Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-11-17
1conlInued from Yesterday.l

Continued from Yesterday
Another one of your scruples, eh
BY Jove, ! wonder where you keep
them all. You're ready to trot out
one just in time to spoil any little
thing I'm trying to do for your pleas
ure or mine"
t.Please hush, Dicky,y I pleaded.
was afraid the woman in the next
room would hear him, he spoke In
such loud tones.
I'll hush when get good and
ready
I longed to shake him. his tone and
words were so much like those Of a
spoiled child. But he lowered his tone
nevertheless and stood for a minute
or two in sulky silence before the
empty fireplace.
eWeli. come along" he said at last
I'm sure there is no pleasure TO me
in looking over this place. I've seen
1t often enough when old F'orsman
had It filled with colonial junk. and
served the best meals to be found on
Long Island, It's like 8 eeffln nov to
me. But I thought you might like to
look 1t over. as you had never seen it
But for heavens sake, let US respect
your seruples."
! knew better than to make any
answer ! wished above everythipe
else to have this day end happily, this
whole day to ourselves in the eouH-
try, upon which ! had counted sc
much. ! feared that Dieky would be
angry enough to return to the city,
as he had threatened TO do when he
found the inn closed So 1t was with
much relief that after we had gone
back into the other room I heard him
asking the caretaker il there were
some place in the neiehborhooa where
We could obtain meal.
s'Dp you know where the Shakes
peare House is7'' she asked.
Never heard Of IT," Bicky answer
ed, although I've been around here
quite bit, too"
TITS about six blocks further dewF
toward the bay" she said. still IN tins
same coloTless tone she had used IRON
the first. ITS on the Shore road, 32s
Shore road. The Germans e~n it
Mr.. German, he's a builder. and he
built an old house over into copy
of shakespeare's house IN England.
Mrs. German is English. She serves
tea there on the porch in the sum-
ner. and i've heard she will serve a
meal to anybody that happens aiane
any time OF the year, although she
doesn't keep a regular restaurant
That's the only place know of any
where near. OF course, down on the
bay there's the Marvin Harbor Hotel.
You can get pretty good meal
there
The Country stere.
.sThauk YOU very much" said
Diekv. laying a dollar bill down on
the table near us. ] had sudden
fiash of understanding. Dicky meant
ali the time to reeompense the wom-
an In this way for allowing US TO see
the house. But the principle Of the
thing remained the same. Why could
he not have told her frankly that he
wished to look at the house and given
her the dollar in the beginnings
| did not ask the question, however,
even after we had left the old man
sion and were walking down the road,
/ felt like adopting the old mett0 and
leaving well enough alone.
II hope we don't have to 90 clear
tn the HaFbor before we eat" grum-
bIed Dieky as we tFudged along ]
echoed his wish silently. but heart
ily. The sun was just as bright, the
winter landscape just as beautiful as
1t had been an hour or two before
but tour eyes were holden" in the
ancient phrase. We could think OF
nothing but the savory meal Of which
we had been robbed by finding Put
nam Manor closed.
Perhaps they have telephone,
suggested. III we pass any store
OF place that has a phone we could
find out whether OF not this woman
at the Shakespeare House could serve
u.s.
Diciy stopped. and, putting up an
imaginary monocles surveyed me lfoii
head 30 foot.
Sometimes you have a gleam OF
almost human intelligence" he COM
mentsd gravely.
THANK you very kindly" return
ed In the same spirit of raillery, glad
TO have his good humor restored
Dicky, good -Hatursd, is delightful
companion. Dicky. suiky, is about as
eompanionabie as the traditional beaI
with the sore head.
'Wa'al, by heck. here's abaout wha'
we're looking for" drawlad Dicis
with an intenatieR he fondly imagined
to be a successful imitation Of a
countryman's voice. Look at this
Joint, win your
This Joint" was q country store
which evidently had been the old
fashioned ''parlors" of an immense
farmhouse. went slaEly up this
stems trying TO think OF some slight
purchase could make before asking
the courtesy of the telephone. Onet