I can have
no companion in misfortune."
It was that night that another house near the Club was robed, and
everything taken, including groceries and a case of champane. The Summer
People got together the next day at the Club and offered a reward of two
hundred dollars, and engaged a night watchman with a motor-cycle, which
I considered silly, as one could hear him coming when to miles off, and
any how he spent most of the time taking the maids for rides, and broke
an arm for one of them.
Jane spent the night with me, and being unable to sleep, owing to
dieting again and having an emty stomache, wakened me at 2 A. M. and we
went to the pantrey together. When going back upstairs with some cake
and canned pairs, we heard a door close below. We both shreiked, and the
Familey got up, but found no one except Leila, who could not sleep
and was out getting some air. They were very unpleasant, but as Jane
observed, families have little or no gratitude.
I come now to the Stranger again.
On the next afternoon, while engaged in a few words with the station
hackman, who said I was taking his trade although not needing the
Money--which was a thing he could not possably know--while he had a
familey and a horse to feed, I saw the Stranger of the milk wagon, et
cetera, emerge from the one-thirty five.
He then looked at a piece of MAUVE NOTE PAPER, and said:
"How much to take me up the Greenfield Road?"
"Where to?" I asked in a pre-emptory manner.
He then looked at a piece of MAUVE NOTE PAPER, and said:
"To a big pine tree at the foot of Oak Hill.
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