The Washington herald., 1913-03-23
HuberHeny Alexande Kistemaeckers, the French Writer
Who Has Acquired Some Repute Firebrand.
Proves Gentle as Lamb in His Encounter with
the American Interviewer, Whom He Re-
ceives in His Dsmantled Apartment

on my way were fitting idly BY. was
| late now!
A hot flush mantled my cheek. which
means that 1 was as mad ~ could be.
I leaned out again.
You must be able to 30 around some
other way" 1 declared.
No. quite out OF the question.
How hated that chauffeurl I believe
he felt II. because he got down from his
perch and. putting his head In at the win
dow, he opened up q conversation with
me for soothing purposes.
incidentally he told me what was hap
pening.
France was taking buggy ride from his
erstwhile home to the Elyses Palace.
where he is to have lodgings for seven
years unless France has a revolution or
becomes a monarchy in the mean time
There he was. lie Monsieur Poincare,
distinguished and affable.
To tell the truth I couldn't see more
than the top Of his hat. but that looked
all right. and distinguished and affable is
the proper way to describe q President.
whether you have seen him or not.
Monsieur Fallieres was driving along
with him. for company, suppose, and to
explain some Of the difficulties Of the
position. maybe.
THE NEW AND THE OLD.
The Incomer and the outgoer. kind Of a
New Year and Old Year effect. like the
last Lord Mayor of London and his sue
cessor, who always appear together in
public once. anyhow.
|. Finally the last ''Vive Poincare!'' re-
sounded. the crowd BEGAN to melt away
and my chauffeur had no further excuse
for not moving on. SO he mounted his
seat with a pleased squint out Of one eye
at the taximeter. which hadn't kept still
a moment.
I'd been watching II all the while. I
always do. though it's very painful to
see your pennies ticking away remorse-
lessly.
We made up for some Of the lost time.
so that every one We passed had a narrow
escape: but I was pretty late when ! ar
rived, all the same, and was worried.
Maybe Mr.. Kistemaeckers would resent
it as a slight and would refuse to see me.
gave a nervous little cough as I asked
IL monsieur were chez lui.
1t seems he was. and 1t seems he didn't
even know I was late.
HE WAS ON THE MOVE. TOO.
You see the Presidents moving day hap
pened to be Kistemaeckers's also, and nat
urally he had a good deal on his mind.
There were electricians and mechanics
in the hall and there were packers in the
drawing room and huge cases everywhere
In fact there was just enough furniture
in the salon for me to find q chair for
myself and to leave another one by a
big old Empire table for Hubert Henry
Alexandra.
am sure II was very nice drawing
room before it was undressed. There were
handsome bits still scattered about in it.
But you know what an apartment looks
like when you're moving out OF It. Well.
this looked just like that and it was de-
pressing.
BEAT HER TO THE APOLOGIES.
In came Monsieur Kistemaeckers and
jumped up ready to give as many apollo
gies for my tardiness as a fluent school,
girl who fears punishment, but the gen.
tleman forestalled me. He began his first,
and / never got mine in at all
Would ] be kind enough to pardon the
state of the room and would ! mind the
packers beIEg there while We talked?
OF course ] wouldn't. In fact l was so