Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-26

lows disappointed. There was lot OF
EN- after her."
After her money. you mean"
| Yes, some Of 'em, maybe; but it's
not the money with Mr.. Farnham. Hes
crazy about her. And 1 guess she's
crazy about him. too. Only she sure did
like to get him going, taking off the
way he talks. She could do it down
laughing"
the memory Of those deep tones which
l had thought so English and SO love-
! ly.
| "Anw idea who the woman with him
tonight was?" Tai asked "She didn't
wish to be recognized, that's sure"
NO. 1 don't know who she could
| have been. He never went round up
here with anybody but Miss Hoyt"
Queer for him to be driving limou
sine. I'm inclined to think you're mis-
taken about it being Farnham."
"Oh it was him. all right. Guess the
chauffeur was off and they had to get
! to the hospital quick. l can't make out,
| though, where they could have been
coming from. l never saw that car
around here; it's an English make"
! The Hoyt place is closed. you say?"
| Yes Nobody there but the care
takers. Besides, it's in the direction
the car was headed for-just beyond
the Martin place, where we came from.
Funny, Mr.. Farnham not turning
! round. and the way that woman lodged,
wasn't it,"
Il guess it wasn't Farnham at ALL"
| said Tai.
There was a pause; then the chauf-
| feur replied:
| We'll. I've got a good memory for
! voices. and I heard his every day all
summer. 1 was driving for a lady
| stopping at the inn, a friend of Miss
| Hoyt's, and l used to take her over
| there every morning for polo Mr..
| Farnham was teaching some of 'em to
| play. Guess you saw the picture of
! Miss Bobbie on her pony in one of the
Sunday papers not long ago? Swell,
| wasn't it?"
| l did not hear Tails answer. for I
had suddenly hit the trail of memory
/ for which l had been searching for
| hours. l had seen that picture in polo
Roberta Hoyts name. The photograph
l still recalled distinctly. 1t had been
stunning in effect, as If she had ridden
her mount straight through the middle
her whole being alive with the move
ment and thrill of the game
"Oh. she'll marry him all right" I
heard the chauffeur saving, when 1
began to listen again. She amt the
sort to go part way and then back out.
7th Of next month or she'll lose her
money. You know about that don't
you? She has to be married before
she's nty-one-it's in her GRANDPA
Der s. She's just got about ten days
left"
Running it pretty close"
She'll make 1t all right, though, l
guess"
Make 1t! You can bet she'll make
/ It, With two millions at stake?"
Yes. and not a red cent if she
! doesn't marry. The old man wanted to
/ make her marry and settle down. He
| didn't like the way she was carrying
on. always getting into the papers
! though she couldn't help that. But
what got his goat was this suffrag e
business. parading the streets and
making speeches and going on those
hikes they had. And what finished
him was her mixing up in that shirt
| waist strike two years ago. She was
| doing picket duty for the girls, and
got arrested for resisting an officer"
| was SO mad he never spoke to her for
nearly a week"
We had reached the station. Tai paid
the fare. and We went to the waiting
| room.
s,rs What dig 10Y think Of that limou
we were seated, IF we had had time
where those people went That groan,
for instance-did it sound to you like
| a mans"
why. he said it was a man'sw 1
answered. I'D call it a moan. not a
groan, though"
| II know he said 80, but my impress
sion before he said so was that it was
a woman's." He frowned thoughtfully.
Wonder If that man could have been
Farnham? 1 couldn't shake that boy.
you noticed. However, ia better get
to work on my story. I want to finish
It by the time we get to town. But
I've sure got funny bunch about that
| limousine"
| He settled himself, and I went out
side and paced the platform. I had
plenty to think of. Curiously. in all
not thought Of her as either engaged
or very rich The discovery that she
was both was a jolt
Tails story was finished on the train