Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08

lieutenant, combined TO paint the "oiu ioi hhii III
That the Chief Justice should make visit to
Horse Island had been utterly unforeseen con-
tingency. Every likely visitor-the Archdeacon'
the Circuit Magistrate, the Governor, the mails
all of these probabilities Smith had canvassed IN the
process of laying his plans Casual visitors to Horse
Island practically unknown:
Yet after all, the intrusion OF the Chiet Justice
into Smith nicely spun web had come about quite
naturally. He had been i'll; had, as a matter OF
fact long ago made total sacrifice of his liver upon
the altar of the British Empire; and finding him
unusually yellow and irascible, Corcoran had sug-
gested voyage. Cruising about for month
or two, free from worry and with plenty OF sea
breeze, ought to be the very thing tor HIM THIS
had seemed good idea to Sir Malcolm, and he had
accepted the invitation with alacnty
There had been thought at all of a call at Horse
Island: but when the Captain read in his anerold
barometer the prophecy of the sort OF weather that
might be expected for day or two, the thought OF
the almost landocked harbor of Horse Island. the
best in the whole archipelago, made an irresistible
appeal to him. Sir Malcolm, when he heard of the
plan, expressed at first the intention OF staying
aboard the Pheasant. Representations as to the
inevitable discomfort and the possible danger OF
such course had induced him to embark in the
longboat; with the result that has already been
told
His state of mind after he had been ANONYMOUSLY
ducked and exposed object OF derlsion to
Smiths urbanely smiling staff and to the mean
descent grns of the fringe OF natives that had taken
in the spectacle, is hardly subject for analysis
The only person he could turn to, without utterly
sacrificing that badly outraged dignity OF his, was
Arm in arm with Beaumont he had painted up
Fort Hill. From Beaumonts hand he had accepted
dry clothes and steamng glass of hot Scotch, and
then as fitting climax. from Beaumonts own lips
he heard the tale of that mans adventures during
the last twenty -four hours. So, in a blaze of per-
fectly righteous indignation, the note was written
and despatched to Clifford, putting the manager
and his chief lieutenant under arrest.
RUT the judicial inquiry that Sir Malcolm had in
- mind when he summoned the two conspirators
to appear before him at Fort House, destined
never to take place. Probably mere lapse of time
and the restoration of his imperied dignity would
alone have suffced to convince him that he had
acted quite insufficient grounds and with init
dicial haste.
But the storm outside, which perceptibly
more ferocious with every passing quarter hour,
still stronger deterrent. When Smith and
Clifford torn, bruised battered, and completely
spent dragged through small door the
sheltered side of Fort House, nothing further from
the minds of everybody there than sitting of high
court of justice could be imagined.
For ten minutes after the door closed behind
them. the two lay flat the stone flags in the little
passage and got their breath Then, setting each
other to rights we'll they could they went into
the big library where everybody else in the house
servants and all for such is the democracy of man