The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-17
BarbaEOus lHlpudence.

''How do you account" said the Eng |
liSh girl, "fcr the way your American
girls marry our most desirable bache- |
lors? mean those cases where money
Is not the prime motive"
''Well, / think impudence has more
to do with It than anything else"
"Impudencei What do you meanr
Perhaps / had better illustrate.
VIII tell you a story Of which the hero
inc, If she can be called such, is well
known to me. AS girl she was no
more like the typical English girl than
a gypsy is like queen. She was nine
teen years old, not very pretty, with
a thin, fairly tall figure and a pair of
eyes with which she could expresssany
emotion she felt or did not feel. She
was doing England as thousands Of
Americans do Europe gutdebook In
hand-in company with a party from
her native state, Indiana.
well, one morning two or three of
them, the girl-Eliza Kimball, I'll call
her-included, went TO visit an English
castle near the Scotch border. There
were two other girls, an elderly man
and a boy. They walked to the castle
and stood at the gate waiting to know
If strangers were admitted; but, since
there appeared to be no gatekeeper
about, Eliza led the way In. They
hadn't gone dozen steps before a man
in overalls, his hands covered with
black grease, came out of basement
door and, seeing the party approach
Ing. waited till they came up.
".Are strangers admitted to the cas-
tleP asked Eliza.
"'Not today
"'Oh, dear, we've come all the way
from Indianapolis to see it. How dis
appointingT
"'And where is Indianapolisr asked
the man.
indianapolis! You don'tknowwhere
Indianapolis Isl I'm surprised. If you
had our public school system in Eng
land even a mechanic like you would
know where that is. It's the capital
Of Indiana. United States of America
"'Well, since you've come so far to
see the castle I suppose I'll have to
| give you chance. Come with me-
HE showed them everywhere, in
side and outside. Eliza walked beside
him, plying him with questions. She
soon noticed that any one they met
showed surprising Difference to their
guide.
"'Who is the man in overallsT she
asked Of lackey.
"'He's Lord Walter Furgeson, his
grace's youngest son.
"'You don't mean it! What makes
him wear such togsr
"'He has a fancy for machinery
He's invented many valuable things
"'Oh, he has! Much obliged for the
information And she rejoined the
party. Sailing up beside Lord Walter
she said.
"'Come; we've had enough of these
musty pictures. There's not a rea
bright one among them. Show u:
something more inspiriting'
''The young man smiled. There's
nothing here less than 800 years old
not even the furniture
"'Well, then, think it time you go
soma new things. If a chair last
/ y
it's doing well. We throw it away
after that and get new one. 1t keeps
things fresh
Everything is fresh in America,
believe
"'Even we girls. We haven't an,
old fashioned notions. Now, In Amer
4 lea, if you, even In your overalls, wer
to show yourself worthy, you'd b
s treated just as well as any one
"'Would /, indeedT
T. Certainly. You come to Indianapo
lis when I'm there, and I'll show yor
around and introduce you everywhere
You can wear your overalls too.
''They went through the rest of tn
> old pile and at everything that wa
I. particularly ancient Eliza would say
= Why don't you freshen it upT O
s Can't the duke afford to buy a ne1
y oneT or make some other equally der
recating remark. And when thei
: guide led them to the gate she took
r half crown from her portemonnaie an
{ handed it to him. He didn't want t
take 1t, but she said: Nonsense
You've earned it. Never refuse wha
j you've earned honestly. That's th
way our men get rich and their daugf
tiers come over here to marry int
your nobility and keep these old ca:
ties patched up with their fathers fol
q tunes
Lord Walter took the coin an
went up to his apartments to chang
his costume for evening dress.
"'How 1 did fool that America
girlp he said to his valet.
"T think not, your lordship.' sal
) the valet Murphy told me she aske
id him who you were and he told her.
in ''The young man paused in putin
lie on a white silk waistcoat with gol
ID buttons and stared.
u "'By Jovep he exclaimed, and thu
Ne was his only comment.
''He Joined party of high bred En-
r lish girls at dinner. but he couldn't di
~ miss from his mind that impudel
American girl who had dared to tai
- to him, knowing his station, as II l
In had really been a greasy mechani
a. That night he lay awake thinkir
ID about her thin form, her American a