Evening star., 1911-06-04

FOR JUNE 4. 1911
were rich Americans principally, who were
SO highly flattered by his society that they
didn't dare expose him.
held on the receiver as if | feared she
was going to run away before she finished,
and my heart was humping so l had to
moisten my lips to frame my question. "He
went to JAIL did you say, Jo?"
"Yes, finally. l don't remember for how
long; but that was four years ago."
"But the name? Of course even Duke
can change his name but how about the
'Almanach de Gotha and ancestors back to
the eleventh century? Did you ever see
him?' l was all a tremble, and it seemed
year before she answered.
"YeS, at the races at Auteull. Jack
Dempsey pointed him out to me- 1t was
| hardly month later that he was arrested"
"What-what did he look like?"
"Tall and fair, with saber cut across his
cheek"
"No, Dear" l answered.; "this Duke is
small and dark, and l think perhaps the
| nearest he ever got to a saber was in the
audience at romantic play"
She laughed and said goodby, and | hung
up the receiver with a vague sense of dis
Chapter TX.
| A MONTH later l looked out upon Lone
"A Oak, the Hazards country place, and
| the lone oak tree that gave the place its
name, and | found it good. From my win
dows l could see beyond the wide expanse
of closely cropped lawn a miniature forest
of native frs, and through the tops of these
glimpse of the sea, with its white sails of
boats; and the tang of salt air was always
in ones nostrils. Below me was succession
of terraces, somewhat Italian brilliant with
flowers, all rowed out so nicely and precisely
that they looked Dutch, and the house, COW
cred with climbing roses, was English; but
something about the ensemble was so dis
| tinctly American that it didn't jar one bit.
My rooms were in wing of the house that
had been built, Laura told me, when her
father needed larger gallery for the paint
ings he had collected than was afforded by
| the town house, and as the wing caught the
southwest breeze the family had promptly
| taken possession. Mrs. Hazard was next to
me this time, with small corridor between,
| while Laura was at one corner Hap on the
other on the lap back, then John Crownin-
shield, and Natalie, who was to be with us
all summer, en- tamiUe, was almost opposite
me.
| Laura took me on a tour of inspection
l JIle house. IL Ilciu du SOIUS Oh
curious step-ups here and step-downs there,
hooks at unexpected places, where an archi-
| tect's fancy had seemed to run riot, and,
while charming, was most confusing.
couldn't always find my way back to the
wing.
"May l put smudge on the wall2'
asked Laura one day when she finally had
guided me Alright.
Heavens, nor she exclaimed. you'd
spoil the fun. It's awfully ordinary when
you get used to it.
She tried to show me just how the wing
joined the house; that our floor was half
story higher on account of the picture gal
lery above being story and half, or some
thing of the sort, and the whole business
having to fit the roof line; consequently we
always had to come up halfway or down
halfway, according to what floor we were on.
Goodness! l know now how to do it; but
I've never really understood how | do do it.
CHE led me back into the house proper
- and pushed open the doors to several
suites, telling me just who was to be there
for the summer. We came to the end of the
main hallway, and she wriggled an express
sive forefnger.
aSh-h-h-h! This is to be the Duke's!" she
said for Mrs. Hazard had managed to jerk
him from the water, much to the chagrin of
the other anglers, especially Mrs. Henry