Mathilde stared at her mother, and in the momentary silence Lucie came in and asked what madame wanted for the evening, and Adelaide in her fluent French began explaining that what she really desired most was that Lucie should not make so much noise in her room that monsieur could not sleep.

At last Adelaide sent the girl to bed.

" Adelaide stood alone in the middle of the floor.

So when she came in, a little late as usual, in her long, soft, gray dress, with a pink rose at her girdle, looking far more feminine than Mrs. Baxter, about whom Adelaide's offensive adjective "upholstered" still clung, he felt the full effect of her appearance.

Also her influence over old Mrs. Ranger became absolute; and swiftly yet imperceptibly the house, which had so distressed Adelaide, was transformed, not into the exhibit of fashionable ostentation which had once been Adelaide's and Arthur's ideal, but into a house of comfort and beauty, with colors harmonizing, the look of newness gone from the "best rooms," and finally the "best rooms" themselves abolished.

Also her influence over old Mrs. Ranger became absolute; and swiftly yet imperceptibly the house, which had so distressed Adelaide, was transformed, not into the exhibit of fashionable ostentation which had once been Adelaide's and Arthur's ideal, but into a house of comfort and beauty, with colors harmonizing, the look of newness gone from the "best rooms," and finally the "best rooms" themselves abolished.

CHAPTER XXII VILLA D'ORSAY Adelaide did not reach home until the troubles with and through Charles Whitney were settled, and Arthur and Dory were deep in carrying out the plans to make the mills and factories part of the university and not merely its property.

Adelaide could go with him only by taking a berth in a room with three women in the bottom of the ship.

She was heavily veiled as she and Adelaide traveled down to Cherbourg to the steamer.

Adelaide did not see her again until the morning of the last day, when she appeared on deck dressed beautifully and youthfully for the shore, her skin as fair and smooth as a girl's, and looking like an elder sister of Adelaide'sat a distance.

She paused in New York; Adelaide hastened to Saint X, though she was looking forward uneasily to her arrival because she feared she would have to live at the old Hargrave house in University Avenue.

"I simply can't stand it to live by the striking of clocks!" thought Adelaide.

Mrs. Ranger asked them to live with her; but Adelaide shrank from putting herself in a position where her mother and Arthur could, and her sister-in-law undoubtedly would, "know too much about our private affairs."

Also, Ellen doubted whether two such positive natures as Madelene's and Adelaide's would be harmonious under the same roof.

Adelaide did not understand just this broad but subtle difference between Dory and "most men"that he would feel that he was violating her were he to sweep her away in the arms of his impetuous released passion, as he knew he could.

Science is always economical as well as enlightened and humane," Dory was thinking when Adelaide's voice broke into his reverie.

" Adelaide brightened.

Dory remembered how Adelaide promptly took her up, gave instance after instance in proof that European aristocrats were in fact as vulgar in their satisfaction in servility as were the newest of the newly aristocratic at home, but simply had a different way of showing it.

" Adelaide colored as she smiled.

Henrietta and Adelaide jeered; yet they were themselves the victims of another, and, if possible, more poisonous, bacillus of the same sluggard family.

One morning Adelaide, in graceful ease in her favorite nook in the small northwest portico of the club house, was reading a most imposingly bound and illustrated work on Italian architecture written by a smatterer for smatterers.

" "You're going to sell Point Helen?" said Adelaide, politely regretful.

His abstraction gave Adelaide a chance to verify the impression she had got from a swift but femininely penetrating first glance.

SEE Campbell, Harriette R. SEYMOUR, ARTHUR ROMEYN. Practical Spanish grammar, by Arthur Romeyn Seymour and Adelaide Ellen Smithers.

R110044, 9Apr53, Arthur Romeyn Seymour & Adelaide Ellen Smithers (A) SEYMOUR, FLORA WARREN.