Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-07
A Fairy Story of T
Bv ROY HORNIMAN


was the sort of thing which they had
been trained to surmount by allowing
him to think that he was having his own
way.
To their immense surprise all wages
were raised. AS matter of fact. this
was the very acme of policy. for Anthony
discovered that Cammarleigh was under
the impression that SO long as he was
getting his servants trifie below the
market price he was economizing. lie
was determined that things should work
smoothly. and had il been possible to in
still such thing esprit de corps into
the mind of the domestic servant he
would have done so.
Cammareigh grumbled loudly at the
salary which Anthony insisted on paying
the new chef.
You have been eating dinners" an
swered Anthony. with distinctly South
Kensington flavor-the sort of thing peo-
pie do not expect to find west of knights
bridge-and for q man who has political
ambitions it Is suicidal
"Who says that l have political ambi-
tions?"
"Why. you know very well that 1t is
one Of the greatest griefs of your life that
you have never been asked to join the
cabinet. Now. with a really good chef
it might be possible.
81 wish you wouldn't talk so eXtrava-
gantly." said Cammarleigh. Its bad
habit
on tn1nk L talk eNIratdSantlv. SdlC
Anthony because for the first time you
are being taught to give trifles their due
weight. To measure the real Importance
of anything is most difficult. murder
may very often be quite unimportant. A
missed opportunity for offering an am
bassador a really good cigar may affect
the fate of nations. Oh" he continued
almost passionately, IF people would
only grasp what a wonderful paradox
the psychology Of the universe is! 1t is
sad thing. Cammarleigh, that you are
like the rest of the world-you only deal
in the two primitives. white and black. -
Cammarleigh had quite given up the at
tempt to suppress what he felt to be An
thongs extraordinary Intelligence by as
serting himself as a person of extreme
social consideration. Anthony had the
most unexpected way of at once ignoring
and recognizing 1t.
Really" Cammarleigh had said on one
occasion. you talk to me as if l were
years younger than you"
HAS it ever struck you to suppose, -
said Anthony, opening his eyes In sur
prise. that you are as old as 1 am?''
What do you mean?'
Have you ever heard of reincarnation
It's the sort of thing believed in by
women with short hair and ready-made
skirts. who will tell you without a trace
of humor that they are Apollo or Adonis
come to life again. Perhaps. however,
he continued, refectively. there may be
something I'm 1t. 1t is possible that those
beautiful beings were SO surfeited with
the sweetness of their own physical per-
lection that they decided to give up any
thing in the nature of beauty and become
reincarnated as intellectual women"
But what has that to do with your
ridiculous remark about being older than
l amp asked Cammarleigh.
why, don't you see / started being re-
incarnated a great deal sooner than you
did. The actual age of ones present
body has got nothing to do with ones
real age"
Cammarleigh looked vacant 1t sounded
rather like puzzle which represented
the high-water mark of after-dinner wit
of a certain bishop who was a cousin OF
his. and which had something to do with
a herring and a half. He-was prepared
to believe that Anthony was a thousand.
amazing instinct for the facts of life. He
had more than once expressed astonish-
ment that Anthony should not have made
fortune long ere they met.
THAT is very easily explained" An
thony had said II have never mad the
mind of a huckster. 1 have always
wanted a lever. Great minds deal in great
opportunities. 1t is absurd to suppose
that Napoleon would necessarily have
been great without the French revolution
My geniu9 consists
'That will do" said Cammarleigh, hur-
riedly.
Anthony bowed courteously. He always
apologized at once when he found him.
self referring unnecessarily to the details
of their relationship.
Cammarleigh ate the dinners which An
thony ordered. and was fain to admit
that his digestion improved hourly.
Perhaps one of their greatest differ
ences was on the subject of Anthony S
clothes. Cammarleigh said that he over
dressed. and limited that it was his b.
hemian training which was responsible.
IF you mean,' said Anthony. that l
wear clothes which attract attention you
are right. The dictum that a gentleman
is we'll dressed when you don't notice
what he has on is absurd. You cannot
write down all the great handles such as
Brummel, Beau Nash. Disraeli and
D'Orsay as not being gentlemen.
Times have changed. A gentleman is
anxious to avoid observation. nowadays -
Not If he is as beautiful as l am
said Anthony, audaciously. MY dear
Cammarleigh. you may be perfectly GER
tain that even in the days of the dandies
the majority of men cried out against
them because they knew that their own
figures would not stand experiments
THAT greatcOat you wore last night
had a skirt. and the waist looked as
though you were wearing corSets''
THAT is just it. | wasn't wearing cor
sets. but my iniitators will have to-
Cammarleigh rose to his feet angrily
Your esotsm is simply nauseous'
Anthony flushed.
Don't associate me with horrid words
It's the one thing that ann6ys me-