Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-29

| troled manner yesterday 1t said as plainly
as words that chorus girl to the contrary
Notwithstanding, she was the key to the
situation. She occr-'ed her usual place by
| the side Of the younger Mrs. Thaw. She in
cluded herself in the morning bow from the
prisoner, who wasted neither smile nor DEM
onstration in his greeting to his family.
She accompanied Evelyn on her midday
visit to the Tombs for chat with her hus-
band, which is now part of the regular
prescribed proceedings And she looked at
the Countess of Yarmouth not with the
coldly unseeing eye OF the nobility, but
with stu lied calculation that felt no en-
barrassment. Miss Mackenzie, in short,
was the embodiment of force.
The chorus girl has lost no whit of her
composure through the disdain of the Thaw
women. Her small foot has not drawn back
an inch at their command. She has taken
her place and she will keep that place
throughout the trial-the interference may
prove to be ill-judged Nothing now but
the law, as II acts upon witness, can
drive her from Evelyn Thaw's side.
Miss Mackenzie will submit to no i'm
position. When a man stood close to her
yesterday and appeared to be staring bold
in a little book, she called the court Of
fcer sharply and babe him make that
man cease annoying her" The officer
was hustling him away when young Mrs
Thaw looked up and recognized him with
cordial smile.
The blooming health of the Countess of
Yarmouth is apt denial Of all reports Of
the inroads of grief. She is the picture
Of well-conditioned young woman with
nothing to displease her except the en-
tourage in which she finds herself placed
She was carefully removed from the neigh
borhood of Evelyn and May Mackenzie,
seating herself in front of them with George
Carnegie in the morning, and in the after
noon being supported by her brother, Jo-
siah, on the other side. He did his ut
most to shield his sister from the pencils
Of the many artists in court and though
she sat with her veil raised the countess
SO arranged II that 1t fell from the brim
Of her hat, between her and her persecu-
tors.
While the general resemblance between
the sisters is pronounced, the youth of the
newly-made British peerless shows by con-
tract with Mrs. Carnegie's heavier and
less pleasing features Any beauty that the
Countess Alice may flave Is purely that OF
hood. In Mrs. Carnegies face the irrita-
ton, the outrage of her present position has
its fullest expression. 1t Is common to all
three of the women. though In the eider
Mrs. Thaw 1t is toned down. almost over
Swallowed, by the maternal instinct, for
Mrs Thaw In the court room Is not the
woman of wealth, but pre-eminently the
mother. In none of them is there evidence
either of deep sorrow or grave rear AS
in the beginning, the entire party exhales
confidence.
While neither mother nor daughters SEEM
ed to see Evelyn and May Mackenzie. who
were already seated when they reached the
court. the younger Mrs. Thaw. possibly
strengthened by the inspiring example OF
her chum, supported the affront with con-
siderable show of calm. few words OF
cold politeness, more indicative of their re-
moteness than silence. passed between her