THE CHALOTTE NEWS, AUGUST 20 1909
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Rv MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
THE BOEBS-MERRILL
CHAPTER XIV.
An Egg-Nog and a Telegram.
We luu! discovered Louise r.t the
lodsie Tuesday nifiht. It was Wednes
day I had my inteivievv with her.
Tliuvsday and Friday were mievent
t;il. save as they marked iir.jruve
nient in our patient. Gertrrde spent
almost :'ll the time with her. and the
two had grown to he great friends.
But certain things hung over me con
stantly: the coroner's inquest on the
'death 'of Arnold Armstrong, to be held
Saturday, and the arrival of Mrs.
Annstroiii; and young Doctor Walker,
bt iiii'iiiu; the body' of the dead presi
dent of the Traders' Bank. We had
not told Louise of either death.
Then, too, I was anxious about the
children. With their mother's inheri
tance swept away in the wreck of the
bank, and with their love affairs in a
disastrous condition, things could
scarcely be worse. Added to that, the
cook and Liddy had a flare-up over the
proper way to make beef-tea for
Louise, and, of course, the cook left.
Mrs. Watson had been glad enough,
1 think, to turn Louise over to our
care, and Thomas went upstairs night
and morning to greet his young mis-tre.-s
from the doorway. Poor Thom
as! He had the faculty found still
in some old negroes, who cling to the
traditions of slavery days of making
his employer's interest his. It was al
ways "we" with Thomas. I miss him
sorely: pipe-smoking, obsequious, not
over reliable, kindly old man!
On Thursday Mr. Hart on, the Arm
strongs' legal adviser, called up from
town. He had been advised, he said.,
that Mrs. Armstrong was coming east
with her -husband's body and would
ariive Monday. He came with feome
hesitation.' he went on, to the fact
that he had been further instructed to
ask me to relinquish my lease on
Sunnyside. as it was Mrs. Armstrong's
desire to come directly there.
I was aghast.
"Here!" I said. "Surely you are
mistaken. Mr. Harton. I should think
after what happened here only a few
days ago, she would never wish to
come back."
"Nevertheless." he replied, "she is
most anxious to come. This is what
she says: 'Use every jossible means
to have Sunnyside vacated. Must go
there at once.' "
"Mr. Hartcn," I said testily, "I am
net going to do anything of the kind.
I and thine have suffered enough at
the hands of this family. I rented
the house at an exorbitant figure and
1 moved out here for the summer. My
city home is dismantled and in the
hands .f directors. I have been here
cr:e week, during which I have had
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piano score, words and music. Raymond W. Peck wrote the
words and the music is by Robert Hood Bowers.
Th's is the big song of Chas. Dillingham's "THE HOYDEN"
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not a single night of uninterrupted
sleep, and I intend to stay until I
have recuperated. Moreover, if Mr.
Armstrong died insolvent, as I believe
was the case, his widow ought to
he glad to be rid of so expensive a
piece of property."
The lawyer cleared his throat.
"I am very sorry you have
this decision." he said. "Miss
Mrs. Fitzhugh tells me- Louise
strong is with you."
"She is."
"Has she been informed of
made
Innes,
Arm-
this
double bereavement?"
"Not yet," I said. "She has been
verv ill; perhaps to-night she can be
told."
"It is very sad; very sad." he said.
"I have a telegram for her, Mrs. Innes.
Shall I send it out?"
"Better open it and read it to me,"
I suggested. "If it is important, that
will save , time."
There was a pause while Mr. Har
ton opened the telegram. Then he
read it slowly, judicially.
" 'Watch for Nina Carrington. Home
Monday. Signed F.
L. W.' "
" 'Watch for Nina
Monday.' Very
"Hum!" I said.
Carrington. Home
well. Mr. Harton. I
will tell her. but
she is not in condition to watch, tor
any one."
"Well, Miss. Innes, if you decide to
er relinquish the lease, let me
"know." the lawyer said.
"I shall not relinquish it," I replied,
and I imagined his irritation from the
way he hung up the receiver.
I wrote the telegram down word for
word, afraid to trust my memory, and
decided to ask Doctor Stewart how
soon Louise might be told the truth.
The closing of the Traders' Bank I
considered unnecessary for her to
know, but the death of her stepfather
and stepbrother must be broken to
her scon, or she might hear it in some
unexpected and shocking manner.
Doctor Stewart came about four
o'clock, bringing his leather satchel
into the house with a great deal of
care, and opening it at the foot of the
stairs to show me a dozen big yellow
eggs nesting among the bottles.
"Real eggs," he said proudly. "None
of your anemic store eggs, but the real
thing some of them still warm. Feel
them! Egg-nog for Miss Louise."
He was beaming with satisfaction,
and before he left, he insisted on go
ing back to the pantry and making an
egg-nog with his own hands. Some
how, all the time he was doing it, I
had a vision of Doctor Willoughby, my
nerve specialist in the city, trying to
make an egg-nog. I wondered if he
ever prescribed anything so plebeian
and so delicious. And while Doctor
Stewart whisked the eggs he talked.
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"T said to Mrs. Stew-art," he confid
ed, a little red in the face from the
exertion, "after I went home, the other
day, that you would think me an old
gossip, for saying what I did about
Walker and Miss Louise."
"Nothing oi life sort," I pprotested.
"The fact is," he went on, evidently
justifying himself, "I got that piece of
information just as we get a lot of
things, through the kitchen end of the
house. Young Walker's chauffeur
"Walker's more fashionable than I am,
and he goes around the country in a
Stanhope car well, his chauffeur
comes to see our servant girl, and he
told her the whole thing. I thought
it was probable, because Walker spent
a lot of time up here last summer,
when the family was here, aad4be:
sides, Riggs, that's Walker's man, had
a very pat little story about the doc
tor's building a house on this prop
erty, just at the foot of the hill.The
sugar, please.
The egg-nog was finished. Drop by
drop the liquor had cooked the egg,
and now, with a final whisk, a last toss
in the shaker, it was ready, a sym
phony in gold and white. The doctor
sniffed it.
"Real eggs, real milk, and a touch
of real Kentucky whisky," he said.
He insisted on carrying it up him
self, but at the foot of the stairs he
paused.
"Riggs said the plans were drawn
for the house," he said, harking back
to the old subject. "Drawn by Huston
in town. So I naturally believed him."
When the doctor came down, I was
ready with a question.
"Doctor," I asked, "is there, any one
in the neighborhood named Carring
ton? Nine Carrington?"
"Carrington?" He wrinkled his
fr.rehead. "Carrington? No, I don't
j remember any such family. There
used to be Covingtons down uie
creek."
"The name was Carrington," I said
and the subject lapsed.
Gertrude and Halsey went for a long
walk that afternoon, and Louise slept.
Time hung heavy on my hands, and
I did as 1 had fallen into a habit of
doing lately I sat down and thought
things over. One result of my medi
tations was that I got up suddenly and
went to the telephone. I had taken
the most intense dislike to this Doc
tor Walker, whom I had never seen,
and who was being talked of in the
countryside as the fiance of Louise
Armstrong.
I knew Sam Huston well. There
had been a time., when Sam was a
good deal younger than he is now,
before he had married Anne Endicott,
when I knew him ever better. So
now I felt no hesitation in calling him
over the telephone. But when his of
fice boy had given way to his confiden
tial clerk, and that functionary had
condescended to connect his employ
er's deck telephone, I was somewhat
at a loss as to how to begin.
"Why, how- are you, Rachel?" Sam
said sonorously. "Going to build that
house at Rock View?" It was a
twenty-year-old joke of his.
"Sometime, perhaps," I said. "Just
now I want, to ask you a question
about something which is none of my
business."
"I see you haven't changed an iota
in a quarter of a century, Rachel."
This was intended to be another jest
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Not Heard of Elsie Janis?
you ever heard her sing
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"Ask ahead: pvprvthinp- hut mv do
mestic affairs is at your service."
"Try to be serious.." I . said. "And
tell me this: has vour firm made any
plans, for a house recently, for a Doc
tor Walker, at Casanova?"
"Yes, we have."
""Where "was it to be built? I have
a reason for asking."
"It was to be, i believe, on the Arm
strong place. Mr. Armstrong himself
consulted me, and the inference was
in fact, I am quite certain the
house was to be occupied by Mr. Arm
strong's daughter who was engaged
to marry Doctor Walker."
When the architect had inquired for
the different members of my family,
and had finally rung off, I was cer
tain of one thing. Louise Armstrong
was in love with Halsey, and the man
she was going to marry was Doctor
Walker. Moreover, this decision was
not new; marriage had been contem
plated for some time. There must
certainly be some explanation but
what was it?
That day I repeated to Louise the
telegram Mr. Harton had opened. She
seemed to understand, but an unhap
pier face I have never seen. She look
ed like a criminal whose reprieve is
over, and the day of execution ap
proaching. (Continued to-morrow.)
POET'S GHOST LOWERS RENT
Wraith of Dante Befriends Tenants
of His Former Home.
Florence, Aug. 19. m the absence
of parliamentary reports the "Silly
Season" presents an admirable oppor
tunity for the Italian press to seize
upon something likely to attract at
tention. The austere old house, in
which Dante Alighierf was born in
the heart of Florence, is said to be
haunted by the great poet's ghost.
The house is let to a maker of
musical instruments and of late, so
says rumor, not only have the instru
ments begun to fly about the work
shop, but even the clarionettes and
flutes have uttered music of their
own accord until the inmates have be
come terror-stricken. On Thursday
it was reported .that Dante's "spirit"
is responsible for the commotion on
the part of the musical instruments.
The believers in Spiritualism in
Florence have held a seance in the
house and they claim that the poet's
spirit appeared clad in a long white
robe, and with outstretched arm and
awful voice told the people present
that he had been born in the house,"
and would not suffer the place to be
used any longer as a workshop, other
wise he would continue to haunt the
place and to agitate the musical in
struments. It appears that the landlord told
his tenant recently that he intended
to raise the rent considerably; how
ever, since the "ghost" has been
active, the landlord has changed his
mind, and now he is imploring his
tenant to remain in the famous
house at the old rent.
About the only thing the sometbing-for-nothing
seeker gets is a lot of
costly experience.
The donkey is unable to talk. There
fore man has indisputedly procjaimed
himself lord of creation.
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