The Huttig news., 1909-05-01

T am sorry" said the disheartened suitor, rising. Il suppose that after this unpleasant interview"
 "Oh, you're decent sort" interrupt. ed Cayenaugh generously; and if you are of a mind to behave yourself here after, you will always find chair at my table. But my daughter is not for you, sir. emphatically not. That is all, sir;' and Cavenaugh picked up his evening paper.
 After such a rebuff, most young men would have given up; but Darlington never gave up till there was no possi- bility of winning. Immediately after the interview he went to the higher court with his appeal
 Let us have patience the girl whispered. "I'll undertake to bring him to reason"
 But Darlington went home that night without his love for the father increasing any
 And so the matter stood at the pres ent time. The affair had gone neith. CT forward nor backward
 An, were he less honest, how easily he could brins the old curmudgeon to termsi There was that in his pocket which would open the way to the altar quickly enough. But Darlington was manly and honest to the core. and to him backmail stood among the basest of crimes. Many times during the past IS hours the tempter had whispered in his ear that here was way out of his difficulties; but the young man had listened unmoved.
 During the summer and autumn months of the year the Cavenaughs lived at their country place over in New Jersey, and thete Darlington as.zz.. zzaI an1nm1ih were horses to ride, golf and tennis and a Saturday night dance at the Country club. To be with the girl you love, even If you cant have her, is some compensation. CavenaUgh never joined the fetes and sports of the summer colonists, but he offered no objections to the feminine members of his house hold for selecting Darlington as their escort for the week-ends Indeed, by now he began to consider Darlington as harmless, sensible. well-groomed young man, who relieved him of all the painful duties to the frivolous. If the colonists insisted on coupling his daughters name with Carringtons. S. let them do so: when the proper moment came he would disillusionize them For himself, he always had some good old crony down to while away the dull Sundays: and together they consum- mated plans that gave the coup de grace to many a noble business gal leon. This particular summer there were no dukes or princes floating around unattached, and Cavenaugh agreed that it was a commendable time to lay devices by which to am bush the winter money.
 There were nights when Cavenaugh did not sleep very well; but of this, more anon
 Shortly after his determination to tell Kate half truth, Darlington left the office and made an early train into New Jersey. All the way over to the Cavenaugh station he was restless and uneasy. 'fhe fatal papers still reposed in his pocket He had not dared to leave them in the office safe; his part ner. who had had no hand in the in- vestigation, might stumble across them. and that was the last thing in the world he desired He knew not exactly what to do with them: for they burned like fire in his pocket. and seemed to scorch his fingers if they were still there A thousand and one absurd suppositions assaiIed him. Supposing, for instance, there should be wreck; supposing he should be robbed: supposing he should leave his vest on the links; and so forth and so forth. It was very de. pressing. If only he stood in the open. unhandicapped; if only he might throw the gauntlet at Cavenaugh's feet the moment they met,
 An. if he had only attended to his own affairs. But he hadn't; and his inquisitiveness had plunged him into a Chinese tangle from which there seemed to be no exit. But there was an exit. only, if at that moment Gas sandra had whispered the secret into his ear, 1t would have appealed to him as the most improbable thing under the sun. However, there are no trust worthy Cassandras these sordid days. a single look into the future costs a dollar; and as for Greek choruses, they trundle push-carts on the East side.
 He had broken bread and eaten salt a, Cayenauehs table and now it was