Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-15
CHAPTER x1-,contlnued).

T THOUGHT It time to interfere. Look
J. here, Tony" ! protested don't be quite
so hard on him. Surely you can understand
that mistakes will happen. You'd best apol'
ogize and unlock that door"
"IT attend to this" said Sevrance rudely.
"You---" lie paused; the sourness of his
expression was ghtened by his winning
smile. "But after all you are right, he
conceded amiably turning the key in the
lock and opening the door mistakes VIII
happen, as Mr. Trail insists. You, then,
will be as lenient with mine as you expect
me to he with yours. 1 trust l bid you a
very good evening. Good night, sir; good
night But don't err again, ] counsel you.
The ancient's face flushed darkly under
the lash of Sevrance's irony. He straight
cned himself up anErily and anticipated
scathtng reply. But, to the contrary
he seemed to change his mind and. with
n slight inclination of his head, lett the
room.
I prepared to rcbuke sevrance for his
lack of consideration and was framing
toploftical homily 10" his edlncatIon as he
turned In and again secured the door.
ut seems to me-" began; but Grady
interrupted me. He had darted through the
connecting doorway from Sevrance's room
and stood, beaming with delight, boot i'll
either hand
"Shure." he commended his master. for
getting for the time, his place. twas tn
good dose ye gave the ould sinner, Mr.. Sew
rance, sor. Faith. an twas meself that
was susphcctin' him av some divVlemint
iver sinst ye lift this afthernoon. sor.'
changed my mind about that little
speech on IA mans duty of respect to his
elders and challenged the valet;
"How's that, Grady
"Shure, thii," he replied warmly, "an
didn't I see him with the two eyes av me-
tallSn' about your honors to some min In
an authymobile. Faith, an l did that
Go on. Tell us about IT," Sevrance en-
couraged him. "TIow did 1t happcn?"
Twas the matther av an hour, or an
hour an q half or mebbe two hours. sor,
aftber We had set off whin the divve wag.
gon sthopped in frint av here, and wan of
the min in It got out to ask his way. sor.
Thot ould rapscallion was poklng around
in the street for no reason at all at all
that meself could see, an tn minute ne
sees the machine stop he runs up and
begins to jabber in Frlnch wild tn payple
in IT, Not KNOWN tn languarge, twas me-
self that understood nothin' at all, but
not once but twice did hear him mEntion
the two names av ye."
"'The deuce you did!
'Faith yiss And after some more talk
the carr wint off like fash an he come
into the house, GRIMM to himself like
inCe--"
'Iow many men in the motor. Grady?"
"Three, sor."
Very we'll Grady Thank you very
much. Run along now" Sevrance dis
missed him.
what do you make of that?" demanded
eagerly.
Sevrance shook his head dubiously I'm
afraid to guess" he said slowly.
You thlnk-Von Holzborn--
"Oh. undoubtedly Else why should our
name be passed to those men? Why since
they must have known their way-having
asked it here-dd they stop at the lodge?
why did they so persistently demand the
name of the place, and dance about us
until they had the light in our faces and
at their own backs?'
He thrust his hands into his pockets
glowering at me as though 1 had been
Hol2born himself why did this old duffer
sneak at the door? Oh | was right there
And why is he playing n part--masquer-
aiding, as Il We're? Gordon, I tell you that
he's not half his apparent age. He acted
well, | grant you, but the muscles of the
arm that l clutched, when l dragged him
inside, were as heavy as mine, and as hard
as steel.-the muscles of a man I'm the
prime of his life Do you explain that
in any way-other than that he is Won