Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-18

youth, in middle age he
uc,, r garrulous Cos
"s o sip as Mrs. Devar her.
self Indeed, he had an
uneasy consciousness that Lady St. Maur might and
rend him stress laid only her efforts to thwart
his sons unexpected leanngs toward matrmony.
During every yard of the journey from Chester to
London he had tried to extract information from
Margny and the sharp Ttted Frenchman na had en-
luctance to yield to the Earls probing 1t was just
as much part of his scheme to make the threatened
alliance as Objectionable the side the
other. By painting Medenham as an unprncipled ad-
venturer, he had succeeded in alarming Vanrenen his
sly hints, derogatory of both Cynthia and her father
now famed the flame of suspicion kndled in Lord
Farholme's breast by his sisters remonstrances I'm
fortunately his Lordshp had gone straight to Curzon
ST. and told Susan ST. Maur every word that Mar1gny
had said-and a good deal that he had not sad but
had left to be inferred from smrk malicious glance
airy gesture.
Perhaps the elderly guardians of the Fairholme
line not wholly to blame for their interference
The title descended through male heirs only, and Me-
denhams marriage thereby attained added Importance
Lord Farholme himself had been singulary fortunate
in escaping msaliance. several, in ct-and it
the great trouble in his otherwise smooth and self
contained life that his high born and most admirable
Countess had died after the birth of her second
child the present Marchioness of Scarand Such
would naturally be the most jealous scrutinizer of the
preensions of his sons chosen wife Qualities of heart
and mind would weigh light in the scale against genea-
ogy. To his thinking, blue blood differed from the
mon red the claret of noted vintage diff
fers from the yin ordinaire of the same year.
AfEDENHAM did shopping, lunched at club
IVA surprised his tailor by prolonged visit and close
inspection of tweeds and broadcoths and successfully
repreSSed strong desire to write letter 1t
consolation to peruse for the twentieth time the four
closely written pages which Cynthia had set out the
tours timetable for the benefit of Simmonds He had
not returned it, since she possessed copy, and in his
minds eye he followed the Mercury in its fight up the
map from end to end of industrial Lancashire through
smoky Preston to trim Lancaster and quiet Kendall and
finally, after long day, to the brooding peace and
serene beauty of Windermere.
At last rousing himself from his dreaming for he
back in his club again. slipping cup of tea, he
glanced at his watch. Five o'clock likely hour to find
Vanrenen in the hotel it, most probable, Devars
telegram to his mother altogether mistaken in its
report of the millionaire movements
He meant, of course, to make himself known to Van
and 60 through the whole adventure from to L.
1t should provide interesting story he thought lively
as novel in of its chapters and calculated to ap
peal strongly the bright intelligence of American
On his the Savoy he tried to picture to himself
lust what Cyntha's father would look like. 1t was
futile endeavor because he had yet been able to
construct mental portrait of any wholly unknown
to him. One day in Madras he had telephoned to an
official for leave to shoot elephant in Government
reservation and deep voice doomed back an answer
Apparently it belonged to whose stature
ranted his appointment controller of Monsters but
when Medenham called in person for the permit he
found that the voice from a lean and wizened
scrap of humanity about five feet high.
He smiled at the recollection of his dumb surprise
at this appariton and in the best of humors with
himself when he arrived at the inquiry office of the
Savoy Hotel and asked for Peter Vanrenen.
Left here Sunday, SIR was the answer He will
not return for week
This blow blighted his hopes He had counted
strongly gaining Vanrenens friendship and SYM
pathy before Cynthia dainty vision met his again
"Has he gone to Paris" he inquired.
Cant say sir I'm sure My orders to tell callers
that Mr. Vanrenen will be in town next Tuesday,
So. if present arrangements held good Cynthia would
contrive somehow to get Lady St Maur in proper