, good by blow
ing the buEle for lunch, was, on this
occasion, the agent of Providence to re-
licvc q strained situation. Clandonalia
could not. in the face Of such II blast,
SC on with his implied offer OF chnnr
Z .pionsllip. The second-cabin passenger
glided swiftly back across her little
bridge, and was seen no more. Miss
Winstanley, announcing herself half
starved, went to her stnteroom to wash :
her hands. And his lordship, to calm
his feelings, ~partook Of q certain small,
specially revivfng, bittcr-sweet draught,
which his servant hal acquired the
gentle. art of mixing, during their So
journ in San Francisco. On the way
into the dninE-room, he found Marlol
just ahead of him, amid a congcrie Of
stewards hurrying to and from their
pantries with their arms full of crock.
cry, ana in an atmosphere tinctured
with outrushing odors of cauliiowcr
uru CuTTlGu TlCC, gave Ills lIleIu Il worn
"A OF counsel.
II have been talking with Miss Win
stanley he said. "The truth is, Mariol,
the poor girl is being pccked by all
these women, until it hurts. You have
some Friendship, perhaps some influence,
with Miss Carstairs. Persuade her to
be generous, and take the outsider in.
II will cost her nothing, and I'm hang
ed il L understand why she's been such
ali iciclo, as t Is"
did Miss Winstanley invite your
intercession?" asked Mariol, lodging
back from contact with a fitting china
riate marked with the White Stars en-
hlem. borne aloft by deeply apologize
steward
mo. Absolutely no. She'd fight to
the last ditch before she'd give In to
them. But / have an Interior motive.
I want to ask the two young women
with my dear old aunt. Lady Camps
town, to play propriety, to como down
with you to Bcaumanoir some day next
week, and If they hardly speak -
Under these circumstances. will
engage to attempt the impossible.
another story. T. too, have been at
loss to fathom Miss Carstairs' ap-
parent intention to ignore our pretty
table-mate. had fanced her too sure
OF her own position to care about q
mere difference in social status. I have
+ by any chance, tho discussion Of Miss
Winstanley comes up, there is an i'm
mediate stiffenng Of tho m,iscles of the
neck and chin, the clear eyes become
yelled, and she turns tho subject. l.
couldlalmost fancy, but that they never
met before. there was some personal
aLimus between them"
"s '"fell her the girl Is her devoted lover
z from afar. makes her model in all
things, and that we owe the agree
able notifications to the fair Posey's
dress and manner exclusively to Miss
Carstair's example,"
"That is a happy suggestion, and may
& accomplish good results. But did you
over know a mans eulogy Of a wo-
man effect ANYTHING with her own sex:
It Is generally successful only in con-
flrming the worst predispositio and
in preclpitating animosity where latent
antipathy had sufiiccd Still, who could
resist the exquisite fattery of such imi
tetion as our Posey's of Miss Carstairs?
Tx your day for Beaumanoir, my dear
Il clap. / consider our cause gained III
advance"
do you know, N1nriol." said Clan
donald, as the two men sat down at ia
lie, where the Indies had not yet ar
rived. IT have sometimes fancied that
you yourself GRE getting rather under
the spoil. OF the young lady you have
engaged to placate in Miss Winstanley's
behalf
do yon know, Clan. that never be-
fore suspected you of the imaginative
E;ft? Nothing but Jonah's gourd---was
it Jonah, and was It u Eourd?-that
grew up and withercd in a night, could
have had 80 little time allotted to its
natural development, as fancy by mo
for Miss Carstars."
"That Is no argument. I have read Of
love affairs beginning ut the Statue of
Liberty and eliminating before the
Gulf Stream was crossed. There Is
really no better medium than mid-At.l
lantic air for the growth of the ten
der passion The leisure of q good voy-
age is like the forty years OF Europe
compared with the cycle of Cathay."
TT seems to me that you arc cxcul-
patory."