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She would leave Massapequa at once, and her whereabouts must remain a secret even from her own family. As she intended to go to the Ryder house in the assumed character of Shirley Green, it would never do to run the risk of being followed home by a Ryder detective to the Rossmore cottage. She would confide in one person only Judge Stott.
Then he hurried over to Shirley's party and found them already about to leave the pier. "Come and see us, Jeff," whispered Shirley as their cab drove through the gates. "Where," he asked, "Madison Avenue?" She hesitated for a moment and then replied quickly: "No, we are stopping down on Long Island for the Summer at a cute little place called Massapequa. Run down and see us."
He was not a brilliant talker when the conversation extended beyond Massapequa but he rambled on airing his views on the viciousness of the foreigner in general, until Mrs. Rossmore, utterly wearied, began to wonder when they would go. Finally he fell back upon the weather. "We are very fortunate in having such pleasant weather, don't you think so, Madam? Oh, Massapequa is a lovely spot, isn't it?
Her thoughts were out on Long Island, at Massapequa. She was thinking of their joy when they heard the news her father, her mother and Stott. She was thinking of the future, bright and glorious with promise again, now that the dark clouds were passing away. She thought of Jefferson and a soft light came into her eyes as she foresaw a happy wifehood shared with him.
Ten minutes later the tower flashed above the water for just a moment. The Naval commander quickly brought the night glass into play. "That's the 'Massapequa," he declared, laying down the glass. "There, they've picked us up," cried Jack, as the light passed over the top of the conning tower. "They won't be sure after just that brief flash at us," rejoined Ennerling. "Drop out of sight."
Sayre's learned articles on Health and Beauty and Fay Stanton's Daily Fashions. It was not surprising, therefore, that the fame of Judge Rossmore and the scandal in which he was at present involved had not penetrated as far as Massapequa and that the natives were considerably mystified as to who the new arrivals in their midst might be.
She's coming here to-day." "I'm glad you've found her, sir." "It was a tough job," answered Ryder with a grimace. "We wrote her half a dozen times before she was satisfied with the wording of the invitation. But, finally, we landed her and I expect her at three o'clock. Now what about that Rossmore girl? Did you go down to Massapequa?" "Yes, sir, I have been there half a dozen times.
She laughed as she showed this to Stott: "He'll write me again," she said, "and next time his wife will sign the letter." An hour later she left Massapequa for the city. The Hon. Fitzroy Bagley had every reason to feel satisfied with himself.
But it was hours before she got to sleep, and then she dreamed that she was in the Senate Chamber and that she saw Ryder suddenly rise and denounce himself before the astonished senators as a perjurer and traitor to his country, while she returned to Massapequa with the glad news that her father was acquitted.
He raised his hat and the cab drove on. There was greater activity in the Rossmore cottage at Massapequa than there had been any day since the judge and his wife went to live there. Since daybreak Eudoxia had been scouring and polishing in honour of the expected arrival and a hundred times Mrs.
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