Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-20
tcontinued From Saturday,

II go now" said Colegrove, ito fight
my battle. I don't know how, or when
or where it will end, but if they drag
ms down / will, like Samson, drag down
| all | can with me, and the crash VIII
be heard from one end of this con-
! tinent to the other. Here is an ad'
! dress that will always find me-
He lifted ner passive nand 10 his p
put a card within it.. and went away
without another word.
Alicia spent the intervening hours be
| tween then and a solitary dinner walk
ing up and down the great drawing
rooms. She did not give Colegrove a.
thought; her mind, agonized n TOT
mented, was working upon the prob
lem whether or not March. in The in
tensity of his anger, had deliberately
sacrificed her.
The sense of fitness and good taste.
which had never left Alicia Vernon, re-
manned with Alicia March. She did
not run away from Washington, but
having determined to make up h at.
titude of an injured woman, remained
in her house. but in strict ~seclusion
Every day she took the air in a closed
carriage. or, heavily yelled, walked for
hours. She continually met her ac-
quaintances, who spoke to her coolly
and passed on, and Alicia did the same
A few persons, chiefly silly women and
foolish young men, left cards for her.
but Mrs. March, knowing that
such backing was a detriment
instead of a help. was excused
at the door. She had re-
ceived an immediate response from her
father, who had taken the first steamer
for America. Within a fortnight from
the day Roger March left his home
General Talbot arrived. He knew OF
March's resignation from the Senate,
and Alicia, in the first hour of her
fathers arrival. put in his hand the
newspaper which contained the charges
and the Congressional Record, with
March's speech, and left him to draw
his own conclusion. General Talbot
read them through carefully, and then,
taking Alicia's hand, said to her with
tears in his brave old eyes:
my child, you nav been singled out
for ill-treatment, and to bear the sins
of others. March's conduct was in
herently wrong. but it showed a cruel
disregard of you not to make some
show of fight for his name. Your
father. however, will remain your
steadfast friend"
The presence of General Talbot
sensibly improved Alicia March's posi-
ton in Washington. His old friends, of
whom he had many. called to see him,
and perforce left cards for Mrs. March.
Among them was the care of Sir Percy
Cariyon, but no card vas left for Alicia,
nor did Lady Carlyon's card accom-
pany her husbands. Alicia observed
this. but she did not choose to notice
it openly at present. She meant that
considerable time should pass before
she began an active struggle to regain
her lost position.
Early in May the great house was
shut up and Alicia March and her
father sailed for England. 1t was two
years and a half before she ~reappeared
in Washington. During that interval
no one in Washington heard of March,
except Watson. who received occasional
communications from him on business.
He seemed to have dropped out of the
world: the depths of the Sierras is a
very good hiding-place for a broken
hearted man.
Those two wears n a half seemed
to be unclouded for the C~arlyons. sir
Percy found his mission exactly to his