Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-03-12


Harrington. old, hoary, scanned
CARED. MANNED in onslaughts of long
forgotten battles. looked long and hard
upon this weird of his own dead youth
| which now rose towering to confront
him, menacing him with the armed
| point of the same shield behind which
| be himself had so long found shelter
| the law
| The closing Of the courts enforced
armed truces along certain lines Of
! Plank's battle front, the adjournment
of the legislature emptied Albany.
| Once 1t was rumored that Plank had
passed an entire morning with the
governor of the greatest state IN the
Union and that the conference was to
/ he repeated. a swarm of newspaper
men settled about the governors sum
mer cottage at Saratoga, but they
learned nothing, nor could they find
trace of Plank's tracks In the trod
den trails of the great spa.
/ Besides, the racing had begun. Des-
mond, Burbank, Sneed and others of
the gilded guild had opened new club
| houses. There was plenty of copy for
newspaper men without the daily spec
ulative paragraph devoted to the do
! ings of Beverly Plank. Some scandal,
too-but newspapers never touch that.
| And after all it was nobody's affair
] that Leroy Mortimer drove q large
yellow and black touring car, new
model, all over Saratoga county. Per
haps the similarity of machines gave
rise to the rumor of Plaak's presence;
perhaps not because the car was often
driven by tall, slender girl with dark
eyes and hair, and nobody ever saw
that sort of pretty woman in Plank's
car or saw Leroy Mortimer for many
days without companion of that spe-
cies.
Mortimer's health was excellent.
The races had not pssyed remunera-
tive, however and his new motor car
was horribly expensive So was Ly
dia. And he began to be seriously
afraid that by the end of August he
would be obliged to apply to Quarter
/ once more for some slight temporary
token of that gentleman's good will.
! He told Lydia this, and she seemed TO
| agree with him. This pleased him.
She had not pleased him very much
recently For one thing she was be-
coming too friendly with some of his
| friends, Desmond In particular,
Plank, it was known, had opened his
great house at Black Fells. His serv-
| ants, gamekeepers, were there, his
stables, kennels, greenhouses, model
stock farm-an had been put in Inn
maculate condition pending the advent
/ of the master. But Plank had not
appeared. His new seagoing steam
| yacht Siwanoa still lay in the East riv-
er, and at rare intervals a significant
glimmer of bunting disclosed the own
er's presence aboard for an hour or
two.
/ The Ferralls were at Shotover with
their first installment of guests. Syl-
via was there, Quarter expected, be-
cause Kemp Ferralrs break with him
was not social one, and Grace's real
affection for Sylvia blinded neither
her nor her husband to the material
and social importance of the intimacy.
Siward was not invited Neither had
an invitation to him been even dis
cussed in view of what Grace was
aware of and what everybody knew
concerning the implacable relations ex-
listing between him personally and
/ Howard Quarter
/ Bridge, yachting and motoring We're
the August sports. The shooting set
had not yet arrived, of course-in fact,
| there was still another relay expected
Il haf fIao nj ~
the shooting coterie for the first two
weeks. But Sylvia was expected to
last through and hold over with brief
! tnterlude for a weeks end at Lenok
| So was Quarter. and Grase, always
! animated by a lively but harmless
malice, hoped to heaven that Plank
might arrive before Quarter left.
"Oh, to see them together in a small
ROOM she sighed ecstatically In Syl-
Was ear. I'D certainly poke them up
| If they only turned around sulkiiy in
the corners OF the cage and evinced a
desire to lie down."
What mischief maker you arep'
said Sylvia listlessly.
| There seemed, in fact, little to inter
est her that summer at Shotover
House. Her interest, too, In people
had seemingly been extinguished.
Once or twice she did inquire as to
| Marion's whereabouts and learned that
| Miss Page was fishing In Minnesota
! somewhere, but would return to Shot
over when the shooting opened. Some
body, Captain Voucher perhaps men
toned to somebody In her hearing that
! Siward was still in New York.
The hot month dragged on, Quar-
rier came. Agatha Caithness arrived
| few days later-scheme of the Fer
rails involving Alderdene-but the ST.
wanoa did not come, and Plank re-
manned invisible. Leila Mortimer ar
rived from Swans Harbor toward the
middle of the mouth, offering no In
! formation as to the whereabouts of
| what Major BelWether delicately des-