The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-11-16

In league with nlm to keep up the d.
ception. Gloria's father was lendin
him money. He was plainly chill
Of destiny.
He was SO treasured by his LUG
that he made a holiday with Mulry
who planned to start off at one
on a round of the different cite
where they had branch Offices for tn
convenience of victims who lived IA
from New York.
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Ignorance may be bliss, but it Is no
preparedness. Freneau was blissfu
In the belief that Lois was quieted. He
did not dream, nor did she, that David
Stafford was awakening. When Ere
neau took Lois to the taxicab, she
lowered her veil, but veil is only
a partial disguise at best, and it may
attract attention. Neither Freneau mol
Lois noted that certain Mrs. Coleridge
was passing, or that she stared hard
Mrs. Coleridge was one of the pretti
est faces in Freneau's pack of dis
cards. She was a sort of female Ere
neau, but in Freneau she had met
her match, because she allowed her
self to be more thrilled than thrilling.
He had passed on without long pause
before her shrine.
Mrs. Coleridge had seen Freneau
with Lois at various tea dances, and
she recognized Lois all the moreread-
lily for her veil. She was outraged in
! her finest sensibilities. She felt it her
| duty, to see that Lois was punished.
She did not want to appear as a COM
planning witness, but her righteous in
dignation carried her to a large hotel
in whose writing room she found pen,
ink, paper, envelopes, and secrecy She
dashed off a little note to David adj
more interest than he might approve
in certain heart-breaker Mrs. Cole
ridge neglected to sign her name. In
fact, she rather disguised her hand
writing, though this made little diff
ference, since David did not know
1t, anyway. She dropped the little
letter into a mail-box with the inno-
cent glee of an anarchist slipping a
bomb with a time fuse under a mil
liOnaire's automobile.
The United States post office author
tiles carried the loaded letter to Da-
vid's office for her. He opened it
and read it, but could not understand
it. He read it again and understood
1t, but could not believe it. He was
about to toss it in the waste-basket,
where such missives belong. He read
it again. 1t threw him into black pit
of agony and CONSERVATION.
Now he could, but would not, be-
lieve it. He wondered who the heart
breaker" might be. He remembered !
that Lois had been fond of Freneau
years before. He dismissed this sus-
picion with contempt. He loathed the
letter. Only towards and mischief
makers write such letters. He threw |
this one from him as if it were some
thing unclean. Yet the anonymous |
poison gnawed away in his brain. He
clenched and unclenched his hands
and paced the floor, beads of perspira
ton dripping down his face.
At last he fought it out with himself
and decided that he would trust Lois
till she was proved unworthy How
ever, the letter seemed to whisper
to him, "a little test will do no
harm"
OF course, Lois was guiltless, but
perhaps she had been careless Of ap-
pearances. 1t would be better to
wait and rebuke the indiscretion when
it occurred. He had been talking of a
trip South to a meeting of board of
railroad directors on which his father
had placed him. 1t was not necessary
for him to go. But he might pretend
that it was, and tell Lois good-by, and
pretend to leave, and then. He
Jared not put the scheme into words.
But he dared not let the chance go
past to make sure.
That evening, when he went home,
Lois greeted him with her usual
warmth. Before he had quite decided i,
What to do, he had told her that he l
was called South for ten days, and
lie had not urged her to go with him.
0uS ulu llOl dSh W 81. LII ldCI, uo F..
hought that she took the bad news J
With just a little too much philosophy. |
He was tormented with shame and |
suspicion. I
The next day, when he went to his d
,ff1ce, he babe her good-by as if he
we're the criminal and she the saint. '
lie could not have imagined that Lois =
'nly waited his departure to fling on Z
Ter hat and her veil and speed to 9
Treneau before he should leave for L
lis own Office.
She found him, and he gave her a 7
old welcome. When she told him L
hat David was to be in the far South Il
or week, he did not seem to be in v
crested. When she rejoined that now .
hey could be together without the an Il
oyance Of David's presence, Freneau
olemnly reminded her of the danger IL
'om gossips and servants. He must .
ak warily, now that he was u
to bank account like Stat g
,rd's.
To this Lois made the astonishing q
nswer that if New York was too full s
spies, she would go elsewhere. She e