The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-12-15

pidS was spSIlnllS sumo WSehS az
Dieppe, and that I should find her at
the Hotel de Palais. We made q good
passage down the North sea, and on
the morning following u arrival l
stood among a group of lazy onlookers
who watches the bathers go down to the
sea at Dieppe and found their homely
entertainment therein. o Fordibras
was one of the last to battle. but many
eyes followed her with interest, and /
perceived that she was an expert swim
mer possessed of a graceful figure and
of a daring In the water which had
few imitators among her sex. Greatly
admired and evidently very well
known, many flatterers surrounded her
when she had dressed; and ] must have
passed her by at least a odzen times
before she suddenly recognized me and
came running up to greet me.
Why, it's DR.. Fabos of London, isn't
1t, w she exclaimed. II thought I
could not be mistaken. Whoever would
have believed that SO grave a person
would spend his holiday in Dieppe."
1.-Two days." said I, answering her
to h point; Il am yachting around
the coast, and some good instinct COM
PEELED me to come here"
My, what a reason. DID you expect
to find my father here2"
Certainly not. He sailed in his Yacht
from Cherbourg three days ago.
Then l shall call you a wizard.
Please tell me why you wanted to see
me-
You interested me. Besides, did not
/ say that l would come? Would you
nave me at Eastbourne or Cromer =
cooped III with women who ak In
stares and men whose ambitions rot in
bunkers? / came to see you. That is
a compliment. I wished to say good
by to you before you return to Am
erica"
.T2ut ua - ,o+ ,oi,r ~ 49, L
is, of course, my home is there. Did
not father tell you that?"
Possibly. I have a poor head for
places. There are so many In Amer
lea"
But I just love them" she said
quickly. And then, with mischief in
her eyes, she added; mo one minds
other people trying to find out all about
them in America"
1t was a sly thrust and told me much.
This child did not carry a secret, I
said; she carried the fear that there
might be a secret; / had need OF all
my tact. How fate would laugh at me
II | fell In o with her. But that
was a FOOLS surmise and not to be con-
sfdered.
Curiosity" I said, may have one
of two purposes. 1t MAJ desire to be-
friend or 70 injure. L ease consider
that, when you I've the time to con-
! cloGl dliSlIllHS. J. @nTcG1NG NIIlaC ITlGre
are at least a dozen young men walt
ing to tell you that vol are very beau
tiful. Do not let me forbid them. AS
we are staying at the same hotel
What, have you gone to the Palais?'
rs there any other house while you
are in Deeper"
She flushed a little and turned away
her head. I saw that / had frightened
her; and, rejecting upon the many
mistakes that so-called tact ma make
sometimes, / invented a poor Excuse
and left her to her friends.
Plainly, her ayes had challenged me
And the man, / said, must not hesitate
to pick UP the glove which my lady
of 10 had thrown down SO bravely.
thought that 1 knew no n ii
Dieppe; but / was wrong. as vol shall
see, and 1 had scarcely set foot in the
hotel when I ran against no other thar
Timothy McShanus, the journalist OF
Fleet street, and found myself in al
instant listening to his odd medley O
fact and fancy. For the first time FOL
many years he was in no immediat,
need of a little loan.
He ratified on and I did not inter
rupt him. To be plain. / was glad 0
his Had it appeared to Joal
Fordibras that I was quite alone il
the hotel, that / knew of no friends IL
Dieppe, and had no possible object ii
visiting the town but to renew &C
uqaintance with her during her father
absence-had this been so, then tn
difficulties of our intercourse were man
tfest. Now. however, I might shelte
my intentions behind this burly Irish
man, Indeed, l was delighted at tn
! ! encounter.
i When dinner was done, we strolle
J out upon the veranda, and found Mis-
Fordibras and her chaperone, Mis-
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little tables in the vestibule. The
made way for us at once as thong
II we he'd hean exnected. and I presente
! Mcshanus to them Immediately.
Mr. Timothy McShanus, the authe
of ireland and Her Kings He's dc
/. scended from the last Of them. I be
lieve. Is it not so, McShanus?'
e From all of them, DR.. FaboS. M
father ruled Ireland in the past an
8 me sons will rule it in the future. LIS
r dies. your servant. Be not after cal
y ing me an historian. It's a poet 7 a.
II when not in the police courts"
9 Miss Aston, an elderly lady with IL
s short hair and the glasses, took Nj
e Shanus seriously. T am afraid. h b,
gan to speak to him of Browning ar
u Walt Whitman and Omar khayyaI
- =, tisfsW @ehair&nea to Miss Ford
saas and took my text from the cor
n mo- talk.
"The goth century gives us no sol
= tudes.p said; you cannot have poe
y Without solitudes. We live in crow
nowadays. Even yachting is a It'll
g old fashioned. Men go where other m
y, can see them show off. Vanity TAX
ila them there; even bridge is vanity, t
- desire to do better than the 9th
man.
Miss Aston demurred.
m ssThere are sorne women who kns
n nothing Of vanity" she said stonf
ii 1--WE live within ourselves and our iiv
are our own. Our whole existence
a solitude. We are most truly alo
an when many surround u.s.
IL TITS a compliment to my friend +
nr sbos..' cried McShanus triumphant
.let me have the honor to escort
e, to the Casino. lady. for such 9 man
nd no company for us. No doubt n
ng bring Miss Fordibras over when they
OF done with the poets. VIII ye not. q
m, tor?"
r. said that / should be delight
in and when the cloaks had been fou
ng we all set out for the Casino. Tin
A thy was playing his part well, ~ {
ed peared. + found myself alone "
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