LAKK (X)l'NTY EXAMIXKR, I.AKkV'iKW, ORr.tiON, TIU KSDAY. JAN. 7, '.
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Lady IBetty
Across the 1Water
By C. N. Ct A. M. WILLIAMSON
Cemyrijht. 1906. by McClun. rhilliiH AQ Co.
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C2apler 2 J
M. ti'n da.vs have pnsa
ed. but 1 foci as If they
wore a hundred. I h:ive
1 1 v oil o much I've
heard people nenr me In
deck chairs any Ing that
a "dull voyage," hut what
ever else it has been for me It hasn't
been dull.
In tin first plaoe. I've never lxen ou
the sea before, cxivpt crossing the
channel, which divsn't count, of
course. And now that I've Ui-n
thrown w ith so imiuy people all soils
ef people I realize how few I have
known In my life so far If I had
about twice as many finders nud toes
as
I'.- . i,-:i
Kay, for I never could have stood ttisx..
It was fun finding place to hang up
our thing when they were unpacked,
and Mrs. Ess Kay's French maid
Louise helMd me Ret nettled, paying
me so many compliment on my hair
and my eyes and my complexion that
I grew quite confused, but perhaps
that' a habit In which American la
dies enconrnfre their maids.
nut the marvel that Is nilladl's hair!
It Is of the color of gold and with a
natural curl. It will It so great a Joy
If I may dress It. And her complexion!
It Is beyond that of any English dem
olselle I have ever soon, yet nil the
world knows they are best on earth
With such eyes no doubt ml!. id I can
wear any color, and she has the figure
for which the make of corsets Is of no
Import."
If It had leen In English I should
hive wanted to order her out of the
i room, nut tntngs iikc tnai tion i sounu
I have I believe I might tick off so ohj.-.-tionable In French
very human li'inj l ve ever met as
actual acquaintances outside my own
I've lived always at dear, beautiful I f"!..'.p
o:a itattiemi'Uii (it seems uoiu;y leau;i
fill as I think of it now from f.ir
a way i, and till last year most of my
time was spent in the schoolroom, or
walking, or pottering about in a ony
carriage with one of the governesses I
used to drive to distraction. When we j
had house parties I was kept out of the j
way. as mother said it spoiled young j
girls to lie taken uotice of and 1 should '
have my fun later When the others !
went up to town for the season, as they
ften did. I was loft behind, and
though B:ittlei::eaJ Is within tweuty
five miles of London 1 suppose 1 have
not been there more than two dozen
times in my life. When I Tiid go it
was generally for a concert or a muti
aoe. and. of course. I enjoyed it hn
nicineiy. but I don't know that it
taught li.o much about li;'e. Aud the
one time I was taken abroad we hud
nothing to do with any one we met at
hotels Being ou this big ship seemed
at lirst exactly like being at a play
when I had boon brought in late and
found it ditlicull to know which werv
the leading actors, which the villains
and vlllalnesses and what the plot was
about
Now. though. I've been through so
many experiences I feel as If I were
In the play myself, not watching it
from outside.
Everything was very nice, though
very strange, to begin with.
Dear old Stan came out of his shell
and actually traveled all the way to
Southampton to see me off, which was
good of him. especially as Vie explain
ed that he and Sally Woodburn had
keen thrown at each other's beads In
vain.
He'd bought me a great box of
weets, a bunch of roses and several
1 lip my 0
life? r&Hi -i
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J'-. t tin ice i' tc kUirtiwj he tl!i;id Home
f .fiiiifj! tn;ifif hut lal into iii hand.
JkWr.-Mi-.s, utid Just us we were start
log lie s!i.'jicd hO!uetliiiig small but fat
Into "i" h:::;J.
' h.n's to help you Uiep your end up.
Hd. In case you're imposed on." said
i only a kid, you know,
t i . .on t let mem treat
. ' .f you get die bump
, rr -; ble me. I'll see you
i you buck again with
t. --a i mater or no mater,
hanged If i t."
HLau uever made me such a long
apeech before, and after we sailed and
t trot time to look at the fat thing he'd
put in my hand I found It was a lot of
(fold pieces bundled up In two ten-IKMind-
notes. The gold made twelve
jorerelgna more, so Stan had given me
altogether more than thirty pounds.
Ail that money, with the twenty
pounds mother had told me to use only
"when bK tly necessary," made me
feel n. : ... .Vr millionaire. I've never
i .v . rt as much before In my
f i was Just Ilk a cup of
nai v.. ; uud comforting when
j'r f v.i and cold, so that I began to
-",' '. j np end feej happy.
. t nxea onr Burt, with two Btaterooroa,
bath and a dear little white and bio
lira wine room at j .:t as big us old
doITs house I lnh-!ed from vi. I
was thankful to 1.: t I was to chum
wJTo NU 'wdUurn. not Mia. Eas
Miss WixHlburn's and especially Mrs
F Kay'.-! i lollies looked so ex-
that I was niortltled to line
iinnack i.iine. though I have
I. v.y : ui.'.rtest things, and Vic
had two or three pretty blouses of
ho; altereil in a great hurry, for me.
Besides, mother said my outfit was
quite good enough for a young girl in
Enj'and and that I was not to let
myself feel dlssatis.'...: If In another
c:-: --.tr; chose l overdress
Anyhow I will s::y for Mrs. Fss Kay
that she didn't appear to lie ashamed
of me at first. On the contrary, she
had a way of scvining to show, me off.
almost as if she thought I did fcr
credit.
When we had unpacked we three
went to luncheon and took the ti:M
i seats which were vacant. Bui pres
ently Mrs. Ess Kay sent for the chic''
(steward or some one Important. "I
am Mrs. Stuyresant-Knox." said she
In a haughty voice, "and I have as
my guest I-ady Betty Bulkeley. tluugh
ter of the Duchess of Stanforth You
must give us three of the best seats
at the captain's table."
I I couldn't help hearing, and my ears
did tingle, but Miss Woodburn only
smiled and looked down, with a funny
twinkle under her eyelashes, which
curl up so much that It always seems
as If she were Just going to laugh,
j I thought if I were the steward I
! would give us the worst seats on the
' ship to teach us not to be proud. But
he didn't do anything of the sort. He
! was as meek as a lamb, so I'm sure
he can't have any sense of humor He
said Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox mlglii
.count ou him, and she and her party
! should have places on the captain's
right hand.
Mrs. Ess Kay was as bad with the
deck steward. She found that he
' hadn't put our chairs (which she had
brought on board herself) In the right
place, and she had him called up ami
made a great fuss. The cards of a J
Ilev. Somebody, his wife and daugh- i
tors were on chairs In the position j
which she had made up her mind lo j
have, exactly amldshlp and on the i
shady 6ide. I
"I must have my chairs changed
and put here," she said. And thin-
oh. horror! I'm certain I caught her ,
repeating the formula she'd used at !
luncheon. "I am Mrs. Stuyvesaut- I
Knox, and I have as my guest." etc. j
lo be sure, she had walked off to a
little distance with the deck steward,
where our chairs were, and I might
have been mistaken, but two or three
people who were standing uear looked
suddenly very hard at me, uud I know
I turned scarlet with uunoyauce, to a
labeled in that way, as if 1 were a
parcel marked "glass" and to be han
dled with care.
Afterward when 1 came to read the
passenger list, I found that there was
uobody else on board with uuy sort
Of title, uot even uu honorable any
body; otherwise, of course, Mrs. Ess
Kay's little maneuver, which I'm
afraid must have been meant for snob
bishness, wouldn't have excited the
slightest notice.
"Now." said Mrs. Ess Kay when we
were settled In our places, "I know a
good many people on the ship, but
most of them are nobodies, and I do
uot luteud to be troubled with them,
nor do I think thut the duchess would
care to have me let Betty mix herself
nn with unvbodv uud everybody. I
cr. Some of them laughed a good deal
and talked In high voices, pui;ing nil
phasN on prepositions, win h Mis
M.ti kluslry nud the others woiil I never
let me do In writing compo- hton ;
Somehow, though, when tluve peep
spi !;e II sou dod very nl. e an I iiTill '.,
I" re so tll.tn it does when l!;:(!i '
poo:'!,- rroot vn h other, ih uuh ft.
vol es rn'l so swcol. except II fc
thai drawled In a prelly Moiiilicrn w.i
like Sally Womlburn'a.
I could tell which were the poor
things that Mrs. ICnh Kay wanted t(
weed out of her ncqtitihitan.v gudct.
for next season, by the way he acie l
when thov came to sav "How do oi
j do?" to her. She screwed up her eves
! till they looked hard and sharp eno rith
i to go through you like a Ihin knlie
! or more like a long, slender liaipin
! Jabbing your head, and having waited
l nn Instant before returning th"lr g-cct-,
Ing. slowly answered: "Very well.
thank you. Yes. I am goin;; home
. rather early. I'm due nt Newport as
' soon as posllile;" then lingered her ;
1 open boo!;, which she hadn't peeped
' Into liefore. nud made n little. Just i
' noticeable gesture with her lorgnette.
Then the poor people were too much ,
cruched to stop and try to talk to Miss j
Woodluirn. though she always looked
nt them sweetly, as if she would make
u; ior her cousin being a dragon If she
could.
j I'y and by. somebody else would sail j
up. perhaps not half as nice to look at j
as the one w ho had gone But lo. Mrs
Stuyvesaut-Knox would lie suddenly j
tr.insi'oruicd She would smile aud j
I hold out her hand. To their "How do I
' you do?" she would respond "How do
you ilk?" and though I don't think
she's really much Interested In any
one but herself, she would nsk where
they had been, what they had loen do
ing aud how it happened they were
going back so soon. The next thing,
she would say to me: "Betty, dear. I
should like you and Mrs. So-and-so to
know each other, as I hope you'll meet
again, while you're staying with me
Lady Betty Bulkeley. etc.. etc. I won
der If you have ever met her brother.
i the Duke of Stanforth. and her cousin,
1 the Marquis of Lovelaud. over In Lon-
i ilou ?"
j Lovelaud would have had a fit If he
! could have heard her. for of course at
home only the lower middle classes of
such people hurl a marquis' title at
his head in that fashion, but I sup
pose foreigners, unless they've been in
England a long time, don't know the
difference,
i When I got a chance. I asked Sally
Woodburn how Mrs. Stuyvasaut-Knox
made her distinctions in snubbing
i some people aud preening herself to
j others.
"My deah." said Sally (I'm to call
her "Sally" now; it's been understood
i between us for some tlmei, "my deah.
you're n pxir. Innocent child, ami I
reckon you've been brought up In
darkness, without even so much as
hearing of the Four Hundred?
"What are the Four Hundred? Are
they a kind of light brigade, like the
Six Hundred?" I asked. "Or Is It n
sort of governing body like like the
Council of Three?"
She laughed so much at this, with
her charming, velvety laugh, that I
grew quite uervous. for It's embar
rassing to have said something funny
when you've meant to lie rather Intel
ll''tit But soon she took pity on me
"You perfect love," she said, "that's
really two sweet. It deserves to be
put in Life, or something. And yet
you're not so far wrong, when one
coii.es to think of It. The Four Hun
dred Is n kind of governing liody, only
I believe it's really reduced to Two
Hundred now. They govern New
York, and Newport, nnd Iennox, and
Bar Harbor, and several other places
which are considered very nice and1
Important."
"Ohl Are they Republicans or Dem
erits?" 1 Inquired, sure that I really
was being intelligent at last, for I'd
heard Stan nay that In America the
Republican parly was rather like our
Conservatives, and the Inmiocrats like
our Liberals, and I'd remembered lx'
cause I believe I should le very much
Interested In politics if only I under
stood mort about them. But Sally
seemed .o think that question funny
too
"They can be either, my poor lamb,"
she exclaimed, "and they can be al
most anything else they like If only
they're Just awfully, dreadfully rich
and can manage to scrape up a family
crest. It used to le the crest that
counted with the man who Invented
the Four Hundred, but since his day
that Idea has got burled under heaps
shall do a great deal of weeding and
select her acquaintances carefully."
"Betty." Indeed! I'd never told her ; anj heaps of gold, and pearls and dla
that she might cull me Betty, aud I mond-i. especially pearls. In those
hate having persons I don't care for places I was telling you about you
take hold of my name without using a j,iion't exist unless you're In the Four
uaudle lo touch it. it makes me feel i Hundred, which Is now being sifted
us 1 did when 1 was a child aud moth-! down to Two Hundred, aud will prob
er commanded me to let myself be
kissed by uuki.-isable aud extraueous
grownups.
Thank goodness, Vic and I have come
Into the world with something of poor
father's sense of humor. My share
often serves me as well as balm on a
wound or us a nice, dry, cruckly little
biscuit which you're enchanted to And
when you're hungry and thought you
bad nothing to eat, and I got a good
deal of quiet comfort out of it during
Mrs. Ess Kny's "weeding" process,
which otherwise would have done
nothing but make me squirm.
When we hud been on deck for a
short limp a numler of people, cajpe up
ably be Seventy-five In a year or two.
You may have the bluest blood in
America In your veins; you may be
simply smeared with ancestors, but If
you haven't mauaged to push forward
in a clever, Indescribable way, neither
they nor you will ever be noticed, and
your gray hairs will go down to the
grave In the wrong set. Now do you
understand why my cousin , Katberlne
makes narrow eyes for some people
and broad smiles for others?"
"Ye es, I suppose I do," 1 answered.
"Ouly we are quite different at home.
I haveu't beeu about at all yet, but I
know; because some things are In the
air. How did Mrs. Stujvesu-Kuiu
ever n,i . i :. - lo" wronif ' set ll'l b
neqll.llnl i'n es. though?"
"IVcnnsc ishe'd kill me If she heat
ih'- he li:' only lately got lino i'n
rip Tit set lierxelf nnd after trmii I
o..o h t 1 e nn V:i rv .
nero:M v tratlon 'I'h.i. kind o
thing docs i.lvo It to n lot of women
especially f they fall. But Con 1
Katlierlur viry seldom falls. She nl
ino-'t nlwnvs curries things ihro'iif'
If you k ! thlMir about Ainericr
to general and New York In pnrticntnr
youM be able lo real I .o what a bur.i
time she's had. when I tell you Cut t'.l
her husband died she lle,l wi- I n
, Chicago. To get Into the Four IIim
died If you've lived nl of Chlc.i;:o
i
(unless ou re Callioi i.:,in. v. h.i ii ,
Ig-ttlng to be fashl mablei. Is 1 1 : r I I ' c
! having lo iliiuli over one ol t'l
i great, hig'i walls of vours In li'igliui
j brlslll ; Willi nails or bt.il, on giir.s."
i "M.V goodness!" I exclalimsl. "II vv
Ifuiiuj! Fancy If people who live Ii
i Surrey should glare at people who live
In Devonshire."
"That's different. You . Chlca ro
I new." f
"Lot so Is all America. Isn't II?" I
asked stupllly. "Whit difference run
a hitudred or so years make?"
"We hnven't begun lo think In oo:i
turles yet on our side of the water, un
deah." (She has the most delicious
way of saving "my deah." and all her
"r's" are suit like thai: only It's too
much trouble to write them for no
body but myself to sce.i "Anyhow. Ii
Is so. between New York and Chicago
people that Is, the people who count
In Society with a big S and It vvas n
great triumph for my cousin to become
the three hundred and ninety-ninth In
the Four Hundred. She did It by buy
Ing a Russian prince."
"Bin big a" -
"Ye-i. love, he w as going to the high
est bidder, and she bought hiin That
Is. she enle'talned him so gorgeously
nnd ilid so many nice things for him
that he posed as her property, nnd. as
every one was dying to meet him. It
made her. She'd been working killing
ly hard In-fore that, for a whole year
lifter taking her house on Fifth ave
nue nnd building her cottage nt New
port, but It was buying the prince
which did the trick on the strength
of that episode nnd lis consequences,
she went to Kuropo with very nice In
trodnctloiis. and. as you know. deah.
she has made some valuable ns wel.
as pleasant friends. To live up to
them nud her reputation, she will
have to be busy for a while dropping
a lot of old acquaintances."
"How horrid!" 1 couldn't help ex
claiming, though Mrs. Ess Kay was
going to lie my hostess.
"Yes. It seems rather miserable to
me because I'm a weak. Inzy. southern
j being, who would be right down sick
If I had to hurt any human being's
I feelings. Yet perhaps It looks fair to
her. She's so ambitious, and she's
worked so hard she has deserved to
succeed. As for poor me. she Just reg
ularly inesm.-rl.es me all through
She mesmerized me Into coming up
from Kentucky and visiting her this
spring Then she mesmerized me Into
going with her to Europe. But I'm
not sorry I went, for I've had a rlglr
good time"
"I'm so glad you went." said I. "be
cause if you hadn't 1 shouldn't have
met you. I'm sure I should love Ken
tucky if all the ieople there are like
you. But these things you've been say
ing seem so odd. Do you mean to tell
me that the people who lond society In
New York want to keep their set lim
ited to a certain number and refuse
to know others, even If they're extraor
dinarily clever and Interesting?'
"They don't like them to In? too
clever because they call such people
'queer' -that Is. uiiIckh (hey happen to
be 'lions' of some sort from England
or other places abroad. Then so long
as they're not American, they welcome
them with open arms."
"I'm glad society Isn't like that lit
England." I said. "There tin real p-o-ple-
lhe people who have the right to
make social laws, you know-are de
lig'ited with uny one who can urnusc
them. Of course deep down In our
hearts we may Ix- proud If we have-old
names, which" have len famous for
hundreds of years In one way or an
other, but we are so used, after all
those centuries, to being sure of our
selves (hat we Just take our position
for granted aud don't thiuk much more
about it. If people who- haven't got
quite the same position are gentlefolk
uud amusing or clever or beautiful or
anything like that which really mat
ters, why, we're only too pleased wlthi
them."
"That's all tht difference llli the
world! You've been 'sure of yourslve
for centuries.' You've said the last
word, my denh. f)ut of the mouths of
babes' but Coosin Katharine's finish
ed gushing to- thut silly old Mrs. Van
der Wlndt. We mustn't dare- dbtrtuui
these things from our point of view
any more. I reckon she- woulil fulut"
There are a good many young men
on board, avd some of thero Beeuied to
be quite devoteI to Mrs. Ess Kay the
nrsi uny out. nni sue wns eom to ineni i
all, I couldn t think wfey, as some of
them seemed very nice, and she had
always appeared rather to like being
with men. I asked Sally about It, but
she laughed and said I might perhaps
solve the mystery myself when we
were at Newport If I remembered It
then.
I never heard of such breukfuBts and
luncheons as they have ou this ship,
and the first menu I saw surprised uio
so much that I couldn't believe they
really had and could produce all those
things If anybody was Inconsiderate
enough to ask for them. 1 hardly sup
posed there were so many things to
eat In the world. But the captain
beard me exclaiming to Bally, so be
smiled aud told me to test the menu
by ordering a hit of everything on It.
He'd guarantee that nothing would Ix
njlssed out. TWs was nt breakfast, (he
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