Evening star., 1919-02-09

tined to become England's greatest
martial hero after Nelson, Wellington
and, perhaps. the immortal Earl Rob
erts, "Bobs."
So quickly did matters take their
course that In very short time Mrs.
Robinson all but adopted the future
Earl Kitchener. The room that her
own boy had occupied became his and
he frequently used 1t for long periods,
becoming virtually the son of the
house. 1t was about this time that,
having previously pursued his studies
at school at Villeneuve. on Lake
Geneva. Herbert Kitchener was being
coached for Woolwich by the Rev
George Frost of Kensington. In 1868,
or when he was eighteen. his name
made one of those of the fifty-six
successful competitors for admission
to the RoyalMilitary Academy into
which he duly passed. This, then. was
the position when Miss Carrie Hutchi-
son, the pretty Scotch niece of Mrs.
Robinson and Miss Lucy Hutchson,
first came to their home on a visit.
Although they now had boy"
again, the two ladies yearned for
girls companionship in their home.
Naturally their thoughts turned to
their FIVE nieces. AS the result of
correspondence, Miss Carrie Hutchi
son came to them on visit. and so
rapidly did this delightful girl win
the hearts of both Mrs. Robinson and
Miss Hutchison that it was ultimately
arranged that she should take up her
abode in their home, and she was for
maliy made the sole heiress of both
these ladies. whose accumulated for
tunes amounted to six figures in
pounds sterling,
she was then a bewitching type of
tE1t Ia No.. oh. L, Il
common intelligence and mingled
sweetness and strength of character
as well as good looks. Her hair and
eyes were brown, her features were
finely cut, the nose especially and she
had the complexion of real "out-of
doors" girl. In figure she was rather
small. OF true humor she had aplenty,
and she was not without coyness per-
haps just a touch of coquetry, as her
girlish handling" Of *. of X whose
makes evident
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From the first Carrie Hutchison and
Herbert Kitchener were the very best
of chums. Their natures were SYM
pathetic; both had strong characters,
but both knew when to yield to the
other. Ere long the "palship" between
them turned, on both sides, into
warmer feeling, but, girllike, II was
not altogether displeasing to Miss
Carrie when the attempted wooing of
other swains made her big brother"
more than slightly jealous, and to
study his procedure under such cir
cumstances.
OF one such little episode she used to
tell even as an elderly woman, with
positive glee. Her relation of 1t ran
something like this.
"One day." she said, another boy
who was just a very little sweet on
me came to our house for tea for the
first time. At our teatable Herbert
always sat next to me. lnstinctively I
knew that my other beau would try
to possess himself Of this place, and
secretly / did not wish him TO do SO.
And ! waited with real trepidation to
see what Herbert, who had sat rather
glum since the other boys arrival,
would do.
II might have known beforehand,
however. The maids were bringing in
the tea things, and, as soon as the ta-
BILE was laid X spoke out.
" That's my seat he said, pointing
TO the chair beside mine, nobody else
must sit theren And nobody else did"
Which sounds very much like *.
of X.
1t used to amuse Miss Hutchison, too,
in telling Of those days, to describe
one musical" that they had at their
home, and the difficulty that she had
in making the youthful Kitchener at
tend II.
Xxx took refuge in his own room