Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-01-06

uncriticised or, intent on her, owI ideas, shook her small head in amused disapproval.
 The stiffness over all the deepening mellow light, the blessed indolence o1 the young world and their few years in it-youth-that was perhaps the key to it all, after all.
 Tomorrow" she unused aloud, knees cradled in her clasped fingers-"tomor row they'll shoot, with great circum stance and fuss. a few native wood cock-there's no flight yet from the north-a few grouse, fewer snipe, g stray duck or two. Others will drive motor cars over bad roads. Others 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 theyy'
 She began, "The Leroy Mortimers?'
 "Oh, yes"
 Lord Alderdene and Captain Vouch CT and the Page twins and Marion?"
 "Yes."
 "Rena Bonnesdel, the Tassel girl Agatha Caithness, Mrs. Vendenning- all sorts, all sets" And. with an ef fort, 'Tf I'm to drive should like to- to know what time 1t is."
 He informed her. and she, too indo lent to pretend surprise and finding reproach easier, told him that he hat DO business to permit her to forget.
 His smiling serenity under the re- buke aroused in her slight resent rIent, 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 unsatisfied. 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 req son to expect from her. This decision appeared to lubricate her conscience. It ran more smoothly now, emitting fewer creaks.
 You say that you know Sr. Guar. rier:" she began thoughtfully.
 "NOt well"
 'I hope you will like him. Mir. si' ward"
 "I do not think he likes me. Miss Landis. He has reasons not to-"
 She looked up. suddenly remember ing: "Oh-since that scrape? What has MT. Quarter to do''- She did not finish the sentence. X troubled silence followed. She was trying to remember the details something she had paid small attention tO at the time: some thing so foreign to her. so distant from her comprehension. that it had moi touched her closely enough for her tC remember exactly what this young man might have done to forfeit the good will of Howard Quarter.
 She looked at SiwHrd. It was i'm possible that anything very bad could come from such a man. And. pursuing her reasoning aloud: Tt couldn't have been very awful" she argued: some thing foolish about an actress. was | not: And that could not concern Mir Quarter"
 "I thought you did know: l thought you - remembered -- while you wer' driving Tne over from the station-thst I was dropped from my club"
 She flushed I'D. '-Oh, but what had Mir. QusFrier tO do with ihatI"
 He is a governor of that club"
 You mean that NIT. Quarter had you-drDppedY'
 What else could he do: A man whc is Idiot enough 10 risk making kis owr club notorious must take the conse quenc-s. and they say I took that risk Therefore Mir. ouarrier. Major Rel vether-zH the governors did theii duty. IT naturally concluded that nt governor of the Patrons club feel' veTy kindly toward me-
 Miss Issndls sat wery still her small head bent. a flush stfIl bgiEhtenfng bel fair face
 She recalled a few of the detail' nov-the sczndaI-sousshinr of th' sto-y. which parf-cuizr actress fl ua' she cousI not remember. but sc1s neE who had dIned too freslT he'd made ths wsEer. ard this t-oF sitting beside hsI k.S sr-e-rnd u aEd Haa IL br hriaz