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â€"~' ' u-q n: *W+ 1I can’t buy a, child’s frock even; ’3? i Or, A TRUTH Â¥ , l CHAPTER I. t is an August morning. It is in old English manor hl‘llSC. There ls a breakfast-room hung with old "i'ded leather of the tiiaaes of the tuarts; it has oak furniture of the same period; it has lCElLi’ti l;..tr.5-.:es with stained glass in some of their frames, and the motto of the house in old French, “J’ay bon n.-i:lolr,” emblazoned there with the crest of a heron resting in a crov. n. ' windows open onto a green. : lovely garden which was by Monsieur Beaumont planned the gardens of hc l‘l .xton Ll “\- court. There are clipped --iree raiks and arbors and f::iitastic iornis; there are stone ta, and iteps like those of Hati‘.‘-"'i". and ,v-here are peacocks which . perch upon them; there hill of all the flowers iomcd in the England. he Stuarts, and birds dart and tumor- has pass above them; ill‘i’i" are 'iugc old trees, cedars, lizne‘. .i‘mln- Theam; beyond the gardens lisl‘E-if use the woods and grassy lav. up of ihe heme park. » The place is called ,n :ourt, and is one of the :1 George, Earl of Usk; liis'favoritea liouSo in what pastoral people call intumn, and what he calls the lhooting season. Lord Usk is a well-made man of! ill}- SU, with a good-looking hinge. a. 1.10 spoiled by a permanent «*:«.}.::" Jinn of irritability and int} " which is due to the ms liver; his eyes are goodâ€"Len;err-d, [-13 4.. l. L3. his mouth is querulous; meant him for a very amiable u but the dinnerâ€"table has interfere-ell With, and in a measure upset the good intentions of nature-fit very often does. Dorothy, his wife, is by birth a Fitz-Charis. third daughter of the Duke of Lorry, .‘S a still pretty woman of 35 or 36, in- clz'ned to an embonpoint which is the despair of herself and her maids; she has small features, a 33.? expression, and very intelligent eyes; she does not look at all a great lady, but she can be one when i; is necessary. She prefers those merrier moments in life in which it is not necessary. She and Lord Usk, then Lord Surrendeii, were greatly in love when they married; sixteen years have gone by since then, and now it seems very odd to each of them that they should ever have been so. They are not, howâ€" ever, bad friends, and have, evenl at the bottom of their hearts a last- ing regard for each other. This is saying much, as times go. When they are alone they quarrel consid- ’erably; but then they are so sel- dom alone. They both consider this disputatiousness the inevitable result of their respective relations. They have three sons, very pretty boys and great pickles, and two oung and handsome daughters. he eldest son, Lord Surrenden, rejoices in the names of Victor Alâ€" bert Augustus George, and is gen- erally known as Boom. They are now at breakfast in the gardenâ€"chamber; the china is old Chelsea, the silver is Queen Anne’s, the roses are old-fashioned Jac- nucminots, and real cabbage l'OS"l as There is a pleasant scent from flowers, coffee, cigarettes, ‘ and ‘newlyâ€"mown grass. There is a lit- ter of many papers on the floor. There is yet a fortnight before the shooting begins; Lord Usk feels: that the fifteen days will be intolâ€" erable; he repents a fit of fright and economy in which he has sold his great Scotch moors and deer {crest to an American capitalist; not having his own lands in til-m.- land any longer, pride has he‘s-t him from accepting any ‘ film many invitations of his fi’l:_‘::<l.< no 0 to them there for the "i‘w - gut he has a keen dread ml" .959 m- sni g fifteen days without 1~}:i‘.l. , His wife has asked her own set, hi nature annhe r NEVER OLD. ~++++++++++4++++++ ++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ have been such a fool as to sell it? When he was George Rocliefort, a boy of much promise, going up to Oxford from Eton, he had a clever brain, a love"0f classics, and much inclination to scholarly pursuits, but he gradually lost all these itastcs little by littleâ€"lie could not very well have said howâ€"and now he never hardly opens a book and he has drifted into that odd, Eng- lish habit of only counting time by the seasons for killing things. There is nothing to kill just now except rabbits, which he seems, so he falls foul of his wife’s list of peo- jple she has invited, which is lying, itemptingly provocative, of course, I on the breakfast table, scribbled in pencil on a sheet of noteâ€"paper. “Always the same thing!” he says‘as he glances over it. “Always the very worst lot you could get together, and there isn’t one of the ‘husbands or one of the wives!” l “\Of course there isn’t,” says Lady Usk, looking up from a soci- ctv newspaper which told her that ,he" friends were all where they were not, and fitted all the caps of scandal on all the wrong heads, and yet from some mysterious rea- son gave her amusement on account of its very blunders. “I do think,” he continues, “that nobody on earth ever had such ab- solutely indecent house parties as yours I” “You always things.” “I don’t think they’re absurd. llook at your list; everybody asked .that he may meet somebody whom say these absurd shouldn’t meet!” “What nonsense! As if they didn’t all meet everywhere, every day, and as if it mattered!” “It does matter.” I He has not been a moral man ghimself, but at 50 he likes to faire ila morale pour les autres. When we are compelled to relinquish cakes and ale ourselves, we begin hcnestly to believe them indiges- tible for everybody; why should the be sold, or be made, at all? “It does matter,” he repeats. l“Y0ur people are too larky, much :lit'o larky. You grow worse every ‘year. You don’t care a straw iwliat’s said about ’em so long as itlicy please you, and you let ’em fearry on till there’s the devil to Pay.” _ I “They pay him; I don’tâ€"and they [like it.” “I knew they like it, but I don’t :chcose you should give ’cm an op- 1pc:rtunity for it.” “Oh, nonsense.” “Not nonsense at all. This {house is a kind of Agapcmone, a Escrt of Orleans club.” “You ought not to be bored in it then.” “One is always bored at one’s ,own place. I tell you I don’t like lyour people. You ask everybody pth wants to meet somebody else; :and it’s never respectable. It’s a ljcke at the clubs. Jack’s always lsaying to his Jill, ‘We’ll get Lady lUsk to ask us together,’ and they ldo. I say it’s indecent.” “But, my dear, if Jack sulks . without his Jill, and if Jill’s in bad lform without Jack, one. must ask gthem together. I want people to E enjoy themselves.” ‘ “Enjoy themselves! That means flirting till all’s blue witlrsomc- 'body’ you’d hat if you’d married :hcr. “What does that matter so long as they’re amuse-d?” ' “What an immoral woman you :are, Dolly. To hear you~â€"” “I only mean that I don’t think it matters; you know it doesn’t tina’ttcr; everybody’s always doing ‘ it. ’ ' ’ “If you’d only ask some of the women’s \husbands; some of the I l linen’s wives “I couldn’t do that, dear. want people to like my house!” “Just as I sayâ€"~you’re so immor- but he hates her set; he does not 111.” much like his own; there is only Dulcia Waverley whom - like,“ - .\x -x come till the 20th. “Tie feels bored, hipped, annoyed. He would like to strangle the American bought Achnalorric. and Lady \l'avcrlejgmwill not who has Achnalorrie‘ “No, I am not. Nobody ever Pay! I Though why you within your pin- 110 does: pays a bill for me, except you.” “Enviable distinction! lthink I do pay! cannot keep honeyâ€"3’ "Pin-money means money to buy having gone irrevocably out of his, pins. I did buy two diamond pins hands represents to him for the! with it last year; 800 guineas time being the one absolutely to be? each.” desired spot upon earth. Goodl heavens! he. thinks, how can he! “You ought to buy clothes.” “Clothes! What an expression. had broken with each other all goes in little things, and all my own money, "too; wedding presents, christe' ing presents, churches, or- phanages, concerts; and it’s all nonsense, your‘grumbling about my bills to Worth and Elsie and Vi- rot. Boom read me a passage out of his Ovid last Easter, in which it describes the quantities of things that the Roman women had to wear and make them loc‘: prettyâ€"a great deal more than any of us ever have â€"and their whole life was spent over their toilets; and then they IZtCl tortoise shell steps to get down from their litters, and their dogs had jeweled collars; and liking to have things nice is nothing now, though you talk as if it were a crime and we’d invented it!” Usk laughs a little crossly as she comes to the end of her.~ breathless sentences. “Naso magister eris,” he remarks, “might certainly be inâ€" sc1ibedov3r the chamber doors of all your from s l” “I know you mean something odi- ous. My friends are all charming people.” “I’ll tell you what I do meanâ€"â€" that I clon’t like the house made a, joke of in London; I’ll shut it. up and goabroad if the thing goes on. If a scandal’s begun in town in the season it always comes down here to carry one; if there are two peo- ple fond of each other when they shouldn’t be you always ask ’em down here and make pets of ’em. As: you’re taking to quoting Ovid, I may as well tell you that in his. time the honest women didn’t do fins" ’ltore 0f thing; they left it t? ishcd there was the usual applause the lightâ€"o’-lovcs under the portiâ€"lthat SOmetimes co-es.” ~ “I really don’t. know what I’ve done that I should be called an honâ€" wcre speaking to the houscmaids! I wish you’d go and stay in someâ€" body clsc’s house; you always spoil things here.” “Very Sorry. shooting. Three days days there, three place, and expected to game behind you ‘t‘minks,’ if your host gives you a few braces to take away with youâ€"â€" I like my own here, three days t’other leave the m’t for me If I know It, Whllelpression of surprise. astonishment there’s a bird in the covers at my own places.” “I thought you bored at home.” “Not when I’m shooting. don’t mind having the house full, either, only I want you to get dc- c<nter people in it. Whv. look at your listâ€"they’re all paired like animals in the ark. Here’s Lady were always Arthur for Hugo Mountjoy; here’s 9 for the janitor and pry them off one Icna and Mme. d-e Caillac; here’s after another. Mrs. Curzon for Lawrence; here’s Dick Wooton and Mrs. Feversham; here’s the Duke and Lady Dolgelly; here’s old Beaumanion and Olive Dawlish. I say it’s absolutely in- dece t when. you know how all these people are talked about.” “If one waiteed for. somebody not talked about one would have an empty house or fill it with old fo-,an example that the rest felt they gics. My dear George, hay-en’s youlmust follow or remain there for- ever seen that advertisement about i ever. ' ' matches which will only light on their own boxes? People in love am- like those matches. If you ask the. matches without the boxes, or the boxes without the matches, you wcn’t get anything out of either.” “Ovid was born too early; he never knew this admirable illustra- tion !” “There’s than inviting people without the people they care about; it is to in- vite them with the people they’re tired of; I did that, once last year. I asked Mme. de Saumur and Ger- vase together, and then found that only one thing worse two months before. That is the sort of blunders I do hate to make 1” “Well, nothing happened?” “Of course, nothing happened. Nobody ever shows anything. But it looks so stupid in me, one is al- ways expected to knowâ€"â€"-â€"” “What an increase to the re- sponsibilities of a hostess. She must know all the ins and outs of her acquaintances" unlawful affec- ti us as a Prussian officer knows the French by-roads! How simple an affair it used to be when the Vicâ€" torian reign was young, and Lord and ery So-and-So and Mr. and, Mrs. Nobody all came to stay for a week in twos and twos as inevitab- fancy pigeons in we buy ‘1: ly as pairs “You pretend to regret those days, but you know you’d be hor- ribly bored if you had always to go out with me.” (To be continued.) .â€"â€"'~â€"â€"-4‘ NO ODOR OF SANOTITY. Hank Stubbsâ€"‘ ‘The ministers are folks blamin’ automobiles ’cuz don’t come to church.” ~ Bige Millerâ€"“Pshawl 'Autymo- bilcs don’t preach do they?” - nishcd. [wondering whether the audience is lpleased with the lecture or is just . lex; 1 - ,. - v -. . . . cs1. woman. One would think youimfllctlon/ls over. and to Say 2 the faces of all the people, and the =and then change his mind and re- I . l was stuck to them. I began to won- ! days of hard physical 'The thing happened just as every- .~3.:: Contains more real body-building nutriment 3 than meat or eggs---Costs much less = For any " meal in ' combination with vcgc- :5"; tables, baked apples, sliced bananas,,stewcd . “> , prunes and other fruits. Heat biscuit in oven f. “ to restore crispness} V Sold by all grocers. 13¢. a carton, mo 10:250. 1 m : M”, ,_ 1"... “1‘.” 7“ ,; a. If“ s... : 5,,“ int-F-éfi I. .1. .._ “ .. . sf . . . “I went to the edge of the plat- form. H " ‘Ladies' and gentlemen,’ said I, ‘shall I begin another lecture ‘l’ “Apparently the threat and the I successful escape of that one deter- ‘mincd man inspired the others. There followed a -succeSsion of re- It occurred in a small town, ports, like a line of infantrymen hall, that had just been refurnishedi firjllg the” guns 01.16 after a'HOth‘ir’ *and then the audience was on its AU I) IE )3 CE ENTHRALLED . A Lecturer’s Experience in a Re- dccorated Hall. “One of my most surprising ex- periences,” said a lecturer, “wasl a comparatively small thing that! has left an unforgctable impresâ€" sion. ar-d redecorated. The seats were ,. t 1 . a. t . ’1 th of that collapsible wooden kind ‘0” 3”“ mount: (max 6 en‘ trances. But the expression with which most of them looked back at those newly varnished chairs was something to remember.” with leather bottoms, and they had a'l been freshly and neatly varâ€" “So far as I could judge from the lecture platform, my remarks went off excellently. The audience . was attentive, and when I had fin- >2 N9 EXERCISE NEEDED. Physician Affirms it is Unnecessary a lecturer . for Indoor TOilers. leaves A noted London physician,.Dr. Alexander Bryce, has started a I was “bow to world-wide discussion by asserting leave the platform, when I was. sur- that Office workers Should not take prisedto notice that the audrencoexercise after their days work was Still sealed» “The root reason is that though “1 StOOd and 100ked at them? and ' head work is not exercise in the they sat and looked at me. It was!sense that it develops the body, it a small hall, and there were only most decidedly is exercise in that a dozen or so rows of seats immedi- it quickly“- duces (fag; and physi_ ately in front of me. I could seelcal 1assit1'3_ SO it is almost path letir for a man to expect any good to come from taking more exercise when the exercise involved in the jclay’s work has already tired him ‘ out. “One takes it that young people have sufficient outdoor exercise rea- sonably to develop their frames be- , . fore beginning office work. So when ‘ Then It dawned on me' The once they have started in the of- Sgatsi They had heel} newly.var_ i free in earnest it is much better for mShedâ€"‘and my entlre audience“th to realize at once that their strain are over, and that henceforth they must iconfine these efforts to week ends and holidays. - . “The body and system easily at- tune themselves to circumstances, even to over civilized and conse~ quently rather unnatural circum- stances, and indoor head workers will soon find that a good state of health can be maintained with lit- tlc or no apparent exercise.” ‘Jl‘GSSll’lg its satisfaction that the expressions puzzled me. 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