The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-01

Mr.. Cayley," she thought to herself
as she went on, and wondered what
the master would do without him. If
this brother. for instance. had to be
bundled back to Australia, it was Mr.
Cayley who would do most of the
bundling.
She told her aunt afterward that
she would have known him any
where for Mr.. Marks brother, but
she would have said that in any
event. Actually she was surprised.
Dapper little Mark, with his neat
pointed beard and his carefully
curled mustache; with his quick-dart-
ing eyes, always moving from one to
the other of any company he was in,
to register one more smile to his
credit when he had said a good thing,
one more expectant look when he was
only waiting his turn to say it; he
was a very different man from this
rough-looking, addressed colonial.
staring at her so loweringly.
II want to see Mr.. Mark Albeit, :"
he growled- 1t sounded almost like
a threat.
Yes. sir. He is expecting you, If
you will come this way"
Audrey went to the second door on
the left, and opened it.
Mr.. Robert Alb" she began, and
then broke off. The room was empty.
If you viii sit down. sir, I will find
the master. I know he's in, because
he told me that you were coming this
afternoon.
OH He looked round the room.
What d'you call this place, eh?''
The Office, sir"
1.-THE Officer"
''The room where the master works,
sir"
Works, Ell? That's new. Didn't
know he'd ever done a stroke Of work
in his life"
Where he writes, SIR" said Au-
drey, with dignity. The fact that Mr..
Mark wrote" though nobody knew
what, was a matter Of pride in the
housekeeper's room.
Well! Here was something to tell
auntie, Her mind was busy at once.
going over all the things which he had
said to her and she had said to him
quiet-hke. Directly I saw him said
to myself" Why, you could have
knocked her over with a feather
Feathers. indeed, were a perpetual
menace to Audrey.
However, the Immediate business
was TO find the master. She walked
across the hall to the library, glanced
in, came back a little uncertainty,
and stood in front Of Cayley.
"If you please. sir" she said in a
low, respectful voice, can you tell
me where the master is? It's Mr..
Robert called"
What" said Cayley. looking up
from his book. ''Who?"
Audrey repeated her question.
81 don't know. He went up to the
Temple after lunch"
THANK you, sir. will go up to
the Temple"
The Temple was a brick summer
house, in the gardens at the back Of
the house, about three hundred yards
away. Here Mark meditated some
times before retiring to the office" TO
put his thoughts upon paper. The
thoughts were not Of any great value;
moreover, they were given off at the
dinner-table more often than they got
on to paper. and got on TO paper
more often than they got into print.
But that did not prevent the master
of the Red House from being :, little
panied when a visitor treated the
Temple carelessly, as If it had been
erected for the ordinary purposes Of
Irritation and cigarette-smoking.
Audrey walked slowly up to the
Temple, looked in and walked slow
ly back. All that walk FOR nothing.
One of the men shooting rabbits.
Auntie was partial to q nice rabbit.
and onion sauce.
She came into the house. AS she
passed the housekeeper's room on
her way to the hall, the door opened
suddenly. and a rather frightened face
looked out.