Gunnison news-champion., 1923-02-02
-No. Miss s.niolne: he h., son.

the right OF the door from which she
had taken the papers. The oonblna-
ton Of this second safe was known
put the envelopes Into II. closed IL.
and replaced the books. Then she
went 20 her fathers desk. took from
a drawer n lon. typewritren report Of
which he had asked her TO prepare
digest. and rad Il through conscious
ly concentrating. she began her work
At three she heard Avery's motor. and
went 10 the study door and looked out
Hs be entered the hall
"what have yon found. Donr' she
inquired.
Nothing yet. Harry.
You got Go trace Of tbemT'
mo: too many motors pass on that
road for the car TO be recalled par
tlculnriy. I've started what Inquiries
are possible and arranged TO have the
road watched In case they come back
this way"
He went past her and up 10 her IA
ther. She returned to the study and
put away her work.
Dinner was served in the, great
Jacobean dining room. with walls pan
eled to the high ceiling. LOGS blaz-
ing In the big stone fireplace. As they
seated themselves. she noted that
Avery seemed moody and uncommu-
nicariye: something. clearly. had irri-
tated and disturbed him; and, as the
meal progressed. he vented his irrita-
ton upon Eaton by sfrronting him
more openly by word and look than
he had ever done before In her pres
ence. She was the more surprised at
his doing this now. because she knew
that Donald must have received rrom
her father the same Instructions as
had been given herself TO learn what
ever was possible OF Eaton's former
position In life.
Before Eaton's entrance Into her
life she had supposed that some time.
as a matter OF course, she was going
TO marry Donald. In spite Of this. she
had never thought Of herself as apart
from her father; when she thought Of
marrying. II had been always with the
idea that her duty to her husband
must be secondary to that TO her
father; she knew now that she had
accepted Donald Avery not because
he had become necessary 10 her but
because he hnd seemed essential to
her father and her marrying Donald
would permit her life tn go on much
rs II was.
Donald had social position and
t,E, NJ nd
now suddenly she was feeling that he
had nothing bu; these things. that hts
own unconscious admission was chat
10 be worth while he must have them
thar TO retain and increase them was
mis- only object In life. She had the
feeling that these were the only things
he would fight for: but that for these
he wonli fight--fairly. perhaps. II he
could--but, II he must. unfairly, des-
plcably.
She had finished dinner. but she hes
itated 10 rise and leave the men
alone; after-dinner cigars and the iic-
tion Of the masculine conversation
auput the table were Insisted on by
Blatchford As she DELAYED looking
across the table at Eaton. mis- eyes
met hers reassured. she rose AZ once:
the three rose with her and stood
while she went out. She wen, up
he wanted nothing. and after u con
yersation with him as short as she
could make II, she came down again.
No further disagreement between the
tyo men. apparently. had happened
after she left the table. Avery now
was not visible. Eaton and Blatchford
were In the musicroom. With re-
pugi:ance against her fathers orders
which she had never felt before. she
began to carry out the Instructions
her father had given her.
She noticed that Eaton was familiar
with almost everything she had nke5
which had been written Or was cur
rent up to I'VE years before: all later
music was strange 70 him Ts this
extent he had been Of her world.
plainly. up to 1ve years before; then
he had gone out Of Il
She realized this only as something
which she was to report to her father:
yet she felt a keener. more personal
interest in It than that. Harriet San
foine knew enough Of the world to
know that few men break completely
all social connections without some
link OF either fact or memory stil
holaing them. and that this link most
often Is a woman.
Toward ten O'Clock Eaton excused
himself and went to his rooms. SM
sat for time. Idly talking with
Blatchford; then, As q servant passed
through the hall and she mistook mo-
mentariiy his footsteps for those Of
Avery, she got up suddenly and went
upstairs. 1t was only after reaching
FER rooms that she appreciated that
the meaning Of this action was that
she shrank from seeing Avery again
that night. But she had been in her