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are found out you consider then
amusing. Afterwards. being better
down as most pernicious %scoundrels
and shake hands with yourself anG
write to YOU tailor and order NOR
noticeable phylacteries on the next new
suit This is called Keeping up a
healthy moral tone" and does a great
THE AUTHOR.
Scalloway. Shetland Islands, 1894.
CHAPTER ].
TIE ANTECEDENTs OF PATRICK
CAMBEL
HE has," said Fairfax, "a genial in
science of manner which seems rather
taking with some people But / confess
you would have cared to see twice,
Amy"
'You are prejudiced obviously, and
I've a good mind to say maliciously
prejudiced. I don't know how much
YOU saw of him because I can't be in
vlted to a Wanderers club dinner. You
don't know how much I saw of him be-
aus o missed some distant train
and didn't come here to the ball last
night. But I'll tell you I saw all l
could. He's perfectly and entirely
charming. He's been everywhere, done
everything. and isn't a bit blase."
Il heard" said Fairfax, that Mrs.
Shelf was t%rotting 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 and hold
q small audience spelIbound with a Sc
lection from his adventures"
Miss Rivers shrugged her shoulders.
Not he, but you know what Mrs.
s lelf is when she gets any show per-
ION nf nro nf hn~ f,yr IT, I'D
to stand it for a while because she
held on to him as though he might
have been her fan. But he escaped as
soon as he decently could by saying
that he wanted to dance. He asked me
to give him the fourth waltz. l did
1t out of sheer pity. because I saw
Mrs. Shells thumbscrews were making
him writhe.'
Shows how little a man may know
about the girl he Is engaged to. Now,
I had always imagined that, having.
The pick of the men. you Invariably
wrote down the best dancers, and
never saddled yourself with a stranger
Amy Rivers laughed. That's gen
eralizing. But it was different last
night because I am, 81 to speak. a
member of the household here. A ward
counts as a sort of a niece. doesn't she,
or between that n an adopted
daughter7 But anyhow It was out of
sheer pity for Mr. Cambel In the first
qualms that I let him AXE me down to
dance. I quite intended after half a
round to say the room vas too crowd
ed and go and SIT somewhere. That is
to say, I made up my mind to do this
when he asked me.
However, when I dropped my fin
gers on his arm to go down stairs, I
h0H NM 1Narhko vo,, rr1-y - fto, 4-.~
seasons n gets instinctiyely to know
by the first touch how q man will
dance. And when he put his arm
around me n We moved to h music
! felt like going forever Waiting is
hard just, now because it's in a transit
t1on state between two styles, but his
dancing was something to dream
about. We started off with the new
lest quick waltz. Hamilton, it was Just
ilovely. He was 70 perfect hat Just
.for experiment l alter my step-by de-
igrees. you know. Automatically, with
out anything being. seen. he changed.
too, and we were dancing the old slow
glide before I knew. And his steering
was perfect. In that whirling. tenn
nee. I gave him two more legal.
waltzes and cut another couple In his
favor.
Which makes Nv IN sn." said Fair
Nax rattle stifly.
Amy Rivers Q his hand and pat
ted IT. Don't be croks, dear. You
know I love a good dance. and one
doesn't meet a partner Hike Mr.. Cam
bel every day. / uppose he's done
his Waiting in Vienna n Paris and
Yorkshire and New Orleans as we'll as
here in London. n by averaging them
all up he can't help hut be good"
rs 1t from going to those places hat
A. A CL-1R Z 49, F. kI- 5000
traveler?"
"Of course % Hamilton, how
stupid YOU are about him! Why. he's
runlmaged about in every back corner
of the world, SO they say"
$50 they say. yes. Teherun to Tim
buktu. But what does he say himself
about his wanderinss beyond the tram
lines? shufrles mostly. doesn't he?
And hos met him anywhere? Not a
soul who will come forward to speak.
I tell you. Amy. there's something I'M
cainy about his Patrick Cambel. He
turns up here periodically in London
after some vague exploring trip to a
place which isn't mapped. and you can
never pin him to tell exactly where
he's been. He comes with money.
spends 1t en- prince and then goes off
again, nominally perhaps to the Cobb
desert, and returns with another
cargo"
How romantlc!" said Miss Rivers.
Eyes, isn't it?" said her f1ance dryly.
"If he'd lived a century earlier, one
would have said he'd got a sound bus
mess connection as u pirate some
where West Indies way. As this year
is 1893 and that explanations barred,
one simply has to accept him as an
uncomfortable mystery"
"Hamiiton, how absurd you are!
Wherever did all this rigmarole come
from?"
"From the club and London gossip
ing places generally l suppose we
ought to be indebted 20 Cambel for
providing US something to talk about
But. tell me, IL his antccedents are
go queer. how Is it ne goes about SO
much here? He's apparently asked
everywhere-at least SO Mrs. Shelf says
ard he knows everybody who's worth
knowing"
Fairfax laughed. why doe London
sstisty take up with an ex-bushranger
frc.- Australia or q Efcgiied advertis-
ing cowboy from the Wild. wild west?
Simply because London society is eX-
ersiasiy parcchial and gn4s desperately
rcred WITH its own Ii tie sci: u%ndfluted.
\lrErw. CaHll,ei has undoubtedly wan