The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-03

and directed all his attention to his
wife's as he asked:
you are sure, Muriel, that this
Brumeau is really a great artist? You
know W. have quite trusted to you in
this matter. AS for Schippheim@
MY dear Herbert. don't quote Mr..
S~chippheim. He is quite satisfied with
my choice, and told me yesterday he
was only too delighted to think we
had secured the services of SO great a
man as M. Paul Brumeau."
well, / don't pretend to be a judge
in matters of design; | leave them to
you and S~chippheim, contenting myself
with the practical business details. So
this man is coming tomorrow you say?''
Eyes, and we want to drive over to
Bolton and meet him. AS a foreigner
and a great artist, it would only be
kind, especially as there are no trains
to Arundale on Sunday"
1.-THE carriage on a Sunday! What
will the people think"
| They must learn, my dear Herbert.
that unusual occasions demand unusual
treatment and Lady Muriel's brow
contracted just enough to show she
Intended to have her own way in this
matter.
well, well, well, my love. DO as
you like. I dare say Christian will go
with you. l am sorry I cannot, but /
have arranged to run over some ac-
counts with Schippheim tomorrow aft
%ernoon."
o a Sunday, Herbert! Oh, fer
But Lady Muriel smiled as she chided
him. She had gained her point, and
consequently was in her wonted good
temper.
Lady Muriel was too well bred ever
to suffer herself to be much ruff1ed;
at least in outward appearance; but
those who knew her well Mad no diff
Guilty in reading the determination ex-
pressed in that quicker which every now
and again showed itself on her white
brow. Eric's nurse soon afterward
came and tool him away, and then
the whole party went in to luncheon,
during which repast Lady Muriel never
ceased to about the great fu-
ture that was in store for the porcelain
mandatory of ~Schippheim & Co., I'M
der the artistic direction of M. Paul
Brumeau.
Mr.. Aston was evidently rather
bored, for the important reason that he
understood but little Of what he called
al JdISOIl. tOillll1On uGllL was 10 MIN
as valuable as sevres, provided it
brought in as good a money return.
And there is a good deal-a very good
deal of money to be made out of hon
est earthenware pots and pans,' he
had been heard to observe more than
once when pressed very closely in mat
ters of art.
Somewhat strange, it may be mag
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ner in SO essentially artistic a firm as
that of the great Arundale porcelain
and pottery manufacture. But Mr..
Schippheim had admitted this young
man some ten years ago for two
reasons: first, because he believed in
his business habits; and secondly, be-
caue he brought a good deal of ready
money into the concern, by which
means Mr., Schippheim would be able
to extend the business and put into
working order several slumbering arts
tic plans.
Mr.. Aston was not, however, such a
mere clerk with money as Mr.. Schipp-
helm expected: he did not always agree
with the senior partner in his vagaries,
as he was pleased to call his schemes,
and the disputes between them on the
subject of money were not ~unfrequently
loud and violent. In these, of course,
Lady Muriel took no part. nor, indeed,
was she aware of how frequent were
these disputes.
But leaving the Dale House party to
dawdle through the intervening hours
before the time should arrive to bring
M. Paul Brumeau back from the Bel
ton station as their guest till some
comfortable quarters should be ar
ranged for him in the town, let us turn
u attention to the great potenate of
Arundale, the senior partner. as he sits
on the following Monday morning in
his office in a quadrangle at the back
of the works.