Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-05
The Carleton Case eel. Hns :y + T .. e.ssA :.
Copyright 1910. the Bobbs-Merrili Co.,

1t, A bed seems more attractive to me
just now thar a pipe even."
'Suit yourself" answered Carleton.
I'll ave my man call you in the
morning. Goodnight"
HeN turned indoors as he spoke, and
Vaughan stood silent for perhaps five
minutes, looking out into the glorious
summer night, with his thoughts where
they could scarcely have failed to be-
on the wonderment of all the happi-
ness that had come to him, on the
difference that the love of a girl had
made in him, his ambitions, his hopes.
OF all the great things that he longed
TO accomplish now for her sake. to
show her that perhaps she had not
chosen unworthily.
Then, coming suddenly to himself.
he decided that 1t would be pleasant
10 accompany Carleton ON his rounds.
looked indoors for him, and not finding
him there, concluded that he must have
gone out by some other way. Conn
ing out once more on to the pitzza. het
STOOD for a moment irresolute. had
even made a hesitating step toward
the nous again, and then, mmon
irresistibly by some subtle kinship with
tree and flower, star and whispering
breeze, he walked hastily down the
steps, and then, more leisurely, strolled
away around the curve of the drive
until his figure was lost amid the
~shrubbery of the lawn.
Surely Henry Cartoons little eve
ming had been. enjoyed to the fl1 BY
everyone. AM as 1t CHANGED, e,S
the humblest actor in it was to have
his share of luck. Tom Sltterlee. with
some two-thirds of his journey to Mr..
Sheldon's accomplished, suddenly
gripped the reins more tightly as a
warning blast fell on his ears. and a
moment later a big motor whizzed past
him from the Instantly he rec
ognized the chauffeur, driving alone,
and the next moment his cheerful hail
had brought the motor to a halt. Then
ensued a brief conference, resulting in
the transfer of the package, while Sat
%terlee, with a good hour saved from the
schedule that was to bring him back
at midnight, in high good humor turned
old Robins head toward home.
Meanwhile, back at The Birches,
Vaughan wandered idly along, his feet
on earth, his thoughts in the clouds.
lNOSe anu his DOOR,. Ills DOCK ana ROSe.
From n to the other his thoughts piled
back and forth. Not, indeed, hat the
book could ever rival Rose, but it was
as a means to win her that it now APP
peared most precious to him, as if his
written word, as something outside of
himself, were striving, like some faith
full friend, to aid him in his highland
Rose and the book and his happiness
blended in bic mind with oil fha ipfnN-
ication of youth and hope, and a world
still untried and -unconquered. its prob
lens undespaired of still.
On and on he walked, half uncon-
scious of where he was going. and
then, on a sudden he seemed to be-
come aware of a light flashing some
where ahead of him through the trees,
now disappearing, now as he went
onward, springing again into view,
much as some gigantic will-o'-the-w isp
might have done. And at the same
instant, looking around him, he per-
ceived, to his surprise, that uncon-
sciously he had been following the
trail of a little rough hewn path. wind
ing first to right. and then to left, but
always forward, and always toward
the light. Partly from a real curiosity
as to what it might be. partly with
enough of the instinct of boyhood
days left in him, to make him feel a
perfectly irrational delight in the sense
of nocturnal adventure, he skirted his
way along through the woods, and a
moment later found himself standing
on a little elevation of rock, gazing
through the trees at the house which
stood over across from him, not a
hundred yards away amid the circle
of birches which. cleaning like silver
in the faint moonlight, surrounded 1t
with their protection as with a natural
palisade.
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