Show M larka E 4 zeol st a A FOREIGN GENTLEMAN 8 copl richrd searle bearley c Amerl clin playwright air sms con ald to his hi friend nim bob singleton the A fact that h I 1 by lh aarm gamu benair of t y young u A whom am be h hool hid geen is in london he be hat wn written tie A a pa piny lady larkspur mr m boldly with the thought the that I 1 she ah should mould morast interpret the I leading dag I 1 character h th barl ell violet dewing mr haa an nil ad SI bearlean r v to busm 1 to allow the ea play to he be ro produced with will nyona alao IS Is in the as part singleton be haa just amad in tallied tall eit ded froni from france where he bt be had so I 1 been mg 1 in the batom ablation car corp hla 1 uses uncle roymond 1 bash I mad ford I ft well wealthy m nian tile had contract it ah ed d a se a bhart I 1 tall aistars h hi 1 del death while on an a visit 11 to japan rao he I 1 left singleton 19 comparatively i A mall A I 1 out of money and ad tha alese of residence is in th the ea AS rae case of ma his am rummer home hm bar I 1 ton on alie sound connecticut mr TIT 03 la beil bashford Baah ford IB 1 to ba armel in anc 1 in tilt me oram in A CHAPTER I 1 I 1 continued 2 III tell you all 11 1 I know knew lust aa I 1 I 1 was bulling from frial fe france me I 1 got a letter film uncle be bosh stating in a most businesslike fashion that he be was about to be married to a lady be had met a on the trip out to japan title dire event me we was to occur at the fim anam amer fla ican embassy the following day flom ell which ell I 1 judged that my presence at the ce remon we was neither expected nor desired oddly enough months after afterward oard I 1 picked up an english paper in a pro french ell inn that cou contained tallard a an announcement of the on marriage cringe in an fn the us usual a advertisement form the led lady was succinctly described as men bira allen alice lNell hurts cornford widow of the late archibald be renolds refolds I 1 it cor cornford 1 f I it Pepper harrow road ad hants beat all tor rence reme knows s of the sube subsequent quent pro crafft 98 1 Is what hat lie he a got at I 1 in official re ports of f uncle bush bash A death from tile consul general at tokyo tt NN hether bather the widow expects expect to come came to america amerell or will vim keep moving through the orient romy marrying lg lius bacal banda md old ind burying them leas 1 Is A dark at E if f she should to turn up the house honse at bar barton on is ie liers bers of course but with her ier roving disposition I 1 fully fancy my not allee alice like the place th the jap stuff 1 Is worth a bit of money sad md if the lady Is keen for such things and not a mere adventurer she he amny I 1 take it into her head bead one of these days day to come came over and ad inspect haper t the loot iti 1 I cam see the vampire said searles musingly Y landing at the grand central with croush hand luggage to fill a I 1 freight ight car a big raw boned crea creature with ith a horse face and a be horrible mess mesa AS aa to cloth clothes you ft ill 11 be the there to meet her defer enlist A anxious to please lou ou will vill pilot let her up to the coast of bottom 11 tip p the As servants am heavily lly to keep them bell from murdering old g be her no and it st bedle jour bour thumbs thumb in your or garage aa vou wait await her further ther ear pleasure by tle the way or are to those am ancient e nl freaks sit still on the plim place th those broken bicken cloon don n hotel employees mp loyee A who were your uncle a sole experiment in philanthropy term torrence A assures am m me am they are am all 11 wry very much mach therso there searles yielded himself to 1 laughter e an E englishwoman with lofty of ideas of f A domestic a service would certainly enjoy a romp ramp with that crew oh they are am in a the some same class with me I 1 explained 1 I ille he place can t be sold old till I 1 die and ad abil while I 1 aja they re em to be harbored harbor sal about thirty a of them clothed sod and victual ed I 1 think there them a a farce in the idea end 1 I may try it one of these do dais 1 1 he be sad bald scribbling in his notebook I 1 ook A refuge for broken down cla chamber mobs maids len numble erable bell hops hope grown grawn g gray m y in the service and the head bead waiter i r who amassed a fortune in tips and then than toyed with the market once too if often no and ad lost at hla his gotten get gains what ves the head bond nai slices lers name am who presided e with such state S in the dining room mom of the that a antoine Ant olne who he jamer married led the ass assistant talent housekeeper at tile the tiring he ham he a the butler better and ad he has charge of the place when I 1 get settled in ilk ask you up and you can study the each bunch at lal leisure mure Sp splendid lend I 1 d I 1 in b be a up in a couple of weeks week re im going I 1 to 0 old othio tamer row raw me for a family breuni reunion n and a look at the loved spots my infancy knew youre you re lucky to have imme home folks even in ohio I 1 remarked well theres alhaj your too distant smote auntie cruising the sever sea seas 1 in pursuit parent ot of buh banda nobody n iab I 1 an out aunt to his credit can pretend pectoral to lie be fiem aiole in the world aunts must rank lust I a hima below mothers in the heavenly kingdom when wha I 1 no was a boy bay out in ohio there were two great grant occasions acca dim every ear or in my iff life one ro when I 1 w went ant to visit a er grand I 1 it old mint aunt I 1 led had 1 in the 1 I country n the other when vicen she visited as u old corriv ln ing III A of jam lilly JOEY allt rising bread pound cake nod bannat nat other un purchasable hamble man manna stop step bior or I 1 it ill call the food censor it I pleaded picking up my but send me your copy of lady Geraid geranium et 21 and ad I 1 U tell vou a w whether better I 1 it I 1 A 8 a lie classic or not it lady Lar larkspur klima he be corrected with a shudder you shall hae it 11 by trusted messenger tomorrow I 1 wired autumn that I 1 would reach bar barton on the Sound the following day this thin was A september 1917 As the train rolled callied store along the familiar all shore toward IS barton s ren I 1 shook off air the depression occasioned by my enforced retirement from rom the great grant gIe overseas I 1 tied had done under t the he F french curb sag flag all 11 that it was posed his ble for or me to do and there was some consolation in 11 the fact that by reason mason of my two henrs r on 11 the batt leline afine I 1 ana just jt so much ahead of 0 the friends was I 1 met in new kew york who were answer in ing g the call cal to the colors and had ali their et experience of war before them the tranquil life that had been recommended by the dollars doctors me was not only pa possible unite at barton but it was as the only life that could be used lived there my ill let leisure sure I 1 meant t to employ play in begin bilg it a novel or that had bad bem been teasing leasing me ever eve since ince I 1 sailed for far home me of my uncle bush bash I 1 had bad only he happiest and most gra grateful eaul memories quite em natu turn raly ly it had occurred to me a at times and my friends had bad en cou raged the idea that my uncle would die some day and leave me his money there we was no P particular u reason why hy he should A do A so as he led bad never manifested any my hamem unusual fac tie alon tor far roe rem sad end ahad I 1 had cesti linly nener done anything to for r him on antoine was at the barton station with the touring ear uncle bash had bought to establish communication w with ill the N village flynn tile the big irish man won nad mad been the doorman at the 97 24 it forget it automata antoine TrIng bace for fears ears and retired because of rheumatism acquired from long exposure to the elements at the hostel rys portals was as at the wheel wheat antoine greeted we me with that air of lofty fly condescension tempered tempel ld with a sincere kindliness that had made ad him a prince price among head bead waiters its A As I 1 shook hands with him his fix lips q 11 md and tears bear came to his ees 1 I bade antoine join me in the back seat cut that he might the more easily bring we me up to date as to affairs on the state estate it must be a little law alow up he here ep after the years you lied in town we I 1 suggested but of course youre all 11 old friends I 1 dinall ell yes all friends frIend 11 be h acquiesced but with so little enthusiasm that I 1 looked at him quickly he I 1 pre A tended to be absorbed 1 in the aa fl ing landscape at the tha sio moment name flynn I 1 noticed was as giving ear to our con can versa lars lion thom fr from the whom wheel it was A sad ad very sad 11 bir bush bash ford passing away so far from home sir it it was I 1 a great cut shock and he had looked bom forward rd for years to a quiet life a abroad b road antoine Anto loea speech w was that of a pe tha font well vell trained english u upper P sennet aa a I 1 I 1 Igl imagined mal that 1 in 1 1 his 1 yorlli he bonill b had bad taken some english og 1 11 butler 14 as his model he used need t to pretend that he knew french deiy EY imperfectly old and I 1 was one all surprised when he now addressed iati hen me a aal quite fluently 1 in enthat that language you I 1 have I 1 been a w with ith the armies of clear france he remarked tile the war nor 1 is very cry adful sly parents were era of verdun it ft gia grieves me to know knew of the suffering in the lead land of my people A As I 1 replied to in fr french 1 1 I saw new rl lhnn stia al tien him sell of nt the locel alth an ha fim fling of his tend head huo mrm indicated him him with a contemptuous nod ad untried elsie elate the german woman who tr worked in the linen room at the th Ty ringham in I 1 this had caused some somal trouble much e and I 1 there hm ere 1 Is a canby girl gill grete n who ana til in for far a long ahm before th the a master left sad and be meal cut her he here re f for the country air she 1 a ill little a di dill fl with be her door dear father Is land ad I 1 laughed at the old fellow a grer arar ity fly and ad earnestness rom I 1 that the A war should b be making ng itself felt on tile the quiet acres cres at barton on an the sound was A ichord I 1 was pondering the recrudescence of race a e e hatreds due duc to the upheaval I 1 in I 1 surope u m pe when lom he a startled earned we me by a at statement to nt uttered close to my ear desm there have been inquiries for fm the widow these have caused me much act anxiety slety it seems that there are persons persona anxious to eee I 1 her there that h liae be been inquiries ore one two three times time 0 probably some am of her bar american friends friend anxious kals to pay their resper respects is mis or same of the nebb neighbors bors making calls call of courtesy I 1 suggested suK A foreign gentleman who acts am very my queerly antoine persisted my uncles nodes widow was a vague un on known being whom I 1 had never expected to cross class my horizons it if she meditated a descent upon Bac barton on the Sound the trust company py would weald I 1 certainly have bane had some hint of her I 1 approach but T torrence mence clearly hail had or b had ad no I 1 it tidings die gs of her beyond her last communication train from bangkok still it was wholly that a globe i trotting trailing widow would have friends in many any parts of the world and ad I 1 could old see nothing all 1 in the be fact that inquiries had bad been made for far her I 1 said eald a as much antoine a answer was a another shrug and a jerk of his herd head toward rlynn as a though even c the era em tule plo dment ment of 0 an alien tongue might not conceal our conversation from the big irishmen irishman IN athen hen we bad reached 11 the farm and were timing running through t the h ground grounds antoine spoke pk again get ve tte thought we would put pat you UP it at the house mr singleton and not in the garage he slid said inquiringly it not at nil 11 atlo antoine I 1 answered quickly we must stick close to the law to in such mat matters era very good sir 11 stop at the garage arem to the casual ob observer the garage games was a ch cli arming two story house tol eh pas owing lowing the general lines of the h e plaster sad it timber in bar residence rai derice train from it was as separated perot a d b a strip of woodland ald madA and a formal garden ill the garage mol and quarters quarter for the chauffeur were at one on sad end and ad at the other 1 were a do down tot living room with a broad fireplace and three chambers she above e amplem so pite planned maced fig as to afford aiford a choral charming g 11 view of the 1 sound d I 1 whose base AI shore curved 1 in deeply at this point on I 1 the chauffeurs side do was a small EH E H kitchen fr from in which I 1 tied had been served with 1 my meals 1111 when he I 1 lodged filled there late the house la Is in order older you will h have Y your our meats I 1 als at the reau residence lence I 1 suppose sir air antoine sag suggested gaved I 1 del debated led this in a moment and when ii he hinted that dinner could old be more are conveniently ser served d there than in ID my own a quarters I 1 said old that for far the present tile the rivers might gh ghe me I 1 bra breakfast and I 1 luncheon Is 1 at I the garage but but the that I 1 we would al d din dine at the house it was five a 0 clock when I 1 reached the garage and ad antoine left me after opening my bags with tile the suggestion tilt 1 I 1 could 11 summon al r a afman doimer a r valet let of the to for I 1 la any service I 1 might require i knew am an 1 ery 11 1 well wall and ad said aid 1 3 w would call him when a occasion at re qui quiren B d he Is of that race I 1 said old antoine plaintively 1 in the trench F h which now tiby deemed ed to come ma readily it I 1 e enough gh t to bis lips no race a botheration I 1 lou ims in 0 mo trouble uble yourself about race question bee out here ant antoine Z rome mem I 1 Is a good old chap whoa has probably for fee go gotten the very name ame stif of the GO genfan toom too town he was born bell in TI they ey do not at forget antoine re plied paled wl with ill emphasis therse there h has a been much discussion dise fm much uch 0 forget gt it An antoine toffiel I 1 supposed you were all living here am like a happi family ia please tell the them at I 1 th flu residence thit dine at seven ey cry 9 good ad sir air he be said in hit hi on pompous me u dianner r but I 1 saw that he ads was A miffed by my y indifference lasure flinn no having d disposed of the car or came to ask if was we anything he could old it do for far me IT tonys cly A against gem the a wife mad and me be an said ed sum mournfully fully its the war som borr and she and me that hie sort the american flag floats train from the stage garage every ery day and if a heart rt c can n be tile lile lisle s as true to 1 A america 11 ns as though she he was as bar born in il boston state tot house I 1 1 I boll Y you file I 1 said old touched by his nervousness 1 1 1 antom dint you worry about antoine aud d the re rest of them they thebie to jut just a little orleans nervous in ill see what he I 1 ran can do to straights things out A coming widow wido casts her shadow before TO |