The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-07-17
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with grandfather, who turned him out.
Father came to Canada to make his
| fortune. drifted to the coast, and final
ly married an American girl In San
Francisco. was born there, my moth
er dying when was only baby. and
my father when was seventeen. Aft
or that came to Winnipeg and taught
| for living or course, things were
hard sometimes, but father had a
worse time than ]. and for his sake
never could forgive grandfather for
| turning him out OF doors.
Some day, Anne.' my father used
to say laughingly. you'll go back to
France and be adopted and become
heiress of Clichy."
Il guess the rest of them won't
leave much for me to be heiress Of" l
answered usually, and the subject
dropped. Save for fluent knowledge
of French | had nothing about me to
betray the fact OF my foreign extrac-
ton. and | never wished to meet any
OF my fathers relatives--ne Some
times my father would speak about
the property In the strong box. 1t was
all In bonds-worthless ones, too
which had been left my father by his
| mother, whose dowry had been invest
ed In the old Panama canal, that glori-
GUS enterprise that went down to ruin
twenty odd years ago. carrying with II
thousands OF prosperous families In q
general wreck. My grandmother had
always had pathetic belief that some
| day the bonds would be worth some
thing. She left them to my father.
placing them In the strong box which
she held In the vaults of Magniff &
Co, bankers. OF Paris and London.
When she was dying she sent him the
key.
4 We'll. Anne, they won't do any harm
where they are" my father would say.
Some day. when we're all rich, we'll
go to Paris and take them out and sell
them for old paper
So now | think have explained how
came to sail for England on the
thirty-first of May, with 1--WE $500 and
one $50 bin in my purse and the key
TO the ancestral strong box. Mary
wanted me to sew by bills into the
lining of my dress. But | felt safer
with the money In my purse. for, as
told her, I'd either have 10 wear the
same dress all the time or keep run
ming into my room to see whether II
taken her advice should never have
had my adventure with the Man In the
Bun Boots--but that comes later.
Mary. of course, was at the train in
tears. waiting to bid me adieu. And
who else should be there but that
odious Mr. Spratt, who had once been
enamored of me, half hidden behind an
enormous bouquet. I've heard that
his boys call him THE Sprat," which
isn't nice name to give a professor
OF civic and international law He
pressed the bouquet into one of my
hands and then put something else in
to the other in a mysterious and por
tentons manner
my volume of the Code Napoleon
Miss Ives" he said, whispering eau
tiously. THE only complete English
commentary on modern French law
I've written your name on the fy-leaf
Don't lose It; youll need 1t when you
get TO Parish"
could not but feel affected by the
little mans kindness in presenting ms
with a copy OF his epoch-making work
| introduced him to Mary, and WI
three chatted for few moments unit
the conductor called "All aboard"
stayed a day or two in Montreal, sight
seeing, and finally, owing to last min
ute excursion to Mount Royal, nearl,
missed the steamer But just as thu
whistles blew, plunged hastily up tn,
gangway, colliding at the top with ,
couple of foreign-looking men wht
, stared at me for several minutes. ap
parently deeply interested.
! ! am usually quick to form m!
, judgments of people. did not lk,
either of these fellow-passengers at all
/ In very short time had discovered
! that they were master and servant. o
stood in some such relation, The on
! bore the hall-marks of wealth withou
i refinement: the other was coars
i and Misunderstanding Greek or Arme
I MAN. as judged. was relieved whel
4 saw him betake himself to the steel
1 age. But judge my disgust when
!. discovered that had been seated mex
i to his master at the dinner tablet
He did not lose any time strikin
!. up an acquaintance with me. May
/. pass you the mustard, Miss Howard
o were his first words. He had eyiden
/" ~ been looking me up and made mil
h take In the name. was about to di
) illusion him when his next word
:. checked the words on my lips.
II ALLOW me to introduce myself, sine
Ie we are to see so much OF each othe
ID during our voyage" he continued. wit
TX an odious smirk my name is Ma
% niff--Leopold Magniff-a name tole
ably well known in Paris and els
ut where"
le "The-the bankerP / managed
Of gasp.
n The son of the banker" he correS
ne ed, much gratified at my ready reco
al milton. THE old boys my father