6
THEUJVES
of the
LADY
ARABELLA
By
MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL
(Uoprrigbt, 1008, Bobbs-Murrill Co.)
SYNOPSIS.
At 14 years nf age Admiral Sir Peter
Hawkshaw's nephew. Richard Glyn, fell
deeply in love at tirst sight with Lady
Arabella Stormont, who spurned his at
tentions. The lad, an orphan, was Riven
a berth as midshipman on the Ajax by
his unele. Giles Vernon, nephew of Sir
Thomas Vernon, became the boy's pal.
They attended a theater where Hawk
sliaw's nephew saw Lady Arabella. Ver
non met Philip Overton, next In line for
Sit Thomas Vernon's estate. They start
ed a duel which was Interrupted. Vernon,
Overton and Hawkshaw's nephew found
themselves attracted by pretty Lady Ara
bella. The Ajax in battle defeated French
warships In the Mediterranean. Richard
Glyn got £2,000 prize money. He was
called home by Lady Hawkshaw as lie
was about to "blow In" his earnings with
Vernon. At a Hawkshaw party Glyn dis
covered that Lady Arabella was a poor
but persistent gambler. He talked much
With her cousin Daphne. Lady Arabella
again showed love for gaming. Later she
held Glyn and Overton prisoners, thus
delaying the duel. In the Overton-Ver
non duel, neither was hurt. Lady Ara
bella humiliated Richard by her pranks.
Richard and Giles shipped on a frigate.
CHAPTER Vl.—Continued.
We had a pleasant journey to Ply
mouth and were troubled with few
regrets at leaving Loudon. We ex
pected, in the foolishness of youth, to
capture many more such prizes as the
Indomptable and Xantippe. The Bel
videra was nearly ready, and in a few
weeks we sailed on our second cruise.
I shall not give the particulars of
that cruise. -It was such a one
as all the officers of his maj
esty's service were engaged in
during those eventful years. We were
constantly at sea: we kept a tireless
lookout for our enemies, and hunted
and pursued them into their own har
bors. We never slept for more than
four hours at a time, in all our cruis
ing. We lived on beef and biscuit for
months at a time; sometimes we
bud scurvy in the ship, and sometimes
we did not. We struggled with mighty
gales, that blew us hundreds and even
thousands of miles out of our course;
and we sweltered in calms that tried
men's souls. In all that time we
watched night and day for the enemy,
and. when found, chased him, and
never failed to get alongside when it
was possible; and we fought him with
the greatest good will. We had good
and ill fortune with the ship, but her
colors were never lowered. And it
was live years before we set foot in
London town again.
Only a year of that time was Giles
Vernon with me. He got promotion
which took him out of the ship. I had
the extreme good fortune to be with
Nelson at the Nile. On that great day,
as sailing-master of the Belvidera, I
took the frigate around the head of
Admiral Villeneuve's line —she was
the leading ship—and placed her
where she was enabled to fire the first
raking broadside of the battle. I got
a wound in the forehead which left a
scar that remains to this day; but I
also received the personal thanks of
my Lord Nelson, which I shall ever
-esteem as the greatest honor of my
life. 1 bad heard nothing of Giles for
nearly a year, when, among Admiral
Villeneuve's officers, I found one, a
young lieutenant like myself, who told
vie that Giles had been captured, while
«n a boat expedition, and was then in
prison at Dunkerque.
I wrote him a dozen letters at least,
by officers who were paroled; and
when the ship was paid off, the follow
ing spring, 1 lost no time in getting to
London, and using what little power 1
had in trying to have him exchanged.
Sir Peter was in great favor at the
admiralty. As soon as I reached Lon
don, 1 went immediately to call in
Berkeley Square. My Lady Hawk
shaw was at home, and received me
in great state, black feathers and all;
and with her sat Daphne Carmichael.
I believe Lady Hawkshaw was really
glad to see me; but Daphne, after
speaking to me, remained with her
ejes fixed on her embroidery. I
noted, however, that she was a very
charming girl, and her eyes, under her
long, dark lashes, were full of "fire and
sweetness. But she had not, and
never could have, the glorious
beauty of Lady Arabella Stormont.
Lady Hawkshaw demanded of ine a
particular account of my whole
cruise, and everything that had hap
pened at the battle of the Nile. This
I gave, to the best of my ability. She
then invited, or, rather, commanded,
me to take up my quarters in Berkeley
Square, and told me that I had three
thousand and ten pounds, nineteen
shillings and seven pence to my credit
in bank.
After this, she was called upon to
leave tl/e room for a moment, and I
civilly inquired of Daphne how Ijady
Arabella was.
"She is well," responded Daphne,
rather tartly, I thought; "and as de-
voted to (.'apt. Overton as ever. You
know Arabella ever liked him rather
more than he liked her." At which un
generous speech, I said one word:
"Pie!" and Daphne, coloring to the
roots of her hair, yet attempted to de
fend herself.
"I only tell you what all the world
says, and so say my uncle and aunt.
Arabella could have married a dozen
times —she is all of 21, you know —
and married very splendidly, but she
will not. Sir Peter rages, and swears
that he will marry her off in spite of
herself; but Arabella is her own mis
tress now, and laughs at Sir Peter.'
"And does she still play cards?"
Daphne raised her eyes. It seemed
to give that otherwise sweet girl posi
tive pleasure to call over Lady Ara
bella's faults.
"Yes," she said. "Loo, lansquenet
—anything by which money can be
lost or won. Three times a week she
goes to the duchess of Auchester's,
where play is high. We go there to
night; but'l do not play."
I had not thought there was so much
malice in Daphne until that conversa
tion.
I left my adieux for Lady Hawk
shaw and repaired to the admiralty,
where Sir Peter happened to be that
day. I explained that I should have j
come to him at once, but for my inor-1
dinatewishtosee Lady Hawkshaw; and
t hat I found her looking at least 20 years
younger since we met last. At which j
Sir Peter beamed on me with delight, |
and, I believe, mentally determined
to give me £I,OOO additional in his!
will.
I then stated my real business, j
which was to get Giles Vernon ex- j
changed; and Sir Peter, without a
moment's hesitation, agreed to do all
he could for me; and then, as usual, j
directed me to have my portmanteau 1
sent to Berkeley Square, as Lady
Hawkshaw had done. Before I left the
admiralty machinery had been putin i
motion to secure Giles Vernon's ex
change. 1 returned to Berkeley,
Square, and again took up my abode
there.
CHAPTER VII.
One month from the time I arrived
in London 1 was on my way to Ports
mouth to meet Giles Vernon, who had
been brought over with a batch of ex
changed officers from France.
In that month, during which I had J
lived continuously in Berkeley Square, |
things were so little changed, except j
in one respect, which I shall mention ;
presently, that I could scarcely per
suade myself five years had passed.
Peter and Polly, as Giles disrespect
fully called them, had not grown a
day older, and quarreled as vigorously j
I
pjjlpggl
"We Were Constantly at Sea."
as ever. Lady Arabella was then her
own mistress, although still living un
der Sir Peter's roof; but, as far as I
could see, this spoiled child of nature
and fortune had always been her own
mistress. I found that Overton had
been away for some years on foreign
service, and, after distinguishing him
self greatly, had lately returned suf
fering from severe wounds and in
juries to his constitution. He was,
however, in London, and able to ride
and walk out, and visit his friends;
but it.was doubted by many whether,
ou the expiration of his leave, he
would ever be fit for duty again.
I heard and saw enough to convince i
me that Lady Arabella had been wild
with grief and despair when she heard
of his wounds; and, although since \
his return to London he avoided com-1
pany generally, she managed to see j
him occasionally, and spent much of j
her time driving in the parks upon the <
mere chance of seeing him taking his j
daily ride or walk. Lady Arabella \
Stormont had everything in life that i
heart could wish, except one. She had j
chosen to give her willful and way- j
ward heart to Philip Overton, and it I
must be acknowledged that he was a \
man well fitted to enchain a woman's,
imagination. Overton had disdained
the spontaneous gift of Arabella's j
love; but I believe her haughty and j
arrogant mind could never be brought
to believe that any man could be real- j
ly insensible to her beauty, her rank, i
and her fortune. Overton could not [
in any way be considered a great \
match for her. His fortune was mod
est, and his chance of succeeding to J
the Vernon estates remote; but, with j
the desperate perversity of her na-1
ture, him she would have and no other. \
It always seemed to me as if Overton j
was the one thing denied her, but
that, she had determined to do battle j
with fate until she conquered her j
soui's desire.
For myself, she treated me exactly j
as she had done five years before— j
called nb- Dicky in her good humors,
and a of sneering names iu her I
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1909.
bad humors—and, little as it may be
believed, I, Richard Glyn, lieutenant
in his majesty's sea service, with
£3,000 to my name, would have gone
to the gibbet rather than marry Lady
Arabella, with her £30,000.
Perhaps Daphne Carniichael had
something to do with it. She was the
same gentle, winning creature at 19
as at 12. She was still Sir Peter's pet,
and Lady Hawkshaw's comfort; but I
had not been in the house a week be
fore the change I alluded to came
about and the change was in me con
cerning Daphne. 1 began to find it
very hard to keep away from her. She
treated me with treat kindness before
others, but when we were alone to
gether. she was capricious. I began to
despair of ever finding a woman who
could be kind to a man three times
running. And I was very much sur
prised at the end of a fortnight to find
myself experiencing the identical
symptoms I had felt five years before
with Arabella—only much aggravated.
There was this difference, too. I had
admired Arabella as a star, afar off,
and I think I should have been very
much frightened, if, at the time, she
had chosen formally to accept my de
votion. Not so with Daphne. I felt
I should never be really at ease until
I had the prospect of having her by
my side the rest of my life. I reached
this phase at the end of the third
week. At the end of the fourth I was
in a desperate case, but it was then
time togo to Portsmouth to meet
Giles, according to my promise, and
I felt, when I parted from Daphne, as
if I was starting on a three years'
cruise, and I was only to be gone a
day and a half. She, dear girl, showed
some feeling, too, and I left, bearing
with me the pack which every lover
carries—pains and hopes.
I left London at night, and next
morning on reaching Portsmouth, as
I jumped from the coach, Iran into
Giles' arms; he had reached Ports
mouth some hours in advance of the
time.
He showed marks of his imprison
ment in his appearance, but his soul
had ever been free, and he was the
same brave and joyous spirit I had
ever known. Not being minded to
waste our time in Portsmouth, we took
coach for London town at noon. As
we were mounting, a countryman
standing by held up a wooden cage
full of larks, and asked us to buy, ex
patiating 011 their beautiful song.
"I will take them all, my lad," cried
Giles, throwing him a guinea. The
fellow gaped for a moment, and then
made off as fast as his legs could car
ry him. I wondered what Giles meant
to do with the birds. He held the
cage in his hand until we had started
and were well into the country; then,
opening the little slide, he took out
one poor, fluttering bird, and, poising
on his finger for a moment, the lark
flew upward with a rush of joyous
wings.
Each bird he liberated in the same
way, all of us on the coach-top watch
ing him in silence. As the last cap
tive disappeared in the blue heavens,
Giles, crushing the cage in his strong
hands, threw it away.
'I have been a prisoner for 14
months," he said, "and 1 shall never
see any harmless living thing again
imprisoned without trying to set it
free."
We reached London that night, and
Giles went to his old lodgings, where
his landlady was delighted to see him,
as all women were who knew Giles
Vernon. She gave us supper, and
then we sat up all night talking. I
had thought front the guinea he had
thrown the vender of larks that he
had money. 1 found he had none, or
next to none.
(TO UK CONTINUED.)
Seagulls of Auchmlthie.
In the fishing village of Auchmithie
you may frequently witness seagulls
flying into the houses of the fisher
men and partaking of food from their
hands. One of these sea birds was in
the habit of staying in a fisherman's
house all the year round except at
the breeding season, when it left.
About a fortnight ago, while the gull
was away, the fisherman removed his
home some three and a half miles
from the former place.
The fisherman never expected to see
his old friend the gull again. It was
therefore, much to his astonishment
that he beheld on a recent Sunday
the sea bird come walking into his
new residence with stately steps to
resume his old familiarities and house
hold ways.
A Dangerous Roll.
H. Engels, an Oakland, Cal., boiler
maker, met with an experience which
nearly cost, him his life, while at work
inside a 28-inch water pipe. The line
of pipe ran along a steep hillside and
was held in position by wooden sup
ports. While Engel was riveting two
sections together the supports gave
way and the section in which he was
working started down the hill at a ter
rific speed. It rolled several hundred
feet and finally dropped into a ditch in
which a stream of water was mining.
Engels' companion supposed, of course,
'.hat he had been killed, but rushed to
the ditch. The in-piped man was
taken out alive, but seriously cut and
bruised and almost drowned.—Detroit
News-Tribune.
Why We Shake Hands.
In the barbarous days of old, when
every man had to watch carefully over
his own safety, when two persons met
they offered each to the other the
right hand, the ha»d that wields the
club, sword, knife or other weapon of
war. Each did this to show that the
hand was empty, and that, therefore,
no trouble needed to be feared. The
handshake was the treaty of peace—
in a word, the way they had of show
ing each other that they meant to bf
friendly.
»B®OT THE H6ME
Timrjely Gfeat @f Eo
tf aupd !Etiqa^tte p by
A Fad Party.
Spoon'crazes and monogram fan ep
idmeics have been succeeded by a
rational and useful mania, for each
person now has her own especial hob
by; the more practical the better.
With this in mind a young hostess
sent out invitations asking each one
to come prepared to tell of her own
particular fad; if possible, to bring a
specimen, and be prepared to talk five
minutes about it.
It was a very interesting afternoon.
One lady had selected plates for her
specialty and she brought a most
beautiful old Sevres piece that will
some day be worth a king's ransom.
In her travels plates are always her
quest and her dining room testifies to
her success. Anniversary cups and
saucers was one woman's fad; as each
wedding day comes she adds an ex
quisite cup to her collection. They
are for after-dinner coffee and show
off to advantage when she serves
black coffee in the drawing room.
A prospective bride adda a towel to
her linen chest every trip she takes;
these she monograms in the colors of
her bedrooms to be. A dime bank was
the source of one guest's finances
with which to indulge her fad of tea
pots; many of these she bought at
uuction shops. Handkerchiefs was the
pet hobby of a dainty little maiden
dressed in blue, and she had them
from all over the world, besides many
fine creations of her own fair hands.
The intellectual girl confessed that
books were her particular weakness,
and she has many of them inscribed
with the author's name; also rare first
editions, and a splendid bookplate
drawn by a famous illustrator she was
justly proud of.
Chinese carvings was another fad,
and rare Japanese and Chinese pottery
still another. Prints and engravings
were the special love of a lady who
nearly always wore gray, which ex
actly matched her beautiful hair. All
this led up to the fact that every one
needed a hobby, something to add zest
to one's journeys; occupy the mind,
and provide always a topic for enter
taining conversation.
Chafing Dish Fudge Party.
"Bring your chafing dish and aprons
for two on Saturday night at eight."
This was the message four girls and
four lads of congenial minds received
not long ago. And what a jolly time
they had! The helpful boys donned
the aprons and the girls amid much
merriment instructed thorn into the
mysteries of fudge building.
There was divinity fudge, which is
the very latest addition to the fudge
family, and all sorts of concoctions
that made the plain chocolate fudge of
—well, I'll say "my school days," in
stead of how many years ago, look
like a plain little Quaker lady amid
the new fluffy masses filled with nuts
and candied cherries.
The making and selling of fancy
fudge has proved quite a financial at
tribute to one "guild" that numbers
a goodly array of South side girls
among its members.
Even grown-up* enjoy "fudge" par
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IN many homes, a serviette lias to last each person for a week, or, perhaps,
one is allowed for breakfast and lunch, another for dinner, to serve the
week; those often become more soiled on the outside by handling than
they do from use; and a little contrivance, such as we show here, and
which is of French origin, is very practical. It is made like an envelope,
of fine linen or cambric, the width that of a serviette folded in three or four
rit, preferred, the depth to correspond; the size must, of course, be regulated
by the size of the serviette it is intended to hold. The edge is ornamented ail
round by a drawn thread hem, one end is turned up to form pocket, the
other which forms the flap is worked with the spray shown below in open
hole embroidery; the case is fastened by a loop and small button under the
hem.
A washing glove or handkerchief case could be made on these llaes,
and might be ornamented with the emDroidery design. eith*«; workotf ID
open holes or in raised satin stitch.
ties, as I can cheerfully testify. Any
thing constructed upon a chafing dish
brings with it an element of sociabil
ity and cheerfulness that is hard to
attain in any other way. Long life to
it and its pretty schoolgirl cham
pions.
To Find Partners.
Make balls of cotton, tie them with
different colored ribbons two of a
kind, then give the two balls that are
alike to a man. Have the men on one
side of a door or room separated by
portieres over which there is a grill
or opening. The man is to throw over
one ball, the girl who catches it be
ing his partner. Another way is to
wrap a half of a quotation in one ball
and then match the quotation halves.
A Red Geranium Luncheon.
The most stunning table imaginable
is achieved when red geraniums are
used exclusively as the decoration for
the luncheon. They are available
alike to both city and country host
esses, as nearly every one has a bed
of these brilliant garden flowers and
they are usually at their brightest
when other blossoms are on the wane.
Fill a large glass bowl with tho
scarlet posies, using their own rich
leaves for the green. Red candles in
holders of glass, scarlet paper bonbon
and nut boxes, with ribbons of the
same hue leading to the place cards,
which should be white with a red
geranium thrust through the corner.
Tho hostess should be gowned in
white, with red belt, stock and slip
pers; or the dress may be of red mus
lin with white accessories. First serve
a cherry cocktail, then tomato bouil
lon, salmon croquettes with Julienne
potatoes, beet salad and raspberry
sherbet. The cakes may be iced in
reti, a,3 there is a harmless fruit col
oring; a confectioner will make
cream patties to match in coloring if
the order is given a few days ahead.
MADAME MERRI.
Cavalier hats are the height of style
for morning wear.
The low shoo or oxford is just a wee
bit smarter than the pump.
Pongee serge is a new material, of
a texture altogether lovely.
Cotton flowers are used more on
hats than silk ones.
A butterfly of dark purple spangles
is a most becomingly chic hair orna
ment for a light-haiped woman.
Marvels of beauty are the fairy-like
scarfs of tinted chiffon with borders of
spangled medallions in delicately bril
liant colors.
Black suede shoes are smart, but
look a bit smudgy, and make one want
to take a bit of kneaded rubber and
pick out a few high lights.
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PITY FOR THE TOILER.
"I hoar, Limpy, dat de price of livin'
has increased."
"Yep. Gee, it must be tough to
have to work for wot a feller eats."
Couldn't Stand It.
A Raleigh, N. C., woman not long
ago received into her house for "train
ing" a "cracker" girl from the moun
tains.
Endeavor was made to Inculcate In
the girl a love for order and cleanli
ness, but suddenly this discipline
ceased, for the "poor white" fled to
her home in the fastnesses. Thither
the Raleigh woman traced her after
come difficulty.
"Why did you leave me, MarJ
Jane?" she asked.
"Mis' Morgan, I jes* couldn't stay!"
exclaimed the girl. "I was jeß' cloyed
with neatness I"
His Professional Habit.
"How did that sculptor leave hl«
affairs?"
"In a strictly professional condi
tion."
"What do you mean?"
"In statu quo."
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