White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-10-07
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bottle of wine and light good cigar
some id nobody rings for ice water.
or the fire needs logs, or there's
mouse in bedroom and I'm elected
to slay it."
But, daddy" she reproved him,
you are here on duty, and very
great deal more may depend on you
than you think. I've been awfully
proud of the way you carried 1t off,"
Neeland Barnes went about his work
with greater spirit.
"When think Of man of your
genius doing this sort of thing" she
said to Fleming Bradney as she shook
hands, II can't admire you enough"
She left them, smiling brilliantly.
They felt she had the secret of sue
cess with her. Yet, alone in the taxi
cab, she cried unrestrainedly.
Robin McKimber did not find out
she was gone until luncheon. The
Raxon girls had not forgiven him. He
was so obviously in love with the de-
spised Agatha that they admitted col
lective and Individual failure.
Robin chafed that his parents
seemed to have decided to stay a few
more days. He did not like to leave
at once; he feared people would think
he had pursued Miss Brown. All day
long his father was with Raxon in
his distant suite. The delay seemed
intolerable. More than anything else,
Robin wanted to find where Agatha
had gone. His appeal to Sneed
brought no results. Then he thought
of De Guillain.
Robin had not hitherto liked this
man. He had been Jealous Of all who
seemed intimate with the girl. But
he decided to make clean breast
of it.
II have asked Miss Brown to marry
me-" he said quietly. yesterday 1t
seemed as though she loved me. This
morning, out on the links, she said she
had to go, and something had hap
pened which made everything impos-
sible Perhaps she has heard things
about ME that / could explain. Can't
you help me to find herr"
| Malet did not answer Immediately.
His first impulse was to help young
time that he was engaged in con-
spiracy in which the elder McKimber
might be involved. For the time the
two must be kept apart. 1t would not
do to let him suspect he knew her
present address.
"Alas, that cannot help you" he
returned. madame la Duchesse de
Frontage Verte, at whose chateau in
the Department of the Loire I first
met Miss Brown, is now travelling in
Tuscany. Perhaps cablegram adj
dressed to her might bring results"
"How do <you spell her manner"
Robin demanded.
few minutes later he came face
to face with Mrs. Raxon and asked
her bluntly how it was she had en-
gagged an inefficient person.
"She had references from the cOun-
tess of Horsham, at Horsham in
England, and Mrs. Hamilton Buxton
of Westbury Old Manor"
1t was her daughters who pointed
out later that he had obtained the
addresses he sought by ruse. They
were very bitter.
Mrs. Hamilton Buxton would prob
ably not have received "a stranger had
she not seen him coming up the drive
in his fast car. She was a lady OF
. many loves, and she had once seen
him at Piping Rock, although her OWL
set did not stoop to intimacy will
that in which the McKimbers moved
She liked handsome young men.
But, my dear Mr.. McKimber," she
cried, 81 have never even heard of {
Miss Agatha Brown. If she used refer
ences signed by me, she forged them.
: Her experienced eyes had shown
her that this beau garcon was in love
. and probably with an adventures.
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