Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-04

breakfast alone in the sun-bright dining
room. And II at time, as she sat and
munched, her look was pensive and re-
mote, this was due less to mlsgivings
than TO mystifcation.
The quarrel and reconciliation with
Mrs. Standish had cleared the atmosphere
Of their relations: henceforward there
could he no more misunderstanding they
hated each other heartily; neither en-
tertained any illusion as TO that, but
their interests were too far interdepen-
dent to license any play Of private feel
ing Sally wanted to stay on at Gosno.d
House, and Mrs. Standsh was resigned;
Mrs. Standish wanted her insurance
money, and Sally would help her get II
by keeping quiet. Sally might be dealt
with severely by the law II Mrs. Standish
said the word, and Mrs. Standish. IL
Sally spoke, would suffer not only III
her pocketbook but in the graces OF
her aunt.
But Sally was not without conjunction
In respect to the deception practced on
her still prospective employer II WASN'T
possible to know Mrs Gosnold and not
like her; II that personality enforced rn-
spect, II was a lodestone for affection,
and Sally meant with all her heart to
serve faithfully and well; II she was to
have her way, neither would known a
single regret because Of their association
until time and chance consplrcd to sunder
II,
rhen. too sleep had appreciabiy
changed the complexion of her mind to-
ward the Lyttleton episode She was not
yet able to recall that chapter of in
fatuation without cringe of shame; but
that would pass with time and the ex-
perience had not been without value
already apparent, For even as she hal
said TO him. she was cured-and more
than cured, she was instructed: she was
not only better acquainted with herself
hut had learned to read the Lyttleton
temperament too well ever to require
repetition of that lesson. II she hal
played the fatuous moth she had come
through cheaply. with wings not ever
singed, for what she had taken for flame
had proved TO be no more than cheapest
incandesCence She felt so sure of nIl
this that she could even contemplate the
AFFAIR with some inkinge of the amuse-
ment that 1t would yet afford her. And
she was fixed to make this the KEY OF
her attitude toward the man i'm all such
future intercourse as was unavoidable.
But TreGo
Trego was a horse of another color
altogether. The very name of Trego was
hateful In her hearing. There was little
she would not willingly have done, how;
ever unjust and unfair, to avoid further
communications with this animal of
Trego.
And yet. as she had learned the term
of his stay at Gosnold House had still
another week TO run, and he was in
some way favorte aud intimate of
Mrs. Gosnold, apt frequently to figure
as her guest; and since this was so. and
Sally herself bade fair (barrng accidcnts)
to prove fixture i'm the household II
unR ftnI,
often thrown together So she must at
all costs school herself to treat him
civilly-at least without overt animoeitv.
She could imagine no task more DIM
cult or distasteful. short of forfeiting her
place In this new sphere, she would have
paid almost any price for remission of
that duty,
The irony of life seemed n bitter draft
Granting 1t had been requisite to some
strange design of fate. in it's insCrutable
vaGary, that several persons should suffer
a night of broken rest at Gosnod House
why must they have been those four and
none other-Sally, Adele Standish, Lyttle-
ton TreGo? Especially Trcgo! why that
one? Palpable bonds of mutual interest
linked the three first named their COM
mon affllction might conceivaby have
been ascribable to subtle psychologicaI
affinity. But Trego was well outside thu ,
triangle, even as perceptbly out of SYM
pathy with majority of Mrs. Gosnolds 5 |
guests
CONTINUED TOMORROW