South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-09-14
By Louis
Joseph Vance
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Monk. OF New York.
These personages were really not
at all in a bad way. When Eve dc
Montalais had carried madame la
comtesse off to her own apartment
to change her shoes and stockings,
the gentlemen trooped TO the draw
ing-room fire, and grew quite cheer
full under the combined influence of
warmth and wine and biscuits.
Mr.. Whitaker Monk might have
been any age between thirty-five and
hfty-five, so non-committai was that
lantern jawed countenance of
droll. with its heavy. black. eloquent
eyebrows, its rather small. blue III
egible eyes. its high bridge nose
ana prominent nostrils. it's vide and
thinlirped mouth, its rather startl-
ing pallor.
A chance meeting at Monte Carlo.
he said. with his old friends. the
Comte ct Comtesse de Lorgnes, had
resulted in their yielding to his irA
sistence that they tour with him
back to Paris by this roundabout
way.
a within of my age. madame. As
a young man | explored this cOun-
try on a walking tour. inspired by
Stevenson. You know. perhaps, his
diverting Travels with a Donkey p
How strange. then, Is coinci-
dence. Madame de Sevenie suggest
ed You who made a walking tour
OF this country so long ago, mon
sieur. regarded there that good
Monsieur Duchemin. himself en-
gagged upon just such an undertake
ing"
But is there anything more won
derful than the workings of the
good God? ." madame pursued. "Ob-
serve that had it not been for Mon
sieur Duchemin, we should all. l.
my daughter. my granddaughter,
even poor Georges d'Aubrac, be ly-
Ing dead a. Montpellier-le-Vie
Naturally the strangers required
20 know about that. and Madame de
Sevenie would talk, in fact dotted on
telling the tale of that great adven-
.urc Duchemin made a face of
+ resignation, and heard himself ex-
tolIed as a paladin for strength, adj
dress and valor.
Now the enigmatic eyes of Monk
were boring into him. seeking to
search his soul. with a question in
their stare which he could not read
and. quite likely. would have de-
clIned 10 answer If he could. Also
the eyes of Monsieur lie Comte de
I.orgnes were very round and con-
slant 10 him. And before Madame
de Sevenie was finished Phinuit
stroned in and heard enough 10
make him subject Duchemin TO
not unfriendly. steady and open in
spection.
But Monsieur Monk!" madame la
comtesse exclaimed with vivacity,
do you know what I have just dis
covered? You and Madame de
Montalais are compatriots.? She IS
ofIyour New Yory You must know
each other
Il have been wondering" Monk
admitted. bowling 10 Eve. II it were
possible 1 could be misled by
strong resemblance
Eve turned 10 him with a look OF
surprise. Yes. monsieur"
1T was many years ago
was I'm a private office OF my friend
Edmund Austruther. OF Cottiers
one afternoon"
The effort Of the memory knitted
Ewes brows. but in the end she
shook her head. IT am sorry. mon
sieur. But I am so glad 70 meet a
friend Of my fathers. monsieur"
Your father and entertained one
passion In common. one which he
Yves better able than I 10 sratify. for
, good diamonds and emeralds. I have
often wondered what became OF his
collection. He had some superb
stones"
Il inherited them. monsieur"
The Countess de Lorgnes gave a
gesture Of excitement. But what a
fortunate woman, Tcu truly have
those magnidcen, emeralds, those
almosc matchless diamonds. OF