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You've not dared to announce your engagement and take her to the church like a gentleman. Why? Why? Answer me that, before you grow so tall. And who is she, anyway? I hear that you had a prize-fight with Peter Cheever and got expelled from the club." "When did you hear that?" "It's all over town. What was the fight about? Was he interested in this lady, too?"
"I don't know, but I know he's hunting you." "I haven't laid eyes on him for weeks. We've had no quarrel." Zada was frantic. She howled across the wire: "Come home, I beg and implore you. He'll hurt you he may kill you." Again Cheever laughed: "You're having hallucinations, my love. You'll feel better in the morning. Where the deuce did you get such a foolish notion, anyway?"
He was glad of one thing, though; that Rex had been disgusted with the orgy. "I wish I could tell you," answered Atkins. "I managed to get Cheever over to our house before morning. I don't know what Harrington said about young Pell's disappearance when he came to himself." "What did Reggie want to go with such fellows for?" groaned Roy. "But the wonder to me is why Harrington ever took him up.
She had not been able to escape all the gossip that linked Cheever with her, but she had naturally heard little of it, and then only from people of the sort who run to their friends with all the bad news they can collect. They are easily discredited.
A member of the house committee reviled him with profanity and took the names of witnesses who could testify that Dyckman struck the first blow. The pitiful stillness of Cheever, where a few men knelt about him, turned the favor to him. One little whiffet told Dyckman to his face that it was a dastardly thing he had done. He laughed. He had his enemy on the floor. He did not want everything.
Peter Cheever was as handsome as a man dares to be, awake or asleep; he had vast quantities of money, and he was generous with it. But Zada L'Etoile was not happy. She dwelt in an apartment that would have overwhelmed Kedzie by the depth of its velvets and the height of its colors. Yet Zada was crying this very morning crying like mad because while she had Cheever she had no marriage license.
And Charity Coe Cheever was chattering flippantly with a group of the dispersing audience, while her heart was in throes of dismay at her own feelings and Jim Dyckman's. The scene was like one of the overcrowded tapestries of the Middle Ages. At the top was the Noxon palace, majestic, serene, self-confident in the correctness of its architecture and not afraid even of the ocean outspread below.
Cheever, that trick," observed Georgian Second. "It's the cussed parsons that's done all the mischief. Who played that bower? Yours, eh? My deal." "I want to smash up some of these dam' Black Republicans," resumed the New-Yorker. "I want to see the North suffer some. I don't care, if New York catches it.
They had made up and fought and made up again dozens of times and settled down at length to that normal alternation of peace and conflict known as domestic life. With Charity out of the way there was so little interruption to their communion that when she came back Zada forbade Cheever to meet her at the station, and he obeyed.
This saved Dyckman's eye from mourning. And now wherever he struck he left a red mark. It helped his target-practice. Cheever gave up trying to mar Dyckman's face and went for his waistcoat. All is fair in such a war, and below the belt was his favorite territory. He hoped to put Dyckman out.
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