Ainslee’s Magazine/Lady Pam’s Bridge Debts

LADY PAM'S BRIDGE DEBTS
By MRS. C. N. WILLIAMSON*

JACK ADRIANCE admired Pamela Sylvain more than any girl he had ever seen, but he did not know her, and, though he had thought of several very clever ways of making her acquaintance, so far he had never been able, as he would have said himself, to “bring any of them off.”
He was in a Swiss hotel, and she was in the same hotel; so that on the face of it the matter looked simple enough; but appearances were in this case deceitful, although Jack Adriance was an American, with all the fertile-mindedness of his countrymen.
Perhaps the difficulty lay in the fact that she was not American. She was Lady Pamela Sylvain; and by dint of discreet questioning—Burke not being obtainable at Löwenfels—and unflagging observation, Adriance had discovered a great deal that was interesting about her.
Answers to inquiries had told him that she was the daughter of the late Earl of Revel, famous as having been the poorest peer in England; that her father had died when Lady Pamela was twelve; that she was now twenty; that she and her mother were the poor relations of a great many very distinguished but not particularly sympathetic people; that her rela

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