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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-28
Alexandria Happenings
In a Social Way

Wednesday by motor for Roanoke and
attended the annual Virginia Military
Institute-Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tute football game Thanksgiving Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace N. Lindsey
also attended the game in Roanoke
and are spending the week end with
Mr.. Lindseys daughter, Miss Lisa
Lindsey, at HollinS College.
Mr. and Mrs Robert w. Wheat
are week end guests of the latters
mother, Mrs. Manly Broaddus, at
Fleetwell, Va. Next week Mr. and
Mrs. Wheat will close their cottage
at Gunston Cove and spend the re-
mainder of the winter in the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Clarke
Miss Effie Moore of Mount jackson
has arrived in Alexandria to spend
the next few months with her cousin
Miss Mamie Graham.
Miss Sallie Page Williams is the
guest Of Mrs H. G. Gillum in Lynch
burg.
MI. and Mrs. Clarence Carroll
Parker announce the engagement Of
their daughter, Mary Idabell, to Mr..
Lewis CORTLAND Knight son of Mr..
and Mrs. F. Clinton Knight, also of
Alexandria. The wedding will take
place Monday, December 81.
! Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Jr.,
Visiting in Alexandria.
Mr.. and Mrs George Plumer Smith,
jr.. and Mrs. Frelinghuysen Carleton
Of New York City are guests of Mrs.
Smiths parents, Mr. and Mrs Arthur
H. Bryant.
Judge and Mrs Thomas McAlister
entertained at buffet supper Sun
day evening in honor Of Miss Mollie
| Dawson.
! Mrs. Walter Dowley returned today
from visit to relatives in Baltimore
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Whittemore
entertained at dinner Sunday in honor
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Bowman and
Mr. and Mrs. Moir Bowman Of Wash
ington.
Mrs. Ralph Artz of Clifton Forge
and Mrs. Ida Gait of Craigsville. Va,
were guests this week of their sister.
Mrs. c. V. Brooks. who was guest of
honor at a surprise party Wednesday
evening to celebrate her birthday an
niversary. Among the other guests
were Mrs. Richard B. CARRIER of Rich
mond another sister, Miss Mary Belle
CARRIER; Mr.. William CARRIER of Rich
mond, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Rideout,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Freeman, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lewis Timberlake, Mr.. and Mrs.
I. H. Polk, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Leake,
Mr.. and Mrs. T. S. Drake. Mrs Pres
ton Brown, Mrs. George McCauley,
Mrs. w. H. Brown, Miss Clara MAY
Brown, Mr. A. V. Brown and Mr.. and
Mrs. A. V. Brooks
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Arthur Younger
will leave next week for San Francisco,
where they will make their home.
For the past two years Mrs Younger
has been president OF the Belle Haven
Women's Club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ferris White have is
sued invitations for a dance Saturday
evening, December I, at the Belle
Haven Country Club.
Miss Margaret Ann Jones, Miss
Eleanor Fay Wakeman. Miss Vivian
CoaNey. Miss Rachel Davis Shelton
Miss Virginia Lee Nichols, Miss Mil
dred Elizabeth Ale and Miss Doris
Penn of the State Teachers College
in Fredericksburg are spending the
Thanksgiving holidays in their homes
in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. James F. Peyton spent
Thanksgiving day with the former
mother. Mrs. John w. Peyton, in
Rapidan and Mrs. Peyton Is the week
end guest Of her mother, Mrs. George
Edwin Ross, In Lynchburg.
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English Speaking
Union Dinner.

The English Speaking Union.
Washington Branch. will entertain at
a dinner December in honor OF Sir
Evelyn and Lady Wrench.
Sir Evelyn is the founder OF the
English Speaking Union and chair
man of the Spectator and honorable
LID, ST Andrews.
The former United States Ambas-
sador to the Court of ST. James. Mr..
Alanson B. Houghton, president Of the
Washington Branch, will preside.
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Alfaros Moved
TONeW Home.

The former President OF Panama
and Sonora de Alfaro have moved to
their new house at 42ll Forty-third
street, after being at Wardman Park
Hotel for several months. The former
President. who served also as Minister
at Washington for some years, and
his family are among the very popular
diplomats who have remained at this
Capital after their retirement from
active service.
Senior and Sonora de Alfaro have
with them at their new home their
son. Senior Rogelio Alfaro, and their
daughter, Senorita Yolanda Alfaro.
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Tea Dance Planned
For Army Relief.

A tea dance for the benefit Of the
Army Relief Society will be held Sat-
urday at the Army Medical Center
in the Sternberg Auditorium Of the
Administration Building from to 7
o'clock. Refreshments will be served
Admission, 50 cents.
Mrs. Charles R., Reynolds, wife Of
the Surgeon General of the Army, and
Mrs. Wallace De Witt, wife Of Brig
Gen. Wallace De Witt, assistant to
tho Surgeon General. will b the
hostesses.
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Presbyterian Church
Bazaar and Dinner.

The annual bazaar and dinner Of
the Western Presbyterian Church will
be held Wednesday and Thursday eve
nings from to o'clock. Miss S. Jane
Best is general supervisor with Miss
Elizabeth Lea, chairman of the Dinner
Committee. Mrs. Volena Williams Is
in charge of the dining room; Mrs.
Ketha Wildman, gifts; Mrs. Annie
Mossburg, aprons; Mrs. Emily Coombs,
cakes and jellies; Miss Alice Clapp,
Christmas cards; Miss Agnes Thomp-
son, candy. and Mrs. Birdie Davis,
grab bag.
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4 ISIS REGINA McKEEVER,
M daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
WI Robert L. McKeever, who is
4 L one of this seasons buds, will
entertain at cocktail party this after
noon from S to o'clock for the
debutante group and their friends at
her home, at 1050l Georgia avenue,
near Silver Spring. She will be pre-
sented to society at tea dance
December 20. Friday Miss McKeever
gave buffet supper and dance in
honor of her brother, Mr.. Robert
Livingston Mckeever, jr, in celebra-
ton Of his birthday anniversary. The
guests included Miss Jean McCandlish,
Miss Dorothy Souder, Miss Mary Den
ham, Miss Phyllis Hummel, Miss Betty
Barnard, Miss Winifred Hyslop. Miss
Barbara Smith, Mr.. Charles Friedrich,
Mr.. Preston COX, Mr.. Arthur King Mr..
James Van Devanter, Mr.. Claude
Ward. Mr.. Thomas Stewart and Mr..
William McKeever
The Rev. Richard Ashford and Mrs
Ashford entertained the Junior clergy
men of the diocese of Washington at
luncheon Monday at the rectory in
Woodside There were about IS guests
Miss Mary Louise Minter will return
today to her home, in Silver Spring,
from tWo-week stay in Benton, KY,
where she visited her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Joe P. Minter
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur NJ May of
Rockville Center, L. l.. arrived here
Wednesday to spend the holiday week
end with Mrs. Mays brother-in- law
and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. E. Francis
McDevitt, and her mother, Mrs.
Richard Junker, at their home, in
Woodside Park
Mrs. c. w. Hensey to Return
From North Carolina Today.
Mrs. c. W. Hensey of Wynnewood
Park, accompanied by her son, Mac
Hensey, has been spending the past
week in Maxton. N. c., visiting rela-
tives. She is expected to return today.
Mrs. Ralph A. Wells entertained at
q bridge party Tuesday night at her
home, in Seven Oaks Manor.
MISS 11dLSl Nlll1cl CIllClIdAlCu Nv q
treasure hunt and dance Thursday
evening at her home, in Silver Spring
A buffet supper was served later in
the evening in the attractively dec
Grated recreation room. The guests in
cluded Mr.. and Mrs. George Denton
of Bethesda. Md; Mr.. and Mrs Ted
Schneeman, Mr. and Mrs Harry Bean,
Mr. and Mrs. William Brown, Mr..
and Mrs Rupert Dodson, Miss Mar
garet McVean and Mr. Edward Austin
all of Washington, and Mr.. and Mrs
Roger Prichard, Miss Helen Dolan and
DR.. Gustave H. Schulze of Woodside
In the afternoon Miss MillerS parents,
Mr.. and Mrs William F. Miller, gave
a dinner party, having as guests Mr.
and Mrs Roger E. Smith of Silver
Spring, Miss Gurley Cross, Dr. Lamond
Davis and DR.. Schulze. Miss Miller
and Miss Dolan left Friday for Phila-
delphia, where they attended the
Army-Navy game yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs Noble D. Palmer OF
Silver Spring are spending a month
in Western Kentucky, where they are
visiting relatives and friends. They
are spending part of the time with
Mrs Palmer's father, Mr.. John Guier
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Blakeslee
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Gaithersburg
Area Social
News
Tea Given at
Mrs. Jacobs
Home Sunday.

- AITHERSBURG, Md, Nov o.
Y Mrs. Merle Jacobs and Miss
~ Helen Collins of Rockville
entertained at tea last
Sunday afternoon at the home Of Mrs.
Jacobs, on Diamond avenue. They
were assisted at the tea table by Mrs.
j. Wriley Jacobs of Chevy Chase, Mrs.
Carter Clagett and Miss Mary King
don Of Rockville, Mrs. George Darby,
Mrs. Maurice Chiswell, Miss Hazel
Jacobs, Miss Mary Mae Jacobs, Miss
Dorothy Chiswell, Miss Grace Darby
and Miss Ann Jacobs of Caithersburg.
Mrs. James Schroeder, jr,, was host
ess at a bridge party Monday evening,
having as guests Mrs. Otto Anderson,
Mrs. j. Forrest Walker, Mrs. Joseph j.
Etgen, Mrs. Earl Shorb, Mrs. Merhle
King, Mrs. Merle Jacobs and Mrs.
Merhle Haines.
Mr. and Mrs. j. NJ Stout and their
family Of New Haven, Conn, are
visiting Mr.. Stout's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. r. w. Stout in Poolesville. Md,
after spending last week here with Mr.
and Mrs William Boland.
Mrs. Tommy Waters and Miss Mary
White have come from Charleston,
S. c., to spend the Thanksgiving holi-
day here. Miss White is visiting Mrs.
Nathan White after spending a part
of last week with Miss Alverda Cooke
Mr. and Mrs. Edward William, Ed
ward William, jr.,; Mr.. Downey Will
liam and Mrs. Merle Burdette OF
Etchison were dinner guests of Mrs
Mary Beall Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Magruder, Mrs
Mary Beall, Mrs. Bessie Magruder ano
her three sons spent Sunday in Balti-
more, where they attended the annua
family reunion at the home of Mrs
Olive Atkinson.
Mr. Otto w. Anderson left Wednes.
day with Williams Mills. Maurice
Ward and Melvin walters of barnes.
town to attend the International Liv.
Stock Exposition In Chicago. The.
will be gone q week. The boys wor
first honors in State wide judging
contest
Mrs. Henry Griffith was hostess a
. bridge luncheon Saturday, when he
guests were Mrs. Virginia Bartlett
Miss Dorothy Bartlett, Mrs. Heste
Warren, Mrs. Olivia Myers Mrs. Lycur
gus Grifith, Mrs. Jeffrey Griffith. Mrs
Frances Spurrier. Mrs. Uriah Griffith
Mrs Allison T. Taylor, Mrs. Remu
Riggs, Mrs. Elgee Riggs. Mrs. Merrill
Haines, Mrs. Samuel Riggs, Mrs
Greenbury Griffith, Miss Maud Dor
sey, Miss Helen Worley. Mrs. william
Warfeld. Mrs. z. M. Waters, Mrs
William Clarke Mrs. Thomas Grif1th
Miss Elsie England and Mrs. Edwar,
Blunt.
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Benefit Card Party
PatrOneSSeS.

Patronesses for the card party which
the Washington branch of the Ken
more Association will give Tuesday,
December I, at o'clock in the after
noon include Mrs. Cary T. Grayson
Mrs. David Eft. Pierre Gaillard. Miss
Elizabeth B. Bliss. Miss Gilbert Gros-
venor, Mrs H. Worthington Hilleary
Mrs. James Young, Mrs Finley Cal
vert and Mrs Everard R. Todd.
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The Department Of Commerce esti-
mates national lumber consumption
for 1897 to be $4,000, 900. 1000 feet, q
gain Of about 5 per cent over the previ-
Gus year. .~.....,.. a..-.-,....~. -. -.
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OhioGirls Dance.

Ohio Girls Club will give 0 dance
Saturday evening from to IL o'clock
In the Queen Elizabeth room Of the
Raleigh Hotel.
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Entertain
Fairfax
Visitor
Many Residents
Away Over
Week End.

FAIRFAX, Va, Nov. 27.-Mr. Royal
Furman Of New York has arrived
for a visit with his brother-in-law and
sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Lennig Sweet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh B. Marsh mo-
tored to Cunningham, N. c., Wednes-
day to spend the Thanksgiving week
end with Mrs. Marsh's relatives.
Miss Roberdeau Allison. Mr.. Robert
Walker and Mr.. Frank White will re-
turn tomorrow from Gainesville, Ga,
where they have been the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. William Lester.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Raymond Huffard
are spending the Thanksgiving holi-
days with Mr.. Huf1ard's brother and
sistT-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. John HUI
fard, at Fieldstone, their Charlottes-
vile, Va, residence.
Mrs. Pierce Davies, who has spent q
week with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Malcolm K. Harris, in Danville, Va,
was joined over the week end by Mr..
Davies and with him will return to
Fairfax today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coyner
20 10 Richmond.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis M. Coyner and
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Pembroke Petit mo-
tored to Richmond Thursday to at
tend the Richmond William and Mary
football game.
Mr.. James E. Bauserman, princi-
pal OF the Fairfax Elementary School,
and Mrs. Bauserman left Wednesday
TO attend meetings of the Virginia
Education Association in Richmond.
MrS. T. Ramsay Taylor has gone to
Norfolk, Va. where she is the guest
u her brother and sister-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. ]. Guy Dudley, in their
Oliney Court Apartment.
DR.. M. P. Anderson is spending the
Thanksgiving week end in Richmond
with relatives.
Mr.. Rene Pfalzgraf OF Roanoke. Mr.
Marcel Pfalzgraf Of Gloucester and
Mr.. Dedier Pfalzgraf of the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg
are spending the holidays in Fairfax
with their father, Mr. Jacques Pfalz-
graf, and their brother-in-law and
sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Roger H. Cope
land.
Miss Hodges Visiting
Parents in Roanoke
Miss Garnet Hodges Of the faculty
of the Fairfax Elementary School left
Tuesday to visit her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John William Hodges, in Ro-
anoke, Va
Mrs. Katherine Hopper will return
tomorrow from South Boston. Va,
where she has spent the Thanksgiving
vacation with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. r. A. Edmondson.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas P. Chapman,
| jr., and their small daughter. Eliza
beth Ramsay Chapman, are the week
end guests OF MIR. and Mrs. G. 3. Rice
in Norfolk, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Neil H. Sprigg have
motored to Jetersville, Va, for visit
with Mrs Spriggs father, Mr.. Robert
| N. Foster.
| Miss Virginia Frazier of the faculty
of the Fairfax Elementary School. who
makes her home with Mrs. James
Roberdeau Allison, is spending the
Thanksgiving holiday with an uncle,
the Rev. MIR. Cooke. at Greenwich, Va.
Miss Virginia Collins and Miss
Marian Greer of Washington were
dinner guests Thanksgiving Day OF
Mrs. M. A. Mitchell and her daugh-
tiers. the Misses Helene and RUIN
Mitchell.
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- TAUNTON, Va, Nov 27.-Among
the local debutantes enter
tanned in Richmond by the
~ Richmond debutantes for the
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- A1THERsBURG, Md, Nov. o.
Mrs. Merle Jacobs and Miss
~ Helen Collins of Rockville
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got up. Gust the same, I'd better get
in my ground work before the crowd
arrives" So deciding, he grinned a
thoroughly boyish grin and ground
out his cigarette under his heel be-
fore starting for the door.
"Now what the devil could have
gone wrong? Bet her canary died
or something's"
To his disappointment he found
that quite number of other guests
had put in an appearance and that
already the boyishly slender young
beauty was attended by three or four
eager gallants who made a brave show
ing in their gray and colorful uni
forms. Ian glowered. Of course that
Connected young Italian Conte would
be among them, his lecherous eyes
travelling over the girls white clad
body like scurrilous hands. Yonder
was the evil, the aristocratic Prince
Paul Pechkinoff, calculating his
chances of conquest and satyr-like of
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"BlAcK 0RCWI0e"1y M Ny ~

front door open and shut again, he
heaved sigh of relief.
Thank heavens here's somebody
else. Hope it's Harris" 1t was
queer how much he liked that quiet
dryly humorous Welshman who SER
we'd the British Minister as military
attache. His hope was dashed, how
ever, when there came ringing thru
the empty rooms the sound of a wo-
mans voice. Instantly he was struck
with the singular softness and mel
lowness of it's quality. There was in
it the ringing vitality of an old wine
goblet that is lightly struck. Mingled
with it were the deeper tones of a
man.
He started to rise, then sank back.
Why the devil begin the inevitable
round of inane small talk sooner than
was absolutely necessary?
His thoughts reverted uncomfort-
ably to Leonard. A thousand dollars!
Good Lord! That was lot of money
but if Leonard needed it, well-that
was all there was to it. Then with
that sturdy loyalty which had won
him his host of friends, he dismissed
the matter from his mind,
Who would be at the dinner? I'm
doubtedly better than average per-
centage of women that conceded in
telligence to charm and beauty, for
Baron Hugo Won Satzmar was an ex-
imperial guardsman, bachelor and,
though some sixty-odd years along,
did not yet require spectacles to ap-
preciate a well-turned ankle.
The tall young diplomatist's rev.
erie was broken by the sound of a
light footstep. Someone else had been
attracted by the effulgent Spring
moonlight that beat timidly through
the conservatory's glass roof. Thank
fully, he realized the intruder had
chosen different path than that he
had selected. Good, he could loaf an
other few minutes. Terrible bore,
these formal dinners.
Subconsciously he realized those
footsteps were doing queer things.
Light and quick, they had entered the
friendly gloom, and now they were
moving slowly to an uncertain, stumb-
ling cadence. His curiosity piqued,
he raised his head to discover that
he could glimpse the motion of wo-
mans evening gown beyond the palm
fronds before him. Quite without
warning, there suddenly appeared in
the moonlight the small, proudly held
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head and the delicate shoulders OF
one of the lovliest girls Ian, we'll
schooled in charms as he was, had
ever beheld.
She halted with her face in pro-
file to gaze up fiXedly at the moon,
quite unconsciously revealing every
detail of her features. Hers was a
nose that was just short enough to
be piquant and intriguing, without
being snub; below it was a short up
per lip that bespoke the senses and
a small, firmly rounded chin which
struck the silent watcher as alto
gether delicate and delicious. Above
the cameo like features a sleek aur-
cole of ash hued hair caught the
moonbeams and entangled them there
in.
Feasting his eyes on that exqui-
site moonlit loveliness, Ian remained
silent as, for long moment the girl
remained motionless as any statue.
On more careful observation he noted
that the girls barely perceptible
cheek bones were higher than usual,
giving her face family foreign cast
that was infinitely intriguing.
Fearful of startling this lunar ilum
ined apparition, Ian remained quite
still, studying with a connoisseur's
appreciation, the fragile beauty of
her who, though less than thirty feet
away, was undoubtedly unconscious
of his presence. Suddenly he noticed
the glimmer of something on her
cheek and with sharp pang of alarm
realized that something was sliding
over her cheek like a fugitive drop
of quick silver. Another appeared and
then another. Ian felt sense of out
rage-it was so incredible that such
a moon-silvered goddess should weep.
There was something quite CHASTITY
about the way she stood there weep
ing silently, and he fought down an
absurd impulse to spring up and
make an offer to solve her troubles.
With quick, delft motion like that
of a fish darting just below the sur
face of the sea, the girl suddenly
dropped her small patrician head and
two slender and long fingered hands
appeared, clutching an evening bag
set with rhinestones. She had just
opened its jeweled clasp, when from
the depths of the great house sound
ed mans voice, calling in low tones:
Lolita, Lolita, wo sind sie?"
Ian, now wideeyed and thoroughly
alert, did not miss the convulsive stiff
fleming of that slender body, nor the
way the softly-curving neither lip was
tucked into her mouth, even less did
he miss the indescribable look of mis-
cry which contorted the girls lovely
features. In that expression he
thought to read both fear and des-
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CHAPTER III

Major Evan Harris thoughtfully
watched the two Americans descend
the steps of the terrace and disap-
pear in search of cab.
"Good old Ian," he muttered
"Lucky for that young ass Leonard
he's got a roommate with sense e.
nough for two"
The worthy Major would have been
surer of his opinion had he been in
the little reb cab which, at break
neck speed, was whirling the two
Americans out along the busy An
Grassy Ut towards that sombre resi-
Dental district which borders on
Budapest's magnificent park system.
They had ridden in deep silence for
some distance when Leonard Holt
turned to face the big figure at his
side and said with an unconvincing
carelessness:
II need bit of money! Ian. Err
could you spare me thousand?"
Ian Gray's eyes widened. A thous-
and dollars! Good heavens! What
was the boy thinking of?
Chats lot of money, Len," said
he guardedly. "Why the sudden need
for so much money!"
"Never mind-I need it," explained
the other with a touch of sullenness.
you'll help me out, won't you?"
"Of course, Len-you know that.
1 can manage it, somehow. But a
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feur with a magnificent flourish OF
his horn, drew up before an apartment
house of unpretentious appearance
give never known him to lie to me
before"
While the two bathed, shaved anC
otherwise prepared for dinner, Leo
nard Holt kept up a febrile, nervous
conversation, that was utterly unchar
acteristic, pocketed Ian's cheque anc
presently betook himself off, declar.
that he would stop for cocktail with
his fiancee on his way to the Aus
trian ministry.
So preoccupied and disturbed was
the usually debonair and untroubled
Ian Gray, that for the first time in
many years he aroused himself to dis
cover that he had actually arrived
early for the dinner. AS he crossed
the sidewalk he had the unpleasant
impression that inside the great bril-
liantly-lit building, servants were
hurrying to complete preparations fol
the dinner.
Yet there was nothing to bear out
this presentment in the manner Of
the correct and unruffled footman in
plum and gold who flung open the
ponderous door of plate glass and
beautifully wrought iron and begged
the premature guest to enter.
After surrendering his opera cloak
and hat to the footman, Ian uncom-
fortably followed a cadaverous-look-