Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 11, 1913, Page 6

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The two strangers, who knew that they were not the objects of that look, sat with bated breath; but Rudolph seemed se- renely unaware of it. Rudolph’s request, however, from his standpoint was not impudent. His uncle was under more of an obliga- tion to concern himself about Paige Carew than he was, for Paige was the elder man’s niece and ward. Young Van Vechten recognized the fact that Theodore Van Vechten was a man of multitudinous affairs; he was willing to make any reasonable eacrifice to accommodate him; but when it came to throwing over all his own plans and : loafing here in the city without defi- nite information concerning his cous- in’s intentions, why, he considered he had a right to protest when and where he chose. If he only knew upon what boat she intended sailing, it would ‘|be an easy matter to run down to town for a day, meet her and Mrs., Devereaux and carry the two away with him. It was the uncertainty that rendered him vexed and impatient. Gradually Mr. Van Vechten's brain bridged the wide gap between matters commercial and those immediately af- fecting his own houseehold, and he rec- ognized the justice of his nephew's attitude. The thin, inflexible lips even shadowed a smile at the temerity that had exacted his attention. One of these men who sat humbly waiting here was no less a personage than the president of the Continental Union Banking and Trust Company; the | other was head of the Atlas Safe Company, a concern tributary to and allied with Coneolidated Metals, and which had of late monopolized Theo- dore Van Vechten's fostering care. In the world of finance and commerce theirs were names to conjure with; here they were merely lieutenants : awaiting their captain's pleasure. “Well?”" Mr. Vaa Vechtea at last broke the sileace. Rudolph was brief and to the point. “Last Saturday ended the third | | week since Paige and Josephine left .| Paris for London. In a letter mailed just before starting, Paige informed me that she expected te remain in ' | England twe er three weekeo—three at the longest—and mentioned a num- ber of friends she proposed visiting. Some I know, and some I cdon’t. Since then I have had no word from her: have you?” Mr. Van Vechten pressed a button. It might have controlled the door in- stead of the clerk, so promptly did the latter appear. To him he said: “Have Timmons get out the latest Devereaux letters, and show them to Mr. Van Vechten when he comes out.” And turning to the young man again: “I suppose it will be impossible for me to kncck off to meet them. And this uncertainty about a sailing date is disarranging your plans—h'm, I gee. If you could cable—" “To what address? How would it look to send cables to all our London acquaintances, asking if they know where Paige is? The newspapers would be sure to get hold of it. She and Josephine are the ones who should be cabling—or at the very least, send a card.” “Well,” decided the older man, “look at Jo's last letters; if they don't contain something definite, go wherever it is you want to—just so it isn't too far away. By the way, you received notice of a direc- tors’ meeting next Saturday night, the ninth?"” “Did 1? A good many things come in the mail that Barnicle doesn't let me see.” “If Barnicle is faithful to your in- terests,” commented the Man of Iron, grimly, “he had better not hold up anything like that, The notice was mailed to you with the others. I par- ticularly desire that you be present.” Van Vechten eyed his uncle curi- ously. “Saturday night,” he repeated at “My unfamiliarity with busi length. Go Wherever You Want To—Just 8o It lsn't Too Far Away. ness may be to blame, but isn’t that a deuced peculiar time of day for a directors’ meeting, Uncle Theodorel” A chuckie from 5 the nead of i of the At- las Safe Company drew the youni.'.l att ntion. Rudolph looke ana beyond him, but if he man's presence his wi 4 not the slight- he fact. 1,” his uncle was L was surprised man's . “put the occa- You will not re- g else and malk- ud.” ; president TnoOw on will 2 oret cance it a point tc 'he Continental’s ielt called to chime in. “It W 111 be a festival occasion, Mr. l Rudolph,” he said with heavy levity. “An exceptionally rich and juicy le on will form the piece de resistance.” If all the dead and gone Van Vech- ' tens had materialized in the flesh and without warning appeared at that “meeting,” their advent would have been no more surprising, and scarcely less extraordinary, than what actually was on the cards to happen. It really was too bad that the Man of Iron and his s.no!lnes—the “lion and the hy- enas,” as Rudolph characterized them —should not have been vouchsafed some premonition of the climax they were unwittingly preparing for. “ see,” said Rudolph after a pause. “You chaps have squeezed some poor devil dry, and . an to hold a wake''— a random surmise that elicited no re- cponse. “Very well. I don’t think, though, 1 shall want to leave town for a while. letters, which Timmons handed him when he emerged from the private of- fice, shed no light upon the two ladies’ movements or intentions. Paige wrote only when the spirit moved her, which was seldom; and so her silence was in no way remarkable. But it seemed that a woman of Josephine Devereaux’ mature experience skould realize the advisability of keeping him and his uncle better informed. Paige Carew, it may be inferred, was an orphan; early childhood. 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