Part 17 (1/2)

It so happened that in the winter I had fallen in love with athe hours till I could ar and said, with sonity:

”If I anity was lost, however, on ive ht banter, I said:

”If I have not confided in the person most interested, why should I tell YOU?” This was not one of my happiest efforts, for he instantly replied:

”Then he IS interested in you, is he? Do I know hiry and told him that, because I did not want to marry his son, it did not at all follow that ed elsewhere; and I added:

”I only hope that Mr Lucien is not as curious as you are, or I should have a very poor ti I should hate as much as a jealous husband”

BARON HIRSCH: ”I don't believe you! If it's tireso to have one who is not”

I saas trying to conciliatea shrewd ht find out whoo on I told hiether in the Vale of White Horse He askedtip I told hi story:

One day, at Ascot, so heard a ru in the race, had edto win I did not listenabout at the horses, the parasols and the people, butht that Archer was on theday; es under their hats; and the dried-up grass in the Paddock was the colour of pea-soup I saw Fred Archer standing in his cap and jacket with his head hanging down, talking to a well-grooreat, slashi+ng, lazy horse--alking round and round with the evenness of a metronome I went boldly up to him and reminded him of hoe had cannoned at a fence in the VWH Fred Archer had a face of carved ivory, like the top of an umbrella; he could turn it into a s, a perfect figure and wonderful charm He kept a secretary, a revolver and two valets and was a God aht wink at the under-sizedwhat I had to say, whispered a ht in Melton

Baron Hirsch returned to the charge later on; and I told hiirl in the world to suit his son

It is only fair to the memory of Lucien Hirsch to say that he never cared the least about me He died a short time after this and soot Tennant was not to have married your son! She would be a rich ”

At which he said:

”No one would die if they ot Tennant”

CHAPTER VII

PHOENIX PARK MURDERS--REMEDIES FOR IRELAND--TELEPATHY AND PLANCHETTE--VISIT TO BLAVATSKY--SIR CHARLES DILKE'S KISS--VISITS TO GLADSTONE--THE LATE LORD SALISBURY'S POLITICAL PROPHECIES

The political event that caused the greatest sensation when I was a girl was the murder of Mr Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish on May 6, 1882 We were in London at the tih on a Sunday Alfred Lyttelton told me that Lady Frederick Cavendish's butler had broken it to her by rushi+ng into the roo:

”They have knifed his lordshi+p!”

The news spread froroups of people stood talking in the middle of the streets without their hats and every one felt that this terrible outrage was bound to have consequences far beyond the punishment of the criminals

These murders in the Phoenix Park tended to confirm Gladstone in his belief that the Irish were people e did not understand and that they had better be encouraged to govern theues to a like conviction, but Mr

Chareed

Just as I ask myself ould have been the outcoue of Nations a genuine first plank in their programme instead of a last postscript, so I wonder ould have happened if Chamberlain had stuck to Gladstone at that ti cards--as President Wilson had--and was not likely to under-declare his hand, but he was a much older ether Chamberlain would not have been thrown into the arms of the Tories and the reversion of the Pree to reat Conservative party have so often been hired bravos or wandering minstrels ho why it cannot produce ainherent in its creed that produces sterility

When Mr Gladstone went in for Home Rule, society was rent from top to bottom and even the most devoted friends quarrelled over it Our family was as much divided as any other