Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23

seem Cleveland was enjoying his own
sarcasm), I want you TO co.
Every sorry I can't oblige you''
"Confound you, do you think I'll set the
place on fire the minute your back is
turned?"
mot so much that as-there are other
things you might do"
what other things? Really I should
like to know, for the sake Of curiosity"
well. II you're bound to get it out Of
me, I've got to stay and see you don't
remove any articles Of value"
by Jove! So that's it? Ny own or
yours?"
Whats yours is ours at present, and
what's ours is our own-ae the bride said
to the bridegroom"
Val could almost have laughed. though
| not at the Joke He-the Marquis Of Love-
land, an officer In the Grenadier Guards
was to be watched lest no should steal
the hotel soap, or sneak OF with his own
He went white and red, and white
again. II by q word he could have tum-
bled the whole hotel down in an earth.
quake, he would have been willing to be
caught under the ruins. He had wild
boyish conviction that by subjecting him.
self now to the EXTREMIST Inconvenience
he could by and by cause the hotel man
agement poignant remorse. Yes, he would
take them at their word. He would walk
out OF the house just as he was, leaving
! would make their guilt the blacker wher
| it came to be brought up against them.
as 1t would be very soon, probably as
soon as tomorrow. Then they would seek
him out, and crawl in apology, begging
him to come back at any price. or at nc
price. But nothing would induce him to
cross the threshold Of the Waldorf
Astoria again, no, not even II every mem.
Der Of the staff groveled at his feet He
would not even take his overcoat, and II
Z, IL
much the worse for these insolent PEG.
| pie. As for himself, he did not care what
happened. He felt as he had when a lit
tie boy, and some tutor of unusual firm
ness had dared to reproach him or at.
| tempt punishment At such times he he'd
wished that he might instantly die, or, al
the least, fall In fit. for the sake OF
| frightening his cruel prosecutor.
His cap (his only head covering. as he
had forgotten a bowler on board ship
enemy's inspection. You say all that il
mine is yours he sneered. "This may
have cost SIX or seven shillings when IL
was new. Now 1t would fetch two al
| most. I will pay you for 1t. Half q crown
is the least / have. Pray, keep the
| change"
He laid a coin-his last large coin
down ON the table where the cap had
been. and without another word walked
| nonchalantly out Of the room.
4n0 6cuItSuihIkS Ill6u O1u uOC xOilOW &C
protest, or to offer the overcoat, IS Va
half fancied he would do. And without
stopping to think colerently, Loveland
passed by the lift, scorning to take I'D
vantage of its convenience, and ran down
fight after flight of stairs, his blood
drumming In his ears.
A red cloud before his eyes seemed to
screen him from the world. Below, In
the great hall through which he had to
pass on his way out OF the hotel lights
slared and dazzled, and the talk and
laughter OF many persons sounded In his
ears like the evil voices Of the black
stones that beset Arabian Nights travel
ers on their way to the singing tree and
the golden water.
LOveland pushed on. blindly. conscious
OF himself as the one real entity in q
crowd OF will o. the wisps and wicked
lure lights. His sole concern with the
people in the hateful. glazing picture was
that they should suspect nothing Of his
feelings. He walked with his head up
and something that he meant for a smile
on his lips: nor was 1t an affectation that
he appeared to recognize no one, though
Cadwallader Hunter-who had been wait
ing to see this exit-believed 1t to be. !
The major was standing almost In Love-
lands path, speaking with q lady whose
name had been on one Of Jim Har-
borough's envelopes, and as the tall Eng
iishman came toward him he deliberately
turned his back.
"Sic semper milordibus." he said. half
aloud. Which far-fetched witticism made
the lady laugh.
Go be continued tomorrow)