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chapter x. HE count ordered a 1 1 preparations consistent with the resources of the chateau to be made for the approachi !t* ,n S wedding, and ^ flattered himself that he was very diplomatic in talking confidently before the servants, of the series of festivities which should follow that event. He affected an air of the utmost security, and laid out a score of improvements to be made in the garden, at a period when he meant to be safely landed on a foreign shore. And every few hours he exchanged a knowing nod with M. Pierre, as if glorying over his wise sagacity. In these preparations, of course, the absence of the most valuable service of silver was discovered, but the wily M. Pierre had forestalled the need of explanation by informing his credulous master that he had taken the precaution, in consideration of the disturbances in other places, to secrete it, and that it should be ready for him at the wedding festival, unless he preferred to have it snugly packed for transportation to the fishing sloop, which last idea the count eagerly seconded. He rode over to Frejus to find some one to perform the ceremony, and on the way thither met a bishop coming to him for protection. He had left Paris expecting to find a relative at Frejus. but every one who held the slightest claim to aristocracy bad fled from

Paris.

The count received him warmly, and carried him back to the chateau in triumph. Now everything was prepared, only waiting for the bridegroom to be able to perform his share of the cere raony. M. Pierre was ostensibly most active in carrying forward the preparations, but the countess shuddered every time she met his eye. The bishop's presence gave the ladies more excuse for lingering in their own rooms; and it also seemed an opportunity to visit the Little Forest. Therefore, that very evening they stole forth cautiously and went speeding along toward the hollow tree. Before they reached the edge of the wood the form of Emile started up from the hedge which bordered the meadow. He spoke their names eagerly, and dispersed the momentary terror which his sudden appearance had caused. "Thank Heaven you have come! I was trying to conjure up an opportunity for speaking with you. How proceed matters at the chateau?” "Illy enough, I fear, though the count fancies everything favorable, answered the countess. "And the overseer?" "He is there still. The count trusts him implicitly, and has confided to him all his plans of escape." "Mon Bleu! is the man demented? "He will not listen to our remonstrances,” answered Felicie, while her mother kept silence. "Have you told him what you heard?” “No; though we assured him that we had proof of his treachery. He declared he should go to M. Pierre with our aceu nations, and we dared not reveal all without first consulting you.” "That was prudent," said Emile, while between his teeth he muttered "Dolt! idiot! brute! the man does not deserve to live." And in a moment he added gravely. "It would be the extinguishment of your best hopes of es cape to reveal my presence here, or the locality of the retreat I have provided I half expected to find you gone; and 1 fervently hoped it might be so.” "We waited for the Marquis Ed-

ward.”

"And he arrived two nights ago Why were you not away before this? Every hour is of priceless value." The countess sighed heavily. "He is 111; we are only waiting for his recovery; then the marriage is to take place, and we are to ride directly to the wharf at St. Josephs." "I wish I knew their plans better c.ot a soul has entered the woods since I came, and the pikes have been re moved. I lost the precious opportunity by my long absence." “Ah,” cried Felicie, "we looked for you so anxiously. We grew so troubled about you.” "I could not come. I have learned bitter lesson In my absent. I, who held them to my sway before, have found the tide so swollen that it bore me along like a feather. I lifted up my voice for freedom, equality, manhood— did I know they would interpret it lawlessness, demoralization, brutality? Alack! one cannot play with fire ex cept to be scorched. My heart has died within me to witness the horrors which reign triumphant, conscious, as I am that I helped to nurse the spark which has become such a madly devouring element. There is but one course left me; I must secretly aid all who come within reach of my helping hands.” "You counsel us to refrain from mentioning the adventure in the w-oods that night?” questioned the countess, anxious to return as speedily as possible. “I certainly do, if it It to be retailed at once to the arch villain, Pierre. Besides. it is too late now. Pierre is aware of your movements. I wish I were certain of his. I must go to Frejus and hunt up a few trusty comrades; by their means I may learn more. But it will be prudent for you to accompany me to the tree and learn how to manage the spring which opens the jagged door of the tree-trunk. Then if you

can reach it you will be safe, whatever happens to me.” "Let us go now; we may have no other opportunity,” said Felicie. They proceeded thither in silence. The countess seemed greatly fatigued and sat down on the ground, while Emile carefully initiated her daughter into the mysteries of the spring cunningly filed into a round excrescence of the bark. Lady Felicie practiced upon it until able to open it instantaneously. Now let us hasten back.” said the countess, shivering with the chilly

night air.

Just as she turned, she paused suddenly, and, extending her hand, said, with grave, solemn sweetness: ‘Heaven bless you, Emile, and reward you for all your devotion." He held her hand in his just a brief moment, then dropped it without a word. The countess drew Feltcle's arm within hers and hurried away, nor cast single backward glance. They were just in season to escape detection, anil had hardly removed their wrappers when the count burst in upon them. ‘To-morrow night, Felicie, my love!” exclaimed he. "The Marquis Edward improves rapidly, he declares himself convalescent, and insists that there be no further delay. So get out your finery to-morrow. He will not see you till you are dressed in your bridal garments. It's a pity the wedding must be such a paltry affair; but we'll celebrate it in worthy style when we return again to France. But be sure you look a little like a Languedoc. After all, the dress can be quite as pretty as if you had a dozen corbeilles from Paris. There's plenty of rich lace in the wardrobe, and the diamonds will brighten all. I want Edward to remember his bride as a charming picture, though there be no guests nor festival.” "And you intend to proceed at once to the vessel?" asked the countess. "Yes, immediately." "Grant me this favor as a bridal gift, mon pere,” exclaimed Felicie, the tears rushing to her eyes; "let M. Pierre believe we are not to go until the night after.” "Foolish child! are those tears?" “I am so terribly afraid of that man. mon pere; promise, 1 beseech

you!”

"Why not? I will not mention another word to him are you content? Once safely at sea, we shall forget all these horrors.” “Thank you. oh. thank you, papa, it is such a relief." He did not disclose the fact that he had just come from M. Pierre and had discussed the whole arrangement freely. And so, believing M. Pierre in ignorance, and conscious of Emile's vicinity, mother and daughter slept peacefully through the night.

CHAPTER XI. LTHOl'tiH apparently very quiet, the next day was really a busy and anxious one at the chateau. Edward was up and dressed in clothes furbished up from the well stocked wardrobes, quite early in fhe day; but he preferred not to see his bride until the marriage vows were exchanged on the ostensible plea of reserving all his strength free from excitement, but in reality from a disinclination he could not overcome. The countess, herself, dressed her daughter in the fleecy white robes, nor would allow another hand to touch a single fold. She lingered fondly over the task, reluctant to finish, and even Felicie was obliged to say, with a blush and a smile: "There, there, mamma! I am sure it is all complete now you could not bo more particular if there were a thousand guests to behold me!” Hut the countess smoothed a wave of hair here, brushed out a tumbled flounce, readjusted each spray of the orange crown, and finally removed the diamond ornaments entirely and replaced them with her own rich set of milky pearls. "My father will not approve!" whispered Felicie. "For this once, no matter; he will not have time to aliiK.j to it. The pearls are so much prettier. Now is my darling a fairy looking bride, indeed. Surely Edward will open his heart to her at once.” “Ah, it is for him you are so fastidiously particular tonight. I had forgotten, almost, what it meant for me, this wedding I only have rejoiced because it was the gateway for our escape from this wearing life of suspense.” "Wearing, indeed!” reiterated the eountess. and putting her hand hastily to her side, she turned deathly pale. Felicie sprang forward in alarm. “What is it, my mother? are you faint? are you ill?” “No, no. it is nothing, it will pass in a moment." And as she had said, the spasm passed away in a few moments. The daughter was scarcely reassured, when the count's voice was heard at the

door.

“Come, loiterers, we are waiting for

you.”

The countess seized Felicie's hand and bent forward to press a solemn kiss upon her lips. “The Holy One forever bless my good and worthy daughter!" The deep pathos of the tones brought the tears to her eyes, but there was no time to give answer, for the count unclosed the door, and led her

from the room down the staircase, where a few of the servants stood to : look at the bride and wish her happiness. The countess followed them. What a strange, dismal bridal it | seemed! the silent house, the anxious j faces, the secret uneasiness of all parties hardly concealed beneath the mask

of smiles.

As the bride entered the little oratory, the bishop came forward to meet her. With a fluttering color on her cheek Felicie glanced around in search of the bridegroom. She saw a slender figure at the window, but M. Pierre's square shoulders concealed his face. Edward had been sitting by the window, and he had not turned his head, yet, to take his first view of his uftlanced wife; when suddenly M. Pierre blew a shrill blast upon a whistle he had been holding nervously in his

hand.

A dozen wild faces leaped up at every window, brawny fists dashed the glass into fragments, while the burly figures leaped in upon them from all sides. Edward was felled to the floor by the first blow. With a wild cry of terror, the count turned to his trusted overseer. The villain smiled grimly and drew a pistol. One brief Instant was it given to the wicked man to realize his own folly and his servant's treachery, the next he fell a corpse at the feet of his daughter. Felicie's wild shriek rang through the room. She strove to reach her mother, ere a brutal arm with its up lifted pike should fall saw the beloved form suddenly sink back and herself sank fainting to the floor. Reviving. she was conscious of a fierce affray going on at the chateau, and she herself lying amidst the cold corpses of her friends. She crept hastily as her weakness would allow to her mother's side, and anxiously listened for a throb of breathing at her lifeless heart. All in vain. And yet, there was no sign of a blow or wound. Remembering how she had fallen ere the pike descended, the poor child had a dismal comfort in believing her heart had broken at the sudden shock. Suddenly now came the remembrance of her own hapless condition, and the danger of M. Pierre's return with those brutal ruffians. The new thought gave her strength. Hastily disengaging a black cloak from the shoulders of the murdered bishop, she wrapped it over her white robes, leaped hastily through a broken window, and darted like a frightened fawn past a man pacing to and fro. as if guarding against the approach of friend and foe. She knew he saw her, and in a moment heard his plunging steps following. But terror and despair gave her fleetness. She knew the path well and though every now and then her lace flounces caught upon brier and bush, she tore them off with frantic hands, and went leaping forward. She stumbled twice and fell headlong but sprang up again like a deer, and at length gained the wood. It was easier to elude him here; she darted in and out among the trees, until she was sure her dread pursuer had lost the track. She heard his muttered curses as he blundered around, and lightly as a fairy she flew on to the blessed relief at hand. She gained the tree, pressed the spring with desperate hand, and rushed in. A cold chill sank upon her heart; it was empty. Where, oh, where, was Emile? Was there no friend left her? She sank shivering upon the earthy floor, and burled her head In her hands. She could not think over, then, all the anguish that had fallen upon her -the terrible bereavement of the past hour; parents, bridegroom, home and friends, all stricken from the hand that seemed to hold them so securely. Her brain

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INVENTION FOR A BALLOON

FLYING MACHINE.

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dorsed the general plan, and said that ! he looked upon it as practicable. Of course these experiments are by i no means new, and Mr. Hite merely ' performed them to convince the incredulous and make assurance doubly sure. It should !>o understood that there was no attempt to make the machine fly, that feat not entering into the demonstration, but being left to the lifting j power of the balloon. The secret cf

which he claims he the great pushing force developed by '

HARLES E. HITE, of this city, lias invented a balloon

will be able to direct and drive I through the air by means of two fans I operated by a mo-

tor.

Mr. Hite is a well-known scientist. In 1892 he accompanied the Peary relief expedition on the steamship

the fan lay in the cylindrical casing by which it was inclosed. The casing in question is the invention on which the balloonist bases his patent claim, for by its use the current of air made by the fan impinges itself directly on the outer atmosphere with great force, obviating a loss of air at the sides. The car is suspended by harness from a netting identical with the netting of

Kite, making valuable researches in the : an ordinary balloon, and is guyed fore Arctic regions. In 1895 he went to und aft to prevent oscillation, although Central America to collect material for there could be little danger of that, as the biological department of the Uni- j the car is drawn up tightly against the versity of Pennsylvania. Altogether, body of the balloon The car itself is he has taken part in or directed over made of (he best steel bicycle tubing, a dozen different expeditions, covering ' lI11 ' from its upper lateral extremities the continent from Greenland to South extend the two spider-web frameworks. America. He has conducted two Lab- These frames are attached rigidly to rador expeditions for the purpose of 'be car, so that vibration is impossible, studying the Esquimaux, and has made «®eh one supporting a steam motor actmany explorations and geological sur- in 8 directly on the axle of a fan. The

veys. One year ago. Mr. Hite, while toying

engines are a French invention, and the kind to be used in the dirigible balloon

INVENTOR HITE'S EXPERIMENTAL AIR SHIP,

boiler. By this method the usual es- 1 cape of hydrogen, which is the most j expensive consideration in ballooning, j will tie prevented, and the balloon be | dropped or raised into different air currents by altering the density and thereby the lifting power of the gas. A drag rope and anchor will form a part of the extra paraphernalia, and also a light staysail on the under forepart of the balloon to give greater stability in navigating against winds. It is expected that the dirigible balloon will make about twenty miles an hour In a still atmosphere, and will have a steaming radius of 500 miles at an average speed of ten miles an hour. The ends of the balloon are cleverly reinforced by stays of bamboo, so that they will hold their shape when subjected to the pressure of air, it being an Impossibility to Inflate an angle

with gas.

Mr. Hite is at present getting up the working drawings of this most unique airship. When asked why he placed the propellers at the side instead of at the stern, he explained that if they were put in the rear the motion of such a large body through the air would rob the fans of their working medium by creating a vacuum He believes that the self-propelling balloon will figure largely In the warfare of the future, contemporaneously with the submarine boat, whose development it very closely resembles. Aside from a bellicose application, how ever, he Is confident that It can be made an instrument for limited transportation into regions otherwise inaccessible. Several of the European governments, Germany in particular, are paying great attention to ballooning tactics with re lation to warfare, and there is in this country a standing offer of $100,000, made by congress several years ago, for the man who should successfully solve the problem of aerial navigation, KxpurKiiteil. Mother—What did your father say when he saw his broken pipe? Innocent Shall I leave out the wicked words, mamma? Mother—Certainly. Innorent—Then I don't believe ihert Is anything to tell you, mamma.

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t>j the Kuttlant.

with a bit of paper, had suggested to him the idea of aerial navigation. I his was 'A® inception of his "dirigible balloon,” on the plans of which, now protected by patent, he has been working ever since. In description this peculiar airship is nothing more than a balloon large enough to carry a paii of small but powerful steam engines capable of driving a pair of fans. Mr. Hite has worked along independent lines in the planning of his balloon, and it is significant of the feasibility of his project that the only other airship resembling bis, which has 8'" 11 any practical demonstration of sustained flight, is that of Carl Mi\\<ms, flown successfully at the Nashville Exposition. Although dissimilar in detail. the two machines are propelled on practically the same principle, the only

HE visit of the president of the French republic to St. Petersburg l* one of the significant political events of the year in Europe. He will arrive at Cronatadt with the French fleet, and will be met by the young Tsar, who visited Paris last year, and was received by the French people with unbounded enthusiasm, writes an English correspondent. The scheme of the visit includes a naval review; and the French and Russian ships will exchange salutes. The Tsar and the president will go by imperial train to St. Petersburg, where there will be a week of festivity, with banquets, balls and military reviews. The president has been bent upon making this return visit, and his motives are easily explained. President Faure had not been conspicuous In public life before his election. Us was an accidental candidate who was chosen because his friends proposed him and because it was more convenient for the National Assembly to agrea upon him than upon anybody else. In truth, President Faure is a fortunate rather than an eminent statesman, and has sought to command respect and popularity by making himself the champion of the Franco-Rus-sian alliance. By embracing the Tsar in public he became the hero of Paris. By entering Russia in triumph as the Tsar's ally he will again court the affections of Frenchmen. It is a common practice for European soverlgna

are capable of developing seventeen and one-half horse-power apiece, although little larger than a bucket. Engine and fan are enclosed in the cylindrical box seen on the side of the balloon; the rectangular piece of metal at the extremity of the cylinder is a rudder, which, by directing the draught of the air current, regulates the course of the ship. The steering can also be done by using one fan independent of the other. Five feet is the diameter of the fans, and they are made by the most celebrated fan blower concern in the country. In the center of the car is the boiler, a small contrivance, also French, such as is being used abroad for self-pro-pelling carriages. The fuel burned is petroleum and the engines are condensing. thereby necessitating only a small

difference being the motive power, j water supply. It is estimated that ih

which in Meyer's Is a single fan propelled by a man, and in Hites two high-speed fans actuated by turbines. The aerodrome, Mr. Hite considers a fragile toy, capable of no useful application, and only demonstrating the ability of a man to construct a Hy ing machine on the principle of a bird's wing, but subserving no useful end after all. Properly speaking. Mr. Hite's contrivance is not a flying machine, the problem he is dealing with being

possession of her that M. Pierre would find out her retreat, or drag her forth, or that Emile was killed also, and she should perish there of starvation. These absorbed every faculty, and crouching and listening, she survived two hours of almost intolerable agony. Another hour would have turned her brain; before Its expiration, a rapid step came bounding to the tree, the door was flung open, and Emile'a voice cried frantically: "Lady Felicie, Lady Felicie! are you here?" do ns coxrixoan.• DinpoMil of SewH}?** ' 11 Hinnhi^ln* m. One of the worst features under the old management was The disposal of the sewage. By way of remedy two systems have found adoption. Under one the health committee collects the offal of the houses, and either destroys it or turns it. into fertilizers. This is more offensive and less successful than it might be made, but is apparently a necessity until the pan system has been abandoned. A sewage farm of nearly LflOO acres has been developed several miles from the city, some 400 feet tower in elevation. The sewage. first mixed with lime to prevent too rapid decomposition and to assist in the precipitation of the solid matte r, is passed through a series of depositing tanks, during which process the mud is removed. The remainder is dug into the land, one-'hird of which is dealt with each year, the effluent being discharged in a harmless state into the river Tame. Upon the other two-thirds are grown early vegetables, and grain and hay for cows kept for milk and market. The net annnal cost to the city is about £24,000. 'An Object I-esson in Municipal Government,” by George F. Parker, in the November Century. Ilnnkrupt liritinh Peer*. A peer who becomes t>ankrupt Is disqualified from sitting in the bouse of lords. "Folks dat is alius lookin' fob trouble^' said Uncle Eben, "hab Jes' on« t’iug ter brag erbout. Dey doan' hardly eber git disappinted.”—Washingtou Star.

the simplicity of his scheme is apparent. It being evident that a balloon of large size could be made to support a considerable weight, the first care of the inventor was to devise an engine large enough to furnish the requisite motive power. Jo this end Mr. Hite made a small apparatus of paper for experimental purposes, somewhat resembling a rocket. By blowing at the end of the flexible paper tube connected with this rocket-like affair, the air coming from the narrow end of the cylinder gave it a pronounced forward swing. The inventor then proceeded to the next step, which was the building of a small experimental car. fitted at either end with pasteboard cones, corresponding to the two respective ends of the rocket. The frame of the car was aluminum, and its lower bodv contained a one-half horse-power electric motor, geared to a four-bladed rotary fan by a round belt. A stout wire was stretched across the room in which the experiments were about to be conducted, and the car was suspended from two traveling pulleys. Wires from a storage battery were attached to the motor, and Mr. Hite turned on the rheostat. The fan began to revolve rapidly, and the machine quickly traversed the length of the apartment. Not thoroughly satisfied with this performance, and in order to test the capabilities of the fan to its utmost, he loaded the framework of the machine with three heavy Winchester rifles and turned on the ourrent again; apparently there was no diminution whatever in the speed of the car. and that, too, while running over a wire not perfectly taut, and dragging the two flexible feed wires of the storage battery in addition. An exhibition of the efficiency of the model was given before Professor Arthur Goodspeed. processor of physics at the University of Pennsylvania, who considered the application of power a correct principle, and commended the Ingenuity of the idea. A large number of scientific men who saw the model working were all enthusiastic in Its

weight of engines, boiler, water and fuel eotubineil will be within 1(0(1 pounds, certainly a marvel of lightness from which to obtain thirty-five horse-

power.

The fans and framework weigh 250 pounds, and the balloon anil net will come up to about 150. ihus making a total of 700 pounds. The balloon is 20 teet in diameter by <!4 feet long, having at these figures a capacity of 20,000 cubic feet of gas. As one cubic foot of hydrogen lifts one ounce averdupois, the balloon when fully inflated may be expected to exert a lifting capacity of 1,300 pounds, which leaves a balance of 600 pounds surplus weight to be utilized by the aeronaut, his food supply and the ordinary tackle and instruments tarried in a balloon. The old method of sand ballast will be done away with, as the balloon can be made to seek a higher or lower level, according to the amount of gas pumped up from reservoirs contained in the car. The reservoirs consist of a flooring of pipes made into a false bottom, In which compressed hydrogen is placed. By means of a thermo-hydrogen device, the amount of hydrogen In the balloon is

TIi* Urate! Wife We have been married twelvt years, and not once in that time have I missed baking you a cake for your birthday. Have 1 dear? Hubby—No, my pc.. 1 can look back upon those cakes at milestones in my life. WOMEN AND MEN. There is a 15-year-old widow at Cov ington, Ky. The girl was married a year ago to a 19-year-old boy, all the parents consenting. Her husband died a few days ago. Franchetti, the banker-composer, is building an opera house at his country seat, where he can have his own works performed without subjecting them to the judgment of managers. President Barrios of Guatemala was educated in this country and is a graduate of Vale. He declared himself dictator to protect the interests of forigners in his country, and is anxious to have American capital develop It. Mrs. Charles Stewart Parnell, widow of the Irish leader, is about to take up her residence at Trematon castle, near Plymouth. Trematon castle was formerly one of the great houses of Cornwall. Only the ruins of the thirteenth century casile remain, the present house being of quite modern construction. Marcelle Berenger, the most beautiful model in Paris, who has declared her intention of posing in the future for none but American artists, is a slight, brown-haired, blue-eyed slip of a girl, with a faultless figure. The chief charm of her face lies in its puzzling contrasts, in the dimples that come and go wilh every breath; in the eyes that never, even in her gayest moments, lose a certain look of appealing sorrow. "She possesses the eyes of a Mater Dolorosa and the lips of a fiac- > chante. She is a beautiful sphinx.” When a woman is in doubt concern- | ing the trimming of her hat. she simply i puls on a few more red flowers and feathers. Washington Post.

PRESIDENT FAURE. to exchange visits. Meetings of tbi* kind occur every summer in Berlin, Vienna or Rome. The German Emperor after his accession to the throne made a long circuit of visits to his Imperial and royal kinsmen, and the young Tsar followed his example after coronation. A French president has never before left his own country in order to visit a sovereign. President Faure is defying the traditions of the republic by planning a Journey to St. Petersburg, where he will be the guest of a despotic ruler, who does not believe in the French gospel of liberty, equality and fraternity. Nevertheless, the two chambers of the national legislature made the appropriation to cover the expenses of the trip, with something like unanimity. The socialists only voted against it. But by taking this exceptional step he magnifies the (lower and importance of his own office and makes a theatrical appearance In the one country from which Napoleon was compelled to retreat in despair. President Faure may not ha',e earned his great office by political service or statesmanlike qualities; but he knows how to command the attention of Frenchmen and to fill the national stage with his presence. The commonplace candidate with ordinary abilities has become an ambitious president, with the courage and audacity required for playing a great part in public affairs. The Russian alliance is popular in France because it has increased national prestige. It has restored to the republic its rank as one of the important European powers. When the Tsar appeared in Paris, France and Russia seemed capable of ordering between them the fortunes of peace and war. When the president returns the visit, the power of the Dual Alliance will again be felt throughout the continent. A vainglorious, pleasure-loving nation like France thrills at such moments with consciousness of power and importance. President Faure will be a great personage when he returns to Paris. Equal andeffliybao9 lyou rdlu rdl England does not like this friendliness between France and Russia. It is galling.

THE COMBINED BALLOON AND AIR SHIP. From the Inventor's Drawings.

Kx-Senator FdimimU Flmt Cave. Ex-Senator Edmunds is one of the fancy lawyers of the United States, and ranks with the greatest among such men as Carlisle and Lindsay. It is related that he gained his first case, and that Matt Carpenter—four years older—was the opposing lawyer. It is also related that his father was in litigation with a neighbor over a small matter within the jurisdiction of a Justice of the peace. Edmunds besought his father to permit him to conduct the rase, which the old fellow refused to do. He then volunteered on the other side, and gained the verdict. Some one said to him."Old Zach won’t feed you any longer.” “Mother will,” he replied, with that imperturbability that has exasperated many a Uafted States senator since..