Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-04
CHAPTER XI.

C1iAI I Ell AL.
The outer aspect of Ardsley IS,
frankly, feudal. The idea of North
Carolina estate had grown out OF Ard
more's love of privacy and his wish 10
get away from New York where MS
family was all too frequently struck
by a spot light. The great tract OF
land once secured he had not con-
cerned himself about house, but mad
thrown together a comfortable bung-
allow which satisfied him for year.
But Ardmore's gentle heart, lnacces-
sible to demands of many sorts, was
defenseless citadel when appeals
were made to his generosity. A poor
Young architect, lately home from the
Ecole des Beaux Arts with many hon
ors but few friends, fell under Ard
more's ewes. The towers and battle
ments that soon thereafter crowned
the terraced slopes at Ardsley, etching
a noble line against the lovely pan
Drama Of North Carolina hills, testified
at once to the architects talent for
adoption and Ardmore's diminished
balances at the Bronx Loan and Trust
company.
On a balcony that commanded the
sunset-a balcony bright with geran,
iums that hung daringly over ravlne
on the west, Mrs. Atchison and Miss
Jerry Dangerfield were costly taking
their tea. Their white gowns, the
snowy awning stirring slightly in the
hill air, the bright trifies OF the tea
table mingled in a picture OF charm
| and contentment.
~ wonder" said Mrs. Atchlson
abruptly, where Tony is
81 have no definite idea" said Jerry
pouring cream, but let us hope that
he is earning his salary
Ellis salary?" and Mrs. Atchisons
brow contracted DO you mean thai
nv brother it taking pay for this
mysterious work he is doing?"
"He shall be paid in money" replied
Jerry with decision. AS | have only
the barest acquaintance with MI Ard
more, never, in fact, having seen MIN
| until few days ago, it would be very
Improper for me to permit him te
serve me except under the rules thai
govern the relations of employer anc
| employee"
Mrs. Atchison smiled with the WISE
| tolerance of a woman of the world
| anu SIl6 WIS q lduS, ~ iti"S' ~ y,
| who had q keen perception OF ina
/ same and ample philosophy OF lift
which proceeds, we may say, for the
sake of convenience, from the sense
of humor. She did not like TO d.
puzzled; and she had never in her lie
! been surprised, least of all by an!
word or deed of her singular brothei
Tommy. She liked and even cultlvat
ed with daring the inadvertent turns
in a DAYS affairs The cool fashion
in which her brother had placed TN
daughter Of the governor of Nortl
Carolina in her hands on board ne
car at Raleigh had amused her. Sh'
/ had learned nothing from jerry OF tn
beginnings of that young woman
acquaintance with the master of Arcs
/ ley-an acquaintance which seemed
to be intimate in certain aspects pu
| amazing distant and Opaque II
/ others. Miss Geraldine Dangerheld
/ like Mrs. Atchison herself, was dill
cult to surprise, and Tommy Ard
more's sister admired this in any on
and she particularly admired 1t Il
Jerry, who was SO charming in s.
many other ways. Mrs. Atchiso
imagined that Jerry's social experience
4 had been meager, and yet the gil
accepted the conditions of life at Ards
ley as a matter of course, and in tn
gatherings of the house party jerry
j