The Kentons

g, and by the unliterary look of the slanted and huddled address of the envelope: The only doubt he could have felt in opening it was from the unwonted length at which she had

r ran, tripping and st

u about something that

at the speling, or the

thing itself, if you

e with his horrid wigg

the theatre. On the wa

marry him and at the d

h her hiseterics, and

o comfort her till da

th poppy and Boyne to

to the reading-room t

aiting for him, and w

wouldent say a word

make him. Boyne says

and hungon, till poppa

saw it was no use, an

ace, and Boyne believe

acted like I would h

; but of course Bittr

the floor, and Boyne s

orters came up, and

policeman, but father

idge to the desk and t

ey left as soon as o

ow where they went, b

y any way. Now, Dick,

am not going to put y

pretty well, the first

You can do just as y

if you're think I'm so

ess Boyne will say t

affection

ot

tie says is true, but

reason why he threw

t, and I have not got

y confidential.

ting. L

th fury to the throat. His fury was, in agreement with his temperament, the white kind and cold kind. He was able to keep it to himself for that reason; at supper h

loafers in the place, he went to an out-dated saddler's shop, and asked the owner, a vetera

rned. "Kind they make out of a

ort," said Richard,

n upper shelf. He got down with the tapering, translucent, wicked-lo

buttoned it under his coat, and paid the quarter which Welks said had always been the

lks called after him, havi

t," Richard called back

York special, and then returned to Ballardsville. Richard had bought a ticket for that station, and was going to take th

e caught securely into Bittridge's collar; then he began to beat him with the cowhide wherever he could strike his writhing and twisting shape. Neither uttered a word, and except for the whir of the cowhide in the air, and the rasping sound of its arrest upon the body of Bittridge, the thing was done in perfect silence. The witnesses stood well back i

n they did, Bittridge had nothing but confused answers to give to the effect that he did not know what it meant, but he w

hy, and Mary pulled off his shoes and put a hot-water bottle to his cold feet. It was not exactly the treatment for a champion, but Mary Kenton was not thinking of that, and when Richard said he st

do, Mary, but I would give anythin

and I think it's pretty hard this ha

of us." Mary looked stubbornly unconvinced, and she was not moved, apparently, by what he

ou don't believe he'll do

is shut. But you can't tell how Ellen w

llen Kenton could be

e with him she'l

with him when she knows ho

that I could take his part against father. And I can understand how Ellen-Anyway, I must

and made as if to throw off th

er writing-desk, and sat down near him to keep him from getting up, and wrote the date, and the address, "Dear Mother Kenton," whi

w of what had happened in New York, and when

u've got to tell all about it.

it to me. It makes me sick to think of it.

-I am sitting by Ric

has done. He received

ttridges' performance

and abused you all.

Ballardsville, and use

modation this morning,

ot attempt to resist,

ow, Mother Kenton, y

lence, and the dear, s

he had to do. But he

, once that he did it

t leave it to your jud

later she must find i

. He is just nauseate

s his stomach is settl

fore you sail, and wit

n which D

oving d

y KE

Will t

id," answered Richard, and Mary kissed

ton the evening the family left the hotel, when it was too late to make any change in their plans, but in time to gi

had not been of the least use to her in helping solve it, and she had not been able to bring herself to attack Lottie for writing to Richard. She knew it was Lottie who had made the mischief, but she could not be sure that it