Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-30
A SOCIETY BOMB.

Paris station, and Mrs Munloe, as one
petrifed stood on the platform.
Not know me in London! How dare
you, Lady Silohester; how dare youg If
have tripped and got my name be-
smirched you at least are no better than
|, though society accepts you while T.
Lord Alistair almost lives in Silchester
house Not know me in London! Some
words cut deep, but trust a woman to
outwit woman"
She laughed out loud. forgetfnl Of her
surroundings. Not till an official sug-
gested that the station must be cleared
did she seek the automobile in which
| she and Lady Silchester had a few min
utes before been chatting and smiling
as trusted friends
In the next days express Mrs. Mum
roe was seated. She, too was going to
London
Leaving her luggage and her maid at
| the Grosvenor hotel, she drove to The
! Albany in quiet nook of which Lord
Abstain Bruce's rooms were secluded
from noise and traffic. She rang the
bell as she had often rung it before,
| but not for many months.
"Ah, madame, quel plaisir!"
1t was q welcome and a recognition
that marked for success.
Lord Alistair," she inquired.
| "He is, alas, not to the house. chere
madame, nevaire, neyaire at this hour
She knew that as well as did the sery-
ant
How unfortunate! My business is so
important, and | am so tired" she muir.
INJURED, as if talking to herself.
"Entrez, madame; entrez and rest
awhile. VIII madame perhaps like Il
cup of tea?''
Indeed / should, for | have just ar
rived from Paris"
"Ah!"
Ete opened the door of room where
brie-a -brae and flowers prevailed in eff
Terminate luxury.
One of your good cups of tea, Mat
thieu, and don't hurry; | will rest lit
tie"
The man bowed and left her, closing
the door softly, but rest did not follow.
With fcverish hurry she turned to Lord
Altstair's writing bureau, opened d little
drawer, where she found a very small
key.
| We'll did she know the lock that that
key fitted
''They should be here. Here it was
that mine were always kept Exactly
the same identical blue ribbon What
a large packet! No fear about being
compromised; even / was less plueky.
Beatrice Silchester, your loving Bee
EIa, hal"
The door opened. Matthew had
brought the tea.
Mrs. Munroe was reclining in an arm
chair, her eyes half closed. The letters
were in her pocket.
Matthew looked at her, wondering
why she had come. but had no suspicion.
Ten minutes later she rang the bell
Il will not wait any longer, Matthew;
| am too tired"
She put a sovereign in the mans hand
as she passed out of the door
Two nights later there was fash
ionable gathering at Silchester house.
Mrs. Munroe was among the guests.
Sorry | cannot know you in London
had apparently been forgotten at the
will of a magnate that knows neither
prejudice nor prudery-hridge.
Mrs. Munroe was one of the best
bridge players of the set. Lady Sill
chester had thus been forced to invite
her, but she was more annoyed than she
generally allowed herself to be.
'Why has the woman come to Lon
don?' she repeatedly asked herself.
'She never limited in Paris that she was
likely to come. If only Alistair does not
put in an appearance"
Lord Alistair Bruce was announced.
There was question ON every face as
even bridge forgotten-the assembled
| f,Hi Il. l. l..
\ society bomb had fallen. Everyone
remembered the storyette about Mrs.
Munroe and Lord Alistair. A storvette
scandal and stirred with its exaggerating
tinger--remembered, and looked for the
issue.
Lady Silchester was visibly diseom-
fitted, but Mrs. AIunroes face was radiant
and her eyes twinkled.
Lord Abstain, having been greeted BY
his hostess, nodded to several aequaint-
ances, and finally shook hands with Mrs.
Munroe without the slightest symptom
of annoyance or confusion. He certain
~ did not look as if the present notice
oppressed him, vet even Sir Henry sill
chester man of the world though he
was, was mentally eursing himself for
having prevailed on his wife for bridge
considerations TO invite the meh-talked-
of Mrs. Munroe.
The bridge sets broke up quickly as
though everyone had had enough of the
game. Mrs. Mumoe, who had been Sir
Henry Silchester's partner. sprang up
from the table and making a sweeping
lcurtsey to her host said
Il congratulate you, Sir Henry con
graduate YOU and myself"
Mrs. Munroe had waited till this mo-
ment to make the point for the making
of which she had come to Silchester
house.
From a pocket she had insisted that
her reluctant maid should make in her
lovely trock she produced the letters
that she had stolen from Lord Alistairs
bureau and tossed them ON the table to
| Sir Henry.
There" she said. there are your
wifc's letters TO Abstain Bruce. She