The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1911-12-15

from under the brim of his smart
bowler. the persons who came crowd
Ing out of the station His eyes light
led with pleasure as a girl appeared
IN the doorway, followed by an older
lady. and two porters. carrying lug
gage and wraps A dash OF Partisan
lsmartness in the lines Of the well-cut
ltraveling dress and the perfectly ft-
ing boots. a more than Anglo-Saxon
frankness and independence Of car
riage. announced the girl as an Amer
ican.
driver bent down from the box
OF his carriage. and, in answer to a
question from the young lady. in ele-
mentary italian. demanded Ia francs
for the drive to Amalf
But 'Baedeker' says the tariff is
five or six" expostulated the girl. Her
i1talian was fluent, II the grammar
was a little shaky. Lord Believer,
from his high box-seat, heard every
sword
1 "Baedeker," The italian driver
snapped his fingers with a gesture of
contempt. Fourteen francs is the
fare"
she was being cheated and that made
her angry.
( perhaps we had better take him
land have done with It, dear" suggest
led the elder lady 1T doesn't matter
imuch. you know. There are not
many carriages left II we bargain
too long We may get none"
Mamma" exclaimed the beauty
81 hate TO be cheated"
She looked around. and catching
sight Of Believers paving. glossy bays
her pleased eyes travelled in one
glance up to the box-seat, where the
young man sat looking eagerly down
on her
+ "Why, mamma" exclaimed the
girl. "if there isn't perfectly lovely
,coach, and ! believe the man wants to
drive us!"
Its sure to be more than the cab
dear"
cried the girl.
"Five francs each. ladies'" was the
prompt answer in good Italian. the
language in which the coachman had
been addressed.
"Bene," came the quick reply, and
the girl signed TO the porters to put
the bags and wraps inside the coach
The groom. hiding a grin. ran with
Il ladder; the elder lady mounted to
n place behind the driver, the beauty
climbing to the box-seat With a
flick of the long whip the bays dashed
forward.
81 call this too glorious for words!"
The beauty's cheeks were tinged with
carmine. brought there by the ting
ling sea air that blew up the ravine;
her eyes sparlIled Aren't we in luck,
mamma. to have got seats in this
splendid coach. and with such
driver. too? See how we'll he handles
the reins! And his profile looks as
If he were cast in bronze"
Take care, Lesley! Are you sure
he doesn't understand you, dear?"
"Oh. that's all right! Very few of
these Italian drivers know more than
two or three words Of English"
Then the girl began to talk Italian
20 the coachman and he answered her
in the same tongue. huently and cour-
teously Believer could speak Italian
nearly as we'll as his own language
and Lesley's knowledge was not deep
enough to detect his few slips. He
felt guilty, but dared not betray his
nationality, lest the ladies should in
sist on being put down at the next
village
well. mamma" cried Lesley turn.
ing in her place. we've had splen-
did time in Europe haven't we?
We've seen and done such a lot OF
things. But believe like Italy best
OF all or course. Egypt was gor.
geous and Greece was lovely"
And England" prompted the
mother
England was sweet. But Il was
disappointing i'm one way. Only fancy
our not meeting one single, solitary,
real. live lord ! shall be ashamed TO
go home My country expected 10 of
me. And failed. Such a shame
we should have missed Lord Believer!
When ! brought three new dresses on
purpose. too"
Believer started. This was n nice
scrape he had got himself into. But
he didn't see any way out OF IL now.
He could not suddenly exclaim. BE
hold, ! am Lord Belever!" He had
seldom been more uncomfortable !;
but the worst OF IL was that he found
himself base enough to snatch a fear.
ful Joy from the situation.
II dare say he would have been
most uninteresting when you came TO
know him." the girls mother proceed.
ed TO console her.
But the Dering-Lacys said he was
swfully clever and good-looking. don't
you remember? ] was so looking for.