The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-04-14

generation holds no SunTaS0s anu -
not slow to declare that the Primordial
is rightly named, characterizing the
individual members of the board OF
governors as antediluvians, prehistoric
monsters who have never learned that
laughter lends SAVIOR to existence.
And so it is that the younger genera
ton (which is understood to include
Maitland and Bannerman), while 1t re-
ligiously pays its dues and has the
name OF the Primordial engraved upon
its cards, shuns those deadly respec'
table rooms and seeks its comfort else
where.
Maitland found it dull and depress-
ing enough, that same evening, some.
thing before seven. The spacious and
impressive lounging rooms were but
sparsely tenanted, other than by the
ennuied corps of servants; and the
few members who had lent the open
doors the excuse of their presence
were of the elderly type that hides
itself behind a newspaper in an easy
chair and snorts when addressed.
The young man strolled disconso.
lately enough into the billiard room.
thence (dogged by specter OF lone
liness) to the bar, and finally, In sheer
desperation, to the dining room, where
he selected a table and ordered an
evening paper with his meal.
When the former was brought him.
he sat up and began to take "a new in
terest in life. The glazing headlines
that met his eye on the front page
proved as bracing as slap in the
face.
1.-The Maitland Jewels" he read
half aloud: Daring Attempt at Burg
larry. Mad" Maitland Catches Hand.
some Dan" .Anisty in the Act of Crack
ing His Safe at Maitland Manor
Which Was Which? Both Principals
Disappear
The news-story was exploited as a
"beat;;" it could have been little else
since nine-tenths of its exclusive de
tails" had been born full-winged from
the fecund imagination of busy re
porter to whom Maitland had refused
an interview while in his bath, some
three hours earlier. Maitland discOy.
cred with relief that boiled down to e.
sentials it consisted simply Of the
statement that somebody presumably
| himself) had caught somebody (pre
sumably Anisty) burglarizing the II
brary safe at Maitland Manor that
morning; that one of the somebodiea
(no one knew which) had overpowered
the other and left him in charge Of the
butler, who had presently permitted
his prisoner to escape and then talked
for publication.
It was not to this so much that Matt
land objected. 1t was the illustra
tons that alternately saddened and
maddened the young man; the said IL
lustrations comprising blurred half
tone reproductions of photographs
taken on the Maitland estate: a dia
gram of the library, as fanciful as the
text 1t illuminated, and two portraits
side by side, of the heroes, himself
and Anisty, excellent likenesses both
of the originals and of each other.
Mr.. Maitland did not enjoy his din
ner.
Anxious and preoccupied, he tasted
the dishes mechanically; and when
they had all passed before him. tool
his thoughts and a cigar to gloomy
corner OF the smoking room, where he
sat for two solid hours, debating the
matter pro and con, and arriving al
no conclusion whatever, save that Hig
gins was doomed.
At 1915 he began to contemplate
with positive pleasure the prospect Of
discharging the butler That, at least
was action, something that he could
do; wherever else he thought to move
he found himself bafled by the blank
darkness Of mystery, or by his fea1
Of publicity and rfdicule.
At 1920 he decided to move upou
Greenfelds at once. and telephoned
O'Hagan. advising him to profess II
norance Of his employers where
| abouts.
At 1922, or In the midst OF his ad
monitions to the janitor, he changed
his mind and decided to stay IN New
York; and instructed the Irishmau
to bring him suit case containing 4
few necessaries; his intention being tc
stay out the night at the club, and &c
avoid the matutinal siege OF his lode
ings by reporters and detectives.
At 10:45 q club servant handed hin
the card Of representative Of the
Evening Journal Maitland directed
that the gentleman be shown into the
reception room.
At 10:46 he skulked out Of the club
BY . side entrance, jumped into Z cal
and had himself driven to the East
Thirty -foarth street ferry, arrivinl
there Just in time to miss the lasl
train for Greenfelds.
Denied the shelter alike Of his lode
inEs, his club, and his country home
the young man IN despair caused him
SELF to b conveyed to the Barthold
hotel. where. possessed Of 1 devu 8,
folly. he preserved his incognito By ree
1steTing under the name az IN nas