The Washington times., 1923-11-24
CHAPTER TX.

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When Clavering and Dinwiddie
arrived at the Ogden house Judge
Trent was already there and
mixing cocktails. In the library.
He was q large man who must
have HAD q superb figure before
It grew heavy. He wore the
mustache Of his generation and
in common with what was left
OF his hair it glistened like crys-
tai. His black eyes were still
very bright and his fun loose
mouth wore the slight smirk Pc
culiar to ola men whose sex
vanity perishes only in the grave.
Beside him stood a man some ten
years younger who was in the
CRAVING period, which gave him
a somewhat dried and duslSy look;
but whose figure was still slender
and whose hard outlines Of face
were as yet unblurred by flesh.
They were, Of course, faultlessly
groomed, but IL met in the wilds
Of Africa, clad in rags and beared-
ed like the Jungle, to the initiate
they still would have been New
Workers..
Come in. Come inr' cried the
judge heartily. Madame Ia
tiany will be down in q minute
she prefers to be called Madame
Zattiany, by the way. Thinks
titles in America are absurd unless
wearers were born to them-more
particularly since continental
titles. today are worth about as
much as rubles and marks
Mr.. Clavering, you know Mr.. Os-
borne? Madame Zattiany kindly
permitted me to bring him as
she was having little party.
Families old friends"
His Ancestors.
Clavering placed two fingers in
the limp hand extended and met
the cold appraising eye calmly.
The New York assumption that all
other Americans are rank out
siders, that. in short, not to have
been born in New York is a social
and irremediable crime. have often
annoyed him but never caused him
to feel the slightest sense Of
inferiority. He had his own an,
cestors. as important in their way
as any bewigged old Dutchman-
all OF whom. he reminded himself,
had been but honest burghers
in Holland. But he admired their
consistency. The rest Of the
country had been commenting
bitterly on the New York
attitude since the eighteenth cen
fury. And when you got under
their protective armor they were
an honorable and a loyal lot.
Meanwhile it paid to be as rude
as themselves.
81 am delighted that Madame
Zattiany has decided to come out
OF her shell at last" said Judge
Trent, shaking vigorously. "I've
been urging It for some time.
But she has had a long and har-
rowing experience, and seemed
to want only to rest. I think
the stir she made at your first
nights, Clavering, had something
to do with 1t. There was a time,
you know, when she never ap.
peared without making a sensa-
tion-like poor Mary before her
but young as she is all that seems
almost too remote to recall. OF
course, If she had been able tc
live in London or Paris after the
war it would have been different,
but she was stuck in Buda Pesth
and Vienna-ahw
Madame Zattiany had entered
the room. She wore pale green
chiffon with floating sleeves that
left her arms bare. In the sub.
dued light she looked like a girl
playing at Undine.
Clavering heard Dinwiddie give
a sharp hiss. Cad! More like
Mary than ever. Nile-green was
her favorite color"
She greeted the judge and
Clavering with her slight flicker.
ing smile and then turned to the
other two men.
This must be Mr.. Osborne, as
Judge Trent pointed out Mr.. Din
w1ddie to me one day on Fifth
avenue. 1t was kind Of you both
TO come in this informal manner.
appreciate it very much"
Her manner was a little like
that OF a princess giving audi
ence. Clavering reflected, a man.
ner enhanced by her slight &C.
cent and profound repose, the
negligent lifting Of her hand to be
kissed; and as she stood graciou-
you kept watch beneath my win.
unhoped-for felicity she looked
less American, more European,
imam ever. But Clavering won
dered for the first time II that
perfect repose were merely the
expression of a profound indiffer-
ence. almost apathy, - but