The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-03

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once saw those emeralds, little wom-
an--"
How are We to get them away-on
an ocean liner?' she asked.
Leighton became suddenly serious
! Il thought it all out on the train,
coming down, and it seems to me the
usual way is the best way" he said
The simpler. the better, has always
been our motto, you know. Well,
Well have paste duplicate made of
the necklace-that is the piece we
/ really want. l can get it--from Lee
bois. rue de la Paix, he has the model.
Don't ask me how he got it-heaven
and he alone know. but he has!'
What hasn't Lebois gote" asked
Rosie, her cheeks flushed with excite
ment. After all this was her life and
/ Toms. and While they had taken from
| the rich without second thought,
they had given it away again where
| 1t was needed most. She had six
orphan girls now enrolled at the vii
| lage school under her patronage A
barytone from Texas, who was win
ming his spurs at the opera at Nice
owed his musical education to Tom
/ And there were others
Are we both in this little game p"
she asked presently.
Yes, | have thought it out careful
| ly," he nodded. Il have decided you
had better be an opera singer. going
to the States-a Latin, you can do it.
| I'll be simply myself I've never
! crossed on a steamer as myself. you
| know. We are not acquainted on the
| hat Nnn - he n
"A la Carmen, say. And L Are
you comfortable? had thought
about something like this
Just minute, dear
| She slid down from his knee. drew
| the curtains in front of the windows,
| shutting out the gray mist. and lighted
the lamp. Then she poured out two
| cups Of fresh tea and gave the cat
/ saucer of cream.
I'm ready now. she said. seating
herself on low stool at his feet.
You were saying"
| The Duchess of Caddington. slim,
! demure little woman in dovelike gray.
| stood watching game of shuffleboard
! on the promenade-deck of the Puri-
! tania. Or rather to be exact, she
! stood watching her two little daugh-
| tiers, 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 emeralds.
! 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.
1t was 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 simply
with nurse and maid most times
| left these women to themselves and
took entire charge of her children her
self. She made no attempt to mingle
4 with her fellow-passengerS, formed no
acquaintance. and took her meals at
table by herself with only the two
little girls for company
But little Lady Alexandra, perhaps
because there flowed Caddington blood
In her veins frankly desired and open
ly sought the company of strangers
She smiled on saint and sinner. show
ing no finer discrimination as to class
so long as her self-made friends
CHANGED to be of the sterner sex. The
dech-steward. the cabin-boy. the Hun
garian violinist crossing for a tour of
the States. were one and alike to five
year-old Lady Alexandra. She smiled
engagingly. with childlike innocence.
on each of them: but she wholly
adored O'Brien Adair.
When she saw him to-day. idly
watching with others the game Of
Switchboard, she gave a loud, joyous
shout, and breaking away from her
mothers hand crossed the deck to
where he stood.
Lady Caddington was nonplussed.
she was even angry, but Mr.. Adair.
bringing back the truant. made no eff
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 duchess and was asked to Marl-
borough House.
But Lady Alexandra, who had met
the handsome Irishman in her own
engaging way when alone with Sim
mons. the nurse. was not to be de-
prived of his society simply because
her white-faced. unsmiing parent dis
trusted her fellow-creatures, and men
in particular. She had learned his
name-how only Adair himself knew
and she shouted it at the top of her
shrill little voice whenever she saw
him. no matter where. And Lady
Caddington. after the first shock and
annoyance had worn away. found her
self actually exchanging the time OF
day with Lady Alexis young man