Show W y K MEREDITH AND AS TO FANS sr Ms salm uc mound american playwright con ad n J hi bulb wree me ii a B by I 1 the th Y dmn hi young whom in i M lid d ed n london ad he has son written py iday lady Larket irk pur wr oatly with ahe thought 1 ha that ih he ha houed interpret the 0 her char ct girl vad violet singleton an bmw ha jut joel returned so I 1 in vai idea hane froin frado hr I 1 uncle mads Ky roond omir bastord Bah h tord ft hl man had it short time mas berwa before his hf death 0 while hit o on k arit 1 1 to j inpan PS he H left led singleton at comparatively IW I W gnau I 1 amount at of nam anoney and the oe privilege of real dence lace 1 in the lab same carno of his hia um sial n home aw bar barton on the 8 sound nc connection va ld mra abd IS IE believed m 0 o he be t a 1 in in the orient the hearse 1 ati at m barton if 11 mad tip a ot 1 brn brok n D down employ M ot new york h hotel 1 where B Bann tord made ad his hi no home s on goes to barton taking a with him the eoanu at of lidy d larkspur there he h and fandt the he household tr angely meet iome of if 1 lla an mern ber listed being a by their comrades ad ot 1 ra pro German geaw tam A antohne I 1 hez head ot f U the boax him that he be has ha been b by the me some rome what mi of K tranger apparently a f foreigner lower seadog mrs been bag h fold it an antohne in too haa formed U the male 0 tn embert ot of the household houf hold let into guard o are tor for pro am it SI singleton giseca Seca reada ad play ind thinks highly ot of it ft an t alice rove Y oleeta with I ft lively helly reception I 1 and d mile out I 1 to be young a and d chis charm laff isas arear re 1 Is her tz traveling a ion companion arm torrence bash tord ford IS klawier dec the ano women n and 4 warm singleton aunt allot way may b be we an be impostor ml th the et ranger count ewt mon danl me ak a call H 0 I 1 g CHAPTER ill III continued spoke of nt the parre aloa lains oh to be sure I 1 they don t show to best bast advantage to in electric tight do they but bat I 1 ran can have a few ot of the sagne prize pierce pieces into the dining room said saad all alice c mrs 1 lar osworth a r th had I excused sed he her sait celt to finish R letter and fr from my chair I 1 could oft eee her sir liked had bent over the big dek dealt tn in the library allen rang for antoine Ant olne and I 1 followed her lot into tb the be ball to 0 offer after my aid oh dont trouble tramble she sold said A an toine me can do anything necessary yes I 1 th mal if you will turn on the dining room mean lights I 1 was gone hardly half a minute fuel when I 1 reached the draw ingrown ang room door mounted bad crossed it the he T room to the table on which alice bad dropped the fan ind nd was examining it closely ila he faced the door and the woman moment t he detected we toe a exclaimed calmed careless f ty y an exquisite little be bauble ais I 1 am alwaes 1 I 1 carious in US as to the so source mr of rf jacb ch triflis I 1 atas as looking for th the shakers imprimatur I 1 know a part elan ian who 1 the leading manufacturer of the world but it Is not mt life hia I 1 am ee A aa wo we tood land talking ot of othar th wage thing US h b piled the fan curelessly carelessly BB an though for the pleasure ot of the faint went it will exhaled died and when alim called ahe abe ns put it dew iowa carefully where be had bond found it tt lie he really MITY did aid siem seem to its know something about boat iq and prod praised seI with rea lively ly enthusiasm the places pieces that had been mt bet out on the table one piece as a to whom authenticity my uncle had entertained barlous doubts double moment mont ant best tingly pronounced genome and aas stated ty t very Y plausible reasons for his pled on the whole he be waa a an interesting fellow ellow when he he had it aniced his bis 1 in lection pec tion be I 1 lingered t for only a few and took mak bleci hla leave saving that he aws wa apse spending ing the a night at an aa I 1 ann near m flotd weh said mid alim alice alien iam the whir of his machine had bad died away what do think of him blar 7 ani A very 97 able gentl gentleman amen 1 I an almead it if he doehm doesn t k know now pobe borce being A he be fakes hla his talk admirably and ad as a to rans fee rl eug aggard 11 sira farnsworth I 1 had not intent tied led to it mow mon interest in alice Is fan and ad the danl 8 remark nd me oh I 1 saw it all R from froin the tn library icid mra alm farnsworth Panis worth my back th he door buti but t was f 11 9 a we was to w the foment t you yon and alice mirror went into the me hejl 11 b be e po pounced uncial upon 1 0 th the only vord ord the he fp f ann P IV o a list hot it n se concealed nal his bla m neatly a when jam ou on it 11 very cry 1 ID baters lui erest at caurel hlin him w log it hm harmless things thing said ald I 1 va fans sea are end and it if there a say any story utin atin alice there to this one I 1 par not aware of it my father or bought it it 1 in paris about ago and it has bus never hever been three years yeara been except to have ont of ad ro awo repaint thare a a japanese 1 jew ift rier let aha be d i a wonderful on dl d l things in a I 1 the of lef repairing r V I 1 trinkets of ever every as way with th I 1 him tor or a tw kind it aill I 1 arft it I 1 w pit flava ia I 1 cant a I 1 tell a now which b pane SI a broken breach be is did fit N bl work or ao I 1 I 1 took it fr from he her and ad balanced it ft in A my finger it was a beautiful pie piece I 1 of war workmanship how hill with the alm I 1 otest carvings on the ivory panels he old t it have mma it an anywhere here before tonight obar observed d alice mus egly in fact I 1 hadn haan I 1 used it at all for a year it was wag really by cal mistake take thetty that my maid old put it lot into my ark who mien I 1 went out to japan I 1 did dlan t want to rak b breauna alg it again gl so BO ive ire b been its it in a handbag the last just day we a were in boklo I 1 think I 1 had it in our sitting room in the hotel to make sure or it wasn gasn t jammed into the trunk again NV we had a good many callers calem a number dumber of people came in to bid ws us good by but im I 1 in sure sum count we was not net among the them and ad it ft would have hale been impossible for or him to As bee it at any other time oh the there Is nothing thing disturbing 1 in the he counts interest in tile the thing said mid mrs farnsworth Farnswor lh with an air of ills mi ing the matter it if it were a jade trinket inscribed with chinese avs aniz ver teria you might imagine that it would an it be by some one om I 1 have heard of such inch things but alice ain 8 fan A has box no such inch history pe fl e erent very hospitable ie said id aj alice ilea 1 I might have Us asked I 1 it count at BIonta nl to time dine w wath th us ua tomorrow and we wa abc might bt el eien liae im put him up for far the eight in this vast east bon houie not with antoine on the promises premises I iad exclaimed ad amal antohne Ant olne I 1 Is ii convinced that t the a man Is what we call in am amer br lea III a crook and antoine ts takes his responsibilities very 8 while I 1 was breakfasting at the bragy im the next morning auto ap P up appeared peered and waiting until F flynn was all ont t of hearing handed me a all slip p ot of do paper p er that a a new york automobile a number he said it was on the tag log mob of that machine the party ame in A last sight I 1 yard heard him saying sir we as how bow S clung to the sideboard Leate nim he had motored up train from the elkton ina nn at stanford stamford from stain ord ford would hardly send in to the city for a machine a I 1 bade him wait ft white while I 1 called the elkton it by t telephone 1 S phone no such person ss giuseppe M taink had bad spent tile the night there or mr had been base a gat of the house within the memory of the clerk An antoinet Anto loeB chest swelled at this confair atio of his suspicions it if the man A ret reans ex treat him aa you yen did last night as aa though he were entitled entitle to the highest consideration he won wait t come back not the same we dav said enid acma ai he mentioned antl it the just to throw you yoa off air the next atu yoa hear of him hlll III be quite dif terent ferret W you mean be 11 mine come as a burg burglary larr that a what a in ID toy my mind mr bin stefon to E everything sey alling seems ery cry queer air such as what ardad An bow the widow he haa been bee telegraphing log and ad toll phoning considerable belr P there must be A no aping up upon file these Im indies lic I 1 severely verely ee all the Peo people illis on the pm place was must re member that mrs balfurd Bah furd ib 1 war tecsy here and entitled to fullest respect lie he hal had hardly gone before tm torrence I had we me on oft the wire to hinr my report and ad to buy bay that raynor bad left wash ingle top for a week bit end ad in 1 virginia virg we I 1 assured him bain that nothing had bad oc correct to encourage a suspicion that fast mrs MM us na not at all 11 that she he pretended to be the duy day was use mark marked ty by unusual activities on the part of th the matters and bell hops instead of it abu mention company Y drills to which I 1 wit tw be come seen accustomed boned they moved about to W pairs along the slime eliote and the lines of the 1 I foures fences I 1 learned that bar bud bad ordered this hie and it tile thi troops PS were em obeying bilm in with the utmost se clearances the tac on an the es co tate was wan certainly abundant it wax was only accessory to a whistle and oo on of sete the meas would sold coms come running in ID spite of the comp complete tete satisfaction I 1 laid expressed to Tor torrence Torre reme oce as a to th the ap pp integrity and bontso Intent intention lim 11 ellwo of the nonien war the of 1 the A american set can state onto ind and ties the visit ot of AID UI required al elucidation kimm beyond my laroyas at dinner they ard were 1 jo lb the merriest alre leSt humor the th pera er orman an wB 0 of the little army anny out at the be day had amused id them the greatly he how delightfully feudal fedle ex claimed alice beally we wa should hav a me moat t and drawbridge to make the thing g perfect p ifft beram constance and ad bere iere I 1 ta the fhe beat protected women wanna 1 la the world 1 we re ext extrait rated ed all the fun Vs possible albl from the bleg that alice we was the hate let alne of if K beleaguer ed castle if and ad that before he help eddi could reach us we were to in danger or of being starved out by the enemy they called into play the poetry which had bad so an roused antoine apprehensions and their talk bristled with quotations alies alice rose read fitter after the salad led l ead ad repeated at least east fi page ot of malory mainly and ad the knigh knights of the round it it table having it g thus been be intro lot ducep mrs alls F orth recited sever seem at sonorous amorous passages from the idyls idels of the king they flung bung if 1 mar mfr I it from brownings in a balcony at I 1 me each h other as 48 though they were P j I 1 ing the befuddlement lows of antoine and ad the waiter who assisted boded him added to the general joy jay they were undoubtedly the thought uia the two women quite out of otheir their heads and ad it was plot plain th atiat at 1 I suffered greatly la in An antoine s estimation if by my encouragement of this fri sirs farnsworth walked majestically round the table and add addressed romed to we me the line ians from macbeth Mac betti begin ning gl the thou tt 1 ud d cawdor and ad IS be what waal thou art rt fawn promised tard while hil antoine clung clang to the side sideboard blard mili alli month open pa and it eyes telling later in the living mom alice sang some old ballads she we was more a ad adorable than ever at the pi piano it was a happiness beyond any I 1 io my experience pj of women to watch her bar to note the play of liht upon open her golden head to yield to th the a spell of her voice ballads had never here been sung before with the charm and ad feeling she he put loti ida them and after ending with douglas Dov gas Dong douglas logu bb abe responded to my importunity with be ben bolt bell suit and then dashed into a sparkling thing of child childs S played it brilliantly and rot rc ro t laughingly working mocking roy my applause I 1 left the house like a an man over whom no en enchantment has been lokets and was not pleased when antoine blocked my path pardon bardon me sir air bother ther my pardon what troubling balago you 1 kowt I I 1 demanded it its a nothing troubling me sir not p particularly state barly if you give me time I 1 think grow used to the poetry talk 1 and I playing at being queens it 8 like chi dren to ID a family I 1 served once an english family most respectable but in a widow air god knows we ought to be glad who when grownups grown upa have the heart to play at being children and can cam set get away with it as beautifully as those women cl do I 1 what also 1 la on your mind jv it x about elsie sit sir I 1 groaned at the mention of flynn flyn s irman gurmari wife I 1 in sorry entry sir but I 1 th thought ought I 1 all should d report it it w wag se ans man who be came to aee be her t h 1 oft afternoon you ton we was all out t for far your walk and flynn had tulen taken the ladle ladies for a drive so a elsie list was we alone at the garage this person rode roda in on the tracers grocer s truck from the village aga ghib is now how he gut gat by the goto gat As it happe happ eind it he be w as a a waiter atar at the tyra aan haia a swiss who who td german hed bad gone a e into at the garage for far nap up he be a ami quite te old air and ad hos ha his snooze every afternoon noon hes he entitled to 14 it 1 I remarked he must be a thousand years old from what but he heard pierre thought the man a spy sir r he wanted mete to steel train from I 1 the he house bouse it was As a flat fan he wanted her to take most and it was to be d done soon today if she could mange manage it was for fop if the love of the fatherland tl that 1 h be wanted he her to do it uhl did y you notice 0 t sir that mrs mra britiford Bait iford dian didn I 1 have tai m the fan tonight tot not that one site she carried led last night eight |