Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-05-22
ICoNTINUED.l
. HE following day was an event
full one for the various men,
bers Of the Renwyck house

hold. Mr.. Renwyck went ear
lier than usual to the city and in spite
of a somewhat uneasy conscience
worked ceaselessly to the furtherance
of his harbor scheme. His triggers
were set, and he only waited now for
the trap to spring and catch Bill Will
liams in its fall and incidentally the
Peace and Good Will gullibility-no,
Realty company. Mr.. Michael Cor
riean was also quite busy during the
day, though his occupation was q
pleasant one. At least he seemed to
derive intense amusement from the re-
ceipt Of number of lengthy kilograms
from various points.
Richard, too, had occasion to use the
wires, but in q different manner. I'm
mediately after breakfast he made his
excuses to the ladies and took train
for New York. At the telegraph Office
he sent out the following dispatch:
Mr.. William ]. Williams:
Mistake. Am all right and unhurt. Re-
turn to Austin at once and watch harbor
deal. RICHARD WILLIAMS. .
The young man made a number OK
copies of the telegram and had them
sent to various junction points along
all possible routes between Texas and
New York, in the hope that his father
might be intercepted on whatsoever
train he might be a passenger and re-
ceive one of them. And in order to
make assurance Aoubly sure he gave
orders that the kilograms were to be
repeated regardless of expense until
the sendee had been reached. Richard
had a perfect right to say that he was
well and unhurt, and in consideration
of Mr.. Renwyck's method of doing
business he persuaded himself that he
initial warming By this he hoped to
put the cattle king on his guard, in
which case he trusted to his fathers
shrewdness to circumvent the enemy.
This duly discharged, Richard called
at st. Luke's hospital and was much
distressed to learn that Lord Croyland
was not doing well at all. He had de-
veloped high fever, and in his pres
ent condition could receive no visitors.
Richard therefore could only leave the
earl's mail, securely done up in a pack
age addressed to Mr.. Richard Will
liams, with the message that Mr.. Peter
Wilson had called and would come
again within a day or two. Then. hav-
ing nothing else to keep him in the
city, after a stop at flower shop he
returned to Irvington.
In the meantime the final rehearsal of
1.-THE Man and the Bird" was material
| w inf wi NV re
conflicting emotions on the part Of
Miss Imogene Chittendon. By the
morning post that young lady received
a letter, which she read through sew
eral times, then ran to her room, flung
herself upon the bed and expressed her
emotion in tears and Mysteries.
Miss Renwyck, in passing through
the hall, caught the sound of weeping
and went in to comfort her. She found
and the better part Of an hour elapsed
before an intelligent explanation Of
the trouble could be obtained. Miss
Chittendon told her story in jerky. dis
jointed sentences, SO interspersed with
sobs and gasps that to quote her in de-
tail would be an utter impossibility.
The thread of the romance ran in this
wise:
Several months previous to the OPEN
ing Of this narrative Miss Imogene
had been pupil in fashionable
young ladies' school in Morristown,
N. ]. Like many of her mates, she
had carried on innocent f1irtations be-
meath the very noses of certain stately
gray headed wardens Of propriety
harmlcssly enough. In her last and
most violent affaire du occur. however,
she suddenly found cause bitterly to
regret her rashness.
Mr.. Roderick Fitzgeorge-the last
Morristown object of Miss Imogene' s
transient affections-posed as a lieu
tenant in the United States army on q
leave OF absence, spending furlough
at the quiet little Jersey town. He was
of romantic disposition and appeared
very dashing blade. bewilderingly
good looking to a pent-up schoolgirl In
spite of a certain physical defect. The
lieutenant was possessed of many 9TH
er accomplishments, known and un-
known to Miss Imogene. among which
according to the young lady's own
statement, "he could make love just
; beautifully in the moonlight over q
garden wall that was just covered
with broken glass and a horrid wire
with stickers all over it."
Be that as 1t may. this Romeo was
untowardly discovered In the midst OF
! a most poetical speech across the afore
5 said wall one spring night about II
o'clock, and the touching love scene
then in progress came to an abrupt. mo-
to say painful, end. This was caused
by the pulling of Roderick Fitzgeorge'i
ladder from under him by the villair
In the piece-the night Waterman
/ who had treacherously crept along the