Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-02-29
SYNOPSIS of PROCEEDING CHAPTERS


try house of the Ferralls, are Sylvia Lands,
of,high rank in New York society, and Ste
phen Siward, who is under a cloud OF disap-
prevail by society. Sylvia is almost engaged
% Howard Quarter. Mrs. Ferrall's cousin
who is expected at Shotover. II-Silvia be-
comes interested in Siward and neglects
meeting Quarter at the station. AS govern
or of the PATRONS, one of New York's eX-
elusive clubs, Quarter has been instrument
eal in Siward's expulsion on a charge OF
bringing into the club rooms a disguised
girl, and relations between the two men are
strained. Quarter is immensely wealthy.
III-Siward, who is the victim of heredi-
tary tendency toward strong drink, is
snubbed by Major Belwether. Sylvia's uncle
and guardian. The women OF Sylvia'S fam-
1lv have had for several generations a repu-
6ation for indiscretion. Sylvia and Siward
become very friendly. Ferran finds Stephen
dazed with drink in his room, IV-SYlvia
and Stephen are paired in the hunt. He
makes love to her despite her engagement
to Quarter. V-Among the guests at Shot
over is Leroy Mortimer, who remains in
doors while the others shoot
Mortimer climbed the snppery mar
BILE stairway as fast as his lack of
breath permitted, anxious for his
share of the harvest if the odds were
right. He managed to make several
apparently desirable wagers with
Kathryn Tassel and one with Beverly
Plank, who was also obstinately back
ing the blues, the losing side. Sylvia
played forward for the blues.
Suddenly through the confused blur
of foam and spray the big, glistening
ball shot alOft and remained.
''Bluel Bluew exclaimed Grace Fer
rail-, clapping her hands, and a little
whirlwind Of cries and hand clapping
echoed from the gallery as the breath
less swimmers came climbing out of
the pool with scarcely wind enough
left for word or strength for ges-
ture toward the laughing crowd above
Mortimer, disguised. turned away
already casting about him for some
body to play cards with, It being hiA
temperament and his temper to throw
good money after bad. But Quarter
sand Miss Caithness had already re-
turned to the squash courts. the ma
-jority of the swimmers to their sever
al dressing rooms and Grace Ferralrs
party, equipped for motoring, to the
lawn, where they lost little time in
disappearing into the golden haze
which a sudden shift of wind had
spun out of the cloudless afternoons
sunshine.
However he got Marion and also, as
usual, the two men who had made
practice of taking away his money,
Major Belwether and Lord Alderdene.
He hadn't particularly wanted them.
He wanted somebody he could play
with, like Siward, for example, or
even the two ten dollar Pages. Not
that their combined twenty would do
him much good. but it would at least
permit him the pleasures OF the card
table without personal loss.
But the Pages had retired to dress,
and Voucher was for motoring, and he
had no use for his wife, and he was
afraid of Plank's game. and Siward,
seated on the edge Of the pool and
sharing pint of ginger ale with Syl-
via Lands, shook his head at the Sug-
gestion and resumed his division Of
the ginger ale.
Plank and Leila Mortimer came
down to congratulate them. Sylvia,
always instinctively and particularly
nice to people OF Plank's sort whom
she occasionally encountered, was so
faultlessly amiable, that Plank, who
had never before permitted himself
the privilege Of mOnopolizing her,
found himself doing it so easily that
it kept him in a state of persistent
mental intOxication.
Siward, inclined to be amused by
the duration OF the trance into which
Plank had fallen. watched the prog
ress of that bulky young mans infatu-
alton as he sat there on the pools
marble edge, exchanging trivial views
on trivial subjects with Mrs. Leroy
Mortimer
Once in their history, during her
early married life, Siward had been
very sentimental about her, but nei-
ther he nor she had approached the
danger line closer than to make dar-
Ing eyes at one another across the
frontiers of good taste. And their
\ youthful enchantment had faded so
naturally, so pleasantly, that always
there had remained to them both an
agreeable after taste-a sort Of gay
understanding which almost invaria-
encountered. But now something ap-
peared to be lacking in their rather
listless misunderstanding Of the
usual flavor which once had sailed
even a laughing silence with signifl-
canoe. Siward, too, had ceased to be
amused at the spectacle of Plank's
calflike infatuation, and Leila Morti
mer's bored smile had lasted so long
that her olive-pink cheeks were stih
and she relaxed her fixed features
with little shrug that was also some
thing of a SILVER. Then, looking pru
IDENTIFY around, she encountered 81
wards eyes, and during a moments
hesitation they considered one another
with an increasing curiosity thai
slowly became tentative intelligence
And her eyes said very plainly anC
wickedly to Siward's: "Oho, my friend