The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-10-15
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Dinner was served in vast and
sombre hall whose darkly paneled walls
and high-beamed ceiling bred multi
tude OF shadows that danced about the
table restlessly advancing and retreat
ing as the candles flickered failed and
flared in the gusty draughts.
Rain in sheets sluiced the windows
without rest. Round turrets and gables
the wind raved and moaned like q
tamished wild thing denied its kill.
After dinner Duchemin sat talking
with Madame de Montalais over theiI
cigarettes. To smoking, curiously
enough, ,1adame de sevenie offered nC
objection.
Monsieur knew New York?
at is my home" said Eve de Monta
lais softly, looking away.
Her father had been a partner in {
great jewelry house. Cottiers OF Paris
London and New York. $50 that ex
diamond again tonight, with other jew
els worth, in the judgment o. keer
connoisseur, a kings ransom.)
Across the drawing room Madame d,
Sevenie sharply interrogated a man
servant who had silently presented hin
self TO her attention.
What is it you want, Jean?'
The servant mumbled his justifica
ton An automobile had broken dowr
on the highroad near the chateau, th'
chauffeur was unable TO move the ca
or make any repairs in the storm. I
gentleman had come to the door to asi
He moved aside, indicating the door
way TO the entrance hall. beyond which
Mr. Phinuit was TO be seen standing
with cap in hand, tiny rivulets running
from the folds of his motor coat anC
forming pools on the polished flooring
Mr.. Phinuit was desolated 10 thinl
he might be imposing on Madame
good nature, but the night was trul!
| inclement. madame la comtesse was al
ready suffering from the cold, and
one might beg for shelter for her ant
the gentlemen Of the party while on
telephoned or sent TO Nant for anothe
automobile.
But monsieur might feel very sur,
Madame de Sevenie would never forgiv
herself if the hospitality of the chateau
de Montalais failed at such a time. Sh
would send servants TO the car at one
with lights, wraps. umbrellas.
There was no necessity for that. Tn
remainder Of the party had, ii scenes
presumed upon her courtesy in antic
/ patton, and was not far Fl ON the heel
Of its ambassador. Even while madam
was speaking. Jean was opening tn
great front doors to those who prove
formal introductions being duly effet
ted by Mr.. Phinuit-to be Madame !
/ Comtesse de Lorgnes, monsieur lie con
te, her husband (this was the well.fe
body in tweeds) and Mr. Whitake
Monk, Of New York.
These rersonages were really not q
all IN a bad way. When Eve de Mont;
lais hud carried madame la comtesse Of
to her own apartment to change hc
shoes and stockings. the gentleme
trooped to the drawing room fire. an
grew quite cheerful under 'the combil
ed influence of warmth and wine an
biscuits.
Mr.. Whitaker Monk might have bee
any age between thirty-five and fit
five, so non.commital was that lantcr
iawed countenance Of droll. with 4
heavy, black. eloquent eyebrows, /
rather small. blue, lllegible eyes. /
high.brIdged nose and prominent no
trlls, It's wide AMI thinlipped mput
its rather startling pallcr.
a chance meeting at Monte Carlo.
: said, with his old friends. the Comte
y )mtesse de Lorgnes. had resulted
their yielding to his insistence Jho- IN,
tour with him back to Paris by IA
1 roundabout way.
+ "A whim OF my age. madame. A.
' young man ! explored this country on
, walking tour, inspired by Stevenso
. You know, perhaps. his diyertir
Travels with Donkey"
- How strange. then, is coincidence
] Madame de Soveuie suggested. -,
/. who made a walking tour OF this oou
e try SO long ago. monsieur, regard the
10 that good Monsieur Duchemin. himS,
p engaged upon just such an underla
ing"
. "But is there anything more wonl
, ful than the workings OF the good Cod
{ madame pursued observe that hit