Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-11

to Mrs. Cobb.
QN9 ats the Duchess that has done it,"
she cried to me one day. "that u.s. the
Duchess and your pretty looks. Do you know what
they call you, my dear? La Belle Scheherazade
was what Colonel Appleby called you the other night:
He said it was all over town. She looked me up and
down, just she had that day the steamer when
into her cabin in my pegnor "And, to be sure,
it's bad name, to hit off your strange, oriental
Style,-hat Damascus rosc floating down the GangeS
kind of look you have along with the true Partisan chic
Those eyes of yours-the depth of them and the way
they're back almost your earsthey positively
devish, you know! l suppose you know there's not
thing wearing trousers this island that not positively
ashed your chariot Wheels in Short head heels
in love with youod and young, from the president of
the Polo Club to the last lobsterman! And yet your
manners perfect, you conquer the women too
the drag them along, don't know which. Do
you suppose for minute that Mrs. Vanhuysen, for in
stance would be nice to us if her nephew weren't
sntten, just desperately smitten with you9 By the
way, it he you took for Victor, that first night of
your arrival wasn't it? A fortunate chance, since it
got you at in with Miss Carroll and Mrs Vanhuy-
sen-though how you could mistake anybody in the
world even MIR. Stuart for my beautiful bo-oy-'
Yes, have Mr. Stuart again-in fact, every
day! The morning after our adventure he called to
leave his card for Mrs. Cobb and inquire whether had
taken any cold. The day he in the afternoon
with Miss Carroll and with Mrs Vanhuysen's cards of
invitation to tea the next day The day after that he
arranged with Mrs Cobb to find the tribune at
the polo meet; that evening at dance for which Mrs.
Vanhuysen procured us cards.
TT was strange, between these appointed meetings,
what furious hurry was awaysin ran up stairs,
and down. | scoded poor old Genevieve because she
Jagged in brushing my hair lacing my corset. At
table ate little possible, and swallowed it very
quickly-and the road, when Victor took the wheel
from the chauffeur, fiattered him with guile that
did not know myself to possess; | told him that he
drove better than any mechancan, and begged him to
go aster faster faster! till Mrs. Cobb screamed and
the peasants shouted oats from each side of the
road.
Why it, this wild thirst for speed? 1t seemed
that something was burning up my blood, and that
| must go very quickly in order cool tor that
something always behind me, urging with
whips. And ALWAYS always one image in nv eyes, one
thought in my brain. And-be honest, Lili!-the mo-
ment Mr. Stuart had said goodby began planning and
scheming and sralning ahead toward the moment
might see him again. And it seemed to me that by
hurryng very quickly should arrive swiftly at
that desired point of time. What it meant this
less irrational rush always toward the thing,
did not stop to think. And when the moment
finally arrived forgot everything Oh the Joy of those
moments when felt myself aive Oh, dear and violent
and beautiful life!
TT at the aeroplane meet, two weeks after
arrival, that first began to think.
Bar Harbor like every other place in the world, has
gone wild aerOplanes. AS we have here too many
mountains and too much sea, with all the winds that
blow, they have the aerodrome twenty miles inland,
half hours motoring. Victor, though he has his
chine like the other young men, does not fly vet.
His mother screams at the notion, and | that
he very glad to shelter himself behind her fears using
the delay of his teacher arriving from Paris his
Henry Stuart flies, however, and only last
month hear he won a cup for flight from New York
to Philadelphia.
At the meet as Mrs. Cobb and descended from our
automobile with Victor (very chic today, nicely
shaved and in beautiful new pale gray suit behind us,
Henry came Immediately to meet We little
late and the monoplanes were buzzing heads.
But Henry's turn had not come yet How handsome,
how alert he looked in his buttOned up scarlet suit and
with his leather helmet swinging from his hand!