The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-01-17
CHAPTER VI.

In the course Of time the twins arrived and
were delivered to their great knsman. To try
to describe the rage of that old man would
profit nothing. the attempt would fall so far
short OF the purpose However. when he had
worn himself out and got quiet again. he
looked the matter over and decided that the
twins had some moral rights although they
had no legal ones: they were Of his blood. and
it could not be decorous to treat them as com
mon clay. SO he laid them with their majestic
kin in the Cholmondeley church with imposing
state and ceremony and added the supreme
touch by officiating as chief mourner himself.
But he drew the line at Indictments.
Our friends in Washington watched the
weary days go by. while they waited for Pete.
and covered his name with roproaches be-
cause OF his calamitous procrastinations.
Meantime. Sally Sellers. who was as practi-
cal and democratic as the Lady Gwendolen
Sellers was romantic and aristocratic. was
leading a life OF intense interest and activity.
and getting the most she could out OF
her double personality. All day long in the
privacy OF her workroom Sally Sellers
earned bread for the Sellers family. and all
the evening Lady Gwendolen Sellers sup
ported the Rossmore dignity. All day she
was American. practically. and proud OF
the work OF her head and hands. and its
commercial results; oil tho evening she
took holiday and dwelt in rich
shadow-land peoplsd with titled and
coroneted hctions BY day. to her
the place was plain. unaffected. ram
shackle old trap-just that and nothing
more: by night 1t was Rossmors Towers. At
college she had learned a trade without know
ing 1t. The girls had found out that she was
the designer OF her own gowns. She had no
lido moments after that. and wanted none: for
the exercise OF an extraordinary gift Is tho
supremest pleasure In life. and 1t was manifest
that Sally Sellers possessed gift OF that sort
In the matter OF costume designing. Within
three days after reaching home she had hunt
ed up some work: before Pete was yet due in
Washington. and before the twins were fairly
asleep on English soil. she was already nearly
swamped with work. and the sacrificing OF the
family chromos for debt had got an effective
check.
"She's q brick" said Rossmore to the Ma
jor: lust her father all over: prompt to labor
with head or hands. and not ashamed OF ii:
capable. always capable. let the enterprise be
what 1t may: successful by nature-don't know
what defeat is: thus. intensely and practically
American by inhaled nationalisnl. and at the
same time intensely and aristocratically Eu-
ropean by inherited nobility OF blood. Just me.
exactly: Mulberry Sellers In matters OF finance
and invention; ater ONCE hours WnaC 90 you
fnd? The samo clothes. yes; but what's In
them? Rossmore Of the peerags"
The two friends had haunted the general
Post once daily. At last they had their re-
ward Toward evening the 10th OF May they
got a letter for XYZ It bore the Washington
postmark: the note itself was not dated. 1t
said
Ash barrel back of lamp post Black horse Alley. II
you are playing square 70 and set on II tomorrow
morning 2lst 1929 no. sooner not later wait Till
come.
The friends cogitated over the note pro-
foundly. Presently the Earl said:
Don't you reckon he's afraid We are .
Sheriff with requisition
why m'lord2"
Because that's no place for seance. Moth
ing friendly. nothing socisbls about 1t. And at
the same tins. . body that wanted to know