Richard Richard

EVER since the “first breakfast,” groups of passengers had been trooping down the gang-plank, hurrying with guide-book and satchel to “do” Naples, Vesuvius, Pompeii, etc., befor...

THE antiquated horse had taken all the time until noon to reach the summit, so the inn-keeper had rushed instantly to provide the lady and gentleman with a private dining-room....

MISS WELLS had other reasons for feeling guilty. Travelling about a foreign city with a man whose name she did not know, suggesting to him the dare-devil possibility of a week’s...

WHERE had the boy obtained money? And how had he got it? Geraldine and Mrs. Wells knew his former methods. The ordinary relaxed figure of the boy suggested a mind without a sche...

THE time came when Walter, a very sick boy, could be brought up on deck and cared for. It is so easy to account for any sort of secret illness on shipboard that few except casua...

AT Richard’s suggestion Walter moved into the older man’s stateroom. There the two men spent many hours together. Walter was glad enough not to have to appear among the others,...

MEANWHILE, in Richard’s stateroom Walter had had his gill and was fighting hard at cribbage to count in a fine handful of “fifteen’s.” “Pretty smart,” Richard remarked as he dre...

PROFESSOR “JAWN” GALLOWAY was of a different “caste” from Richard, but they matched up equally as chums. Galloway had been one of the West Side group; in fact, he had been a Wes...

GERALDINE went directly to her mother. She found her in her usual place, forward under the bridge. Evidently Mrs. Wells had had a little nap; she looked refreshed and immeasurab...

EARLY the next morning Mrs. Wells appeared as usual on deck and, with apparently the same imposing mien as of old, watched the docking of the S.S. _Victoria_. Externally she had...

INSTANTLY Geraldine knew that she had blundered. The lesson of the value of silence she had not quite learned, although she was making strides. After two weeks of “non-committal...

THE sun was shining pleasantly over Bluff Point, and the temperature of the water was absolutely neutral to the swimmers. It was glorious swimming, thought Richard. He was enjoy...

“WELL, if I can’t hug him,” Phœbe resigned herself briskly, “tell me his name and let me get acquainted as quick as possible. Although I think you make a mistake, Jerry darling,...

IT took a long part of the morning for Walter’s “cat” to arrive at Fagner’s dock. The skipper was in Penn Yan, he was told, at the N. Y. C. tracks, unloading his new yacht. So m...

ANY friend of Mr. Richard’s was welcome to “Red Jacket,” Mrs. Wells assured Jawn; and no questions asked; one could never tell when Phœbe Norris was joking and when she was seri...

RICHARD showed no indication to leave his comfortable place on Phœbe Norris’ porch. And Phœbe hummed about her work like a young healthy bee. When she felt particularly pleased...

“It’s a beautiful view from here,” he objected lazily; “why go down into it and mess it up with us? We don’t help the landscape much. We’re not a set of Corot dancing wood-nymphs.”

JERRY’S long walk the previous evening had given her an excuse to have her coffee and rolls served in her room. She did not want to admit even to herself that she was nervously...

A GREAT hedge, cut to resemble the old-fashioned pillar-and-ball entrance to a driveway, welcomed one into the beginning of the gardens. Beyond the hedge the path curved abruptl...

“Mrs.” George Alexander, who, as “Sukie,” presided over the kitchen, reckoned that Miss Geraldine had gone down to visit Mrs. Phœbe Norris. That’s what she “reckoned,” but she “...

WITHIN a dozen yards of the shore Jerry stopped paddling and held up her right hand, two fingers extended like a papal benediction. Anyone brought up in the country knows that s...

MRS. WELLS’ “books” were not arranged to facilitate the work of an auditor, but her correspondence was of considerable help. With the aid of Jerry’s notes and the letters Richar...

BY the day of the first boat race Professor Jawn Galloway had become a perfect tender of “stays,” and an enthusiastic champion of _Sago-ye-wat-ha_ against the world. Richard was...

WHEN the “party” broke up Jerry deliberately walked up the hill with Richard, and suggested, in the tone of the perfect hostess, that as this would be their last evening togethe...