Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-08
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER g. 1912
NO OTHER WAY
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Look here, Rice, YOU fellows generally hear
all the news below stairs Why didn't you
tell me Mrs. Waverton had gone to Nara
gansett?"
"You don't mean to say, Sir"
$50 you didn't know? Moreover, she is
in this very hotel, with Mrs. Daunt-and
the baby"
"Miss Kathleen, Sir?'
ayes. | have just fished Miss Kathleen
out of the Atlantic. She fell in from the end
of the rocks"
The valet did then forget himself, and
emitted a short, sharp whistle between his
teeth.
Il guessed that would make you blow off
steam" laughed Waverton. "If Mrs. Della
mar were to showup now should run out of
the hotel, call the first cab, and tell the man
to drive in bee line for the next five days.
II wish you'd never seen that lady, Mr.
Claude" said Rice, with unusual earnest
ness. "I'll tell you honestly don't like her
When you were brought in for dead to
your room-no, not for days! l don't want
to speak uncharitable of anybody, but
couldn't help thinlin' of the money you had
won at Mr.. Schwartz's place, Sir. 1t was in
everybody's mouth next day. A maid
showed it to me in the Palm Beach news
paper Never was SO glad of anything as
when you sent for me an said we was off to
the hotel"
"Do you find great change in me, Rice?'
"Change, Mr.. Claude? Why, it's mira
cle that's what it isl"
The man was conscious instantly that he
had said little too much; but Waverton
passed the slip without comment-or,
rather, he appeared to misunderstood its
underlying cause.
Il came rather near eternity that night,
Rice" he said quietly. @And the few days
was forced to remain in bed and live on Stops
gave me time for thought Mrs Delamar
was not exactly my good angel; but she was
kind enough while was i'll. Anyhow, we
don't want her anywhere near Narragansett
No, III not dress for dinner. A blue serge,
please. I'm going out again, and don't
wish to be mobbed as hero as stroll along
the front. shall avoid the beach and casino.
You need not sort out all those things now
We leave early on Monday"
DICE was taking the wet clothes to be
- dried, when he met Celestine, the nurse,
whom he had not set eyes on during many
months She hailed him excitedly, and had
sufficient English to recite the afternoons
occurrences. A little later she sent page
to bring him out into the corridor, and then
informed him that Mrs. Waverton wished
to Sc him.
Now Rice admired his former mistress
greatly, and had always regarded Waverton
as the biggest fool in Christendom in respect
to his treatment of a very attractive wife.
Indeed, Rice himself was on the lookout for
another situation at the time of the accident
in Florida, and he was puzzled to account for
the undoubted fact that he got on much bet
ter with his employer since the latter's ill
ness. Three months earlier, if put on the
witness stand, he would have testified I'M
hesitatingly in Mrs. Waverton's behalf; but,
for some occult reason, which he would have
failed completely to explain, he was now
half inclined to believe that, bad as "Mr.
Claude" had unquestionably been, his wife
might have used more tact with him, and
not have Stunned him during the last year
as if he were leper.
These things were running through his
head as he passed along the corridor with
Celestine and was admitted to a sitting
room in which he found Mrs. Waverton and
her sister. Kneeling in the depths of big
sofa, and wholly engrossed by the pink eyes
of Teddy bear, was the golden-haired child
who had been snatched from death little
more than an hour ago.
Rice bowed. Seldom at loss for words,
he now congratulated Mrs. Waverton on
Miss Kathleen's escape.
IL understand that Mr.. Waverton arrived