The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-25

do you realize, Mademoiselle Eli
Sabeth Stamier, that I have never
practically, talked to you except
when you have been making magic
with your fingers and reducing my
thoughts to pulp. or in our rather
overheated drawing rooms? I like
to be out of doors"
Il, too," she agreed. Tell me
what you have been doing with
your gamekeeper."
He INDUCED in slight grimace
The fates, coupled with the fact
Of my advancing years, seem to
have agreed that shall now settle
down-whatever that means.
Il am taking an interest in my
belongings and, like all selfish PEG
Pile, am beginning with the things
that like best. Next week shall
ride around to call on some of the
tenants.
Just now I am planning out the
work for Humphreys and the other
keepers to start upon directly we
have finished shooting"
NO ENTHUSIASM
There was a lack of enthusiasm
in her demeanor which he could
scarcely fail to notice.
Il suppose you think I ought to
leave my property to itself and
look further afield for occupation, u
he remarked.
Il would not presume" she said
gravely, Ito criticize in any way,
but"
She hesitated.
"Well?"
zone sort of feels" she went on
that much of the practical side of
managing estates could be done in
an office and that the brains of
the world, the knowledge and ex.
perience which you must have
gained in all your travels, even if
they have been chiefly for sport,
might be better employed"
You think that, do you?" he
meditated.
Il do, indeed she said firmly
You have been away from Europe
for so long that it must be hard
for you to realize, but to me and
many others who think about our
| countries at all it does seem as
though a sort of chaotic paralysis
were creeping over the world. If ii
is not lethargy, it is disaster"
You are in serious frame OF
mind" remarked MatresSer to Eli
sabeth.
Il am serious person." she told
him. Il have every predisposition
towards friVolity. I want to play
all the time.
Il would love to find myself in
a world in which there was no
work to be done and only music
to trouble ones senses, but it is
not possible.
These are the days to quote
our enemy HeIlstern-When a
mans hand must rest upon the
sword"
And a woman'S?"
Her manner Stiffened a little.
NEED TRAINING
THAT was only auegorical. OF
course. I think that all humanity
all the nationS-men, women, and
children-Should be training them
selves to do something in life to
restore the lost balances"
THAT sounds very depressing,
he admitted, especially coming
from the daughter of one of the
gayest nations in the civilized
world"
"Once perhaps the gayest," she
insisted. mot now. Even you
if you were to spend few months
travelling closer at home
through my country, for instance
might see things a little diff.
erently.
1T is the cities and crowded
places where human beings still
live that are worth rediscoVering
. And now" she concluded with
laugh, II have been almost rude
to my host. I have been exceed
ingly impertinent. Let us talk of
something else"
Il am depressed" he said. You
are a very severe critic. Mademoi.
selle Stamier. You do not seem to
approve of me at ALL"
She made no reply. They had
reached the end of the lane skirt.
ing the wood anc Matresser leaned
across the field to where the tur.
rets and far-reaching front of the
Great House were visible. She
looked up at him questioningly.
"Admiring your property?" she
inquired with gentle sarcasm. 1T
is a very magnificent mansion"
THE CONSTRUCTION
Il was engaged in a careful at.
tempt at reconstruction" he &C.
knowledged.
Il was asking myself. in short.
why any human being who was
already half unconscious should
have stumbled down this lane.
climbed over this five-barred gate
only to collapse amongst those un.
pleasant looking turnipS."
us this the spot where Fergus
was found?"
Within a half dozen yards OF
this gate. Probably in that little
patch Of roots which seems to
have been rather disturbed. It was
from here that they took him to
DR.. Andrews"
"Why did you bring me here?"
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