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· BY GEORGE A. DIRMINGHAM. (Author of "Spanish Gold," etc.).

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1st, 1910.

"I shall count on you, wald Mrs Danton, "you must dine with us every night while she" is hero. That will be then nights beginning with to-morrow. You will tako bor in to dinner," of course."

"I can't possibly—” I began. **You must, mid Mr. Danton, smiling,in | the delightful way in which Mrs. Danton does smile. You really must. You know what our party is. We fish, every one of us, men and women. Wo think and talk of nothing else, wherese you are a clever man, the only clavar man in the neighbourhood."

won

mad it before you met her, but it didn't come till this afternoon. Here it is,"

She fished a book in a red cover out of a drawer in her writing table.

1 hept

it hidden she said, "so that Tom shonidn't get hold of it. If he did, he'd make jokon. You know Tom's sort of jeko.”

I did, sad urged her to conceal the book again. "I can't read it now," I said. "There would. n't be time. I'm not sure that I care to rend it at all.

"Oh, it will be all right for you," amid Mrs. Danton

Nobody could object to your reading it—as a elergyman, I mean

Mrs. Danton has a peculiar

all hor own, of the clerical offes. I am never quito sure what she will expect me to do or say "as a clergymzn.

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**** Sho didn't tell me the names of her books," -

I said, "and I didn't like to sek her.”

"Well, I don't know her books,” said Mar garet, "so there's no use my coming with you.” I took Mise Bently to see the Ögan stones. We started at eleven and did not get book. till nearly two. We talked the whole time about the Gaelic language, ancient and modern. She was evidently bent on making & fool of me, She did it most successfully. I found it

vory difficult to believe that she was not interested in what I said. certainly diaplayed extra

She

Baidat

È the mon

moment she had road said-and

Ordiny

4

my paper in "

She

The

Philo hat

She

his may have been-true--that her uncle, the famous Professor Windscheim of

of Heidelberg, had spoken Tery highly of my work. I com pletely forgot my enabarrassment und

inkle

to thought

Turquoise and gave. :

at ufter- our walk

I was obliged to confags

teriting.

Boid

noon tea that the conversation had never once

ones turned on:

on novels She must be a really clo

clover won Margaret thoughtfully. Long intimney with gusssing pretty securately at what she really means when

Keep of the subjest us well as you can for to-night" said Mrs. Danton, "and road it to-mor I should not venture to call myself a clover row. Than ya'll be able to talk to her about it"

A lady entered the room. man, though I won a Hobrew príze when I was

Miss Bently," said Mrs. Danton. How in college, a second prize; and since than have dono-a-little work at old Gholic. Indeed, I nice of you to be down in such good time after lished

Phil your journey! Lot me intinduce Mr. Meares ologist on the connontion between Gaelic Sanskrit. I could not flatter myself that Mrs. and he in 1 oking forward to a gros talk with

she speaks. I know that on this occasion she Danton know anything about either Gaelic or you about books and literature and art an Sanskrit, and I was quite unreasonably pleased music, and everything that we poor ordinary was not thinking of Miss Bently as a savanto, to hear her call me alarer. Nobody else in the people know nothing about."

and that the dorgruess which she recognised. world recognises moy ability, croupt aistor Mos Bontly is quite a good-looking girl. I had nothing to do with Gaslic or Sanskrit, Murgant, why

who lives with me, and she admires thought beforehand that she might be

Fond

A paper some time ago in "The to you. I know you'rá longis to meet him. Margaret had wiven me the power of

Die, so to

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3

I panned.

"Refer to what *

Turquoise and Pearl" was in my mind, but said:

"The Times Book Club,"

about it."

As a matter of been nice to me since I first know her, and fact she lost her down at the first glance as little more than a child. I whether she knew anything about Sanskrit or

should have put hor not I app good dual to please in

her way of calling me clover. about eighteen years old. She wore # I would do a

Mr. Danton.

plain white dress, and had large, innocent Bosides, she wont eu, "Lady Egerton locking ayos. I reflected that appearances are said in her letter that Miss Bently particularly extraordinarily deceptive things Miss Bent wanted to meet you.

It was Lady Bgwritten the sort of book which would shock Mrs. ly did not look as if she could possibly have who insisted on ine having har here. I and from ALL WINH MERCHANTS. 149 well refase, you know, because she's Tom's sout." Danton. Mrs. Danton, being Tom's wife, is I know beforehand that it was Lady Everton not at all emily shooked. I commented on the

I don't see any diffoulty about that, said and not Miss Bontly who was the nut, and so length of the drive from the station, and the Margaret.

Everybody is talking I was not confused by Mrs. Dauton use of the extremely namatisfactory nature of our train

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rest of the party

tried to keep my resolve. Mias Bantly--I Tom is furious, of course," she said. "He can't the

at the room. There were eight of them

took her altogether.

to digner

quer again, of course-made bear literary women; but I couldn't help myself." without counting Tom, who was late. They resolute efforts to return to the Ogam stones. Tom is Mrs. Danton's husband. He fishes were all fishing people; a fishing Cole, wel rolleet, and commented freely on several that with I mentioned the name of every novel I could whom

they come

come over here in the Summor. What a wife and daughter who fished: a fishing stock. he does at the other seasons of the year when braker with wife who was ag ontharinet had not real. Miss Ben ly replied in mono- he in clsewhere, I dq not know. Very likely he about salmon, an elderly Miss Danton, Tom's

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and displayed absolutely no interest in. shoots and hunts. I could quite easily believe sister; • London barrister, the bath of the that he would bare little or nothing in common party, because he never caught anything: Mis Bently," I said at last, "we talked all with a literary lady. I did not expect to have and a nondeanript hay, who was, I understood,

Ovening and most of this morning reading for Sandhurst. No one showed the shout my work. Don't you think it's time that

we talked about yours a whether my Hebrew and Gaelic least wish to interrupt my conversation with track would help me."

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Sho blashed, With the recollection of Her 16" said Mrs. Danton, is Rose, We trooped in to dinner, and I found myself"Turquoise and Pearl" fresh in my mind I Rose Bently, I looked her out in Madie's list, between Miss Danton and Miss Bontly. This didn't wonder that she blushed, Even Mrs. and I find that she's written a novel called "Turreslod

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much in common with her myself.. I doubted

1 had read Turquoise and Pearl."

"No," I said, I've never even heard of it,"

I haven't read it, of

f Dourse," she said But there's been a lot of talk about it. The men had it in the smoking-room at Dooside when we were for the cock shooting. I believe it's-- well it's not exactly the sort of book a woman

to road.

the

yesterday

the fate Miss Danton dous not like me. Dauton would blush, I supac,

Yes.

**And what do you think of us?" I asked.

She looked at me with a mild surprise in her eyes. I felt that the question was, bisul, and.

would care to "I and Rnuly, but I innot basicned to redeem mynalt.

IN

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possibly dine with you to-morrow night."

!

"I met a lady once," I said, "who was paying

if

Oh, my work is nothing," said Miss Bantly. "On the contrary," I said, "it'a fame has penetrated even to the Wost of Ireland. Yon

inst not thluk us utter barbarians."

"I'm in tat hopes," she said, blushing again more charmingly than ever, that my paper for next

1 am the curate of the parish. I felt that I her fret visit to Ireland. She told me that the Association month's mesting of the British

thing which surpriffed her most was that Irish.

fall in love."

mes never

This was not strictly traa.. I did not moot that lady myself. It was Tom Dauton who mot her, and told me afterwards what she said. But I thought the remark was a good one to make to Miss

Your what!" I asked.

"My paper. Didn't you know? Bat of conres you didn't. How could yon! I am ruling a paper in the philological section on Gaello and Icelandic roots. My uucle is going over it for me ant

correcting it. That is the

to meet you." But how can you possibly- "I'm sure it will be no good, really," she_said, ***bout if you'll allow me I strou like to send you

a copy of it afterwards.

· 3 urquoise and Pear The authoress of reason I wanted i

could not possibly for Miss Ross Bently, I um not. I trust, prejudiced or narrow-minded; but, as a clergyman, I do not feel that I am the proper may do cope with an emancipated lady novelist I failed altogether to guess why Miss Bently should want to meet me.

"It will bo all

"anid Mra

Doston."She all right," won't talk that way. Lady Egerton would not Lave sent hor here if she was in the least in the kind of book Mrs. Danton said it was, fact,

LOW

I have found out what she wrote, I'm ought to be interested in this peculiarity of rather surprised that Lady Egerton did send Irishmen. I fully expected Miss Beutly to say hor here. As a rule Lady Egorton is quite the something brilliant in reply. I was dis- opposite, quite: almost too much so. She disappointed. All she said was: approves dreadfully of poo: Tom. You needn't be afraid."

Fin not afraid." I sat untruthfully. Mrs.

Lis Doutor was smiling and seemed inclined to langh outright. The fact is that Margurat, my sister Margaret.

ret promised that we'd go up to tra at the Rectory to-morrow night."

Put them off," said Mrs. Danton, "and Lring Mariaret with She'll be one woman mau too many, but I'll fit her in.

Margarat would, I know, defeat being "fitted ir. She has a high sense of personal dignity She also dislilies Mr. Danton because sho im ju ngines that Mrs. Dauton patronises hor. This quite a mistake, and I get to tell her so at first. I do not prem shy contradiction now, because she has a theory, which she puts into plain words, that Mrs. Danton makes a fool of me and winds

round ler finger.

I'm sure." I said. " that Margaret won't break her engag, munt."

I shall be sorry if she doesn't," said Mrs. Dantor. She would have helped me with Miss Beatly after dinner. But I shall count on you

Isn't After all, it's simply your daty to come. it? As a clergyman, I mean.'

Indeed."

again,

to

rapposing it to be

Miss Bently." I said, " did you write? I mean to say have you ever road! What I want to say is, aro you familiar with many modern novela

I read Miss Youges, she said, “when

I was at school: bat I've been so busy erer since I went up to Girton, that. I really haven't' had time for novels.'

After dinner I got Mrs. Danton into a corner

"That book," I said, "Torquoine und Pearl," is the most disgusting thing I over read."

You seem to be getting on very well with Miss Bently-all the same," said Mrs. Dauton.

I saw that she was laughing at me, and I very early hated hor; although she is, ing epito of austling Margarot can say, a very charming

I tried

I suppose," I suid, that it isn't simply for pleasure that you have came here, You are probably hard at work."

Indeed

Iam," she said. I spent the last fortaight in the Arcan Islands."

Ab," (said, "Incal colour. Isn't that they herself. phrase? You couldn't have gone to a bottor place for it."

Then may surprise she began to talk about the Irish language. It is still spoken in great purity by the Arrau Islanders: I was still more surprised when I found that the pprred to know something about the subject. She quoted, lo my absolute astonish- Windle cheim, ment, the opinions of Professor of Hoidelberg. on some points of Gaelic philo-barinable insult logy. In the course of

"I know she didn't," said Mrs. Danton, our conversation I gathered that she herself was half German qud"Don't be angry with me. I only found ont that the professor was her uncle. I am ashamet my mistake tonight. I'd have told you before to say that I forgot all about her literary works, dinner if I'd got a chance. I was talking to anl allowed myself to be sadued into giving Tom abunt it, He knew all along that Love

Sed its

an assumed name. Rently was an

I don't men her a sort of lecture on ancient Gaelic, and

us assumed by our connection with the early Aryan languagus.

by our Miss

Beatly. I mean the other woman, the real one, you know. I don't wonder bane. She's a married separation from bor on acen nut of the book. woman, and her husband is trying to get a Tom says he doesn't wonder."

to take

wom

She didn't write it," I said. “and it's wa

Before the ladies left us I had prgan she didn't use her own tia ue.

stone,

I did not quite see how my daty as a clergy. her next day to see some stones man came into the matter, but I had no doubt inscriptions in a remote corner of the about my nclinat on.

I felt shy of Miss Afterwards while Tom Danton, tho Bently, but I reflected that should have some the stockbroker, the barrister and the boy, body dse on the other side of me at dinner, vere telling each other fishing stories of ox- and tes at the Bentory is really a very dull traordinary imaginative power. I reflected enterts went. I promised to do my best with Mie

ie Bently My sistor Margaret, who of Miss Beully.

cquise aderstande such matters moch bottor Margaret, as I.expected, flatly refused to dine than I do. has often tokl ive thகப்

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I don't wonder either," I said.

return the book. I shall burn it."

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You're quite rig it," said Mrs. Danten, "as olergyman, I mean, of ourse

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The Dartons. the mid that if she wanted woman can make a fool of any man even objected to my going. I pointed out to pretend to be interested in his particular hobby ker that I was asked to meet a indy of great until slp starts him talking about it Then she literary ominence, and that the invitation, com- need only smile and he will think her charming, tof the lady Margaret is very wise. I leaped to the can. sniffed clusion that Miss Bently had played this trick. people were adroit that she had done it uncommonly well. very few and that it would be a gree. Flosure I should not have believed beforehand that any o 10 ment Aliss Rose Bently. I bi aght ont one could have successfully pretended to possess name rather anxiously, sincerely

knowledge of ancient Irish. hoping ergarot si norer heard of Turquoiso As I was saying good-night Mrs. Danton and Pearl" She never bad. Indeed when I put slippad Turquoise and Pearl" into nay the matter that way, she took rather a nice view hind. I

took t

t B B book up to bed with me, and of it. Margaret is re lly fond of me, and has a although I had to go downstairs between one bigh opinion of my schrlarship. She thinks, and two for a fresh candle, I faished it before I that hero in Connemara, I am a kind of uurocog want to sleep. IL WAR Y worse, considerably worse, aised geaius pining in a wilderness,

than any novel I had ever read. I have in my time studied the classic posts. I have also read the early fathers of the Church. Turquoise and Pearl," without being so plain spoken as- oither the poeta or the theologians, was o gr. st in her life, and I hope he never will. Ideal more disgusting.

I am sorry to hear it. There's no money to At. breakfast next morning I invited Mar- bo get out of icelandic roots." Karat

join the

the expedition to the Ogam stones. - Margaret

1 am inclined to regard her us

***Of course,” she said, "if Miss Bently is really clover wom

“She is," I said. " Amazingly, clever. Mra, Danton says 80.

Margaret sniffed again.

(it

you're only got Mrs. Danton's word for

to

2

Des she 'wop that up still said Murgarot. There's no keeping up about it," I said. She's reading a paper next month before the British Association on Gaelic nud Icelandic roots.

w

Hut she is a novelist," said Margaret." Yon told me so, yesterday."

I was mistaken. She never wrote a novel

"Of course," I explained," Mrs. Danton i really wanted her. I felt that Inquired ausades herself on her strear pome

doesn't say it on her own authority. She is sim chaperon. I was embarrassed at the prospect ofcasionally sordid.

ply

repeating the opinion current in--in Lon

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41

I other places." Very well," said Margaret. If she really'

and Pearl." Margaret refused the invitation.

walk alone with the authoress of Turquoise

came to las door with a note... It was from Just before I wont up to dress for dinner s

"I should only bein the way," she said. "If Mrs. Danton.

of the chance of talking to her. But I won't go." Sanskrit: I should be borang to talk about

is a clever women I doa t want to deprive you you and Miss Bently are

Thus it happened, very much I imagine to

Dentons relief, that

Mre:

I

We probably

won't

She

-talk

about Sanskrit to.

told me that-that-is-

"A congratulation, of course," said Margaret. "May I see it?"

to dia day." I went up mer withont Margaret Larrived earfs and sat plouse ma, You'vey did no last night to and road it..

for some minutes alone in the drawing-root. what clever women do with men like me." Then Mrs. Danton rustled in with a charming opology for not being dewrelaire to receive mo.

* What will you talk about then ?” - "I don't know; perheps about Dovola. Miss is rather a famous novelist." it appears,

She leaned over my shoulder while I opened

What does she moan," said Margaret. ” by that petscript about the engagement ring being turquoise and pearls? Pearls are sup posed to be unlucky."

wrote for the took," she said direct. Beaty máver heard of her. What has she can tell what Mrs. Danton means when she

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