The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-07-28
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Lady GwendoIin S Quest. :

tailed to the eldest son mt her fathers
death looked out mt the changed pros
pect before her with deep solicitulc.
There was little enough income t" cn-
able her brother to keep up the title.
and she must necessarily from having
been the presiding lady of her fathers
hollsphol,l-he was q widOwer-l" feie
gated to what one in America would
call n "hnck seat" As to u desirable
marriage. Lady Gwandolin complainc"
that the rich American girls had Taken
possession of the English field. But it
occurred to her that If the titled men
of England cot.Id get rich wives in
America, why should not the titled
women get rich husbands? She re
solved to go to America.
Lady Gwendolin had n friend. Lucy
Kennerly, also Il member of tilted
family. who was DESTROYS OF seeing the
world Lady Gwcndolin. who WAS
nearly thirty. brought it about that the
two should visit America together.
Lucy kennerly preferred Egypt. b,'t
since her friends mind was set on
America she consented. Had she
known the object of the visit she would
not likely have been so complaisant.
The two ladies' brought with them in
troluctorv letters. Lady Gwendolin,
who managed her campaign with grea
foresight. secured Il number to people
Of the commercial and manufacturing
classes. Her object was to leave society
men out of her calculations. rather di
recting her eiior :, those directly in
terested in "r"#ti r!oney making con
Germs In Ia: ~ vas wise Society
men :re 1T - al matrimona'ly in
clned, and the rich manufacturers
who largely are without the prestige
Of family no sooner get rich than they
begin To crave Il family tree.
One of the visitors letters gave them
an invitation to visit the owner and
president of the Mix Manufacturing
company. There was no man present
except old Mr. Mix. who was married,
and Lady Gwendolin mt once resolved
to cut the visit short. But Mr.. Mix in
sisted on showing them through the
works of the company. They were
obliged to colnply-that is. Lady Gwen
dolin was Her friend was quite anx
ious to see the plant The president in
tended to conduct his titled guests him
self. but arriving at his Office found 81
matter awaiting him requiring his i'm
mediate attention. so he turned them
over to the secretary. The secretary
led them through various workshops
till he came to the foundry. There he
turned them over to a workman in
overalls with grimy hands and u
smndged face.
Now. Lady Gwendolin had no mind
to spend her time in America looking
ut mechanical contrivances explained
by greasy mechanic. and throughout
the tour Of inspection of the foundry
she showed her impatience. Not so her
friend She listened politely to all the
workman said. asking him many ques-
tons Indeed 50 infinitely did she look
into everything that Lady Gwendoin
snapped:
"Wcll. If you want tn make Il foun-
dry woman of Yourself. I'm going to
sit here and wait till yon get through"
She threw hcsaclf on IL bench. raising
her skirts 50 - not to come in contact
with the cindcts floor. and waited impa-
tiNntly for III ''td of the inspection.
When Lre, 1nerly could find moth
ing more o. g. rrest she thanked her
conductc,. -. Yer sweetest smile. and
the two La eft the foundry.
Good gracious. Lucy" exclaimed
Lady Gwendoln. ''how gould YOU be so
familiar with a common Workman"
ri found him perfectly familiar with
the manufacturing processes. and ~
such things interest me-" replied the
other
Lady Gwendolins American trip was
failure She received a number Of
bites. but there were no fortunes
among them. and nothing except Il
fortune would avail She went back
to England protesting that she would
rather marry government clerk than
an American. The latter had no re-
spect for brit, and were too busy max
ing money to become gentlemen. Lucy
Kennerly. on the contrary. expressed
herself rs much pleased with the coun
try and the people and fancied the way
many rich mems sons devoted them
selves to active business instead of be
coming social puppets
The fellow travellers failed to see
much of each other for some months
after their return. Then one day Miss
Kennerly wrote Lady Gwendolin an
nouncing her engagement and asking
her friend to officiate at the wedding.
It must come off ut once. since she was
to marry one of those busy Americans
who couldn't spare enough time even
to cOnsummate their marriages prop
erly Miss Kennerly wrote al ilegible
hand and the recipient of the note
could not make out the groom's name.
Lady Gwendolin had noticed while in
America the attentions of Il poor So
ciety man 10 her friend and had warn
ed Lucy against him.
On the day of the wedding Lady
Gwendolin drove up to Hawoth, the