The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11

over his collar, but now studied him somewhat carefully. He Is a slight man with a pale face in which the lack of color is emphasized by the peculiar reddish tinge of his hair and pointed beard. Ills face shows refine ment. imas ination and a great capacity for enthusiasm. especially his eyes. which arc brown, large. and So bril- liant that when he talks of subjects that interest him they seem fairly to glow. For the rest his thin and moderately tall form was dressed In the inevitab gray tweed of the Eng lishman off parade. Ho carried light walking stick and soft gray hat in one hand.
 He greeted us much more pleasantly htane we had any right to expct and in answer to our questions he showed us some of the rooms explaining the two fine old fireplaces In his dining room by saying that he had enlarged 1t by making two smaller rooms into single large room. He conducted us through the various rooms himself in- cluding the reen-house-I was care- full to note that he called 1t that and not a conservatory--where the red tiled walls were banked with heliotrope and Muscat vines climbed under the glass roof. In answer to some questions from Hendrix who, being literary was interested in such things. the author took us into his library and showed us the big bound volumes containing the manuscript copy of his various books all written In a clear flowing in between as well as the margins fIl-
 inbetween as well as the margins f3lI- ed with changes and corrections made in the process of revision. To my mind these books were the most inta- resting things we had seen except the author himself. but they evidently bored Mrs. Bedell for she said suddenly in her best society tone. :.
 'Tt must be lovely to live in this dear old castle. Mir Caine. Do tell us something about it's history
 The author looked at her gravly and 1t was impossible to tell whether or not amusement was concealed be- hind those brilliant big eyes.
 Tt isn't a castle really he said. "At least 1t always has seemed to me that the name is much too grand for 1t. But that was not my doing. It was named by the man who built 1t. twenty or thirty years before I was born. So you seo 1t cannot ever claim antiquity. When bought 1t fifteen years ago tho name had been so long in use that 1t was quite hopeless to change it--one must think of the postman YOU know, not to speak of ones correspondents. fSuL QOH LCiAlHB GAgOAe thaN dwell in marble halls. just because my house happens to be called a castl."
 suspect that he was amused. but of course Mrs. Bede1l didn't fathom that. "Do you have many visitors from America drawn hither by your de- scriptions of the people and their life7" she went on sewetly. Ignoring the violent nudges of my elbow--or maybe she didn't feel it for she faces horribly and wears armor plate corsets
 This time the novelist smiled. He doesn't look like man who laughs often, but his smile was a very plea sant one.
 T am afraid cannot answer for the cause of their coming" he said. You can hardly expect me to answer that I only hope the fattering suggestion underlying your question Is true, though in that case as a Manxman I Awhoslae have to be somewhat jealous on behalf of the Island whose attractive ness Is to me complete But I am happy to say that there are many. very many American visitors.'
 "I do hope you like Americans" Mrs. Bedell went on brazenly. unhaeding my frantic signals. There, 1t was out the inevitable question. I blushed 10 the roots of my hair with modification but the author didn't seem to mind in the least. In fact he grey more anil mated than he had been at any time during the interview. Indeed I io.