The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-02-12

wants you at her hotel, the Grand, Rue
| Noailles. You're to look after that
plumbing job in her house in London.
The master plumber is robbing her.
4 Awfully sorry | cannot accommo-
date your mother, Maud remarks An
struther The carriage engaged by
Barnes is standing ready for them.
We steer straight to the depot.
thought your mother was in London
already
No we're going back to Nice. Won
Bulow is there. Between us all, ma
means to marry him How | pity the
German. Ill ride up with you and tell
you all about it, cries the Chartris
girl, whose widowed mother sternly
represses the unfortunate Maud from
growing into young ladyhood and abso-
lutely denies her birthdays till she,
Lady Chartris. has captured another
husband
Already Enid and Marina are on the
back seat, Anstruther steps in; Barnes
| likewise.
Room for one more" cries Maud.
who springs in and kisses both of the
| young ladies effusively.
Already the carriage having rolled
up the Boulevard des Danes and
passed the Arc de Triomphe has
turned into the Rue Bernard du Bots,
making for the big railway station,
out of which nearly all trains leave
Marseilles not only for Paris, but
everywhere else.
You give my compliments to your
mother, Maud remarks the sailor,
trying to cut off Mauds conversation.
Tell her to write me at my London
address and I'll hoist her plumber at
/ the yard-arm
BY this time they are at the great
station. Miss Chartris skips out and
Trains are ready to leave for the four
quarters of the globe: the platforms
are filed with burrying passengers.
Ii is hard to believe medieval VEN
delta can be inserted on such scene.
Barnes, glancing at his watch finds
/ they have ten minutes before the train
departs: he says cheerfully but hur
/
win; I'll find Tompson and the rest of
the baggage aud goes off TO get the
tickets and make the necessary ar
rangements.
But look out for the ladies' is
more easily said than done.
Three jabbering porters have seized
! their hand baggage and are carrying
it in sections towards different trains
| that will scatter the pieces to the west
and the Pyrenees, to the east and Italy.
Edwin pursues these; then Enid
gives gasp. Another porter, calling:
Aries, Tarascon and Avignon!' has
pounced upon her special handbag and
is rushing away with it, Miss An
struther flies after him, leaving Maud
and Marina together.
Five minutes later, Barnes returns
to find Edwin supporting Marina,
whose face is very pale, and whose
eyes are scarcely conscious. Were it
not for the stout arm about her, she
would fall to the platform of the great
ing throng.
Miss Chartris is gazing meditatively
at her, chewing the e-enameled
knob. of her parasol and furtively tuck
ing something in her glove.
What the deuce has happened to
herr" asks the American.
She is too i'll to speak," answers
the young husband, astounded. What
am to do? We cannot take her on
the train in this shape. She is abso-
lutely unfit to travel. She has nearly
tainted again For Marina's eyes
seeing Edwin, close again in apparen,
despair.
What produced it9' demanded
Barnes. She was the picture OF
health when left her
Here Enid runs up with her replev
ined handsatchel
do you know how this occurred?'
asks Edwin, eagerly.
Not so much as you do" replies
Miss Anstruther; Maud, how did this
happen?" She turns suspicious eyes
upon Miss Chartris, who cries nervous
ly: What are you jumping on me
for? | was only keeping Marina's
naDQDaS ana uInDfelia, ana EQWln
canes and rug. and | looked round anG
she'd got it in the neck"
Not dagger" shudders Enid. Blu
hasty inspection OF Marina's white
throat relieving her, Miss Anstruthel
cries: Maud, how dare you use sucf
ambiguous Americanisms! What ha:
) she got?"
How do | know?" pouts Maud, ag
excessively. She was too groggy Il
; speak,
1T can't be paralysis, shudders tn,
groom. trying in vain to revive Ma
rina.
Not a bit" answers, Barnes, afte
hasty examination.
DO you think We dare put her OF
5 the train?' queries Edwin. anxiously.
las, friend, would say we mus
get her away, but" The American
pauses.
t Mercy. You have some news from
| AiacciO2" Enid breaks in tremhlipp