The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-06-10
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"Shall l see you tomorrow" he de-
manded.
"If you wish. Captain Voucher came
down on the same train with me. I'll
set him adrift If you like"
as he preparing for a declaration
sneered Quarter.
81 think So" she said simply.
"Well, If he comes tonight after I'm
gone, you wait final word from me.
Do you understand" he repeated, with
repressed violence.
mo, Howard. Are you going to
propose to me tomorrow"
you'll know tomorrow" he retort-
ed angrily. Il tell you to wait. I've
a right to that much consideration
anyway"
Very well, Howard" she said. rec
ognizng in him the cOwardice which
she had always suspected to DE there.
She babe him good night. He touch
ed her hand, but made no offer to kiss
her. She laughed Il little to herself.
watching him striding toward the ele-
vator.
She turned leisurely her slim hands
balanced lightly on her narrow hips,
and strolled into the second dressing
room, where Mrs. Nendenning sat sui
lenly INDUCING in that particular spe-
cies of solitaire known as The Idiots
| Delight"
"Well?' inquired Mrs. Vendenning,
looking up at the tall, pale girl she
was chaperoning 50 carefully during
| their soiourn in town. what did
Howard Quarter want?"
HE knows, think, but he hasn't yet
informed me-"
"I'll tell 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 ShOtOver
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 I don't expect to-" She turned
as her maid tapped on the door. ooh,
CAPTAIN Voucher. Are you at home to
hlm2" Tipping the pasteboard on to
the table among the scattered cards.
Yes" said Mrs. Vendenning aggres-
sively, unless you expect him to flop
down on his knees tonight. Do your"
Il don't-tonight. Perhaps tomOr-
row. l don't know. l 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 salutatlons of
men who had no use for one another.
On the Engllshman's clean cut face a
| deeper hue settled as he passed. on
| Quarters not trace of emotion, but
when he entered his motor he sat bolt
his long gray gloyed fingers moving
restlessly 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 glimmer of FREELY for the distant
lamp of a motor, which amused Leila
and her clear young laughter hoated
back to the ears of Sylvia and Siward.
curled up in their corners of the huge
tonneau. But they were too profound
| ly occupied with each other to heed
the sudden care free laughter of the
| young matrOn, though In these days
her laughter was infrequent enough to
set the more merciless tongues wag-
| glng when it did sound.
Plank had never seen fit to speak to
her Of her husbands scarcely yelled
menace that day he had encountered
him In the rOtunda Of the Algonquin
Trust company. His first thought was
to do soto talk 1t over with her, con-
slider the threat and the possibility Of
It's seriousness, and then come to some
logical and definite decision as to what
their future relations should be. Again
q. and again he had been on the point of
doing this when alone with Leila-un-
comfortable, even apprehenslve, be-
cause of their frank intimacy. But he
had never had the opportunity to do so
without deliberately dragging In the
subject by the ears in all It's ugliness
and implied reproach for her impru-
dence and seeing that dreadful, va
cant change In Leila's face which the
mere mention OF her husbands name
was sure to bring turn into horror I'M
speakable.
A man not prone to fear his fellows.
he now feared Mortimer, but that fear
struck him only through Leila or had
so reached him until the days of his
closing struggle with Quarter. That
threat of Mortimer's to involve Plank
with Leila in one common ruin, that
boast that he was able to do so could
not be ignored as a possible weapon if
Quarter should by any chance learn of
1t.
In all his life he had taken Leila
into his arms but once, had kissed her
but once. But that once had been