Part 28 (1/2)
CHAPTER XVII
A NIGHT MARCH
Arkwright saw no one but his valet-masseur for several days; on the left side of his throat the ers showed even above the tallest of his extrearet had gone to New York on a shopping trip--had gone for a stay of two or three weeks When the adventure in the garden washoht he ju's ar the way up the Arkwright steps and ringing the bell Grant muttered a curse under his breath When the man had opened the door, ”Co the way into the house
”You'd think it was his house, by gad!”up and down before the entrance for an hour The butler asked me in, but I hate walls and roof The open for ht ”The faet to my part of the house”
When they were there, with doors closed and the lights on, Craig exhaled his breath as noisily as a bloi on the divan and thrusting his feet into the rich and rather light upholstery of a near-by chair
Grant eyed the feet gloomily He was proud of his furniture and as careful of it as any old e your clothes,” cried Josh ”I told your ht de at the riot out You see, we're going to New York to-night--or rather thisTrain starts at one o'clock I oing by special train--asked hiht ”No New York for o”
”Of course you don't,” laughed Craig, and Arkwright now noted that he was in the kind of dizzy spirits that reat deal indeed ”Of course you don't No o--and so have you”
”What for?”
”To help ape at hione to New York?”
”I saw it in the paper, but--”
”Now, don't go back a week to ancient history”
”I don't believe it,” foa up and paced the floor,watched, seeely aot to put in the ot--You knohat sort of a wardrobe ! If I took off my shoes you'd see half the toes of one foot and all the heel of the other And only my necktie holds this collar in place Both buttonholes are gone As for my underclothes--but I'll spare you these”
”Yes, do,” said Grant with a vicious sneer
”Now, you've got to buydrew a roll of bills from his pocket, counted off several, threw them on the table
”There's four hundred dollars, all I can afford to waste at present
Make it go as far as you can Get a few first-class things, the rest decent and substantial, but not showy I'll pay for the suits I've got to get They'll have to be ready-ood ready-o to the tailor's first thing--about seven o'clock in the ive him plenty of ti his restless pacing and sla himself on to a chair
”Oh, yes, you will,” asserted Craig, with absolute confidence ”You're not going back on ! I've known Rita Severence nearly twenty years, and I know she's done with you”