The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-05-03
"Dorothy's is as fresh as a girls" he

replied. ITO my ear. certainly. it hasn't
changed at ALL"
at seems to me that it has improved
in the last two years." said l.
"She has used it more" said he. "A
singing voice needs exercise, and after
mine grew rusty Dorothy neglected her
own until Archer came. She likes to
sing with some one else. l wouldn't
call Archer great tenor" he added.
witE smile, ''but his voice has the
ring of youth IN it."
DONALDSON" said l somewhat impa-
tiently, that gray hair of yours has
made a crank of you"
He walked up to mirror and con-
templated his image.
81 look like big old weather beaten
gatepost in a snowstorm," said he.
Dorothy came in just then and in
sisted that we must go out to see the
beauty of the night. She was in high
spirits and throbbing with life. The
moon then rising. she declared. was the
most glorious that had ever risen. and
we must look at it from the high gate.
as we call that entrance to the grounds
which is on the brow of the hill.
Donaldson leaned back against the
mantelpiece. with his elbows upon it.
and surveyed his pretty wife, who
stood there eager and impatient as a
child.
This reminds me- he began, but
Dorothy broke in upon him.
Now, deacon. DON'T she cried.
Don't be reminded of anything. Isn't
this night good enough? Come out
and see the MOON"
So we all went up to the high gate
together.
On the following morning | met kel-
vim. and we exchanged growlS. moth
ing more. The affair of the diamond
collar seemed not to have improved his
disposition nor to have altered his at
titude toward me. Kelvin was begin
ming to be somewhat of puzzle.
There was and had been from the first
queer look in his eye that lacked an
explanation. I could not account for
it by anything that l knew. Indeed.
it seemed to have it's basis in some
thing that he knew and l didn't. A
sly and waiting look it was. glimpse
of treason, stratagem and SpOils. but
what it BODIED l was unable to guess.
For some days following the affair of
the diamonds / met him frequently
upon the streets of Tunbridge and al
lie ia his mind.
He and Mrs. Kelvin were plainly not
in accord. The woman had taken a
sudden and sincere liking for Donald
She tried to establish herself upon
terms of friendly intimacy with Dor
othy. and she praised Donald with sc
true voice that his mother was quite
won over. SO that began to hear much
good of Mrs. Kelvin.
she has wished for SON." said
Dorothy. Though she seems so SUI
perfcial. she is a good mother at heart
She loves her daughter, and she would
have been very proud of boy like
Donald"
1t occurred to me to wonder whether
she would have been proud of boy
like Kelvin, which certainly needed tt
be considered as among the possibili
| ties. However. there could be no doubt
| of her honest admiration Of Donald
She talked to me about him upon one
! occasion at considerable length an(
seemed really anxious when l said thai
/ the boy was not quite himself this sum
mer.
'The incidents which have brought
| out this peculiar power of his have
worried him." said |. 1T is the rule
| with those who are so endowed"
"You don't think there can be any
-, thing else?" she said, without meeting
| my eye.
| "What else can there be-" l asked
| 'unless he's in love?"
well. didn't mean that either,
| she responded "This power of hi
! may-may result in his having matter
on his mind; but. of course. | know
| nothing about it,
We had been sitting in a nook of tn
veranda, waiting, while servant tool
word to Dorothy that Mrs. Kelvin wa
there. AS she spoke the last sentenc
| which l have quoted, she arose some
what hastily and made a great bust
ness of waving her hand to Dorothy
who was coming across the lawn from
the tennis court with Carl
In Mrs. Kelvin's vague hints l per
ceived another mystery, added to thos
which we already had. Or perhap
they might be taken to be the germ o
the explanation of a mystery. Perhap
she fancied that Donald knew the Sc
cret of her husbands designs, of whic
she herself might not be so fully in
formed as she would have wished.
was blind and silly enough to thin
that that was what she meant.
| 1t has seemed to me that these inc
dents should be recorded here. Havin
set them down, will proceed with tn
matter of the Princeton professor.
College professors are fine people, a
rule. The old ones are ripe an
strong. They are saturated with tn