The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-08-23

guillotine side-step. Facts, statistics,
hints-all are'lost upon them, and they'll
keep on as they are going in spite of all
until their little house of cards is top
pied over into a grand-slam they'll new
er forget to their dying day.
(Which brings US to the point, Billie"
said |. what has brought you here
among such peoplei am dying to
know"
"Oh," said Rawson. 81 though I'd like
to be looIer-on for little while. Do
you remember Shakespeare's lines:
any business in this state
Made me a looker-on here in Vienna"
well, that's my case; only we'll have
to revise Shakespeare to read:
my business for the state
Makes me'a looker-on here at the Al
gonac."
do you mean to say that there is
crime, actual crime, that brings you to
place like this professionally" l de-
manded.
% you can look for crime any,
where" said Rawson. Whether you'll
find it or not is, of course, another mat
ter"
Now, Billie" l protested. Whats
the use of being so confoundedly eng
matte with me? Do you expect to find
crime here?"
perhaps" said he, with a laugh. 81
have found worms, my dear links, in
the lushest looking strawberries"
With this l had to content myself,
and the next day found it easier to be
so, for the pleasures of the Algonsc
turned out to- be many and alluring.
Not the least of these was a foursome
at golf, in which Rawson and l played
against two members of the Algonac
summer colony-one of them Harrison
Scoville, of New York, famous in the
world of finance and distinguished as
a consumer of art, if not exactly con-
noisseur. If picture were valued by
anybody at a high enough figure, SEQ
vile was sure to want II, and there were
those who have called him a patron"
of art, though for my own part think
it very likely that art itself, in all prob
ability, would have pursued the even
tenor of its way had Harrison ScoviIle
never been born.
He was a masterful sort of person,
and found it more satisfactory play
ing against him than with him. Toll |
Grant of his own "mishsps," he was pet /.
ulant always over the errors of his part !
ner, and when at the end of the If |
teenth hole Rswson and l had him and
his unhappy colleague four down, no
one would have guessted from his sar-
castle comments that he had himself
ever missed a two-inch putt or fooled
ball in all his life. didn't like the
man, nor did l try to, and l am qnite
willing to admit that whether l liked !
him or not would have been a matter
of small concern to him. But l got a
lot of pleasure out of the game just the
same, for the simple reason that we
licked Scoville out of his boots
Later in the day, however, after din
ner, in fact-the Algonac people always
dine at midday just for the novelty of
the thing, its so simple to dine in the
middle of the day, you know-I was
glad that ScoviIle had been born.
discovered one mighty good thing about
him, and that was his daughter Marian.
How such lovely combination of girl
ish sweetness and gracious charm as she
undoubtedly was ever happened to
creep into the Scoville family is beyond
me, for l could discern in her manner
nothing even remotely suggesting either
her father or her mother. The latter
parsonage was a massive grenadier of
women-a militant anti-suffragist,
filed with positive knowledge in respect
to all things under the canopy of heaven
and opposed to votes for women be-
cause really, you know" she was al
ready so busy with her many response
bilities she couldn't add one atom to the
list of her womanly duties, which l
have ever reason to believe consisted
chiefly of choosing her gowns, chang
ing them, which she did at least five
times a day, and keeping tabs on the
rest of mankind through a pair of ex-
lorgnettes. l will say
for her, however, that if she served no
other useful purpose in the world she
was the complete justification of SEQ
vile himself, and much as l disliked
the man couldn't help feeling rather
sorry for him, tied up for life, as he
was, to such a Gibraltar of a woman.
How would you like to be married
to an iceberg like that, Billie'" said i,
after Rawson and 1 had been pre-
sented." ...
Il don't know" said Rawson. There
might be some advantages in it. No :