Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-05

have me stay with you to-day. Becaus,
there's tennis tournament, and theyr,
one girl short, and l can play will
Walter Carroll in the doubles. So i
won't make any difference about my
being out of practice because he car
beat all the rest of them put together
Those were the prizes he had in those
packages. They're making him do al
the work, just as they always de, be-
cause he's SO obliging. Now don't you
think it would do me good"
my dear child" he said, "of course
think So Play, by all means, and wiz
a prize. l don't see how you can helr
1t, considering the number of them
Now run away, and get out your pref
tiest tennis dress and"
She was gone like flash.
"Well, didn't think she'd take thi.
| quite so easily" muttered Lynde, "bu,
then l never did understand women"
| CHAPTER II.
DAVID CHAsE's FAvoRITE GAME.
Most New Englanders are content Il
they can find the roots of their family
tree in the soil about Plymouth Rock
They can hardly lay claim to genuine
Americanism, however, in the presence
of Mr.. David Chase, who traces his de-
| scent to the Penobscot Indians He has
proof that his ancestors were great
chiefs, and, in the absence of any evi
dence to the contrary, it is hard to dis
| pute his assertion.
Mr.. Chase somewhat resembles an In
dian, though the rough lines of that
type have been softened by the lapse OF
centuries and the admixture of the in
| vader's blood. He has dark and pow.
erful countenance, with remarkably
keen eyes. His hair is straight, and
black as ebony. In person he is some.
what above the medium height; his
slender frame is notably erect, and he
has the grace and strength of a savage.
His voice is low, soft and very pleasing
to the ear. He is bachelor, and lives;
in the kensington, on Columbia Heights.
Brooklyn. He is in society, and is there
fore acquainted with the Lyndes, who
are Brooklyn people.
Nearly two months after the date of
the occurrence described in the pre-
vious chapter, Mr.. Chase-who by his
general scheme of existence should
have been at Newport long before
was standing with his back against the
mantel in his parlor, addressing young
man who had called upon him. The
visitor was Walter Carroll, who may be
remembered as the organizer of tennis
tournaments, already mentioned.
This is very extraordinary, Mr.. Car
roll, he said, 81 have been called to ac-
count for similar offenses many times,
am happy to say, but never by per-
son situated as you are"
Carroll was evidently abashed by
Chase's manner, and not little, too,
by the nature of the business in hand.
'Of course ] know it's very absurd"
he said. Il haven't any right to rep
resent DIR. Lyndc, and I hardly know
enough to venture to address you in a
matter of this kind. But, hang it, you
know, fellow S got to have some kind
of principle; and I've tied up to the
good, old fashioned golden rule. I'd
want somebody to do this for me, and
that's why I'm doing it for you"
80 it's on my account, is it?'
"Well. partly. I'm inclined to like
you, confound it, and hate to see you
doing something that isn't right; isn't
even gentlemanly or decent, if you come
to that Great Scott, man, it's too low
down! There isn't anybody but a
cursed cad who would take advantage
of fellow in Lynde's position. Yet
it's fact and I'm bound to say it, that
your name is coupled with Mrs. Lynde's
more often than you've any idea of. 1
hear at the club-heard 1t half dozen
times to-night-and l can't stand it.
You know was very good friends with
her-used to go to school with her, and
all that sort of thing OF course that
doesn't give me any special right to do
this, but, by Jove, my right Is as good as
anybody's. There isn't man left in
either family, except her brother, and
he's in Australia"
Chase regarded him for ten seconds
with peculiar smile.
My dear fellow, he said, at last, "do
you wish me to tell you the truth about
this?"
why, of course! what the dickens
else should you do?"
II might get angry" responded Chase
gently, "or ! might lie. Probably that
would be the wise thing to do. But,
contrary to my custom, am disposed
to tell the truth-on one condition.
You are to give me your word of honor
not to repeat what l say"
'Repeat?" Carroll paused in amaze
ment with lis mouth wide open. ''yNhy,
man alive" he continued, isn't it bad
enough that we should stand here dis
cussing woman's reputation without
our going around talking about it after
wards?'
Il have your word of honor, then?"
well, should say sou
Remember, you are at liberty to act