Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-18

showed me. It had a spring catch, and
she had stepped into the hail TO see II
the catch was set.
"The catch was setl' gasped MadcmoI-
selle de ChaumUnt. Break the door-get
1t open-anyway-Qu Quick"
BY good fortune had strength enough
In my shoulder to set the door wide off
| It's spring, and she flew to the middle
of the room, slamming 1t in my face.
Fitness and unhtness required nicer dis
| elimination than the crude boy from the
woods possessed. When / saw her in the
| ballroom she had very little more on
than when 1 saw her in the hall, and
| that little clung tight around her figure.
Yet she looked quite unconcerned.
After we had eaten supper Doctor
Chantry and / sat with his sister where
we could see the dancing, on a landing
of the stairway De Chaumonts generous
house was divided across the middle by
a wide hall that made an excellent ball
room. The sides were paneled, like the
walls of the room in which | first came
to my senses. Candles i'm sConCes were
reflected by the polished dark floor. \
platform for his hddlers had been burt
at one end. Festoons of green were car
ried from n cluster of lights in the CEN
tire Of the ceiling to the corners. making
a bower or canopy under which the
dancers moved.
1t is strange to think that not one
stone remains upon another, and scarcely
a trace is left OF this manor. When De
Chaumont determined to remove to his
seat a lie Rayville, I'm what was then
called Castorland, he had his first hold
pulled down
Miss Chantry was a blunt woman. Her
consideration for me rested on my being
her brothers pupil. She spoke more
readily than he did. From our cove we
looked over the railing at an active
world.
Madame Eagle is a picture" remarked
Miss Chantry "-Eaglew
what a name for civilized people to
give a christened child! But these French
are as likely as not to call their boys
Anne or Marie, and 1t wouldn't surprise
me II they called their girls Cat or Dog.
Eagle or Grow, she is the randsomcst
woman on the floor"
Except MademoiselIe Annabel," the |
doctor ventured to amend
That Annabel de Chaumont," his sis |
ter vigorously declared has neither con- |
science nor gratitude. But none of the |
French have. They will take your best |
and throw you away with a laugh
My master and / watched the brilliant |
figures swimming in the glow Of wax |
candles Face after face could be sin |
glod out as beautiful, and the scant |
dresses revealed taper forms Madame |
de Terriers garments may nave been |
white or blue or yellow; | remember only |
her satin arms and neck, the rosy color |
of her face. and the powder on her hair
making it white as down. Where this |
was collected from ! did not
know but 1t acted on the spirits and
went like volatile essence to the brain |
"Fheugh!' exclaimed Miss Chantry, |
"how the French smelli"
l asked her Why If she detusted them
30, she lived in a French family, and she
replied that Count de Chaumont was an
exception being almost English in his
tastes. lie had lived out OF France since
his father came over with Lafayette to
help the rebellious Americans.
l did not know who the rebellious
Americans were. but inferred that they
We're people of whom Miss Chantry
thought almost as little as she did of the
French.
Crognan looked quite boy among so
many experienced gallants, but well APP
pointed in his dress and stepping through
The figures featly. lie was, Miss Chantry
'aid, student Of William and Mary Col
ese.
This company of gentry will be widely
when # disperses home" sine
old US. There is at least one man
rom over-seus"
| thought OF the Grignon and Tank
who were probably on the road
20 Albany Miss Chantry bespoke her
lrothers attention.
There he Is"
"Who:" the doctor inquired
His hignness," she incisively re-
pended, prince Jerome Bonaparte"
l remembered my father had said that
3onaparte was a great soldier in a far
'n country and directly asked Miss
;hantry If the great soldier was in the
ballroom
She breathed "a snort and turned upon
ny master. Pray you are teaching this
ad 10 call that impostor the great sol-
iier?'
Doctor Chantry denied the charge and
asst a weak-eyed look OF surprise at me.
/ said my father told me Bonaparte
gas a great soldier, and begged 10 know
I he been deceived
on" Miss Chantry responded In a
one which slighted Thomas Williams.
Well! / viii tell you facts. Napoleon
3onaparte Is one OF the worst and most
dangerous men that ever lived. Re sets
he world by the ears, and carries war