Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-13
CHAPTER XII lContinuedl.

"Change, camb1o! salu 'iio ,...'
testify. Would tourists never ieai \
anything? 49, Mood
Merrihew got 1t through his heao
somehow where the difficulty lay. he
Z went out again, remembering the sign
Cambio hanging in front of the news
stand He lost half a dollar In the eA-
change, but for the time being MS
troubles were over.
Meanwhile Hillard had made IN
entries at the door. No, the omciai
there told him, he had not noticed tne
iady in the veil SO many passed; II
was Impossible to recollect.
And Merrihew found him sitting DIS
eonsolately on the barricade ;,
az hope you are perfectly satlsfled,
ra,d billiard, with an amiability which
wouldn't have passed muster any
where.
ooh. / am satisfied" answered
Merrihew. He stuffed his pockets with
cigars slammed the boxes into the
nase. and locked them up. He col
Sectsd his belongings and repacked
The other case, keeping up a rumbilng
monotone as he did so. "Oh, yes;
am damned satisfied.
RI warned you about tobacco.
Fl know it."
.-You should have told me
.T,know that, too; but didn't want
Fou to lecture me- ,o++ar
"A lecture would have been better
;han waiting here in this barn 1or
three hours
saThree hours?" despondently.
"0h. there's a restaurant, but It's
act Toncb better than this. It's bad;
ylies and greasy plates. a+
Conversation died. For the nrsl
time in the long run of their 1rlenu-
hhin there was GOODNESS between
Them. However, their native sense
hf humor was too strong for TINS
coolness to last. Merrthew was nrse
10 break the silence.
esJack. am an asst" penitently
~ admit IT," said Hillard, smlllne.
let's hunt up the restaurant; am
hungry and thirsty
And by the time they had founo .Ls
Ristorante OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ana
nninyiting-they were laughing.
"Only. j wish knew where tneS
were going" was Hillard's regret.
"They?'' said Merrihew
eyes. The woman with KITTY Is
fhe woman I'm going to find II l
stav in Europe ten years. And When
And her. I'm going to marry her.
sounds good" said Merrihew, pour
Inc himself third glass of very IN
different Beaune.
..And they may be going anywhere
HIT to Monte Carlo-Paris, Cherbours,
Calais. In my opinion, Monte Caroi
is the last place two such women aio
rs ,tSp
.Haye a cigar MerriheW urgea
drolly a paid fifteen cents apiece
for them in Rome. They are now 1our;
for dollar. And suppose lnat -
have to smoke them all UP In Monte
Carlo or the italian end OF this run
will sink the harpoon into me for my
more francs. I'd like to gel tnae
blockhead over the line. Ia customs
him" -,
Don't blame him. He is to be
admired. He is one of the rafltles oi
Europe-an honest Official.
So they sat in the dingy restaurant,
smoking and laughing and grumpins
till the next train was announced. AZ
-FOUR that afternoon they arrived WIN
put further mishap at the most IN
teresting station of its size IN Europe
Monte Carlo. And Merrihew saw
pold whichever way he looked: In the
sunshine on the sea, in the glisten1ng
mills. In the rejecting rails in the
Sefecting windows OF the many
Serraced hotels, in the orange
trees; gold, gold, beautiful gold ma
poleons.
And then. into the omnibus adjoin-
ing. came the man with the scar
CHAPTER XIII.
The Riviera, from San Reno on the
italian side to Cannes on the French
Possesses a singular beauty. Cities
and villages nestle in bays or crown
frowning promontories; and sheltered
villas architectural madness) string
4 nut along the rock-bound coast; and
nrfnces and grand dukes and kings
live in some of these. Often guide
will point out some little palace and
dramatically whisper that this will be
the villa of a famous ballerlna, OF
Epanish dancer, or opera singer, OF
come duchess whose husband never
had any duchy. And seldom these
villas are more than a stones throw
from the villas of the princes anc
grand dukes and kings. Nobility ane
ROYALTY are fond of jovial company
Aladdin's lamp Is not necessary here
where one may build villa by the
hid of ones toes!
Nature-earthly nature-has moth
Ing to do with the morality of hu
manity if it can not uplift. Yet hu
manity can alter nature, beautify i
after a conventional manner, or de
molish it. still after conventional
manner. On the Riviera humanity ha'
nature pretty we'll under hand.
Vilfefranche stands above Nice, be
tween that white city and Mont
Carlo. 1t is quiet and lovely. For thi
reason the great army OF tourists pas
1t by; there is no casino, no band, NJ
streets full of tantalizing shops. o.
the very western limit of Villefranch
on the winding white road which rise
out of Nice, road so frequently pass
ed over by automobiles that haz
of dust always hangs over it, Is
modest little villa, SO modest that
ballerina would scorn it and duel
ess ignore it. IT is, in TRUTH pension
uhero only those who come we'll rec