The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-01-22

will ride, sail, golf-anything to kill
the eternal enemy. You know the ma
jority of the people here or coming
don't you?"
"Who are they?"
She began, The Leroy Mortimers?"
"Oh, yes"
Lord Alderdene and Captain Vouch-
er and the Page twins and Marion?'
yes"
"Rena Bonnesdel, the Tassel girl.
| Agatha Caithness, Mrs. Vendenning-
all sorts, all sets" And, with an eff
fort, IF I'm to drive l should like to-
to know what time it is
He informed her, and she, too indo-
lent to pretend surprise and finding
reproach easier, told him that he had
40 business to permit her to forget
His smiling serenity under the re-
Duke aroused in her slight resent
ment, as though he had taken some
thing for granted.
Besides, she had grown uneasy. She
had wired Quarter saying she would
meet him and drive him over He had
replied at once, naming his train. He
was an exact man and expected
method and precision in others. She
didn't exactly know how it might af
feet him If his reasonable demand was
unsatisfed. She did not know him
very well yet
And, thinking Of him now, she again
made up her mind to give him the
answer which he now had every rea-
son to expect from her This decision
appeared TO lubricate her conscience.
1t ran more smoothly now, emitting
| fewer creaks.
You say that you know Mr.. Quar-
rierY she began thoughtfully.
"Not we'll"
Il hope you will like him, Mr.. 81
ward"
Il do not think he likes me. Miss
Lands. He has reasons not to-"
She looked up suddenly remember
ing: "Oh-since that scrape? What
has Mr. Quarter to do She did not
finish the sentence. \ troubled silence
followed. She was trying to remember
the something she had paid
small attention TO at the time; some
thing 50 foreign to her. so distant from
her comprehension, that it had not
touched her closely enough for her to
remember exactly what this young
man might have done to forfeit the
good will of Howard Quarter.
She looked at Siward. 1t was i'm
nnGcfh1n that u HING haH could
come from such man. And, pursuing
her reasoning aloud: 1T couldn't have
been very awful" she argued; some
thing foolish about an actress. was
not? And that could not concern Mr..
Quarter"
Il thought you did know; l thought
you - remembered - while you were
driving me over from the station-that
was dropped from my club"
She flushed up. "Oh, but what had
Mr.. Quarter TO do with that?"
HE is a governor of that club"
You mean that Mr.. Quarter had
you-dropped?"
what else could he do? A man who
is idiot enough to risk making his own
club notorious must take the cOnse-
quences. and they say took that risk.
Therefore Mr.. Quarter, Major Bel
wether-all the governors did their
duty. II naturally concluded that no
governor of the PATRONS club feels
very kindly toward me-"
Miss Lands sat very STILL her small
head bent flush still Frightening her
fair face.
She recalled few of the details
nOw-the candal-something OF the
story. Which particular actress it was
she could not remember. but some men
who had dined too freely had made the
wager, and this boy sitting beside her
had accepted it and won it by bring
ing into the sacred precincts of the
PATRONS club n foolish girl disguised
In mans evening dress.
That was bad enough. That some
body promptly discovered ii was worse
but worst of all was the publicity, the
clubs name smirched, the young man
expelled from one of the best two
clubs In the metropolis.
To read of such things in the col
umns of daily paper had meant little
to her except to repel her. To hear it
mentioned among people of her own
sort had left her injurious and indif-
ferent, but now she saw 1t in a new
light, with the young man who had
figured in it seated beside her. Did
such men as he-such attractive, we'll
bred, amusing men as ,he-do that sort
Of thing?
'Is that the kind of man you are
Mr.. SiwardW she said impulsively.
ut appears that l was. l don't
know what am or may be-"
''The pity of it," she said, still sway
ed by impulse. why did you do
didn't you know-realize what you
were doing Infringing discredit on your
own club?"
Il was in no condition to know, Miss
Lands"
The crude brutality OF the express
sion might merely have hurt or dis
gusted her had she been less intel
llgent, nor, as 1t was, did she fully