Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-03-17


"WellF' inquired Mrs. Vendenning
looking up at the tall, pale girl she
was chAperoning so carefully during
their soiourn i'll town. what did
Howard Quarter wantT
Gle knows, think, but he hasn't yet
informed me-"
"I'n Zen you one thing, Agatha"
said Mrs. Vendenning, gathering up
the packs for a new shuttle, Grace
Ferrall doesn't fancy Towards atten-
ton to you, and she's beginning to say
so when you go back to Shotoyer
you'd better let him alone"
"I'm not going back to Shotover,"
said Agatha,
''What?"
mo, / don't think so. However, I'll
let you know tomorrow. 1t all depends
but | don't expect to-" She turned
as her maid tapped on the door. ooh,
CAPTAIN Voucher. Are you at home to
him? dipping the pasteboard on to
the table among the scattered cards.
"Yes,' said Mrs. yendenning aggres-
sively. unless you expect him to flop
down Oh his knees tonight. Do your
II dpn't--tonight. Perhaps tomor-
row. / don't know. can't tell yet"
And to her maid she nodded that they
were AT home to Captain Voucher.
Quarter had met him, too, just as
he was leaving the hotel lobby. They
EXCHANGED the careful salutations of
men who had no use for one another.
On the Englishman's clean cut face a
deeper hue settled as he passed; on
! Quarters not a trace of emotion, but
when lie entered his motor he sat bolt
upright. stiff backed and stiff necked,
his long gray gloved fingers moving
restlessIy over his pointed beard.
| The night was magnificent. Myri-
| ads Of summer stars spangled the
heavens. Plank, driving his big motor
northward through the night, Leila
| Mortimer beside him, twice mistook
| the gliInmer of a FREELY for the distant
| lamp OF d motor, which amused Leila,
/ and her clear young laughter tioated
4 back I'd the ears of Sylvia and Siward,
| curled up in their corners of the huge
tonneah But they were too Profound
4 ly occupied with each other to heed
the sudden care free laughter OF tbs
young matron, though In these days
her laughter was infrequent enough t
set the more merciless tongues wag
ging when it did sound.
Plank had never seen fit to speak t.
her of her husbands scarcely yeilet
menace that day he had encountered
him Id the rotunda of the Algonquin
Trust company. His first thought wal
to do SOTO talk It over with her, con
slider the threat and the possibility Q
its seriousness, and then come to som
logical and definite decision as to wha
their future relations should be. Agai
and again he had been on the point Q
doing this when alone with Leila-uI
comfortable, even apprehensive. b,
cause of their frank intimacy. But h
! had never had the opportunity to do $
: without deliberately dragging In II
subject by the ears in all Its ugline'
: and implied reproach for her impr
I dence and seeing that dreadful. V
! cant change in Leila's face which Il
J. mere mention of her husbands nan
Y was sure to bring turn into horIor u
! speakable.
). A man not nrone to fear his fellow
S he now feared Mortimer, but that re
h struck him only through Leila or h
!. SO reached him until the days of
~ closing struggle with Quarter TT
threat of Mortimer's to involve Pla
~ with Leila In one common ruin, II
boast that he was able to DO so col
20 not Ne ignored as possible weapon
N. Quarter should by any chance learn
it.
ed IN all his life he had taken lie
If Into his arms but once. had kissed
N. hut once, But that once had b'
enourh TO arm Mortimer with dam
,n+ from head to foot Some prying sc
~ ant had either listened or seen-E
ge, hams q glimmer of a mirror nad
ar traved them. At all events whoe
ces had seen or heard had Informed ,
timer. and now the man was equipE
i'm. the one and only man in all the w
m who could with truth accuse Pla
the only man of whom he stood
de- honest fear.
And it was characteristic Of FL
me that never for one moment had 1t
III Cured to him that the sheer faul'
1t ali lay with Leila; that it was
az" imprudence alone that now threate
herself and the man she loved
threatened his very success In life
I'm long as Mortimer should live.
me- All this Plank, In his thorough, pi
nth taking review of the subject, had
en- into account, and he could not
to how it could possibly bear upon
matters now finally to be adjusted
ort- tween Quarter and himself, bee
I've Quarter was in New York and
ton timer in Saratoga, and unless the
ter had already sold his inform:
rec tho former could not strike at
hfch through knowledge of 1t.
re and yet a curious reluctancy'
UGH tation inexplicable-unless over
kiss explained it-had come over him
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