The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-11

toll. md in every way. Old
. vas president of the
u,. ... telephone company and
Zoo, e. .rpu Bank. But Fred, his
Inc Nd ,t. . p apparent. did not in
Un' 49,. t......-- ability of his father.
""'' r,.. .. took pains to conceal
that fac.
,,,,,, FIJI ranged an alliance with
W, r... who also was of the in
"' go q Keepsburg. everybody
me-, l.o.,.....,' would soon lose them.
s% ,..,,t..I. was right. When single
A"r sad ...... a for other social worlds
'''" ,,,,., ...i when they combined
t,r-rr.. lud ambitions they found
.h,r,,. ..I. possible and they left 1t to
ny Siege &, Sow York.
rhey war, goo crafty to at once at
- x.v York itself. \ widow lady
49,. mot while On their honeymoon at
,',r, u.,.r had told them not to at
,.,,n, that Mud as she was the Palm
80 corr. .uudcnt Of society paper
49,, natural, accepted her advice.
Tnsy ,.l..i with the lady corre-
. ..inIsn, ,... t was far better to ad-
,r,. i..-...... FIRST firmly to intrench
.If Subhl Us iiiu hhNh w
a,"r Nv }..A not as the Keeps from
ya.r.hurt which meant nothing, but
a. the Fred Keeps Of Long Island or
w. che. .r .r Iordentown.
Tn. p... from which the Keeps
,,,tel ,r '....h their attack was Scar
h,r,.pn.....l olson. But the attack
Adj mo-, -,.."d. Something went
.r,rr T... began to fear that the
hdy ,orr,-i. .irnt had given them the
wrong dope.
For although three months had
,assed and they had played golf
,orethrr until they were as loath to
thsu a su! club az red hot poker.
,hey knew no one and no one knew
nom That u.s. they did not know the
Van WtrI.u-. and If you lived at Scar
horo and were not recognized by the
Van W,rI.ns you were not to be found
on any map
Since the days Of Hendrix Hudson the
country seat II the Van Wardens had
looked down upon the river that bea
his name and ever since those days the
Van warden, had looked down upon
everybody else. They were so proud
that al all heir gates they had placed
signs rttttiE No nOl StS diipNtt. AohN
the other road.
The other road was an earth road
used by trllyspcople from Ossining; the
road I'd tor the Van Wardens and
automobile was of bluestone. 1t helped
greatly O. eve the Van Warden estate
the appearance Of we'll kept cemetery.
And those Van Wardens who occupied
the coun rs place were as cold and I'M
socab,e as the sort OF people who oc-
cupy cemeteries, except Harry Van
Warden and he lived in New York at
the Turf club.
Harry according to all local tradi-
ton for he frequently motored out to
Warden Koopf. the Van Warden coun-
Try seat. and according to the news
papers VAS a devil of a fellow and in
no sense cold or unsociable. So far as
the Keeps read of him he was always
being arrested for overspeeding or
breaking his collarbone out bunting or
losing h., front teeth at polo. This
greatly annoyed the proud sisters at
Warden koopf. not because Harry was
arrested ,r had hroken his collarbone
but because It dragged the family name
in,o the newspapers.
The country place of the Keeps was
completely satisfactory, and for the pur-
poses OF heir social comedy the stage
setting NaS perfect. The house was one
they had rented from a man of charm
Ing taste aud inflated fortune. and with
ii they had taken over his well dis
eipined butter his pictures, furniture,
family silver and linen. 1t stood upon
an rm.u,nre. was heavily wooded and
surrounded by many gardens, but Its
chief attraction was an artificial lake
well stocked with trout that lay directly
below the terrace Of the house and also
in full View from the road to Albany.
This latter fact caused Winnie Keep
much concern, In the neighborhood
were many Italian laborers, and on sew
tral nigh the fish had tempted these
born poiy.yrs TO trespass; and more
than once on hot summer evenings
sma,! boys from Tarrytown and Ossin-
ing had AroE.n through the hedge and
used th" lake as swimming pool.
1T makes me nervous" complained
Winnie. II don't like the idea of peo-
pie prowlins around so near the house.
And think rt those twelve hundred con-
NctS Not one mile away in Sing Sing
Mos u them are burglars, and il they
ever get our our house is the very first
one thryU break INFO"
i haven't caught anybody in this
, ne'shhprhoul breaking into our house
yet said Fred. and I'd be glad to see
even burglar"
They W.g. sea ed on the brick terrace
that overlooked the lake. 1t was just
before the dinner hour, and the dusk OF
wonderful october night had fallen or
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