The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-07-22
introducing a Pair Of sooundrsIs.
CHAPTER :.

TN MhlCn I sail 70 see the coronation
and. incidentally, discover that / an n
much-advertised-for person.)
but. goodness gracioun. Anne, you
aren't going 10 England, are your Wait
I'll school closes IN June, and we'll
make up n party"
My roommate. Mary Jenner, IN
meek enough when she In alone with
me. but company lends her a fictitious
persuasiveneas. Besides, all the rest
OF the girls curled up among our oush-
Ions agreed with her-I could @ II in
their faces.
III his sacred majesty, King George
tho Firth, will consent 10 put on his
coronation until July, | shall be glad
10 wait for YOU" ! answered, with
some asperity. But l don't think It's
likely. do your"
well, but, Anne" Mary was begin
ming, when Agnes Pomeroy broke In.
Agnes 10 a plump girl with a vein OF
common sense amounting almost TO
genius.
Look here" she said. what's the
user You won't see a thing except the
street professions. You might just ps
well stay In Winnipeg and read all
about II In the illustrated London Pc
pers. Nobody can get into the Abbey
without carrying n peer"
| put my nose IN the afr. We'll.
even at that" I suggested brazenly.
The girls laughed. and Agnes SHE'D a
chocolate cream at me. missing me by
about three feet.
al I.-fa lafl.... m.a.. hmwHAa wa1 huNN
and being a mascot would accomplish
a peer by coronation time. my dear"
she said. "But by all means so ahead
II you've set your heart on II. After
school is out wen 'oin you"
you let ms RED hair alone. Pome.
roy Sec" ! retorted wrathfully. I'm
twenty-five years old. and I ues !
know how 20 take arc Of myself. And
II you've got a determined tempera-
ment, and want something badly and
all your friends put stupid obstacles
In four way-why. it's enough TO make
a plaster angel feel annoyed"
Agnes only laughed, and ate another
chocolate, 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.
II seems strange TO look back on
that kimono party now. ] felt 80 old
aud capable and assured that nothing
could possibly happen TO me, II ] had
dreamed OF the mad adventures that
were SO soon 20 begin-ah. well. per
haps ! would have gone forward just
the same. Il 10 hardly twelve months
since we sat by that cracking FIRE, buI
/ feel az Il Il had been a thousand
years. After all. twenty-five 10 verl
young.
Bat. at any rate. I had a perfectly
good reason for leaving school tvs
months before the end OF the term
The doctor. Hho il an old friend o
mine-I used 70 pull his mustaehei
when | wore pinafores-told me ! ha'
been working too hard. and wns on IN
verge OF a complete breakdown II
didn't at once have complete rest an
change OF scene. SO / asked him !
the air OF any particular place w9ul
boneht me especially. and he pulled
curl for me and said no felt sur Ems
lish air was the n thing for my al
ment
Are you going to visit your ance.
trail castle9" asked Mary as | wa pacl
ing. 1T doesn't really seem polite I
40 90 near and never say Bon Jour-
"Of course" answered. thong
really I hadn't thought about II befor'
I'm going TO see the Chateau Ciich,
and also I'm going TO try TO recoys
my ancestral property. I've a bundl
OF bonds stacked up In n romantic ol
vault In Paris. Maybe Ill come BAG
IA heiress, or something extra mic
about this adventure.
haven't mentioned anything abot
my castle In France. have II On
doesn't talk about ones family, {
course. but really, mine was very Il
terestlng. My grandfather is n
Comte owes. and owns a large feudI
property In clichy, which is In No
mandy. Ny father was his son by b
FIRST marriage. and when father WI
hardly more than d boy. he quarrel'
with grandfather, who turned him on
Father came 20 Canada TO make h
fortune, drifted 90 tho coast, and fnl
" married an American girl in 81
Francisco. I was born there, my mot
or dying when / was only a baby. al
my father when ! was seventeen. A
er that ! came to Winnipeg and taug
for a living. or course. things we
hard sometimes, but father had
worse time than I. aud for his sake
never could forgive grandfather {
turning him out OF doors.
Some day. Anne" my father US
to nay lsughingiy. "yOu1l go back
France and be adopted and beoor
heiress OF cllchy."
Il guess the rest OF them vol
leave much for mo 10 be heiress OF.
answered usually, and the sHbje
dropped. Save for a fluent knowled
OF French had nothing about me
betrny the fact OF my foreign extrl
ton. and | w wished 10 meet a
" ms fathers relatlves-neverl Son
times my father would speak abe
the property In the strong boz. u "
all IN bond8-worthleas' ones. too
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