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

animated 10y lively but harmless
malice. hoped t. heaven that Plank
might arrive before Quarter left.
oh TO See them together In small
ROOM" she sighed ecstatically In Syl-
Was ear. Il ID certainly poke them up
II they only turned around sulki!y In
the corners Of the cage and eyinced
desire to lie down"
What Il mischief maker you are
said Sylvia IisJlessiy.
There seemed. IN fact, little 10 inter
est her that summer at Shotoyer
House Her interest too, in people
had seemingly been extinguished
once or twice she did inquire as 10
Marion's whereabouts aud learned that
Miss Page WAS fishing in Minnesota
somewhere, but would return 10 Shot
over when the shooting opened Some
body, Captain Voucher perhaps. men
toned 10 somebody IN her hearing that
siwurl MAS stiil Ia New York.
The hot mouth dragged OD. quar-
rirr came. Agatha Caithness arrived
few days iaIcr-scheme OF the Fer
rails involving AIderdene-but the ST.
Wauoa did not come, and Flank re-
manned inv i>ible. Leila Mortimer ar
rived from swans liarbor toward the
middle of the month. Offering no In
formation as to the whereabouts OF
what Major Belwether deiicately des-
! ignated as her Legitimate" But ev-
erybody knew he Was at last II he
/ crossed of and struck clean out, anu
the ugly history OF the winter, now 50
! iupudently corroborated at Saratoga.
( gave many hostess the opportunity
/ long desired.
/ Cad" said Alderdene, shes well
I rid OF him
"A suit before referee would settle
/ him" unused Voucher He hasn't Il
/ leg 10 stand OIL Lord, the same cat
that tripped UP Stephen Siward.'
! Fleetwuud's quick eyes glilnmered
for an instant In Quarters direction.
Quarter WAS in the billiard room. out
OF earShot. practicing ha!k line prob
/ lens with Major Belwether, aud Fleet
| wood said: The same cat that tripped
up Stephen Siward. Nes. But who let
her LOOSE
1T was your dinner. You ought TO
know" said Voucher bluntiy.
Il do know. He brought her" nod
ding toward the billiard room.
"Belwether?"
NO" yawued Fleetwood.
Somebody said presently: Isn't he
one of the governors: Oh. | say, that
was rather rough on Siward. though"
Sylvia. passing the hail, glanced In
through the gunroom door with an alb
sentmlnded smile at the men and their
laughing greeting as they rose with
uplifted glasses to salute her.
The sweetest of ALL" observed a
man, disconsolately emptying his glass
"Oh. irony. What a marriage"
Beverly Plank had no time for any
thing outside OF his own particular
business except 10 go every day To the
big, darkened house in lower Fifth
avenue where the days had been hard
on Siward and the nights harder.
Siward, however, could walk now,
using his crutches still, but often stop
ping TO gently test his left foot and
see how much weight he was able Il
bear on it, even taking a tentative step
or two without crutch support. He
drove when he thought II prudent to
use the horses in the heat, usually
very early in the morning. though
sometimes at night with Plank when
the latter had time to run his touring
car through the park and out into the
Bronx or Westchester for a breath OF
air.
But Plank wanted him to go away
get out of the city for his GONZALES
ceuce. and Siward fatty declined. de
handing that Plank permit him to d.
his share In the fight against the Inter
county people.
When it was that he first began t.
like Plank very much he could hot ex
actly remember. He was not perhaps
aware of how much he liked him
! Plank's unexpected fits of shyness. ol
Formally. often and often amused
him. But there was subtler teelin!
Under the uneXpressed amusement
} and, beneath all. a constantly increas
ing substratum of respect. Too. b,
! found himself curiously at ease with
Plank as with one born to his owl
caste. And this feeling. unconscious
but more and more apparent mean
) more to Plank than anything that hat
ever happened to him.
Then one sultry day toward the las
week in August a certain judge of ,
certain court, known among some a,
"Harrington's Judge sent secret,
I for Plank. And Plank knew that til,
J crisis was over. But neither Harring
ton nor Quarter dreamed of such
thing.
Fear sat heavy on that judges sou
/ the oDllpSS selfish feor that sand,