The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-02-01
CHAPTER ~.
In Which tho Truth 'Trespasses.

CHAPTER ~.
In Which tho Truth Trespasses. =.
r lORD and Lady Bazelhurst with
the more energetic members Of
ii their party, spent the day in
so called hunting excursion
to the .hlns south Of the villa. Toward
nightfall they returned successfully
empty handed and rapacious for
bridge. Penelope, full Of smoldering
anger, had spent the afternoon in her
room, disdaining every call Of sociabil-
tty. She had awakened to the truth of
the situation in so far as she was con-
cerned. She was at least seeing things
from Shaw's point of view. Her re-
sentiment was not against the policy.
Of her brother, b,nt the overbearing.
petulant tyranny of her American SIS
ter-in-law. From the beginning she
had disliked Evelyn; now she despised
her. With the loyal simplicity of a
sister she absolved Cecil Of all real
blame in the outrage Of the morning,
attributing everything to the cruelty
and envy Of the despot who held the
purse strings from which dangled the
pliable fortunes of Bazelhurst. The
Bazelhursts, one and aA-ancestors
thrown. 1n-swung back and forth on
the pendulum of her capriciousness.
Penelope DOOR rs. a church mouse was
almost wholly dependent upon her
brother, who in turn owed his present
afduence to the more or less luckless
movement Of the matrimonial market.
The girl had small inadequate in.
:come-so small that it was almost
worth testing about
!. Here was Penelope, Twenty-Five,
beautiful, proud. fair minded and
healthy, surveying herself for. the first
time from a new and an entirely diff
ferent point Of view. She was not
pleased with: the picture She began
to loathe herself more than she pitied
her brother. Something like smile
came into her clouded face as she spec.
ulated on Randolph. Shaw's: method of
handling Evelyn Banks had she fallen
to him as a4wife. The quiet power in
that mans: face signff1ed the presence
of a manhood that-ah, and just here
It occurred to her that Lady Bazelhurst
felt the force of that power even
though she never had seen the man.
She hated him because he was strong
enough to oppose her, to .ignore@her, to
laugh at her impotence.
The smoldering anger and growing
sense of fairness combined at length
in the: determination to take her broth
er and his wife to task, for the morn
fng's outrage, let the consequences be
what they might. When she joined the
people downstairs before dinner there
was red spot in each cheek and a
steady look in her eyes that caused the
duke to neglect woefully the conversa-
ton he was carrying ,on with Mrs. Cd
well.
Dinner was delayed for nearly half
an hour while four Of the guests fin
ished their rubber" Penelope OBJ
served that the party displayed varying
emotions. It afterward TRANSFERRED that
the hunters had spent most of the aft
ernoon In her ladyship's distant lodge
playing bridge for rather high stakes.
Little Miss Folsom was pitifully unre-
sponsive to the mirth of Mr." Odwell.
She could i'll afford to lose $500. Lady
BaZelhurst was in a frightful mood.
Her guests had so far forgotten them
selves as to win more than $1,000 of
the Banks legacy, and she was not a
cheerful loser, especially as his lord
ship had dropped an additional $500.
The winners were riotously. happy.
They had found the sport glorious. An
observer given to deductions might
have noticed that half Of the diners
were immoderately hilarious. the other
half studiously polite.
Lord Bazelhurst wore a hunted look
and drank more than one or two high
balls. From time to time he cast fur
tive: glances at his wife. He laughed
frequently at the wrong time and
mirthlessly.
Hes got something on his mind"
whispered Odwell in comment
YES; he always laughs when there
is anything on his mind" replied Mrs.
De Peyton. ''That's the way he gets
it off,"
After dinner no one proposed cards.
The party edged of into twos and
threes and explained how luck had
been with or against them. Penelope,
who could not afford to play for stakes
and had the courage to say so, sat
back and listened to the conversation
| Of her brother and the group: around
him. The duke was holding forth on
the superiority Of the Chinese over the
Japanese. as servants, and Bazelhurst
was loudly defending the Japanese
navy. -
Hang it all, Barminster, the Japs
could eat 'em up!' he proclaimed.
| Couldn't they?" to the crowd. -. f..
! "Fm talking about servants, Cecil"
j observed the duke. 4sr> i, =.ss. Il f. "
i And shoot? Why, they're the great
/ 1T gunners II the world. . BY Jovs, ]