The Celebrity, Complete

uld be to set a mild value on my feelings. I was angry, even aggressive, over her defence of the Celebrity. I had gone over to Mohair that day with a hope that some

aken my oath, two weeks before, that nothing short of hypnotic influence could have changed her. By her own confes

have consulted me. Again, I sometimes thought Farrar yearned for confidences, though it was impossible for him to confide. And he wore an inviting air to-night. Then, as everybody

e been behaving rather

invitation from Fa

good deal perplexed over the c

it was worse. Narrower, I mean. Didn't know you

aid I, "what is your

his feet against th

s Th

asis. I knew he had in mind that abomin

said he, "I never had an

ed any, I suppose," I re

ng, Crocker! One would think you were going to wri

ching beside her

said F

"and we sat with her on the Florentine porch, a

kened interest, "and I mea

And I gathered from what she told m

t much blame him, do you? Is that what

has said then and since, she made it pretty clear that

e didn't. But w

ith Miss Thorn, without revealing Mr. Al

her severe,"

ery word of it. She is with him morning and evening, and, to crown all, stood up

xpected in a woman,"

all alike,"

etting down from his high se

fellow," he whispered, a

st Farrar ever cam

cart. She gave me a bow which proved that she bore no ill-will for that which I had said about her hero. Then Miss Trevor appeared, and away they went together. This was the commencement. Soon the acquaintance became an intimacy, and their lives a series of visits to each other. Although this new state of affairs did not seem to decrease the number of Miss Thorn's 'tete-a-tetes' with the Celebrity, it put a stop to the canoe expeditions I had been in the habit o

and cursed the day the Celebrity came into the state. It seemed strange that this acquaintance of my early days should have come back into my life, transformed, to make it more or less miserable. The county-seat being several miles inland, and lying in the midst of hills, could get intolerab

have missed you dreadfully. And you look tired, poor man, quite wor

ed wit

any one to take me

I suggested, "

led hither and thither, stopping now and then to lie under the pines at the mouth of some stream, while Miss Trevor talked. She was almost a child in her eagerness to amuse me wit

to-day, and she says you go miles out of your way to get out of speaking to her; t

ay that?"

ou leave before coffee more than once when she was he

touch of acidity. "She knows what he is as well, if not better, than you or I. I own I can't

uietly at first, and, as her

asked, looking at my watch. "It

Crocker," she pleaded. "I re

aid anything funny, Mi

at is, you didn't intend to. But the very notion o

gument," said I. "And now she

id nothing until we came in sight of the inn. As the canoe glided i

fishing the othe

es

hooked, and how you played him longer than w

es

ing that prompted you to do that a