Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-01-05
CHAPTER III.

~ADWALLADER HUNTER
aspired to be a leader Of So
Y ciety- He was one Of those
strange beings-heraldic, ram
pant, disre@ardant-whO are born Snobs.
in spite of good birth and good breeding.
Therefore he was not a genuine article
(since no snoh can be genuine), but
had nodded himself into a thing of
airs and affectations. Nevertheless he
managed to impress most second rate
people and some who We're first rate.
Those who did not live in New York
believed him to be of consequence in
that city. and the Paris Herald al
ways reported his comings and goings.
be had at least a bowling acuuaint-
ance with all the richest Americans
on board, and he mixed with his greet.
fngs here and there a 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
Gays OF the Georges the better. This
boy is not so bad as some of the old
~boysabefore him. Not to be despised
by debutantes, eh?
"Do l know him? Why, in a way
we're connections by marriage. You
must remember pretty Lady Betty
Buckley, who took us all by storm a
year or two ago-sister of the Duke Of
Stanforth? Jimmy Marlborough, whom
she married, is, 1 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 pottered away to "get at"
Loveland before any one could pos
sibly 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 q 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
ome after coming on board, he had
discovered several very pretty girls.
U%nluckily. he was too ignorant of
American society to know which Of his
fellow passengers were most impor-
tant. Sure of his chair, on which the
name Of "Loveland" already appeared
in the stewards handwriting, he paced
up 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
selected two girls from the rosebud
garden which he felt bloomed for his
benefit in this mammoth floating flow
er bed. There we're so many attrac-
tive ones that it was difficult to choose,
yet Val did not doubt that he had
welded out the best, and he hoped
that Of the pair one might be the prin-
cipal unmarried millionairess of the
Mauretania.
There could hardly have beer a
greater contrast between girls than
between these two whom Lord Love
land had mentally set apart for him
self as a man picks out the most be-
coming neckties from a box on q 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 a 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 a spine and a
ladyike 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
lashes.
Val said to himself that the mater
would be pleased with Il daughter-in-
law of this type and that such a girl
would never make her husband asham-
cd. he could not imagine falling in
love with her hard brilliance. But
then he wasn't going to America to
fal In lore. Ellis attentions were