Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-12-24


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is which place he was at; after this call
Langdon walked up Twenty ghth or
Twentyninth street, as the case might
be. to Madison avenue. thence to Mddi-
son square, crossing diagonally to the
corner of Twenty-third street, thence to
Sixth avenue. to restaurant where he
breakfasted and where he read the pa
pers for an hour or two, and met one or
two of q half dozen who came to see
him there: from thence he went whittier
chance OF fancy led him; he had the en-
tree 10 all the gambling saloons. where
he played frequently, but irresularly,
and always faro; his haunts were places
of fashionable resort, and he was fire.
quent attendant upon the theaters.
In telling Dorison of this report, Cath
/ cart says it was the best shadow work
/ that had ever been done for him.
While these days We're passing, the ac.
ouantance between Dorison and young
Eustace was 1ast ripening into intimacy.
( The two young men saw much of eavh
others apartments, and frequented the
/ thearers together.
Carried by his friend to the Eustace
residence. he had been received with
great civility and with every apparent
disposition To treat him as friend Of the
young gentleman of the house. He had
been presented to the ladies of the fam
( lily and had been received cordially. and
especially by the one he had rescued.
with all the warmth his service deserved
and all the reserve lnodesty demanded.
/ Charmed with the household. he for
got the part he was playing while with
in it.
In time he was invited to a formal
dinner and gladly accepted the invita-
ton as determining his status as friend
OF the family.
On this occasion. after the ladies had
retired from the table, the elder NJ.
Eustace, moving TO seat beside Dorl'
son. again referred to the extraordinary
Resemblance the latter bore to his father
In an CnieavOr to avoid denying rrlA
tiulship. Dorison tried to divert the con
vrlsatiOn Mr.. Eustace, however. was
politely persistent, seeking to inquire
into the antecedents of his guest, with
view to finding il he could not establish
blood connection.
Dorison was not adroit in his fence
and contented himself with simply say
ing that he was from Dubuque, and there
fore could not be supposed to bear any
relation to 50 old a New York family,
Indeed, his effort to escape a discussion
of the subject was SO marked that Mr..
Eustaco forobore further questioning.
Dorison saw at once that he had commit
ted u blunder. for the old gentleman
froze to him Immediately. Too scrupu-
lou,lv polite to offer indignity to a guest
whom he had deliberately invited to his
table, nevertheless Mr.. Eustace made
Dorison feel uncomfortable, SO uncom-
Portable, indeed, that he seized the FIRST
opportunity to steal away.
The episode greatly annoyed Dorlson,
first, because it foreshadowed an inter-
ruption in the relations he had just estab-
lished with the Eustace household, and,
secondly, because he had stupldly evaded
the very opportunity to induce Mr., Eus-
tace to talk about his own relations to
the elder Dorison, Cathcart had SO earn
estly desired him to make.
As il was, he went to bed thoroughly
disguised with himself, and wholly dis
satisfied with the life he was leading.
Quite early, that is to say early for the
habits he had fallen into, he was aroused
, by message from Cathcart, brought
, him by the officer who had Swallowed
Langdon, and who seemed permanently
attached to tho old detective. The mes
sage babe him go as soon as he could to
number $780, East Twentieth street.
Dorison had now been long enough III
association with the old man not to DO