The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-05-30
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THE ANTECEDENTS OF PATRICK
CAMEL.

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THE ANTECEDENTs OF PATRICK
CAMBEL.
III has" said Fairfax, "a genial in
science of manner which seems rather
taking with some people. But l confess
l shouldn't AVE thought him the man
you would have cared to see twice,
Amy"
You are p~rejudiced obviously, and
I've a good mind to say maliciously
prejudfced. | don't know how much
YOU saw OF him because L can't be in
Vlted to a Wanderers club dinner. You
don know how much / saw of him be-
cause 0 missed some distant train
and didn't come here to the ball last
night. But I'll tell you. I saw all 1
could. Hes perfectly and entirely
charming. He's been everywhere, done
everything, and isn't a bit blase."
Il heard" said Fairfax, 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 a side room n hold
a small audience s%pellbound with a Sc
lection from his adventures"
Miss Rivers shrugged her shoulders.
NOT he, but you know what Mrs.
Shelf Is when she gets any show per-
son at n of her functions. He had
to stand 1t for q while because she
hell on to him as though he might
have been her fan. But he escaped as
soon as he decently could by saying
mat he wanted to dance. He asked me
70 give him the fourth waltz. / did
It out of sheer pity. because 1 saw
Mrs. Shells thumbscrews were making
him writhe'
Shows how little a man NAV know
about the girl he is engaged to. Now,
1 mad always imagined that having
the PICK of the men, you invariably
wrote down the best dancers, and
never saddled yourself with a stranger
VINO was q very possible duffer."
eralizing. But it was different last
night because I am, so to speak. a
member Of the household here. A ward
counts as a sort of a niece, doesn't she,
or between that and an adopted
daughter? But anyhow it was out of
sheer pity for Mr.. Cambel in the first
instance, and it was with distinct
qualms that I let him take me down to
dance. l quite intended after half a
round to say the room was too crowd
cd and go and sit somewhere. That is
70 say, l made up my mind to dc this
when he asked me.
However, when l dropped my fin
gers on his arm to go down stairs, /
a my doubts. You know after two
seasons n gets instinctively to know
by the first touch how a man will
dance. And when he put his arm
around me and we moved to the music
l felt like going forever. Waiting is
hard Just now because it's in a transit
ton state between two styles, but his
dancing was something to dream.
about. We started off with the new
est quick waltz. Hamilton, it was lust
lovely. He was SO perfect that just
Tor experiment alter my step-by de-
grees. you know. Automatically, with
anything being seen, he changed,
IOOy4And We yvay.aN a. ooipr Ao1J C1pxr,
glide before | knew. And his steering
was perfect. In that whirling, tenn
Ing, tangled mob he never bumped me
once. | gave him two more legal
Waltzes and cut another couple In his
Which makes Ave In ALL" said Fair
fax rathe !stiflly.
Amy Rivers Q his hand and pat
ted 1t. Don't be- cross, dear. You
know 1 love n 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 as well as
here in London, and by averaging them
all up he can't help but be good"
is 1t from going to those places thai
Mrs. Shelf called him the great
of course not. Hamilton, how
you are abou him! Why, he's
: $3.50 hNSto - S0SNA A. SN NJ J0 ON y
of the world, SO they say"
they say, yes. Teheran to Tim
But what does he a himself
about his wanderings beyond the tram
lines? Shufrles mostly, doesn't. he?
who's met him anywhere? Not a
soul who will cors,e forward to speak.
1 tell you. Amy, there's something un-
caaiy about this Patrick Cambel. He
turns up here periodically in London
after come vague exploring trip tt a
plsse which ism mapped, and you can
never pin Kim to tell exactly where
he's been. He comes with money,
it en- prince and then goes Off
again. nominally perhaps to the Cobb
desert. and returns with another
c&lgo.
How romantlc!. said Miss Rivers.
Yes, S IT," said her ffanee sdryiy.
IL he'd lived q century earlier, one
would have said he'd got sound bus
where West Indies way. AS this year
Is 1893 n that explanations barred,
simply has to accept him as an
uncomfortable mystery,
Hamilton. how absurd you are!
Whersyer cid all this rigrnarole come
From the club and London gossip
Ing places generally, / suppose we
ought to be Indebted to Cambe for
p~scyiaing us something to talk about.
81 tell me, IL his antecedents are
go queer, how is it he goes about so
much here Hes apparently asked
evsrywhere-at least SO Mrs. Shelf says
and ne Knows everybody who's worth
lsaawiB ~,
Fairfax laughed. .Why does London
sasi4ts take up with an ex-bushrang ger
from australia or a glontled advertis-
lng cowboy from the Wild. wild west?
simply because London society Is ex-
slFS NEWT Ia f0rlia y ays7 rcSer