Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-10-28


ings here and there careless do you
know we have Lord Loveland on the
ship-the Marquis of Loveland? Such
a good looking young man: one OF
the oldest and most distinguished peer
ages in England: family Of soldiers
since the dark ages. though the less
said about some of them since the
days Of tho Georges the better This
boy is not so bad as some Of the Old
boys before him. Not to be desrised
by debutantes, chi
do | know him? Why, In way
we're connections by marriage. You
must remember pretty Lady Betty
Buckley, who took us all by storm II
year or two ago-sister OF the Duke or
Stanforth? Jimmy Marlborough. whom
she married, Is, believe, a fOrty-sec-
ond cousin of mine, and Lady Betty
and Lord Loveland are related. So
you see
And for fear that they should see
something that he did not wish them
to see-he potterod away to get at
Loveland before any one could pos
sib:y have the chance to find out that
they two were strangers.
Meanwhile Loveland had not been
wasting time
He thought that jim Harborough's
hint about deep sea fish" was wise
one wiser than he would have expect
ed from Marlborough. Still, there was
no harm in keeping his eyes open, and.
having kept them open from the first
moment after coming on board, he had
discovered several very pretty girls.
Unluckily, he was too ignorant of
American society TO know which Of his
fellow passengers were most impor-
tant. Sure of his chair, OIL which the
name of "LOveland" already appeared
in the stewards handwriting, he paced
I'D and down and all round the deck,
pipe in mouth and hands in pockets.
A great many other people were pa
rading up and down also.
After half an hours walk Val had
| sele, ted two girls from the rosebud
garden" which he felt bloomed for his
benefit In this mammoth floating flow
er bed. There were so many attrac-
tive ones that 1t was difficult to choose,
vet Val did not doubt that he had
wooded out the best. and he hoped
| that Of the pair one might be the prin-
| ci,;al unmarried millionairess Of the
Maurrtania.
There could hardly have been q
greater contrast between girls than
] between these two whom Lord Love
land had mentally set apart for him
self as q man picks out the most be-
coming neckties from box on shop
counter.
One, who walked the deck with an
elderly man whose likeness Of feature
proclaimed him her father, was very
tall, almost as tall as Loveland, who
could be six footer when he took
the trouble not to SLOUGH. She was
slender In all the right places and
rounded In all the right places. her
waist being so slim that she seemed
held together only by spine and a
ladylike ligament or two. which means
faultlessness Of figure according to
fashion plate standards. She had
FURNISHED auburn hair and magnificent
yellow gray eyes trimmed with dark
ashes.
Val said to himself that the mater
would be pleased with daughter-in-
law Of this type and that such a girl
would never make her husband ashani-
ed. He could not imagine falling In
love with her hard brilliance. But
then he wasn't going to America to
fall In love. His intentions were
strictly businessike. And this girl
was bound to be admired everywhere.
Loveland's second choice might have
been his first for some reasons. and In
fact she was his first by impulse. only
| she did not look as obviously an heir
ess as the other. Neither was she SO
obviously a beauty. yet her charm
leaped at the beholder with the brief
est glance. especially if that beholdet
| were a man.
She was not very tall, and she was
| slim slip of creature not in the least
like a fashion plate. but suggestive o!
soft natural curves even in her navy
blue tailor made frOck.
If she had been stagestruck and
lad asked for chance in the chorus
| theatrical manager would have
found himself giving 1t to her. he
hardly knew why-more because she
said she warted it than on the strength
of her voice or form or TEXTURES
Then. having yielded so far TO hei
magnetism, he would have said tC
himself: "She isn't striking enough fol-
| the front row or even the second. She
must go into the third" And there
| she would have gone docilely. Yet
the critics and all other men with eyes
would have picked her out. and pres
emily she would have been more motto
| ed than the beauties in the front row
By and by. when there arose little
| part with q few lines to speak. she
would have got 1t, and at last. in some
way or other, it would have been she
who was making the hit OF the
piece"
Lord Loveland did not say anything
of this sort to himself. but he felt
L
time they passed and repassed each
other, though after the first she did
not look at him with the big brown
eyes that surely had the prettiest
most bewitching laslies ever seen.
| Val made up his mind at last tina,
he would walk no more. but would sit
down and think questions over. Be