Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13


~ IF tune to wake at o'clock that
/HE morning after restless night
and she found herself u terly
Il "a unable to go to sleep again. She
dragged hsrself up on her pillows and re-
garded with equal horror the light face OF her
little French clock and the dull day sinking IN
upon her through the orchid curtains at the
windows.
Her household unaccus.omed to dawn ris-
ings was wrapped in siumber, but Mrs. Mont
rose saw no reason why she should suffer
alone She rang long and petulantly Tor her
maid and was more than ordinarily caustlc
when the woman arrived
Bv $50 o'clock Mrs MontroSe had finished
with breakfast and everything Agnes could 90
for her, and found herself at loose ends In the
bleak beginning of a raw Spring day, SO she
decided to mount to the fourth floor ana palt
her other-n-lDW. In a world OF vanlsheo
thrills and duled appettes and advancing
discomforts that was one diversion which never
failed her.
Her daughters husband, Raoul de la Tour,
was a young French nobleman OF proud ana
ancient lineage who looked, oddly enough, eX-
actly like young French nooleman OF PROUD
and ancient lineage Indeed looking at his
high romantic brow with its raven wing OF
black and glossy hair. his sensitive aQuhlne
nose his dark and brilliant eyes and the sharp
clean cut of his chin, a beholder could easily
picture him a knight OF old, handsomely
mounted dashing boldly about answering every
0u secour! in gallant haste.
OUT now the dashing days of the DUO de ia
~ Tour we're done. His excursions conSis ed
only of the slow and painful trips from bed TO
chair and he would leave his suite Of charm
ingly furnished rooms but once again. "A motor
accident had so nearly killed him that 1t had
seemed hardly worth while to patch the
crushed and battered body together again ana
the due had wanted ardently to die, but MIS-
Montrose had wanted him to live.
She wanted him to live long time and she
wanted to watch him doing it, so she took SOLID
satisfaction in the great surgeons assurances
that with the tender care and skill which sur
rounded him. he might reasonably expect
normal lease OF life.
The day attendant was amazed at her early
call and the dues sad eyes widened with sur
prise Nevertheless he said, Bon jour, madame!"
quickly and pleasantly. Pleasantness and couc-
tesy were so deeply ingrained in Raoul de Ia
Tour that he could seldom remember to lay
them aside in the presence OF the Two
women who hated him.
GOOD morning my dear Raoul!" Mrs Mont
rose replied liltingly with rising 1nflectlon
which was particularly irritating. "A merry
morning isn't It? I woke early, and hurried TO
greet you" She permitted the back OF her mana
to be kissed.
1T is very amiable of you, madame" he said
1evelly.
Isn't it?" she agreed cordially. Thank you.
Jensen" She accepted the chair which the
man-servant brought forward. The due at
the beginning of his imprisonment had in
cautiously expressed preference Tor Wallets
of his own nationality, with the result that
both the day and night nurses were Swedish.
Mrs Montrose studied her Son-in-law with
concern. If she could have detached herself
from the situation sufficiently to analyze 1t
calmly she would have realized that the reason
for her venom that the due had made her
ridiculous.
Raoul Pierre Henri Eugen duo de la Tour)
had married her plain and difficult daughter
Do othy to the astounded end respectful won
der of her world, and little less than year
later the racing in which he was driving
lurid young lady from night club had
argued with an express train for first of
crossing The young lady, who could never
have danced again, had the good fortune to
die but Mrs. Montrose had contrived to have
him continue living
Dorothy de la Tour, few months after the
accident, had given bitter and reluctant birth
to a daughter, child who had decreased her
slender chances of welcome and popularity by
faithfully copying her fathers beauty In tiny
feminine form, and who had attained deli
cately wiry and vigorous years under the calm
care of a robust fraulein