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CARROLLTON CHRONICLE
The Recluse of Fifth Avenue
PASTED FEATHER SKULLCAPS
AND HANDPAINTED FROCKS
CHAPTER VII—Continued
—13—
Miss Brown was young, pretty, and
delightfully dressed. This was, no
doubt, one of Mrs. Buxton’s personal
friends.
"Mrs. Buxton," Miss Brown hegnn,
“thought that as you hnd bought this
lovely place and were going to enter-
tain a lot, you might need a social
secretary. 1 wus going to her, but she
has taken Lord Kiteinunor’s hunting
box In Ltdcestershire for the coming
seugon. I have Just come back to the
United States, where I belong, after
spending some years abroud."
“You speak French, theuT” said
Mrs. Itaxon In the (Julllc tongue. It
was her one accomplishment.
“Yes,” said Miss Brown with still
greater fluency. I liuve been mainly
In England. M.v last position wus with
the countess of Horsham at Horsham
abbey. She was one of the Boston
Fessendons, as, of course, you know.”
“What did you do there?" Mrs.
Itaxon asked.
“Literally everything,” Miss Brown
confided. “It Is an Immense place,
fully twice the size of this, ui^l for
three years I managed It from cellar
to attic. I wrote the menus, engaged
the servants, saw they did their work
and dismissed them If they did not.”
Mrs. Itaxon smiled happily.
"You understand," Miss Brown con-
tinued, “that I was not a servant or
even a housekeeper. I'm a great be-
liever In soclul distinctions. They
make entertaining so much easier,
don’t they? Most people think I am
a guest like themselves. 1 have often
been taken In groups with even roy-
alty."
With an unaffected absence of mod-
esty, Miss Brown, In the course of
half an hour, managed to impress Mrs.
Itaxon most fuvorubly. "You would
find very little to do here at first,”
said the elder woman. “We have no
house guests at present, but we are
going to entertain a great deal,"
"I should And a very great deal to
-do at once," said Miss Brown em-
phatically. "To begin with, I should
dismiss your butler, who Is Im-
pertinent and offensive.”
Impulsively Mrs. Raxon lenned for-
ward and kissed Miss Brown.
“Dearie,” she said, “I need you at
once."
“Good,” said Miss Brown, without
«xcesslve gratitude. "Another thing.
If I stay I mustn't be hampered In en-
gaging or dismissing servants. It
must be understood that I have com-
plete charge of the household arrange-
ments. I cannot possibly run this
establishment smoothly if I um to
have the help running to you with
complaints. Lady Horsham wanted
me to relieve her of every domestic
responsibility."
“That’s exactly what I want,” Mrs.
Raxon said enthusiastically. "Where
are you going?" Miss Brown had risen.
“To get my trunks. I shall move
In at once.”
Mrs. "Raxon sought out her husband
and told him the news.
“Fine," he said. “Anyone recom-
mended by Mrs. Buxton will be all
right. I suppose you looked over her
testimonials?” \__j
"Of course," said his wife, conscious
that she had forgotten all about It and
not anxious for him to And It out.
You'll like her. She’s so distinguished.
1 don’t think she approved of the
drawing room furniture.”
“We shall agree on that. Belllng-
ton furnished It like un hotel recep-
tion room. One thing more. It's
about McKImber. I forgot to tell you
before. If anyone asks you If I have
political aspirations, say so. This
goes particularly with the McKimbers.
You and I know, und that’s enough
for the present.”
At a square house on Lower Fifth
avenue the young ludy who hud Just
passed as Agatha Brown burst In upon
four anxious men.
“My dears," she cried, "I’ve got It.
I move In tomorrow nnd take complete
charge of the household arrangements.
1 carried her off her feet. She kissed
me and called me ’Dearie.’ I left be-
fore she could ask to see my testi-
monials. I’m afraid I lied fenrsomcly.
It’s quite true, Uncle 1‘eter, they are
going to entertain largely. She
showed me the list. She evidently
doesn’t know how to do things on a
large scale. I didn’t see him.”
Neeland Barnes looked nt her with
pride. At a bound she hud landed In
the guarded fortress, unsuspected.
The keys of the arsenal hnd been
handed her. It was a complete tri-
umph.
“Now you are there,” said Peter
Mllmaa, “what good ahull we be to
you ?”
’Tvs thought It all out. You, per-
sonally, will have to stop here, be-
cause the lawyer man knows you. I
shall need daddy and my other uncles
at once.”
• What possible use can you have
for me?" Bradney demanded eugerly.
“Or for me?" said her father.
“All In good time." She laughed.
“Uncle Peter, you made a great mis-
take In letting Sneed go. I am dis-
missing the Raxon butler tomorrow
and shall want another.”
“You mean you will put Sneed In?
Wonderful. I hnve his address.”
"Won’t Loddon remember him?"
Brsdney asked.
“Probably. Sneed will say that he
left because be couldn't stand the
place any longer. Wo shall have to
let him In on part of our plan. Do
yon think he con be trusted?"
"Without a doubt," said Peter Mil-
man. "Yes, I made a mistake In let-
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ting Sneed go. I should have remem-
bered his tiiuny loyultles.”
"Hut whut um 1 to do?" her father
persisted.
"You und Professor Bradney will
be my tall. Imported footmen.”
Instinctively Neeland Barnes stroked
his chestnut mustache.
"I've had It since I was a freshman
at Yale,” he said regretfully.
“And I've had this”—Bradney
stroked his beard—“ever since 1 went
to Gottingen for my Ph.D." Alarm
spread over his face. "But I cannot
possibly do what you suifcest. Foot-
men have to wear some sort of gor-
geous livery, don't they?" t
"Undress livery at Great Hock," she
said, "not powdered hair nnd knee-
breeches, ns we hud at the abbey.
How long will It take you to get Into
the way of watting at tHhle, opening
doors, and being loftily efficient?"
“I could never do It,” said Bradney
In a panic. "I should drop things. 1
should pass dishes on the wrong side.
I should forget."
"The poor old thing has lost his
nerve.” Neeland Barnes laughed,
“lie can toy with atomic disintegra-
tion, hut he shies nt pouring out wine
nnd passing plutes.”
“Can you do It?" Bradney retorted.
"It will he a great Jest. I shall en-
joy every minute of It. Raxon will
think us flunkeys, while we are there
to drag him down. Man, if you have
“I Could Never Oo It,” Said Bradney
In a Panic.
any sporting blood In you, you can't
hold back. If you had your nerve
with you, we should make a great
team."
“It Isn't lack of nerve,” Bradney ex-
plained. “I simply dou't know the
technique of It.”
Neeland Barnes wus In his clement.
He had kept a large establishment
and hnd been reared among people
who had not denied themselves lux-
uries. lie explained lucidly the whole
duty of footmen In fashionable
houses.
“Sneed will be there," Nlta remind-
ed him. “I'in bunking on hint. He
will be nominally your superior nnd
help you In any way he can. It won't
he a bit difficult, Uncle Fleming.
Sneed, daddy, and I shall he there.”
“Where do I come In?" Mulct asked.
He did not wish to be left out.
“I have a very definite use for you,
Uncle Floyd. I talked u great deal with
Mrs. Raxon about her husband. lie
suspects the furniture, and he is
right. Uncle Floyd, how well do you
speak French?"
“As well ns I do English. Ten years
In Purls and no chance to forget It,
because I've been tenchlng It as a side-
line In Philadelphia for the Inst six
or seven years. Why?”
••I'm going to Invite you to stay at
the Ruxons' directly you can raise a
little mustache and Imperial. You
shall he a French viscount, a friend of
Lady Horsham's. You ure a grent au-
thority on French furniture. Thut
means you must study all the hooks
you can get hold of. I'll urrunge a
name for you luter.”
“How about my testimonials?” Brad-
ney suld, suddenly coming from a trail
The modern girl la more alluring
thnn any feminine type of history—
and serious-minded, reasoning young
men are avoiding matrimony more
thnn ever before.
Thut's the conclusion of a young
business man, eligible, earning $<1,000
a year, who, writing In Smart Set
Magazine, points to three types of
girls as his reasons for dodging the
marriage bond.
First of them, he says, Is the one
“who believes that a girl has the same
right to freedom In her sex life us a
man. Not only believes It but says so
—and does so, for all I know. Maybe
she will make some man u mighty
good wife—but not me.”
No. 2 Is the girl, usually a petted
only daughter, restless and with the
Idea that "money Is Just made to he
spent. As a wife she'd be a wonder-
of fancies In which he saw himself the
perfect footman.
"I engage all help. Your testimo-
nials will be perfectly satisfactory.
The Raxon woman Is afraid of tnen
servants. She won't Interfere. Her
husband has given her full charge and
she has deputed me to do It for her.
I think she needs a friend. She bab-
bled most Indiscreetly to me about the
people she hoped to have as guests.
Apparently she knows none of them.”
"Do you remember If the name Mc-
Klmher was on the list?" Mllraun
asked.
“Yes. It was the first name on It."
Milnian smiled. It was plain the
news gratified him.
“Another of Loddon'a port-begotten
confidences. John McKImber is aim-
ing at the senate nnd hopes New York
stute will send him to Washington.
At present there seems no serious op-
position. I could hardly believe Lod-
don ut the time, but he Inalsted there
wus a dark horse from New York city
who would beat McKImber. I see now
he was hinting plulnly at Raxon.”
"But Raxon Isn't known politically,”
llnrnea remarked.
“Thar does not make his candhlncy
Impossible. Men have often riddeti
Into high office on waves of hysteria."
MUman’s eyes were bright. He be-
lieved that Loddon had been right
after all when he hinted that a dark
horse would go to the senate from
New York. But how could a decent
man like McKImber, extremely
wealthy, u large employer of labor,
and n great power up-state, be de-
feated? Hardly by fair means. Had
1‘uul Raxon woven about him a meat
thut would keep him Inactive?
"1 think I um right In assuming that
Paul Raxon has definite political am-
bitious. He must remove McKImber
from the running to get his chance.
I think McKImber Is In danger. Ills
relations with Raxon—If he stays
there—must be observed very closely."
"That can be managed," said Nlta
calmly.
"1 should like frequent reports,"
Milnian said.
“Footmen, butlers, social secre-
taries, and furniture experts on their
nights out shall keep you Informed,”
she returned.
It was a Joyous company of gentle-
men adventurers that night. In the
butler's puntry Neeland Barnes was
lecturing—with sultuble demonstra-
tions—on the car* of glass and sliver.
Fleming Bradney, one of the world’s
great authorities on etherlc physics,
was listening intently und making
copious notes. Barnes hud rarely been
so gratified at a listener's attention.
Floyd Malet, In the library, hnd be-
fore him Histolre de Hurt l'antiqulte,
Lady Dllke’s work on French furni-
ture, and photographs of the Bureau
de ltol, In the Louvre.
In the Jupanese garden Nlta sat on
a cushion at the feet of Peter Mllmnn
und looked up Into his clear-cut,
thoughtful fnce.
"Uncle Peter,” she said, “you and
I are the only grown-up people In this
big house. The rest of them are ull
enthusiastic children.”
“It Is very satisfying to be a child,”
he reminded her,
"But children never look nhetid,"
she said wisely. I am sitting at your
feet pretending everything Is going
to conte out right. You are looking
down at me like a courteous sphinx
In evening dress, certain that your
plans are not to miscarry. Uncle
Peter, are you a grown-up like me, or
one of the children?”
"Nlta, my niece, I am grown up.”
"It Is hard to believe,” she said
slowly.
"Why should It be?"
"Because, If you look ahead, you
must realize thut there's more than an
even chance of failure. Fuilure won't
he pleasant for any of us. It won’t be
merely falling as one does when one
goes after a prize or a golf cup." She
lowered her voice. “It may be prison,
Uncle Peter."
"It will be If we fall," he returned.
“And you can keep so cheerful?"
“We shall not fall. I feel confident
that I shall not lose this home. If
dumb, Inanimate things can radiate
cheerfulness, this house with the
treasures I love radiates It. I feel
Inllttences outside my own perception,
perhaps on some other plnne, are fight-
ing for me. Not for yeurs have I
awakened with such cheerfulness In
my heart. When I wake up I find
myself smiling us though I had Just
left friends who hnd bid me cheer up
because victory was In sight."
"I wish l felt that," she snld.
(TO UK CONTINUED.)
ful sweetheart, but we'd both be In
the poorhouse Inside of a year or
two."
And third Is the Intellectual girl who
Insists upon showing It. "She has
Ideas and beliefs about everything
from Bolshevism to birth control. As
a wife she'd have her clubs to go to,
her political meetings, her papers on
various subjects to prepare. I'm
afruid we wouldn't he happy together.”
Unnecessary
Promoter—l want 0,000 stock cer-
tificates printed.
Printer—Something distinctive and
elaborate?
Promoter—Oh, no; this Is a legiti-
mate proposition.—Life.
Be Ignorance thy choice, where
knowledge leads to woe.—Beattia
Modern Type of Girl as One Man Sees Her
A ND now It’s the feather toque or
IX skullcap, more properly named,
which Is the newest star in the inti-
llnery firmament. They are nothing
short of a midsummer sensation, these
pasted feather caps, comlug In so un-
expectedly Just as a fashionable clien-
tele had been converted to the wear-
ing of brims of the widest.
Maybe you are one who hna al-
ways believed thut It requires a
hat broad of brim to Interpret the
felt or strnw close-fitting hut la not
as becoming ns you wish It were, Just
add one of the* new shaving brush
feather trims and note Its transform-
ing effect.
"Where are you going, my pretty
mnld?" “I um golug a' yachting,
sir,” she most likely answers. To
prove thut she has tuned her cos-
tume to the occasion, she holds to
view the sleeve of her blouse, which,
us you will observe, according to tha
Some New Tipi in Millinery.
picturesque. Cntoh a fleeting glimpse
of ene of these new pastel feather
toques as worn with fluttering gar-
den party frocks of flowery print and
—well It's a woman’s privilege to
change her mind. As the elite In
Parts wears the pastel pasted feather
skullcap, It Is always in tones to
match the frock.
There’s another number on the mid-
summer millinery program which Is
eliciting much favor. It is the Agnes
toque of white violets—so called be-
cause of the artiste modiste 'who cre-
ated It. The moment you look nt It
as shown In this picture you will no
doubt be snylng “It’s lovely." And so
It Is; perfectly adorable—made more
so because of the huge cluster of
matching violets which are always
worn with It.
This white violet chapeau lends It-
self beautifully to the season’s all-
white ensembles which are so defl-
center figure In this picture, Is hand
painted, showing a nautical scene of a
proud ship sailing over some very blue
waves—all this In the name of
fashion.
It Is really quite exdtlng the waj
white suils speed over wild waves pic-
tured with paint and brush, across the
ends of one’s scarf, or perhaps upon
the front of one’s blouse, or on one’s
necktie or ’kereb'ef square for the
neck. If a tennis enthusiast, It will be
nn alert figure using a racket In
ndduir which adorns her summer
blouse, or a golf player In action, If
such be the event.
Considering the vogue for hand
pnlnted apparel, It behooves the artist,
either amateur or otherwise, to lose no
time In getting orf palette and brush
preparatory to taking up the fascinat-
ing pastime of embellishing frock,
blouse, smock, coolie coat, hat and also
parasol with wonderful birds of para
Lateit Whim of tki Mod*,
ultety representative of the present
season's fashions.
Speaking of the modish new feather
turbans, ns shown nt the top In this
picture, they apparently are the pro-
logue to a coming vogue for feathery
tnllllncry. Even now flat feather mo-
tifs are appearing on straw and felt
hats.
Then, too, scores of little snng-flt-
tlng hats hnve their contour diversi-
fied by conspicuous feather side-trims
of the shaving brush type. Women
always like this type of trimming, for
not only docs It "carry st.de" In the
truest sense of the word, blit It Is
very flattering to the wearer. If your
disc, or exotic flowers, or If yottr tasts
runs lhat wu.v, flamboyant modernistic
motifs. And would you helteve It,
some modern maidens there are who,
doting on unique and pretty under-
tblags, are decorating their stepins
nnd their nlghtrobes with buttertlles,
birds and flowers.
If there Is one pirns* more than an
ether where bizarre blind painting
finds placement It Is nn the haok of
one's coolie coat, which, by the way, Is
extremely popular either for boudoir
or beach. Students at the-art schools,
too—what delight they are taking In
wearing coolie coats which nre er.
livened with gay paintings a h.
chlnoise. The picture shows two such
pretty eonts adorned In'this way.
Now that wide rlhbnns trim so mnn>
hats, they nre frequently hand pnlntei
with garlands of flowers or qualm
figures. It Is ulso quite the fashion t<
paint directly on the straw, felt o
crochet vlseu hut.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
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