The Press., 1912-11-13

Fgarly half million, and he suspected the noble. lady, waH to visit America with, a -.yfew ito, making a. match with some
 rich man-i 41a a 1 ;. As the ship .neared port Lady Anne l lia grew Ill at ease. She said that no l Enhancement had been made with any ] one to meet her and she dreaded land ing alone and unprotected on the
 shores of a new country. Were she Handing In England her brother would
 send his man, Connors, who had been i in the family since his birth and had
 waited upon her since she was little
 girl. But landing in America was far
 different.
 1 This was gratifying to Fairchild, since 1t gave him an opportunity to place Lady Amelia under obligations
 to him and become initiated to relying
 upon. him. He. told her that he would Joe only too happy to assist her in get
 ting her luggage through the custom
 house and, would see her to her car riage and to any place she proposed i to, go. She accepted his offer, but 1 somehow that dread she felt in land ing in a new country did not disap- pear. He assisted her in making out her ''declaration" for the customs ofa- cers, and she asked him if she must declare jewels she had inherited. She
 had brought them all since she would need them in New York and Newport. He gave her full instructions on this point and, all others that concerned her.
 : When the ship was docked Lady Amelia and Fairchild stood together
 near the gangway, he carrying her
 hand baggage. He noticed that she
 was pale and seemed to be laboring
 under suspense. He escorted her
 down the gangway, and they had scarcely set foot on the dock when a : man stepped up to Lady Amelia and
 said:
 Come this way, please"
 What for?" asked Fairchild, bris-
 ting.
 -'pon't you interfere, sir I have a telegram from England to arrest 8
 woman answering to her description. I don't think I am mistaken"
 Fairchild, thunderstruck, followed
 the man and his prisoner into a prl- vate room, where the officer read the telegram directing the arrest of Mary Thompson. maid to Lady Amelia Poin- dexter, who had decamped with her mistress jewels and was supposed to have sailed for New York on the steamer just arrived. The man then took a suit case belonging to the so called Lady Amelia and asked for the key She produced 1t, he opened the case, and there. rolled in undercloth- ing. was q saalI fortune in jewels.
 Fairchild would not believe but that n mistake had been made till he was informed that Lady Amelia had con- sentcd to go back to England without making any trouble, trusting to her mistress to be lenient with her. Then he gave it up. It turned out that Mary Thompson had been born servant in n noble British family and from con- stant contact with it's members had ac- quired the manners of lady, which she could assume at will She and valet had concluded to make way with some of the family property. go to America and set up for themselves. The valet arrived on the next steamer and was also taken in.
 The maid had appropriated some of her mistress writing papOr with the family crest on it, but she was unable to write her native language grammat- ically or spell correctly, not having re- ceived much Of an education. She had been brought into contact with the REistocratic friends of her mistress, who not only knew everybody in the upper circles in England, but had been to New York and been entertained at Newport Indeed. her maid before leaving her had stolen an invitation she had shown Fairchild, having changed the date.
 F'airchild came to believe that she had purpOsely let slip the letter that had been blown away from her on the steamers deck to get a grip on him, but what she intended to do with him after getting him he remained in igno- rance about.
 Fatrchild has become socially mis- Rnthropic. He is beginning to think that after all refinement comes usually with-or, rather. after-the possession of wealth, and the fact that a man is refined comes from his ancestors hav- Ing acquired money to be used in his refinement He goes still further, aver ring that. while in America our aris- tocracy comes from the possession of funds acQuiFed in trade. abroad it orig lnally came from robbery. most of the powerful families in England today having obtained their fortunes from the dispossession of some one who likely originally stole 1t from another.