The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-01-04

HAL Il uOltH kHiS ClAdtttu tdEtliNs
excitedly. in response to certain
ments advanced by young men who
had the expedition In hand. Arrange
ments We're being discussed, approved
or set aside with an arbitrariness that
left no choice to the proposers. From
time to time disputed questions were
referred to the tall young man at the
mantelplece. He appeared to be a per-
son of consequence in the Eyes of all;
his decision was accepted, w by the
most arrogant of rebels. Not one Of
these fair girls looked into his dark.
steady eyes without hope that the
thought which lay deep in them was
of her and of no other. and yet each
was painfully certain that he thoueht
of some u else, whether present or
absent they could not conceive.
He gravely twisted the point of a
small. lark mustache. then In vogue
among the fashionabies. and proffered
his suggestions with the quiet assur-
ance that comes from a thorough APP
probation of the Difference due the
man who Is real quality in the
southland, and yet without the faintest
suggestion of superciliousness or on
ceit in his Ii
This man was porn to it; it had come
to him through the blood of unnum-
bered ancestry. He was an aristocrat
among a~ristocrats. rs fair Virginia
produced them. Notwithstanding he
had arrived at the Springs no earlier
than the forenoon of the day at hand.
without knowledge of previous plans
regarding the expedition. he was
nevertheless established by common
though unspoken consent as the arblter
of all its features. lie had come
among friends who knew him of old
last year. the year before. and the
years before that.
For this tall young man who leaned
so gracefully against the mantelpiece
was the master of Jenison hall-the
last of the tensions. And that was
saying all that could be said, so far
as a Virginian was concerned.
Their council was disturbed by the
arrival of the beiated night coach that
came over the mountains from the
nearest railway station. Preceded b.
bags and stachels and rugs. there came
two women out of the drenched night
into the glow of the firelit room.
The arrivals were persons OF con
sequence. Two French maids followed
them. The younger of the two women
at the desk was tall. slender and strik-
ingly attractive. of the dashing. bril-
liant type. She was not more than
twenty, but there was an easy assur-
n in her II that bespoke ages
of conquest and not an instant of de-
feat. The elder was an aristocratic
past middle age.
.'Who Is she?' demanded au eager
young man from Richmond.
Two girls from Baltimore were visi-
bly, excited. Said one:
Il didn't know they had returned to
this country, did you, Nell? They've
been living abroad for several years.
Goodness, how that girl has blossomed
out. I'D never nave known her if she
hadn't been with her mother
do you think she's so very pretty:'
inquired the other.
shes a Dream cried the Richmond
young man. but who is she:"
Roberta Grand. She's Il Baltimore
girl and
What name did you say asked
the tall young man beside the fireplace.
"She was Il dreadfully stupid girl at
Miss Ralston's," proclaimed Miss Bal
timore.
The master of Jenison hall interrupt
ed again.
Grand? Are there many Grands in
Baltimore"
Her father is Colonel Robert Grand.
He's the great ace horse man. said
one of the Baltimore girls.
Colonel Bob Grand!"
"Yes. OF course he and Mrs. Grand
don't live together. They were di-
vorced about five years ago. 1t seems
that he ran of with an actress-to Lon
don. they say. | remember that he
bought "A house in London for the wo-
man, and he never even fought the di-
vorce. lie treated Mrs. Grand shame
fully. l know that much. Father says
he is a terrible man"
David Jenison was very pale and
very still.
"Who was this actress?'' asked some
one. He went very cold.
Il don't know. Some one you eve
heard of-just Il common, ordinary ac-
tresS, as | remember"
Jenison abruptly STROBE out upon the
porch, leaving the others to puzzle
themselves over his unexpected defec-
ton.
In the five years that had passed
since his brief but eve green ex-
p~erience with the circus be had not
come upon a single trace of Mary
Braddock and Christine. Detectives in
his employ followed the circus for sev-
eral weeks. keenly alert to discover
anything that might put them on the