Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-21
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But Tom relapsed into an obstinAte silence.a He was angry and moTuse and his two friends left him in a hutb calling him impollte names and goss ing him for expressing a desire 10 i put his mental processes through bp ! unaccustomed exercise. This made him gloomier sull. And when he re- hected that, after all, he had men. toned the mysterious woman in the taxi, his depression became acute.
 He drove the balls around de serted table with vicious jabs of his cue, the while he too beWailed the fate that kept him away from the ! Carterets' yacht For he could not think of availing himself of this pleasure unless Buddy were along. Toms income did not permit of his owning yachts or motor-cars; but what he did not know about them was not worth anybody's time trying to find out
 He was thus reminded of catboat over at Rocky Cove, belonging to a friend who was in Europe. and which he could use whenever he wanted to-
 He threw down his cue, hunted up a timetable, then hastened home to toss a battered but wonderfully com
 fortable neghgee outfit into a bag and hie himself over 10 Long Island
 As he passed through the lounging
 room-it is worth recOrding-Var Vechten was breeding in his corner and SO did not see him. Tom sur
 veyed him a second or so, then con
 cluding that he had better not breal fin upon his cogitauons, hasteneC
 away.
 While it was yet daylight, Ton
 found tho sail where it was stored fl
 his friends boathouse, shipped tn, single mast and rigged it up, thel went up into town after box Of pro , visions. He meant to cruise arour'
 the Sound for q day or two, thur r ' ing Buddy plenty of time to thin , and perhaps learn something defrA
 about his Cousin Paige's movemC~. into the bargain; afterwards t5o ! might find time to join the Cart-ro | He was profoundly disgusted th1.
 girls caprice was depriying hiw '
 Buddy of a jolly good time. - That night, after a couple of gly1
 he went to sleep in his little cras
 cabin, and before daylight h0 astir and taking advantage of a hg !" off-shore breeze. All day he lccfe :, around the lower Sound eni5 S himself immensely and incident a emptying the provision locker t9 "a
 last crumb. He viewed this circun stance with a rueful laugh. !. Moses and green spectacles! An F l thought l was laying in supplt a for a weeks cruise!"
 Ia Then he laughed again-lighthear q edly this time-and trimmed about fC "a home
 ,t Dusk was falling when he drifte .e close in toward Rocky Cove. He wa u, possibly two miles on shore whe .e he heard the mufled exhaust an -" warning pipe of a motor-boat. Ar ,n here is where his adventure may
 said to have begun.
 f. Glancing back, he made out q " craft bearing down upon him under pr smother of spray of her own kckiI t7 up She swept by so close to DO
 that, despite the halfight, he W; ,a afforded a distinct view of several ia the boats occupants.
 se There were five men and thr, ,r. women. The latter were half-hidd, lv in their wraps and kept their fac ar averted, but the men all turned al Ie stared at him with a fixedness tn
 surprised Tom considerably and ma
 "a h- a , !" turned the scrutiny with an intere A which normally he would not ha l2 felt.
 His own regard sharpened. Al
 then his jaw dropped and his pi
 clattered upon the grating at
 feet.
 to He recognized one Of the men-t d's aged. white-haired servant whom n's had seen once or twice emerge fire eft Number 1913. Quickly he darted .rd glance at each of the others in tur
 but he had never seen them befo nd In a flash they were gone, and est was not until a vagrant pun heel ,rv him perilously astarboard that ba recovered his wits and brought ,m. boat round again into the wind. led then the motor-boat had been all her swallowed in the gloom.
 However, Tom reflected, they w bs heading straight for Rocky Cove; ins the breeze held he would have not own craft tied up at his friends p
 within the halfhour; then a gu ,r. change of attire in the boathouse. a sat he could put in the evening reconr ',- tering It would be queer if he fai .iI,, to turn up something in little pll a like Rocky Cove.
 But after he had dined at the (
 hotel where he felt free to go at t
 season without evening clothes, was put out to observe that a sto
 was brewing. The sky was aires ',, thickly overcast, the night suffoC uy ingly close, and on to the west is ming was lickering and approach with rapidity that promised squ