The Washington times., 1920-05-02
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Enid was pink and white and gold
en- with rather an avpsaling little
face. Celeste was dark with strong.
ly MARKED eyebrows rather straight
and nearly meeting. dark eyes. .
straight determined mouth--quite
a different facial expression from
Aunt Enid's--much more resoluts.
But Aunt Enid appeared 10 rule
her with q veritsbls rod OF iron. for
all the straight lines OF her mouth
and eyebrows In the most en-.
phatic manner Of one Of the con.
querors TO q subject race Aunt Enid
would speak to her: and the
French woman, for all the dstsrmi-
nation that her face bespoke, took
Il all much more tamely than any
English maid could have submitted
TO It, Only now and then she would
turn and answer Aunt Enid back
I'm q torrent OF broken English
jumbled up with French and would
say things that no English maid
would say to her mistress. and
would give notice to leave on that
day month. or even within an hour.
And Aunt Enid would put up with
words from her that she would mot
possibly have taken froai ~ Eng
ijsh girl, II was . bad exhibitioa.
a. ! thought. of want Of self-respect
ON both sides. And then they
would gsnerally end BY kissing aad
making friends--litsrally kissing
eysn on Aunt lcnid's part. which !
thought . dissdstias tAinS for any
one 70 DO to her mAl6--and the suA
came out after The storm and ~
wss brisht again. supposed that
they understood sach other. but !
had 70 confess to myself quite free
ly that did not understand eithsE
Of them: neither ala feel that ]
particularly wished to understand
dispositions which would bring
them toIsuch scenes and reconcile
tions. S
For the moment. q sli events,
Celeste had nothing to ~ that was
not altogether good Of her late mis-
tress. Whether II was the kindly
act of death In gliding virtues and
glossing faults, or whether Celeste
was moved by the sentiment that
there could be none Of the same
recriminations nor the same recon
citations in the future, she de-
clared with fearful emphasis to the
sergeant that never before had any
servants had such good and kind
mistress. There never had been
such another. She was always so
gay, which was for the most part
true; never put out, which was
grossly far from the fact; she had
never received anything but kind
ness from ,hes--sos forth and % on.
"More friend than mistress"
Crisp suggested tactfully during
momentary pause In which Celeste
wiped her eyes with what the de-
tective deemed q very fine hand.
kerchief for woman In her posi-
tion.
Exactly, monsieur"--the idea
propelled Celeste on new current
Of praise and exposition. There
was nothing that milady did which
she did not conhde to Celeste" and
so on.
Sergeant Crisp may have private.
ly doubted whether milady was
likely to have been 80 extremely in.
discreet, but he did not mention his
doubt to the maid. He said. in
stead, that he understood her to
have been devoted to Sir Ralph.
"But yes'--Celeste was on again
Milady was an angel. or course,
Sir Ralph, everyone thought him
such q good, kind gentleman, but
he was q great deal, oh, many
years, older than milady. He could
not help that, Celeste admitted. but
milady--! Celeste interspersed
her commendation with large
number OF Isl gentiles," "si jolies,"
and SO on. and gave the impression
that in her opinion. kind sentlepan
though Sir Ralph was reputed to
be, he was very far from being
good enough for her ladyship. In.
deed, Celeste seemed to have con-
sidered him rather to blame that he
did not realize this inferiority for
himself, that he did not recognize
that It was only right and proper
that a lady Of milady's charms and
youth should require something
more than the companionship Of
always the same person." as Ce-
leste put It, with an unconscious,
condemnation Of monogamy Of