Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-02-07
CHAPTER III.
"I HATE YOU!'

HATE YOU!
 Tho gentleman allowed his horses to walk slowly up the incline while he opened and read the note.
 "CArTAIN SrARBEIGuT-An eagle watches the hawk who hovcrs about the dove cote There is such thing as diamond cutting diamond. Beware how you press the Ill famous plot you have concocted to con cluslon l warn you that you can not sue ceed, and that unless you desist a hemp cravat may be your portion. JUSTICE"
 4 frown mounted the brows of the Cap tain when he had finished reading. He crumplcd the note in his hand, and was den thought seemed to strike him. He spread out the paper carefully, then folded and thrust 1t into his pocket.
 That bit of paper may be of use to me in the future, he muttercd, with a clinch- ing of white teeth.
 Before the house he halted, leaped to the ground and proceeded to open the gate. Ho lifted his hat to Mir Vandible, who yet sat on the broad porch, just adding a new charge to his honest old pipe.
 II am glad to see you, Captain" cried the cracked voice of the old man. "Just tell Sam to put out your horses. I want itl' N
 II have hardly the time," returned the Captain.
 But as a favor to mel"
 "As a favor to you, my dear Vandible, will rcmain," declared the Captain, who had all along contemplated this very thing, even without an invitation.
 Sam, the colored stable-boy was sent to look after the Captains horses, while the Captain himself occupied chair beside the venerable proprietor of Lone Hollow.
 For an hour the two conversed, then Cap tain Starbright went in to look for Grace Penroy. He found her in a cozy room in one wing of the old house, a bit of work in her lap, her feet resting on hassock, with a huge cat crouching near, purring softly. It was pleasant home scene, and the gallant Captain paused and gazed through the half open door with queer smile on his dark face.
 Grace Penroy presented a picture of the most exquisite lovcliness just then. The contour of her face was almost perfect, and a delicate rose tint in the smooth, soft check. not too pronounced, while a mass of golden hair fell away in abundant waves to her shoulders. Evidently she was not just now expecting company, and the step in the corridor without caused her to look up with q start.
 "I hope I'm not intruding, Grace" said Captain Starbright, pausing on the thresh- old.
 She regarded him a trifle fearfully, as he stood framed in the doorway, the picture of a handsome man.
 Tall, straight as an arrow, with a dark face, heavy mustache, black eyes and in sinuating smile, he was what most women would denominate handsome. He dressed richly, sporting a diamond stud, the most immaculate linen, and the latest style of tie. Fascinating he certainly was. Few of the gcntlcr sex could resist his advances. Up to the present time, however, Grace Penroy night be counted among the few.
 It might be that the honest face of a young mechanic from Stowfield, a town some ten miles away, had something to dc with the feelings of indifference toward Captain Starbright that animated the breast of Vandible's helress.
 Mir. Starbright hesitated but a moment on the threshold of the room, then entered and stood over the pretty girl in the sew. ing-chair
 Busy as bCc," he said, laughing. "You would make a wife fit for a mechanic, SC industrious are you, and yet it seems to me hardly necessary that you should perform such work"
 Ut may not be necessary, but one must do something," she uttered, softly.
 ''To be suro," admitted he. "You nc doubt find it lonely enough in Lone Hollow 1 wonder at your grandfather bringing you to such a spot. It seems to me hardly fan to one so young, and who enjoys society SC welL'