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"Then keep him out of the way.
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That's simple enough,” he said "None
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The countess turned her sha|>ely of them, except the solicitor, need see Wli.. v.., . K. -
".Mariano, how l.«g i> this noise to
head and hsvked at him admiringly him.”
Almost in a burst like an eruption continue?"
und with a touch of irony at the sur
! there came an uproar outside the gates
prise she was about to give him.
Tile maitre d’botel shrueu-ed his ex
“Ah. you retain one quality. You are beyond the hotel—wild laughter, riot pressive shoulders and «‘eplied:
careless, you are free/’ and she laid ous cheering und the notes of the tar
"How cau I know, m'sieii? We cau
her right hand uism his arm, and Hor enteila played by mandolins und gui- d«> nothing.”
tar, then more shouts aud cheers and
ace thrilled at the Intimate touch.
Michele, who was assisting bis chief,
“Well,” he laughed, “perhaps in cries of “Bfavo, Americano!” and smiled covertly at the young man.
those things I am American, but in ; "Yunka Douda!” Horace ran to the
"Th«* populace they will not la-
A Novelization of the Play
others I fancy I should be thought gates, but they were closed, and the part so long as there .-hall be
uproar continued. Ethel stood by one chance once again to observe
of the Same Name
something else, shouldn’t I?”
She laughed openly at him now, but of the tables, amazement written on North American who puikd the auto
I I her features, aud turned to her brother
earnestly withal, and said:
mobile with th«* donkeys!"
“You are a debonair man of the us be came buck shaking his head.
“Merci!” cried Mariano, with vigor,
“What is that?" she asktxl treinu- “lie have confuse me. lie have con
world, and yet you are still American
in that you are abominably rich. The , lously. Lady Creech, all in a flutter. fuse everybody. He will not be con
settlement
such matter us that, over enter«*d from the hotel. At a glance tent with tin* dejeuia — n■■•il In* have
Copyright. 1909. by American Press
which a Frenchman, an Italian, might one would set her down for un aristo the bam and the egg, and in* will have
Association
hesitate you luugh
Such matter as crat. There was no doubt of It. From the egg cooked upon lint on«* of
£150,000—you set it aside, you laugh the topmost tip of her white hair to sides, ami how in th«* name of
SYSNOPS1S
the toe of her solid shoe she was an
You say, ‘Oil, yes; take It!’”
heaven can we tell whieli of these
Chapter ¡---Daniel Voorhees Pike, a rising
aristocrat.
For a moment she feared thut Hor
sid«*s?"
“One of your fellow countrymen, my
young Kokomo (Ind.) lawyer, hears that his ace would fall over the low parapet,
Mariano was about to continue
ward. Ethel Granger- Simpson is to l>e married so w hite did his face become and then dear,” she said to Ethel. "Your Amer
grumbling complaiut when from
icans
are
really
too
”
—
abroad to the son of an English earl. Her so flushed, but the boy was game all
“Not my Americans, I.a«ly Creech!" doorway of th«* hotel there came an in
The generations of simple
fathei was his nearest friend, and he has long through.
terruption. Th«* courier who had spo
said Ethel spiritedly.
loved the girl. He goes abroad to arrange with Indiana stock came to his rescue, and
One could ken with hint earlier id the morning
“Not our, you know
her the business matters connected with her mar- he steeled himself with an effort und hardly
say that, now!” reiterated stood titer«* and voiced but on«* word.
replied quietly:
"Gareon!” he said soft), . But it was
lage.
II.---Ethel Granger-Simpson and her
Horace.
“A hundred and fifty • thousand
Almerlc entered, at once laughing like tile command of a cavalry officer
brother. Horace, have become anglomaniacs and
I
pounds! Why, that’s seven hundred and beating his boot with his crop, in Its effect, for instantly tin* maitre
are spending much of their late father's fortune
and fifty thous- I say, countess, she Almost exhausted with his mirth, he d'hotel and his aid stood at attention
in travel and entertaining. They become inti couldn't use the money to better ad
threw himself into a chair and burst like trained veterans. Th«* <*arl evi
mate with Lady Creech, the Earl of Hawcastle, vantage!”
dently Wits not too deeply Immersed to
out:
his son. Almenc St. Aubyn, and Countess de
There was real admiration in the
"Oh, I say. what a go! Motor car catch the sudden silence, for he looked
Champigny, an adventuress and associate of the Frenchwoman’s glance this time, for breaks
down on the way here. One up from Ills paper and observed:
earl's. They are at a hotel at Sorrento, Italy. she had lost none of the little byplay, of the Johnnies, a German chap, dis
“Upon my soul! Who's this?"
Mariano did not turn his head no
Ethel promises to marry the son because she and she admired the courage of the «•barges the chauffeur. and th«* other
craves a title. 111.---The Russian GrandT5uke youngster. So she said:
Johnny—one of your Yankee chaps, relax «bis attitude of stiff attention, but
"My friend, how wise you are!”
Ethel—hires two silly little donkeys, answered obsequiously:
Vasili is shortly to arrive at the same hotel in
As she spoke she turned in time to like rabbits, you know, to pull the ma
“It is th«* Herr von Grollerhagcn, a
cognita as Herr von Giollrrhagen. lV---lhe
see Ethel come down the steps of the
Then, as they cau't make it, German gentleman, milord."
Fail of H»wca«tle u in need of money and hotel with a book beneath her arm and chine.
you know, he puts himself in the
Ilawcastle turned with an amused
want, hit ton to get a huge settlement of money ran to her, clasping her lu her arms
straps with them and proceeds, at smile to Horace.
on hu marriage to Ethel. An escaped Russian and kissing her.
tended by th«* populace. Ha. ha!”
“The man who owns the automobile
bandit is located at Sorrento. V---For some
He laughed Jong and loudly.
Probably mad«* a fortune in sausage.”
reason the countesse fears the alleged bandit is
CHAPTER VII.
"I went up to tills Yankee chap, I
From within the hotel there came
one Ivanoff. Almenc tells his father Ethel has
snubbed !
mean to say—he wus pulling and tug 'he tones of a heavy though cultivated
accepted him.
“W ARGESSE, sweet Countess of ging along, you see aud I said, ‘There void* declaiming quietly:
B
Ilawcastle!” the woman cried. you are, three of you in a row, aren’t
“Nein,
Riblere!
macht
“Largesse! And au revoir! you?” meaning him and the two don- niebts!”
(CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK)
Adieu! I leave you with your
dear brother!”
She ran quickly up the steps with u
llirt of her parasol, and Horace took
•‘Quite so, quite so!” answered AL
meric dazedly, and tils father went on: his sister's baud with tears in his eyes.
“Dear old sis! Dear old pal!” be
“Shall we dispose of the necessary
said,
and she turned a rudiaut look
little details at once—the various mi
upon him.
nor arrangements, the—er—er—settle
"Isn't it glorious, Hoddy?” she said
ment?” and interrupted himself with
a friendly laugh and patted Horace with exalted tone. “Look!” and held
upon the back. “Of course as men of up the book she carried. "It's Burke’s
Peerage.’
And Froissart’s ‘Chroni
the world—our world-you understand
there are formalities in the nature of cles'—I’ve been reading it all over
■ aettlemeut ”
Horace, who was in the seventh
heaven of delight at the approaching
alliance between one of the ancient
bouses of Kokomo, Ind., and the hon
orable Hue of Ilawcastle, broke in
eagerly.
“Quite so. of cqurse! I know! Cer
tainly! Perfectly!”
“Then we’ll have no difficulty about
that, my bo#'. I’ll wire my solicitor
toulglit and he’ll be here within two
days,’’ said the earl carelessly. “If
you wish to consult your own solicitor
you cau cable him, of course.”
Suddenly Horace seemed taken with
a tit of embarrassment.
"The fact Is. Lord Hawcastle,” he
said, “I’ve a notion that our solicitor
—Ethel’s man of business, that is—
from Kokomo, Ind., where our govern
or lived—in fact, a sort of guardian of
hers—may be here at any time. I’ve
heard from friends that he is coming
lu this direction.”
again The St. Aubyns were at Crecy
The word had caught Hawcastle’s and Agincourt, and St. Aubyn will be
attention, and he leaped at it.
my name.”
“A sort of guardian? What sort,
“They want it to be your name soon,
eh?” he inquired, seemingly taken sis,” he answered her.
aback
For a moment she turned away and
"I really can’t say,” replied Horace then looked at him straight in the
apologetically. “Never saw him that I eyes.
know of. You see, we’ve been on this
"You're fond of Almerlc, aren’t you,
side so many years, and there’s been Hoddy? You admire him, don’t you,
uo occasion for this fellow to look us dear ?”
up, but he’s never opposed anything
“Certainly.
Why, think of all he
Ethel wrote for. He seems to be an represents, sis!”
easy going old chap.”
"Ah. yes, Hoddy! Crusader’s blood
“Hum!” said Hawcastle doubtfully flows in his veins. It is the nobility
“Would he consent to your sister's that must be within him that I have
marriage—or the matter of a settle plight«-«] my troth to. I am ready to
ment?”
•7 am m / ò ’ ò ’ G7M
. s / \irxos
marry him when they wish!”
Horace laughed cheerfully.
TIorace sighed.
“I have no doubt of It. If he has
“It will be as soon as the settlemeat keys, you see, Ethel, and all he could '
And instantly titer«* cam«* down the
Ibe slightest scuse of duty toward Biy Is made and arranged
It will take answer was that he 'picked th«* best
slater tie’ll be the tlrst to welcome the about all your share of the estate, sis, company in .sight.’ No meaning to It. •teps th«* German gentleman afore-.aid.
He was tall and of a commanding
alliance, won’t he?”
,
but it's worth it u hundred and fifty I hud him. you know, I rattier think, presence. He w««r<* a grayish beard
“Then when be and my solicitor come thousand pounds.”
dldu't I?”
and art automobile cap that half «on
they can have an evening together over
At this moment Lord Haweastk* en
Ethel lifted the book to the level of
cealed the eyes that burta*d with the
a lot of musty papers, and the thing her eyes.,
tered with a bundle of newspapers un authority of generations beticaln.
will be done. Again, my boy, I wel
"What better use could be made of der his arm and proceeded to settle
come you to our family. God bless a fortune, Hoddy, than to maintain himself at one of the tables, Almerlc Withal it was a kindly fa« «*. and.
though titer«* was a stern comm:.nd in
you!”
approach«*! him.
th«* state and high condition of so an
tit«* figure, there was genial hunier
He wrung Horace's hand again and elent a house?"
“English papers, governor?
and even tenderness too. By no au
turued away us if to bide his emotion,
He looked at her aff«*ctlonately aud the pink un. I’m off.” Ami be picked thority could la* have been considered
but really to wink at the countess.
up th«* tinted sh«*et as it«* spoke Ethel well dr«*ssed. His clothes eemedralb
took her band.
"I'm overpowered, you know real
“it does seem impossible that we came up to him and touched him on er to have Iteen thrown on negligently
ly overpowered, you know," stammered were born in Indiana, doesn't it, sis the arm
The little |>«irty at the table n-garded
Horace, fanning himself desperately ter?” And the tones of his voice were
"Going for a stroll, Almerlc? Would hint with hostility, anil Lady Creech
with bls bat
those of incredulity.
you like me toigo with you, dour?”
turned up her aristocratic nose
“Come, Almerlc," said the earl, and
She smiled at him fondly.
He looked at'her vacantly for au in
"What a dreadful person!" s
as the youthful heir to his house arose
“But isn't it good that the pater stant and then stammered:
and turned again to her paper.
languidly he sidled close to the couut- 'made bis pile,’ as the Americana say,
"Well. I rather thought I'd have a
The German walked stsialely aero-*
esa and whispered in her ear:
and let us come over here while we quiet bit of reading, you know.”
the tenace to the table where the two
“Let him know it's a hundred and were young to find the nobler things.
Ethel drew back quickly and said in servitors still stood at attention and
fifty thousand.”
Hoddy—the nobler things?”
a very small voice:
lifted bis hand in a curt half military
Then be and Almerlc went up the
"The nobler things — the nobler
“Oh. 1 beg your pardon.”
salute in acknowledgment of I heir bow.
steps into the hotel, leaving Horace things! Why, sis, when old Hawcas
Then she sat down hurriedlyby Lord
"See to my American friend,” he
and the countess gazing at each other tle dies I'll be saying offhand, you Hawcastle.
Mid.
delightedly.
know. 'My sister, the Countess of Haw
"What a terrible person!" remarked
She crossed over to him impulsively castle'
CHAPTER VIII.
Lady Creech again, and Ilawcastle
and. taking both his hands again, said:
For a moment Ethel remained 1
bent to war«! her.
TH» V MF. Ill« AX.
thoughtful aud then turned to her I
“My friend. I am happy for you.”
"Undoubtedly, but he speaks Eng
HE clatter without «•ontitnied un
“Think of it!" said Horace Joyously brother
lish.
So I««* careful."
abated.anil Etlieland tin* count
-In a fortnight at the most dear old
"You don't Imagine that father’s
“So many objectionable people do.”
ess walked back to the terrace
Ethel will Is* the Hon Mrs St. Aubyn. friend, this old Mr. I’ike, will be—will
rampart to stand looking out commented the crusty dame.
future Countess of Ilawcastle!”
be.queer, do you?”
Herr von Grollerhagcn turned smil
“Yea," replied the countess, with
"Well, th«* governor himself was over the glorious bay.
ingly to Mariano.
Horace,
still
in
the
seventh
heaven
drawing her hands and picking up her rather raw. you know. This is prob
"My American friend desires his na
parasol, “and there is bat the little ar ably a harmless old chap, easy to han of deligbt«*d realization, took th«* Dally
tional dish."
Mail
from
the
table
on
which
the
earl
range men t of the settlement between dle "
Mariano bowed.
your advocate and Lord Hawcastle's
"I wish I knew I shouldn't like Al- j had thrown It and seated himself to
“Yes. Herr von Grollerhagcn," re
read
beside
Lady
Creech,
who
was
al
But you Americans you laugh at such merle's family to think we had queer !
plied Mariano deferentially. "He will
thing« You are big. so big. like your connections of any sort, and he might ready deep in the Church Register. havi* the eggs on but one of two sides
The
earl
bad
burled
himself
in
the
Pail
country!"
turn out to lie quite shockingly Amer
and tla* ham fried, so he go to cook it
Horace followed her across the ter- ( lean I I couldn't bear that, Hoddy!” Mall Gazette ami was apparently ob ililn-’lf "
o»cv to the wall.
There was n note of genuine pathos livious to such minor details as an
(TO BF, CONTINUED)
Italian peasant row
“Ah. balieve me. dear countess," he In her voice, and her brother respond
But to Horace in fils highly strung
m A “the great world your wortd, ed instantly:
connteaa —hn*
me.”
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