New-York tribune., 1910-08-28

Happily, that delightful
old town was sufficiently
familiar to him in earlier days that he able to
supplement the general knowledge of its past CLEANED
already by the girls reading. He halted in front OF the
Welsh Gate Monnow Bridge, and told her that, al
though the venerable curiosity dated back 1910,
was nevertheless the last defensive work in Britain in
which serious preparations made tor civil war,
as it was expected that the Chartists would march from
Newport attack Monmouth Jail in 1889
six hundred years." 1nused Cynthia aloud IT
there sermons in stones, what history Is Pent IN
theSe."
And how greatly it would differ from the accepted
versions" laughed Medenham-
do we never know the truth, then?'
'Oh, yes if actually mixed up in some affair
of worldwide Importance but that IS precisely the rei-
why the actors remain dumb
Oddly enough this the first of Aledenhams ut
terances that Mrs. Devar approved OF Evidently
you have moved in high society, Fltzroy she ch1ned
in quickly.
a hurry have run madly through Mayfair.
''Oh, nonsense she cried, resentlng the studied
civility of the madam and ruffed by the qup.
You speak of Mayfair; yet don't suppose you really
know where 1t is.
Il shall never forget where DOWr-st is, assure you
he said cheerfully
And, pray, why Down-st in particular"
Because that is where met Simmonds last Wednes-
day and arranged to take on his Job
In your mind, 1t figures as Broken Down-st., cooed
Cynthia.
After that the Mercury crossed the Monnow. and
Mrs Devar muttered something about the mistake
made when encouraged servants to be familiar.
But CYNTHIA be repressed. She was bubblIng
over with high spirits, and amused herself by telling
Medenham that Henry V was born at Monmouth and
aferward the battle of Agncourt; scraps OF his
tory not generally known" she confded to him.
FROM the back of the car Mrs Devar watched them
with hawkike intentness that showed how thor
oughy those forty winks" snatched little while
before had restored her tagging energies. Though
it absurd to suppose that Cynthia Nanrenen,
daughter of a millionaire, girl lowered with all that
happy fortune had give would forget her social
position to lrt with the chauffeur OF hired car, this
experienced marriage broker did not fail to realize what
stumbling block that dreadful person in the path
of Count Edouard Margny.
For in her life Wiggy Devar forced herself to
think clearly. She that FltZroy was a man who
might prove exceedingly dangerous where a girls
Cepble heart concerned. He had the address and
sembanCe of gentleman; he seemed TO be able to talk
JargOn of history and literature and art that ap
peaed nightly to CYNTHIA; worst OF ALL he had
doubtedly ascertained. by some means wholly beyond
her KEN that she and the FrenChman in league.
She entirely the dark to the cause OF her sons
extraordinary behavior the previous evening; but she
beginning suspect that this mcddlcSome FIZrOy
had contrVed, somehow or other, to Danish Captain
Devar as he had ouwitted Alargny on the AendipS.
Talented schemer that she she did not believe for
a that Simmonds had told the truth at Bristol
She argued with cold logic, that the man would not
risk the loss of an excellent commission by bringing
from London a hopelessy out OF repair that 1t
could not be made available under tour or tlVe days
But her increasing alarm centered chiefly IN CynthlaS
attitude. IT, by her alluSon to a cut and dried Sched
ue the girl implied design TO depart from the tour
planned i'll London, then the Count 5 wooIng became
most uncertain thing since 1t was mamteSty out OF the
question that he should continue to waylay them at
stopping places chosen haphaZard during each day
So Mrs. Devar noted with malignant eye each
friendly glance exchanged by the couple IN front, and
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