Richmond Palladium (Daily), 9 February 1906 — Page 3

THE MORNING PALLADIUM FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 9. 19C6.

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BY HAROLD MacGRATH.

; CnXTTKH XVl.-CcAmt Karloft and Mr. Chadwlck while preparing to go t MIm Anneley's dinner talk over a prviou love affair between them, and of the Count's love for Mlss Annesley, who has once refused his offer of marrlape. Mr. Chadwlck. who still loves the count, notified him chat sho has the power to destroy his future prospects and to prevent his jwirrlage to Jier friend. CHAPTER XVII. DINNER IS SERVED. "Ha!" Monsieur Pierre, having utte:ed th's ejaculation, stepped back and rested his fat hands on his fat hips. As he surveyed the Impromptu butler, a shade of perplexity spread over His oily face. He smoothed his imperial and frowned. This groom certainly looked right, 'but there was something lacking In his make-up, that indefinable gomething which is always found In the true servant servility. There was no humility here, no hypocritical meekness, no suavity; there was nothing smug or self-satisfied. In truth, there was something grimly earnest, which was not to be understood readily. Monsieur Pierre, having always busied himself with soupa and curries and roasts and sauces, was not a profound analyst; yet his Instinctive shrewdness at once told him that this fellow was no servant, nor could he ever be made Into one. Though voluble enough in his kitchen. Monsieur Pierre lacked expression when confronted by any problem outside of it. Here was the regulation swallow-tail coat and trousers of green, the striped red vo-t. and the polished brass buttons: but the man inside was too much for him. "Dlable! You luk right. But no, I can not explain. Eet ees on zee tongue, but ret rayfuse. Ha! I haf eet! You lack vot zay call zee real. You make me t'ink uf y,ee sairvant on zee stage, somet'Ing bettair off: eh?" This was as near as monsieur ever got to the truth of things. During this speculative Inventory, Warburton's face was gravely set; Indeed, It pictured his exact feelings. He was grave. He even wanted Pierre's approval. He was about to pass through a very trying ordeal; he might not even pass through it. There was no deceiving his colonel's eyes, hang him! Whatever had induced fate to force this old Argus-eyed soldier upon the scene? He glanced into the kitchen mirror. He Instantly saw the salient flaw in his dress. It was the cravat. Tie It as he would, It never approached the likeness of the conventional cravat of the waiter. It still remained a polished cravat, a worldly cravat, the cravat seen in ball-rooms, drawingrooms, in the theater stalls and boxes, anywhere but in the servants' hall. Oh, for the ready-made cravat that hitched to the collar-button! And then there was that servant's low turneddown collar, glossy as celluloid. He felt as diffident In his bare throat as a debutante feels in her first decollette ball-gown, not very well covered up, as It were. And, heaven and earth, bow Appallingly large his hands had grown, how clumsy his feet! Would the colonel expose him? Would he keep silent? This remained to be found out; wherein lay the terror of suspense. "Remembalr," went on Monsieur Pierre, after a pause, feeling that he had a duty to fulfill and a responsibility to shift to other shoulders than his own, "remembalr, eef you spill tee soup, I keel you. You carry zee tureen In, ten you deesh out zee soup, and salrve. Zee oystalres should be on zee table free minutes before zee guests haf arrive,. Now, can you make zee American cocktail?" "I can," with a ghost of a smile. "Make heetn," with a pompous wave of the hand toward the favorite Ingredients. 'What kind?" "Vot kind! Eez zare more cocktails, ten?" "Only two that are proper, the manhattan and the martini." "Make zee martini; I know heem." "But cocktails ought not be mixed before serving." "I say, make zee one cocktail." coldly and skeptically. "I test heem." Warburton made one. Monsieur sipped it slowly, making a wry face, for, true Gaul that he was, only tw kinds of stimulants appealed to his palate, liqueurs and wines. He found It as good as any he had ever tasted. "Ver' good,"softening. "Zare ees sen. one t'lng zat all zee Americans can make, zee cocktail? 1 am educate'; I learn. Now leaf me till eight. Keep zee collect head," and Monsieur Pierre turned his attention to his partridges. James went out of doors to get a breath of fresh aid and to collect his thoughts, which were wool-gathering, whatever that may mean. They needed collectfng, these thoughts of his, and labeling, for they were at all points of the compass, and he was at a loss upon which to draw for support. Here he was, in a devil of a fix. and no possible way of escaping except by absolutely bolting; and he vowed that he wouldn't bolt, not if he stood the chance of being exposed 50 times over. He had danced; he was going to pay the fiddlier like a man. He had never ran away from anything, and he wasn't going to begin now. At the worst, they could only laugh at him; but his secret would be bis no longer. Ass that he had been! How to tell this girl that he loved her? How to appear to her as his natural self? What a chance he had wilfully thrown away! He might have been a guest to-night; he might have sat next to

her, turned the' pages of her music, and perhaps sighed love in her ear. all of which would have been very proper and conventional. Ah, if he only knew what was going on behind those Mediterranean eyes of hers, those heavenly sapphires. Had she any suspicion? No. it could not be possible; she had humiliated him too often, to suspect the imposture. Alackaday! Had any one else applied the. disreputable terms he applied to himself there would have been a battle royal. When he became out of breath, he reentered the house to have a final look at the table before the ordeal began. Covers had been laid for 12; immaculate linen, beautiful silver, and sparkling cut-glass. He wondered how much the girl was worth, and thought of his own miserable $4,500 the year. True, his capital could at any time be converted into cash, some $75,000, but it would be no longer the goose with the golden egg. A great bowl of roses stood on a glass center-piece. As he leaned toward them to inhale their perfume he heard a sound. He turned. She stood framed in a doorway, a picture such as artists conjure up to fit in sunlit corners of gloomy studios; beauty, youth, radiance, luster, happiness. To his ardent eyes she was supremely beautiful. How wildly his heart beat! This was the first time he had seen her in all her glory. His emotion was so strong that he did not observe that she was biting her nether Up. "Is everything well, James?" she asked, meaning the possibilities of service and not the cardiac intranquility of the servant. "Very well. Miss Annesley," with a sudden bold scrutiny. Whatever it was she saw in his eyes it had the effect of making hers turn aside. He grew visibly nervous. "You haven't the hands of a servant, James," quietly. He started and knocked a fork to the floor. "They are too clumsy," she went on maliciously. ."I am not a butler, Miss; I am a groom. I promise to do the very best I can." Wrath mingled with the shame on his face. "A man who can do what you did this morning ought not to be afraid of a dinner-table." "There is some difference between a dinner-table and a horse, Miss." He stooped to recover the fork while she touched her lips with her handkerchief. The situation was becoming unendurable. He knew that, for some reason, she was quietly laughing at him. Never put back on the table a fork or piece of silver that has fallen to the floor," she advised. "Procure a clean one." "Yes, Miss." Why in heaven's name didn't she go and leave him In peace? "And be very careful not to spill a drop of the burgundy. It Is '78, and a particular favorite of my father's." Seventy-eight! As if he hadn't had many a bottle of that superb vintage during the past ten months! The glands In his teeth opened at the memory of' that taste. "James, we have been in the habit of paying off the servants on this day of the month Payday comes especially happy this time. It will put good feeling into all. :t:vd make the service vastly more expeditious." She counted o.it four ten-dollar notes from a roll in her hand and signified him to approach. He took the money, coolly counted it, and put it in his vest pocket "Thank you. Miss " I fo not say she looked disappointed, but I assert that she was slight :y disconcerted She never knew the e.Tort he had put forth to subdue the desire to tear the money into shreds, throw it at her feet and leave the house. "When the gentlemen wish for cigars or cigarettes, you will nmi them in the usual place, the lower, drawer in the sideboard." With a swish she was gone. He took the money out and studied It. No, he wouldn't tear it up; rather he would put it among his keepsakes. I shall leave Mr. Robert, or M'sieu Zhames, to recover bis tranquillity, and describe to you the character and quality of the guests. There was the affable military attache of the British embassy, there was a celebrated American countess, a famous dramatist, and his musical wife, Warburton's late commanding colonel, Mrs. Chadwlck. Count Karloff. one of the notable grand opera prima-donnas, who would not sing in opera till February, a cabinet officer and his wife. Col. Annesley and bis daughter. You will note the cosmopolitan character of these distinguished persons.. Perhaps in no other city In America could they be brought together at an Informal dinner such as this one was. There was no question of precedence or any such nonsense. Everybody knew everybody else, with one exception Col. Raleigh was a comparative stranger. But he was a likeable old fellow,-full of 6tries of the wild, free wast, an excellent listener besides, who always stopped a goodly distance on the right aide of what it known in polite circles as the bore'a dead-line. Warburton held for him a deep affection, martinet though he was, for he was singularly just and merciful. They had either drunk the cocktail or bad set it aside, untouched.' and had

emptiea tne oyster snens, ween tec ordeal of the soup began Very few of ;

those seated gave any att: r.:;;n to my butler. The first thing he did was to drop the silver ladle. Only the girl saw this mishap. She laughed; and Raleigh believed that he had told his story in an exceptionally taking man-4 ner. My butler quietly procured another ladle, and proceeded coolly enough. I must confess, however, that bis coolness" was the result of a physical effort. The soup quivered and trembled outrageously, and more than once he felt the heat of the liquid on his thumb. This moment his face was pale, that moment it was red. But, as I remarked, few observed him, Why should they? Everybody had something to say to everybody else; and a butler was only a machine anyway. Yet. three persons occasionally looked in his direction: his late colonel, Mrs. Chadwlck and the girl; each from a different angle of vision. There was a scowl on the colonel's face, puzzlement on Mrs. Chadwick's, and I don't know what the girl's represented, not having been there with my discerning eyes. Once the American countess raised her lorgnette and murmured: "What a handsome butler!" Karloff, who sat next to her, twisted his mustache and shrugged. He had seen handsome peasants before. They did not interest him. He glanced across the table at the girl, and was much annoyed that she, too, was gazing at the butler, who had successfully completed the distribution of the soup and who now stood with folded arms by the sideboard. (How I should have liked to see him!) When the butler took away the soupplates, Col. Raleigh turned to bis host. "George, where the deuce did you pick up that butler?" Annesley looked vaguely across the table at his old comrade. He had been far away in thought. He had eaten nothing. "What?" he asked. "I asked you where the deuce you got that butler of yours." "Oh, Betty found him somewhere. Our own butler is away on a vacation. I had not noticed him. Why?" "Well, if he doesn't look like a cub lieutenant of mine, I was born without recollection of faces." "An orderly of yours, a lieutenant, did you say?" asked Betty, with smoldering fires in her eyes. "Yes." "That is strange," she mused. "Yes; very strange. He was a daredevil if there ever was one." "Ah!" "Yes; best bump of location in the regiment, and the steadiest nerve," dropping his voice. The girl leaned on her lovely arms and observed him interestedly. "A whole company got lost in a snowstorm. You know that on the prairie a snowstorm means that only a compass can tell you where you are; and there wasn't one in the troop a bad piece of carelessness on the captain's part. Well, this cub said he'd find the way back, and the captain wisely let him take the boys in hand." "Go on," said the girl. "Interested, eh?" "I am a soldier's daughter, and I love the recital of brave deeds." "Well, he did it. Four hours later they were thawed out in the barracks kitchen. Another hour and not one of them would have lived to tell the tale. The whisky they poured into my cub" "Did he drink?" she interrupted. "Drink? Why the next day he was going to lick the men who had poured the stuff down his throat. A toddy once In a while, that was all he ever took. And how he loved a fight! He had the tenacity of a bulldog: once he set his mind on getting something, he never let up till he got it." The girl trifled thoughtfully with a rose. "Was he ever In an Indian fight?" she asked, casually. "Only scraps and the like. He went Into the reservation alone one day and arrested a chief who had murdered a sheep-herder. It was a volunteer job, and nine men out of ten would never have left the reservation alive. He was certainly a cool hand." "I dare say." smiling. She wanted to ask him if he had ever been hurt, this daredevil of a lieutenant, but she could not bring the question to her lips. "What did you say his name was?" innocently. "Warburton Robert Warburton." Here the butler came in with the birds. The girl's eyes followed him, hither and thither her lips hidden behind the rose. (To be Continued.)

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