The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-07

ii.
Why7 Well. in the hours ride. l had time
to formulate me reasons. 1t was plain
that F1amingo was Jarge's new patron.
from whom having got much he av coorse
was seeking more. So absorbed did large
become in such a quist that the last ting
he was apt to wonder was what was in the
other mans mind.
A deep. revolvin' mind, notwithstanding.
But a mont before Mr.. Flamingo had
plotted to rid himself of his wife. Through
Jarge's interference mainly, at least so
far as he knew. not unly had the plot failed.
but his wife had regained the whip hand
through her knowledge Of it. had regained
the whip hand to use it TO hold to her the
husband she loved.
What thin did Flamingo want Of larger
Something all the more definite for having
not a whit Of good about it.
P'raps he hoped to involve his wife with
SO fascinating a gallant. n thus secure
ground for divorce against her. P'raps at
the same time he hoped also to punish his
man for his frustratin' Of his fummer plans.
Somethin' definite and evil aginst thin
bot, I med sure, was brewin' in that deep.
lark mind; and large shud be warned not
TO sip the p'ison hisself in his zeal to adj
minister 1t to anudder.
Resides, as 1 have said, Mrs. Flamingo's
grandjose characteristics had appealed to
me sinsitive natur'. l had liked the reok-
less way in which she had tried to remove
her hated rival from her pat. I had liked
the plucky way in which she had survived
the shock Of the collision with the auto
! mobile In the park and had TUNED It to her
W advantage.
I had liked the perfuseniss with which
she had tossed the IS 1000 roll to me for a
trining service. Resides, she had a private
| forum Of her own; her money was as good
as her husbands; il was better. Why
shudn't we have some Of bot, and at the
same time do a good deed be way Of miti-
gatin''
Boneyface of the Inn fell readily into me
hopes.
-What, Smithers,' he cried, did some
mintal telepathy infarm you that I was
short Of help? You're just in time, me
man, to sarve a coorse luncheon for four.
Git your lash clothes of and your black
suit on, and thin git busy, my son John"
I did get busy, havin' also med some
trinin' changes in my facial appearances
such as as DRAWN down wan eye and
DlllIIlDIu Oul W AhNAt "h' hAbtO
danger Of my bein' recognized. The
punick waiter attracts no more notice than
the table under the clot'.
Presently they was all in the dining room.
talking social. yit in q Gurus way to my
view through the buffers winder. For
instinct, Mr.. Flamingo presented large to
his wife with imprissmint. He Evidently
wanted her TO make much of him. but yit
he TUX no advantage of Jarge's RAIDER
ardint approaches 10 get in his fine work
with Miss Rachel Bruno. the odder Teddy.
In fact, whin the two bckem engaged In
some airy Percentages, he stud aloof. by
hisself, at the winder. ignorin' the appealin'
glances that fair. fair. with golding hair
was shooting like @. Pid's darts toward
him.
There was some'at almost terrifying in
his dull, solid. determined exprisshun as he
thus stud refectin'. his hands in his pockets.
his head settled :,etune his hunched
, shoulders. Obstinacy was there. the SELF
| will Of wan bound to ave his own a
Persistence was there-the faithful per-
Torrance OF wan, letter perfect in his part
WHATEVER IL might be. yit unable to carry
il of lightly. Vaguely I KEN to see that the
man was doggedly bound TO do nothing
which in some future contingency might
be used to show that he had felt an interest
in Miss Bruno.
Meanwhile I was almost as mint in
learning how large and Mrs. Flamingo
wud make out whin undestraincd by
F~lamingo's presinos. The Teddy. sv ooorse.