The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-07-14
CHAPTER /.
introducing a Pair of scoundrels.

But goodness gracious, Anne, you
aren't going TO England, are you Wait
till school closes ia june, and wen
make up a party"
My roommate, Mary Jenner, is
meek enough when she is alone with
me bat company lends her fictitious
persuasiyeness. Besides, an the rest
of the girls curled up among our cush-
ions agreed with her~l could see il iu
their faces
If his sacred majesty, King George
the Fifth, viii consent to put of his
coronation uutil July, shall be glad
/ 10 wait for you" ! answered, with
some asperhy. But I don't think It's
likely 10 your
Wen. but, Anne" Mary was begin
ulng. when Agnes Pomefoy broke in.
agnes lis a plump girl with vein Of
common sense amounting almost 10
enius
/ Look here. she said. what's the
/ use? Yon wont see a thing except the
street professions You might just as
well stay in Winnipeg and read all
about il in the Illustrated London pa
pers Nobody can get into the Abbey
/ without carrying peer
put my nose III the air Wei,
even at that suggested brazenly.
The girls laughed. and Agnes SHE'D
chocolate cream at me. missing ue By
about three feet
1 don't believe even having red hair
and being mascot would accomplish
d peer by coronation time, my dear
she said. But by all means 20 ahead
if you've set your heart on it. After
school is out Ven join you.
You let my red hair alone Pome-
roy Sec / retorted wrathfully. Pm
twenty-five years Old, and guess
know how to take care of myself And
if you've got determined tempera-
ment, and want something badly and
all your friends put stupid obstacles
in your way-why, it's enough to make
plaster angel feel annoyed"
Agnes only laughed, and ate another
'hoeolate, though she knows they
make her fatter, and my decision was
accepted as an established fact, which
thought was another proof of my de-
termined temperament
1t seems strange TO look back on
that kimono party now. felt so old
and capable and assured that nothing
could possibly happen to me III had
dreamed Of the mad adventures that
were so soon to begin -ah, we'll per-
haps | would have gone forward just
the same IL is hardly twelve months
since we sat BY that cracking fire, but /
! feel as if it had been o thousand /
years After all, twenty-five IS very
young
Bat. AT any rate, I had a perfectly /.
good reason for leaving school two I
months before the end of the term
The doctor who is an old friend OF |
mine-l used to pull his mustaches I
when / wore pinafores--told me / had I
been working too hard and was on the .
verge Of a complete breakdown ii T
didn't at once have complete rest and I.
change OF scene So / asked hlm ii Z
The air Of any particular place would
benefit me especially and he pulled a
curl Tor nae and said he felt sure Eng
llsh ait vas the one thing loI my all
ment
Are you going to visit your ances-
tral castle,' asked Mary as / was pack
ing III doesn't really seem polite t.
20 30 near and never say Bon Jour"
"Of course" answered. though
really ] hadn't thought about it before
Pm going to see The Chateau Clichy.
and also lm going 10 try to recover .
my ancestral property I've a bundle
Vt bonds stacked up iu q romantic old
vault in Paris Maybe I'M come back
an heiress, or something extra nice
about this adventure.
/ haven't mentioned anything about
my castle 10 France, have ~ one
doesn't talk about ones family. Of
curse. but really mine vas very in
erestng NY grandfather is the
'omte dYyes. aud owns large feudal
property in Clichy. which is in Nor
mandy. My father was his sou by his
inst marriage and when father was
hardly more than q boy. d. quarreled
itAA ~ aAN tA4 laf4 Aaa 4A 0kA
'ather came 90 Canada 10 make his 7
ortune. dri!-ed 10 the coast. and fnal-
y married an American girl in San J
francisco. ! was 2 orn there my moth /
II dying when was only "a baby and }
ly father when ] was seventeen. Arr
r that ] came 20 Winnipeg and taught /
or living OF course. things were S
ard sometimes. bat father had @
'orse time than I. and for his AXE ,
ever could forgive grandfather for ]
Irning him out of doors. =
some dag. anne. M father used c
D say laughluslg you'll 90 back to "
rance and D. adopted and become o
eiress Of Clichy n
II guess the rest OF them won't q
ave much FOR me 70 be he.ress Of" i a
lswercd usually. and the subject a
r0pped. Save TOR a fluent knowledge q
French lad nothing about me tc
stray the fact of my foreign exfrac- b
on, and never wished 70 meet any s.
my fathers relatives-neveri Some Il