The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-01


and he even began to arrange in his
mind the details of the narrative for his
paper.
It was characteristic of the man that
he felt no pity for the intended victim,
or gave thought to the distress his expo
sure would carry into the household OF
Witherspoon.
Not that Tom was an unkindly man.
He had only been hardened in the prac-
tice of his profession and sought his
ends remorselessly.
While he was indulging these expecta-
tons Holbrook came in.
"Where have you been for the past
few days?" he said, without waiting for
salutations. Il have been seriously
alarmed. l. sent everywhere for you
and could not find you"
'To Newport"
"a pretty time to go pleasuring,'
grumbled Holbrook. 81 found your
Shadow, but he wouldn't tell me any.
thing"
mo, he never tells" said Tom, com.
placently.
''You gave me pretty fright; why
didn't you let me know you were going?'
Hadn't time. But" said Tom. "I'll
relieve you. went on the very business
you think l neglected. Shadow, who
keeps very close to Fountains man-hia
valet-and worms everything out of him,
came to me hastily before was out OF
bed a few days ago, with the informa.
ton that Fountain had been summoned
to Newport, after considerable tele-
graphic correspondence with the Ash
grove girl. Upon the impulse of the mo-
ment, determined to go, and made up
my mind that if l started at once with
out delay could get there before he did.
An Observation-Disclosures you will
impelled me to go. So not having time
TO see you l left at once. made big
strike"
"Oh, then you have learned some
thing?"
"a great deal. Listen. I had not
time to pack anything, but l grabbed
bag had used on my last trip out of
town, in which knew there was a
change of clean linen, and just caught
the train"
"Get to your point" said Holbrook
impatiently. deeply interested.
take it easy, my boy, it is not to be
told that way. The beauty of telling
tale is telling it in sequential manner;
you make your points much stronger,
and a clearer understanding is the re-
suit"
"Oh, go on your own way" returned
Holbrook, irritably, realizing that Tom
was not to be driven and that Interrupt
ton only delayed the course of his mar
rative.
"Well. then, as 1 travelled on I had
time to examine the reasons laying back
of my impulse. OF course, if Fountain
went to Newport he would go to Wither-
spoons. That several kilograms had
passed between himself and the Ash
grove girl, and that Fountain had ex-
pressed desire to remain in New York
a few days longer and had yielded in
obedience to the last telegram from
Newport, showed urgency. Now, what
urgency, and why? That was what /
was travelling to Newport to find out if
l could"
~ should take it very poor reason,
interrupted Holbrook. 1.-THE idea of
travelling off so many miles upon an inn
pulse"
My dear fellow, your inability to ap-
preciate how controlling such impulses
are upon some temperaments, shows me
clearly you would never succeed as a
man. make it rule of life
to obey the promptings of my intuitions.
Hence my success"
"Well. get on with your story"
CATER a while l thought l would
open my bag and find what had with
me, and to my surprise l discovered a
suit of clothes for laboring mana
working suit. Then remembered that
l had used it as disguise some time ago
when l was on another affair, and the
thought popped into my head that l
could use it again, possibly to good eff
feet. After | got to Newport l made
my way to the Witherspoon cottage and
took in the surroundings. l knew what
time Fountain was to leave New York,
and, therefore, about what time he would
arrive.
Il determined to disguise myself as 2
gardener, get on the grounds, and risk
detection. So procuring pair of garden
shears, l did my working clothes up in
package, struggled it out of the hotel,
and on plausible pretext secured a
room in a cottage in the town, where /
could make the change. About the only
thing l learned on the stage was expert
ness in make up, and when issued from
the room l was as fit gardener as you
ever saw. loitered around until about
the time for his arrival. was near the
gates when the carriage drove up, and
quickly followed it. Fortunately for
me, such as were at work on the grounds
were in front and not in the rear"
"Oh, do skip the details, for heavens
sakew cried Holbrook.
"You seem to be nervous this morn
ing" reioined Tom, who, between de-
sire to tease Holbrook and an intense
relish in his own tale, was indulging his
vein of graphic recital. "Well, saw
the Ashgrove girl waiting for him, saw
her greet him, and then sit down and
wait for him while he entered the house.
Shortly he came out again, and had an
to get close up to the veran-
da out of sight, on the pretext OF trim
ming some vines. Then there began the
most extraordinary conversation"
Tom here detailed that scene upon the
veranda, of which the reader is fully in