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The IVSan
From Home
A Noveiization of the Play
of the Some Name
By BOOTH TARKINGTON and
HARRY LEON WILSON
Copyright, 1909. by American Press
Association
“A sort ox- frnrtrtrrr- 7 What sort,
eh?” he Inquired, seemingly taken
aback.
“I really can’t say,” replied Horace
apologetically. “Never saw him (hat I
know of. You see, we’ve been on this
side so many years, and there’s been
no occasion for this fellow to look us
up, but he's never opposed anything
Ethel wrote for. He seems to be an
easy going old chap.”
“Hum!” said Hawcastle doubtfully
“Would he consent to your sister’s
marriage—or tlie matter of a settle
inent?”
Horace laughed cheerfully.
“I have no doubt of it. If he has
the slightest sense of duty toward my
sister he’ll be the tirst to welcome the
alliance, won’t he?”
“Then when he and my solicitor come
they can have an evening together over
a lot of musty papers, and the thing
will be done. Again, my boy, 1 wel
come you to our family. God bless
you!”
He wrung Horace’s hand again and
turned away as if to hide Ills emotion,
but really to wink at the countess.
“I’m overpowered, you know —real-
ly overpowered, you know,” stammered
Horace, farming himself desperately
with his hat.
“Come, Almeric,” said the earl, and
as the youthful heir to his house arose
languidly he sidled close to the count
ess and whispered in tier ear:
“Let him know it’s a hundred and
fifty thousand.”
Then he and Almeric went up the
steps into the hotel, leaving Horace
and the countess gazing at each other
delightedly.
She crossed over to him Impulsively
and, taking both his hands again, said:
“My friend, I am happy for you."
“Think of it:” said Horace joyously.
“In a fortnight at the most dear old
Ethel will he the Hon. Mrs. St. Aubyn,
future Countess of iiawi astle!”
“Yes," replied the countess, with
drawing her hands and picking up her
parasol, “and there is but the little ar
rangement of the settlement between
your advocate and Lord Havvcastle’s.
But you Americans—you laugh at such
things. Y’ou are big, so big, like your
country!"
Horace followed her across the ter
race to the wall.
“Ah, believe me. dear countess.” he
said, “the great world—your world,
countess has thoroughly alienated
me."
The countess turned her shapely
head and looked at him admiringly
and with a touch of irony at the sur
prise she was about to give him.
“Ah, you retain one quality. You are
careless, you are free,” and she laid
her right hand upon his arm. and Hor
ace thrilled at the intimate touch.
“Well.” he laughed, “perhaps in
those things 1 am American, but in
others 1 fancy I should l>e thought
something else, shouldn't IV”
She laughed openly at him now, but
earnestly withal, and said:
“You are a debonair man of the
world, and yet you are still American
in that you arc abominably rich. The
settlement—such matter as that, over
which a Frenchman, an Italian, might
hesitate—you laugh. Such matter as
£150,000- you set it aside, you laugh
You say, ‘Oh. yes: take it!'”
For a moment she feared tint Hor
ace would fall over the low parapet,
sq white did bis face become amt then
so flushed, but the bey was game all
through. Tie generations of simple
Indiana stock came to (iis rescu'e, and
he steeled himself with an effect and
replied quietly:
“A hundred and fifty thousand
pounds! Why, that’s seven buff and red
and fifty thous— I say, countess, she
couldn’t use the money to better ad
vantage:”
There was real admiration in the
Frenchwoman’s glance this time, for
she had lost none of the little byplay,
and she admired the courage of the
youngster. So she said:
“My friend, how wise you arc!’’
As she spoke she turned in time to
see Ethel come down the steps of the
hotel with a book beneath her arm and
ran to her, clasping her in her arms
and kissing her.
CHAPTER VII.
snubbed!
••W ARGESSE. sweet Countess ol
Kj Ilawcastle."' the woman cried,
“largesse! And au re voir:
Adieu! I leave you with yout
dear brother!*’
She x-an quickly up the steps .with _a
flirt, of her'patit?oi, and Horace too;:
his sister’s hand with tears in his eyes.
“Dear old sis! Dear old pal!" he
said, and she turned a radiant look
upon him.
“Isn’t it glorious, HoddyV" she said
with exalted tone. “Look!” and held
up the book she carried. “It’s Burke's
‘Peerage.’ And Froissart’s 'Chroni
cles'—l've been reading it all ovei
SiS A
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> Py£ j ‘
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k
“J had him, you know, I rather think,
didn’t IT”
again. The St. Aubyns were at Crecy
und Agincourt, and St. Aubyn will be
my name.”
“They want it to be your name soon,
sis,” he answered her.
For a moment she turned away and
then looked at him straight in the
eyes.
“You’re fond of Almeric, aren’t you,
Iloddy? You admire him, don’t you,
dear?”
“Certainly. Why, think of all he
represents, sisl’^
“Ah. yes, Iloddy! Crusader’s blood
flows in his veins. It is the nobility
that must be within him that I have
plighted my troth to. I am ready to
marry him when they wish!”
Horace sighed.
“It will be as soon as the settlement
is made and arranged, it will take
about all your share of the estate, sis,
but it’s worth it—a hundred and fifty
thousand pounds.”
Ethel lifted the book to the level of
her eyes.
“What better use could be made of
a fortune, Iloddy. than to maintain
the state and high condition of so an
cient a house?”
He looked at her affectionately and
took her hand.
“It does seem impossible that we
were born in Indiana, doesn’t it. sis
ter?” And the tones of his voice were
those of incredulity.
She smiled at him fondly.
“But isn’t It good „that the pater
‘made his pile,’ as the Americans say,
and let us come over here while we
were young to find the nobler things,
Iloddy—the nobler things?”
“The nobler things —the nobler
things! Why, sis, when old Haweas
tle dies I’ll lie saying offhand, you
know, ‘My sister, the Countess of liaw
castle’
For a moment Ethel remained
thoughtful and then turned to her
brother.
“You don’t Imagine that father’s
friend, this old Mr. I’ike, will be —will
be queer, do you?”
“Well, the governor himself was
rather raw. you know. This Is prob
ably a harmless old chap, easy to han
dle.”
“I wish I know. I shouldn’t like Al
merlc’s family to think we bad queer
connections of any sort, and he might
turn out to be quite shockingly Amer
ican. I—l couldn’t bear that, iloddy!”
There was a note of genuine pathos
In her voice, and her brother respond
ed instantly:
"Then keep him out of the way.
That’s simple enough.” he said. “None
of them, except the solicitor, need see
him.”
Almost in a burst like an eruption
there came au uproar outside the gates
beyond the hotel—wild laughter, riot
ous cheering and the notes ot the tar
antella played by mandolins and gui
tar. then more shouts and cheers and
cries of “Bravo, Americano!” and
“Yanka Dooda!" Horace ran to the
gates, but they were closed, and the
uproar continued. Ethel stood by one
of tbe rabies, amazement written on
her features, and turned to her brother
as he came back shaking liis head.
“What is that?” she asked tremu
lously I.ady Creech, all in a flutter,
entered from the hotel. At a glance
one would set her down for an aristo
crat. There was no doubt of it. From
the topmost tip of ber white hair to
the toe of her solid slice she was an
aristocrat.
“One of your fellow countrymen, xuy
dear,” she said to Ethel. “Your Amer
icans are really too”
“Not my Americans, Lady Creech!”
paid Ethel spiritedly.
“Not our, you know. One could
hardly say that, now!” reiterated
Horace.
Almeric entered, at once laughing
and beating his boot with his crop.
Almost exhausted with his mirth, he
threw himself into a chair and burst
out:
“Oh, I say, what a go! Motor car
breaks down on the way here. One
of the Johnnies, a German chap, dis
charges the chauffeur, .and. the othei
.ToTniTiy—one <Tf your’ Yankee chaps,
Ethel—hires two silly little donkeys,
like rabbits, you know, to pull the ma
chine. Then, as they can’t make it,
you know, he puts himself in the
straps with them and proceeds, at
tended by the populace. Ha, ba!”
lie laughed long and loudly.
“I went up to this Yankee chap, I
mean to say—he was pulling and tug
ging along, you see —and I said, ‘There
you are, three of you in a row, aren’t
you?” meaning him and the two don
keys, you see, Ethel, and all he could
answer that he ‘picked the best
company in sight.’ No meaning to it.
1 bad him, you know, 1 rather think,
didn’t 1?”
At this moment Lord Hawcastle en
tered with a bundle of newspapers un
der bis arm and proceeded to settle
himself at one of the tables. Almeric
approached him.
“English papers, governor? I'll take
the pink un. I’m off.” And he picked
up the tinted sheet as he spoke. Ethel
came up to him and touched him on
the arm.
“Going for a stroll, Almeric? Would
you like me to go with you, dear?”
He looked at her vacantly for an in
stant and then stammered:
“Well, 1 rather thought I'd have a
quiet bit of reading, you know.”
Ethel drew back quickly and said in
a very small voice:
"Oh, 1 beg your pardon.”
Then she sat down hurriedly by Lord
Hawcastle. ©
[continued next week]
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