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i ^ / ? [ I Monsieur Beaucaire | ^Kj "By BOOTH TARKINGTON, ! I Author of "The Gentleman From Indiana" and liThc j\ A Conquest of Canaan/' ll Jj Cepyright, 1900, by McClure, Phillips & C$. If ?? "The man's servants worship him, said Molyneux. "Curse your insolence!" exclaimed the duke. "How much am I to bear from this varlet and his varlets ? Beaucaire, if you have not v left Bath by tomorrow noon, you will be clapped into jail, and the \ l?8hing*you escaped tonight 6hall be given you thrice tenfold 1" ? > : ' "I shall be?in the?assembly?room' at 9?o'clock, one week ?from?tonight," answered the young man, smiling jauntily, though h$ lips were colorless. The words cost him nearly all his breath and strength. "You mus' keep?in the?backgroun', monsieur. Ha, ha!" The door of the coach closed with a 6lam. "Mademoiselle?fare?well!" S; "Drive on!" said Lady Mary. \ M. Beaucaire followed the carriage with his eyes. As tfce noiso of the wheels and the hoof beats of the accompanying cavalcade grew fainter in the distance the handkerchief he had held against his side dropped into the white dust, a heavy red splotch. "Only?roses," he gasped and fell back in the arms of his servants. t*.... * 1* ?? CHAPTER V. yTIm' EAU NASH stood at the door of the rooms, anil| I ing blandly upon a dainty throng in the pink of its , -rjjP' ^ ? I finery and gay furbelows. The great exquisite bent ' ' * * A?l_ J bis body constanuy in a series oi wumi?ij ?ujusted bows?before a great dowager, seeming to IVffirlBa 8weeP *h? floor in august deference; somewhat stately to the young bucks; greeting the wits witlr Jkacious friendliness and a twinkle of raillery; inclining with fatherly ipllantry before the beauties; the degree of his inclination measured the altitude of the recipient as accurately as a nicely calculated sand measures the hours. The king of Bath was happy, for wit, beauty, fashion?to speak more concretely, nobles, belles, gamesters, beaux, statesmen and poets ?made fairvland (or opera bouffe, at least) in his dominions; play nan higher and higher, and Mr. Nash's coffers filled up with gold. r To crown his pleasure, a prince of the French blood, the young Comte de Beaujolais, just arrived from Paris, bad reached Bath at 1 " j. -fcr: ( noon in state, accompanied me juanjuis u? -ujic^uia, wc auua??uu. of Lonis XV. The beau dearly prized the society of the lofty, and the i present visit was an honor to Bath; hence to the master of ceremonies. ' What was better, there would be some profitable hours with the^arda and dice. So it was that Mr. Nash smiled never more benignly than on that bright evening. The rooms rang with the silvery voices of - women and delightful laughter while the fiddles went merrily, their , ?melodies chiming sweetly with the joyance of his mood. The skill and brazen effrontery of the ambassador's scoundrelly 1 servant in passing himself off for a man of condition formed the point / ^ V V/M\ I "* III THE HAPPY GENT [.KM A ,V, WITH LADY MARY CARLISLE UPON HIS ARM, WENT GRANDLY ABOUT THE ROOMS. of departure for every conversation. It was discovered that there were but three persons present who had not suspected him from the first; and, by a singular paradox, the most astute of all proved to be okKMr. Uicksit, the traveler, once a visitor at Chateaurien; for he, according to report, had by a coup of diplomacy entrapped the impostor into an admission that there was no such place. However, like poor Captain Badger, the worthy old man had held his peace out of regard for the Duke of Winterset. This nobleman, heretofore secretly disliked, suspected of irregular devices at play and never admired, had won admiration and popularity by his remorse for the mistake , and by the modesty of his attitude in endeavoring to atone for it, L W 1 f \ without presuming upon the privilege of h? rant to laugh at the indignation of society; an action the more praiseworthy because his exposure of the impostor entailed the disclosure of his own culpability in having stood the villain's sponsor. Tonight, the happy gentleman, wi:h Lady. Mary Carlisle upon his arm, went grandly about the rooms, j ov.ing and reaping a harvest of smiles. 'Twas said work ' would be begun at once to rebuild the duke's countryseat, while several ruined Jews might be paid out of prison. People gazing on the ber.uty and the stately but modest hero by her side said they would make a noble pair. She had long been distinguished by his attentions, and he had come brilliantly out of the episode of the Frenchman, who l J 1 1 * 1 J _ 1 TTTl A] *1 T naa Deen n:s oniy rcai r:vui. vy uerever ujey wcjh, wicro arose a uui?& of pleasing gossip and adulation. ?.?? ' (To be continued next week.) PROGRAMME a ioc of Annual Meeting Woman's Missionary Union Auxiliary to South East Association, to Be Held at scranton baptist church on saturday, September 7, 1907. 10:30 a. m. Devotional Exercises, Miss Lily Graham. Welcome Address, Miss Allie McCullough. Response, Mrs. Covington Lee. Miscellaneous. Collection State Missions. 12 M. Dinner on Grounds. ' 12:30 TO 2:30 P. M. Social. 2:30 P. M. Children's Song Service. Prayer. Miccinns t.n Children? Mrs. J.B.Boatwrieht. If Jljf X VUVA1 w A Girl in One of Our Mountain Schools, Miss Hattie Willoughby. Superintendent's Report, Miss Lily Graham. Reports from Societies, By Delegates. i 5 P. M. Adjournment. 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