New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-24
CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VII.
Ny Dearest Mamma: We are en- route
We left Paris at the cheerful hour Of
a. m yesterday morning. No one was up.
snd there was another train at 80, but
Uncle said that, considering the work that
lay before US we had better not begin by
dawdIing. I DO think there Is a happy
medium between rising at and david
ling" but OF course didn't tell him So
Edna sat UP IN bed and kissed me good
by. She and Mrs. Clary looked upon me
as a cross between the saver of the situa-
ton and a burnt offering on Unelels altar;
but they are all happy. and didn't care
much.
Uncle mapped out the route, and, as a
result, we got down at Chartres about
$50. He put the baggage in consigne, and
then looked about with the air OF charg
er who shifts the battle afar. I stood be-
side him. feeling like Mazeppa just before
they let the horse loose.
The outlook from the station is not very
attractive, and the first thing that Uncle
said was that he didn't believe 1t was
worth while stopping az al. and that he had
good mind 10 go on with the train; but
rust at that instant the train went on by
subject.
You see, there is high ridge that runs
In front OF the station. and Chartres is on
the other side. Nearly all the towns here
seem to be quite a little ways from the rail-
way stations. Mr.. Edgar says it's because
the railroads run after their passengers IN
Europe instead Of running over them, as
they do in America. Uncle says it's very
announcement, anyhow. and he pulled his
hat down hard and said We'll, let's have
look at the cathedral anyway"
So we storned the ridge forthwith. and
spread down into the fiat country beyond.
As we. descended the slope. Uncle began to
be glad he had come Chartres is very
modest and mainly one story high, so the
,'- cathedral towers aloft in most soul-satis-
flying manner. Uncle said ii was Some
thing like" ] was ever so glad that he
felt so. because he said in Beauvais that
something he had read had led him 10 ex-
pect that the cathedral there would be bis
enough 10 hold the Bartholdi Statue OF
Liberty in one Of its inches, and of course
he was horribly disappointed, as a conse-
Quence. -rs= sss. =.
We walked straight to the cathedral. and
81 was so big that Uncle thought We had
better each take one side and meet behind
81 dS ~ save lliile anu not HISS dnStNlGR.
] acquiesced. because I mean to keep him
good tempered. II keeping good tempered
myself and acquiescing Will do So
We started fair" in front of the middle
front door. and I could hardly keep 6
straight face as We walked promptly and
solenlnly of IN opposite directions The
cathedral is enormous and just covered
with carving. and I was only part way
down the side when I saw Uncle coming
around the corner, swinging his umbrella
in the brisl1est sort of manner. He looked
absolutely disguised when he saw me, and
said in the most injured tone Imaginable
''You must have been stopping to look :"
He wouldn't hear to my continuing my
tour of circumnavigaaisn. so we went in
side at once. and there L held the guidebool
and read the explanation while he kept III
a running contradiction OF everything
read. don't see the good OF Uncle's car
rying q guidebook, for he says they needn'
suppose he doesn't know better than mos
Of st.
There is a wonderful carved marble
screen around the altar, and a sacre'
statue with a yellow satin dress on; bu
being inside made Uncle want 20 be outsid,
right away, so We left very quickly anc