The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-04-11
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You certainly are one horrible
,ightr' he said aloud.
And at that he was instantly aware
IF an observer Turning quickly. he
was vouchsafed the picture of a charm
Ing lady, framed in a rustic aperture
Of the summer house" and staring full
into his window-straight into his eyes.
too, for the infinitesimal fraction of a
second before the 1ashingly censorious
withdrawal of her own. Composedly,
she pulled several dead twigs from a
vine, her action conveying a procla-
nation to the effect that she was in
the summer house for the sole purpose
Of suchlike pruning and tending.
Having pulled enough twigs to en-
phasze her unconsciousness-and Mt
the same time her disapproval-of ev-
erything in the nature of a Sherid
or belonging to a Sheridan, she de-
scended the knoll with maintained
composure, and sauntered toward a
side door Of the country mansion OF
the Vertreeses. An elderly lady, bon
neted and cloaked, opened the door and
came to meet her
Are you ready, Mary? I've been
Ing?"
Nothing. Just looking into one Of
Sheridans' windows" said Mary Yer
trees. II got caught at it."
Mary cried her mother. "Just as
we were going to CALI Good heavens"
"We'l go. just the same" the daugh-
ter returned. Il suppose those women
would be glad to have us if we'd
burned their house to the ground"
but who saw your insisted Mrs.
Yertrees.
zone Of the sons, l suppose he was.
/ believe he's insane, or something. At
least l hear they keep him in sani-
tarium somewhere, and never talk
about him. He was staring at himself
in a mirror and talking to himself.
Then he looked out and caught me-"
How did he look?"
like a ghost in a blue suit" said
Miss Vertrees, moving toward the
street and waving a white-g loved hand
in farewell to her father, who was OBJ
serving them from the window of his
library. Rather tragic and altogether
impossible. Do come on, mother, and
let's get it overt
And Mrs Vertrees, with many mis-
givings set forth with her daughter
for the gracious assault upon the new
house next door
CHAPTER ~.
Mr.. Vertrees, having watched their
departure with the air of a man who
had something at hazard upon the ex-
petition, turned from the window
and began to pace the library thought
fully, pending their return. He was
about sixty; a small man, withered
and dry and fine, a trim little sketch
of the elderly dandy. His lambre
quin mustache, like his smooth hair
was approaching an equally shee
whiteness; and though his clothes were
old, they had shapeliness and a fiavol
of mode.
The room was cheerful and hideous
Under a mantel of imitation blacl
marble a merry little coal fire beameI
forth upon high and narrow "Eastlake'
bookcases with long glass doors, com
Portable, incongruous furniture, half I
dozen Landseer engravings which MI
and Mrs. Vertrees sometimes men
toned to each other, after thirty year
of possession, as Every fine things.
They had been the first people in tow
to possess Landseer engravings, an
there in art, they had rested, but the
still had feeling that in all such maj
tiers they were in the van.
The growth of the city, which Nigh
easily have made Mr.. Vertrees a mi
llonaire, had ruined him because b
had failed to understand it. Whe
towns begin to grow they have whim
and the whims of a town always rui
somebody. The dainty little man wa
one of the first to fall down and wo
ship Bigness. He was a true proph
OF the prodigious growth but he had
fatal gift for selling good and buyir
bad He sold his Inherited Office bull
ing and house in town to buy lot
then he sold his farm, except the houi
and the ground about it, to pay tax
on the lots But he had to do som
thing to keep himself and his fami
up, so in despair he sold the 10
(which went up beautifully the ne
year, for TRACTION stock" that WI
paying dividends; and disappeared {
together from the commercial surfa
at about the time James Sheridt
came out securely on top.
But there came a day when thr
servitors of Bigness in Philadelph
took greedy counsel with four fello
worshipers from New York, and n
long after that there were no mo
dividends for Mr.. Vertrees. In fa'
there was nothing for Mr. Vertrees, /
cause the Traction stock" hencefor
was no stock at all, and he had mo
gagged his house long ago to help INA
age somehow" according to his cOnct