Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1908-05-15

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Thanks great Pile Of masonry e'iGing
the outer hundreds IN the north. sew
eral lighted windows were 10 lie seen
In IL AT night. aud Il iis yelln" ana
black touring car whiZzed down town
from its bronze gateway every morn
ing with perfect regularity.
For there was hight on that had
steadily grown hotter with the wealth
er aud Plank had little time 10 con
Germ himself with the temperature or
TO mop his red features over The
weather bureau report Harrington
aud quarter We're after him-horse'
foot and Dragons. Harrington had
even taken house at Seabright in
order To lie near in person, and Quar-
rier's move from Long Island e. shot
over House was not as hippant as II
might appear. for he had his private
ear there and locomotive at Black
FEELS Gro sing station. and lie was
within striking distance of Rochester.
Utica. Syracuse and Albany. which
was what Harrington thought neces-
sary.
The noise OF the fray in the papers,
which had first excited then stunned
the outside public, continued ia lie
lirinm ~ rumor. report forecast and
summing mp ~ the weeks end.
Scare heads involving everybody and
everything. from the district attorney
Ia rlauk's office boy, succeeded one
another Flank'S name headed col
uuu after column. Already becoming
familiar in the society and financial
sections. il began 10 appear In neigh
boring paragraphs.
Plank scarcely noticed what the
press said OF him. He was too busy,
his days were full days. trimming
over deep into the night. Cndaun'ed
inexorable. slow To the verge Of stu
pidity al times. AT times swift as 4
startled tiger. this new. amazing per
souality steadily developing, looming
higher. heay Ter. athwart the financial
horizon. In stature holding his own
among giants. then growing gradual
". inch 10y inch, dominated his sur
rounding level sky line.
Harrington. old, hoary, scanned
SCARED, MANNED in ouslaughts of long
forgotten battles, looked long aud hard
upon this weird Of his own dead youth
which now rose towering 10 confront
him, menacing him with the armed
point Of the same shield behind which
he himself had SO long found shelter
the law.
The closing OF the courts enforce,
armed truccs along certain lines OF
Planks battle front, the Adjournment
OF the legislature emptied Albany
once ii was rumored that Plank ha,
passed an entire morning with III,
governor OF the greatest state in the
Union and that the conference WAS I,
be repeated. \ swarm OF newspaper
men settled about the governor 5 sum
mer cottage AT Saratoga, but they
learned nothing. nor could they lin,
a trace of Plank's tracks in the tod
den trails of the great spa.
Besides. the racing had begun. Des
mond, Burbank, Sneed and others o
the gilded guild had opened new club
houses. There was plenty of copy 10
newspaper men without the daily spec
ulative paragraph devoted TO the do
ings OF Beverly Plank. Some scandal
too-but newspapers never touch that
And after all ii was nobody's affai
that Leroy Mortimer drove a larg
yellow and black touring car, new
model, all over Saratoga county. Per
haps the similarity of machines CAV
rise TO the rumor of Plank's presence
perhaps not, because the ear was Otter
driven by tall, slender girl with darl
eyes and hair, aud nobody ever say
that sort OF pretty woman in Plank
car or saw Leroy Mortimer for man,
days without IA companion Of that spt
cies
Moriimer's health was excellent
The races had not proved rcmunera
. tive, however, and his new motor ca
: was horribly expensive. So was Ly
, din And he began TO he serious
afraid that by the end of August b
= would be Obliged To apply TO Quarrie
once more for some slight Temporal
token OF that gentleman's good vii
He told Lydia this, and she seemed I
agree with him. This pleased hin
; She had not pleased him very niue
recently. For One-thing she was b,
} coming too friendly with some of hi
/ friends, Desmond in particular.
Plank. II was known, had opened hl
great house at Black Fells. His serN
f. ants, gamekeepers, were there. hi
? stables, kennels, greenhouses, mode
stock farm-all had been put in in
macuate condition pending the adver
? OF the master. But Plank had NJ
appeared. His new seagoing steai
yacht Siwanoa still lay in the East ri'
I er, and at rare intervals significar
glirnmer Of bunting disclosed the owl
er's presence aboard for an hour {
two
The Ferralls were at Shotover wit
their first installment of guests. Sy
via was there. Quarter expected, b
cause Kemp Ferrall's break with Iii
was not social one, and Grace's re;
affection for Sylvia blinded Meth,
+ her nor her husband to the materii
+ and social Importance of the intimac
Siward was not invited. Neither ha
] an invitation TO him been even di
S cussed in view of what Grace We
J. aware of and what everybody kne
l concerning the implacable relations e
istlng between him personally an
!. Howard Quarter.
: Bridge. yachting and motoring wei
e the August sports. The shooting s.
l. had not Set arrived. of courSein fac
y there was still another relay eXpectt
before the season opened and brougl
. the shooting coterie for the first Nv