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

LEWISTON EVENING TEILEF
laughing there beside him, shake off
the dull instinct that all was not well;
that Quarters attitude was still the
attitude of a dangerous man; that he 4
plank should have had this evening
in his room alone to study out the
matters he had so patiently plodded
through in the long hours while 81
ward slept
Yet not for one instant did he dream /
of shifting the responsibility re-
.sponsibility entailed blame-on Siward, /
who. against Plank's Judgment and
desire. had on the very eve of con-
summation drawn him away from that |
sleepless vigilance which must forever
| be the price of business mans safety.
Leila, gay and excited as school
girl. chartered on ceaselessly to Plank;
| all the silence, all the secrecy OF the
arid years turning to laughter on her
red lips, pouring out in broken phrases
/ of delight, words strung together for
! the sheer pleasure of speech and the
happiness of her lot to be with him
| unrestrained.
And would you believe it, Bever-
w." she said, II formed the habit at
Shotover of walking across the bound
i airy and strolling into your greenhouses
and deliberately helping myself And
/ every time 4 did it | was certain one
of your men would march me out"
He laughed, but did not tell her that
,o Gpcf sTNfcS 1n
and that lie had instructed them that
Mrs. Mortimer and hen friends were
to do exactly as they pleased at the
FelIs. However, she knew it, because
garrulous gardener, proud of his
service with Plank, had informed her.
Beverly" she said, ''you are dear.
If people only knew what known
He began to turn red. She could
see it even in the Pickering lamp shot
darkness. And she leased him for
awhile very gently, even tenderly, and
their voices grew lower in half seri-
Gus badinage that ended with quiet,
indrawn breath, sigh and silence.
And now the river swept into view,
darby luminous sheet set with re-
Elected stars, Mirrored lights cleaned
! in it. Sudden bright yellow flashes
zigzagged into its somber depths. The
foliage edged it with a deeper gloom
over which, ON the heights, twinkied
| the muticolored lights of Riverside
inn.
Up the broad, gentle grade they sped,
! curving In and cut among the clumps
Of trees and shrubbery, then on level,
sweeping in great circle up TO tue
steps of the inn.
Now all about them from the bril-
liantly lighted verandas the gay tu-
! multi broke out like an uproarious well
+ come after the swift silence of their
d Journey. The stir of jolly people Keen
( for pleasure, the cIatter Of crockery,
t the coming and going Of walters, OF
, guests, of hansoms, coupeS, victortas
d and scores of motor cars wheeling ano
|. turning through the binding glare OF
Q their own headlights.
/ Somewhere gypsy orchestra, fun o.
d iftful crescendoes and throbbing sus
Q pensions of caprice, furnished resonan
s accompaniment to the joyous clamor
o The scent Of fountain spray and flow
5 ers was in the air.
az didn't know you had telephones
% for a table," said Siward as hea,
d waiter came up smiling and bowling Z
d Plank. 81 confess iny the new excite
n ment of things clean forgot 4
is What man you areSto think Of othe
n peopleT'
IF Plank Redeemed sagain, mutterin
lie something evasiye.1 and went forwar
at with Leila.
in Sylvia. moving leisurely beside s
Of ward. who wasf walking slowly, bt
n- confidently. without crutches. viii
le- pered to him, II never really liked NJ
he Plank before II understood his attitut
so toward you"
he "He is man, every inch," said S
SIS ward simply.
,u- 81 think that generally includes VIII
"a men of yourfsort demand, doesn't 1t
he she asked,
me "Men of smy sort sometimes demal
an in others what they themselves a
lacking In" said Siward, laughir
VS., sylvia, look at this jolly crow
ear Look at all those tables! 1t seems
lad age since / have done anything of Il
his sort. | feel like a boy of eighteeI
hat the same funny quickening fasch
INK ton in nee toward everything gay A
hat bright and alive" He looked arou
nid at her. iaughingly. "As for you"
. II said. you look about sixteen. J
or certainly are the most beautiful tn
this beautiful world ever saw
ella "Schoolboy courtshipv' she noel
her him, lingering as he made his 81
een way through the crowded place. 8,
lger Plank" as they arrived and 81
erv- ed themselves, "Mr. Siward has ]
per Humrrreu mat ne uses crutches o
ue- because they are ornamental. ]
ever la. Isn't this air delicious? All 81
Nor, of people, too, aren't there, Mr.. Pla
nod | S,,,oh ourio,1s lookino women some