The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-10-05

The Duchess of Caddingtpn, a slim
drmurc little woman in dovelike gray.
stood watching a game Of Switchboard
on the promenade-deck Of the Puri-
tania Or rather. to be exact. she
stood watching her two little daueh-
lrrs the Lady Alexandra and the Lady
Enid. aged five and four years. respect
lively. watch the game The duchess
herself was just twenty-siX. but she
looked years older except when she
smiled and this she did but rarely.
Suffering was written in bold letters
on her forehead; the six years she had
lived with Caddington as his wife had
brought her only this. and the two
little girls, and the famous emcralds.
So great had been her misery in these
years Of her married life that even the
scarelines in the yellow journals
seemed preferable to further years
with her husband She was going
home to Connecticut because she was
wretched and hardened and sick OF
life as she had lived and seen it.
II was a perfect morning. Liver
pool was forty-eight hours behind
them. and the sea had been calm and
the skies blue ever since the Puritania
had left the Mersey.
Lady Caddington. travelling simpi~
with q nurse and maid most times
loI these women TO themselves and
tooh entire charge of her children her
self she made no attempt TO mingle
with her lowpassengers, formed no
acGuaIntanCes. and took her meals at
a table by herself with only the two
little girls for company.
Buf little Lady Alexandra perhaps
because there flowed Caddington blood
i'm BIER veins. frankly desired and open
~ sought the company Of strangers
She miled on saint and sinner show
ing uD finer discrimination as to class
SO Ioug as her sefmade friends
char. I'd TO be Of the sterner sex. The
derk.sieward, the cabin-boy, the Hun
ca'ilu violinist crossing for a tour OF
The States. We're one and alike TO five
vp1rold Lady Alexandra She smiled
cugagngly. with childlike innocence.
on each Of them; but she wholly
a3orel O'Brien Adair
When she saw him to-day. idly
watching with others the game OF
suuiIcboard she gave a loud. joyous
shout and breaking away from her
mothers hand. crossed the deck 10
whore he stood.
Lady Caddington was nonplussed;
she was even angry, but Mr. Adair,
bringing back the tTuant. made no ef-
fort TO scrape an acquaintance with
the mother through the child And
Lady Caddington. deeply grateful. was
nevertheless surprised. People. men
and women alike. were forever throw
ing themselves at her head. the men
because she had left her husband and
was worth millions of dollars in her
own right. and the women because she
was q duchess and was asked TO Marl-
borough House.
But Lady Alexandra, who had met
the handsome Irishman In her own
anglging way when alone with Sim
mons. the nurse. was not 10 be de-
prjyed Of his society simply because
her vhite-faced. unsmiling parent dis
trusted her fcllow-creatures. and men
in particular She had learned his
name-how only Adair himself knew
and she shouted It al the top of her |
shriu little voice whenever she saw
him no matter whore And Lady /
Na4uineton. after the first shock and /.
lnuoyance haS worn away. found her /
SELF actually exchanging the time OF |
lay with Lady Alexis young man
the express ION Is simmons