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Carolina would rather not have met Charles Norton on this morning. She had hardly slept for the night. She had fought a battle with herself. Her father had shown her plainly the mistake she had made. She saw that her influence had not been without effect on Randolph.
He never teases nor frets, and he won't be homesick," his mother had told his grandmother. "I know all about that," Grandma Stockton had replied. "I'd just as soon take him as a doll-baby." Willy Norton really was a very sweet boy. He proved it this morning by standing there so patiently and never singing out, "Ain't you most ready, Grandma?" although it did seem to him she never would be.
"I mean nothing less," repeated Kennedy firmly. "I do not say what happened afterwards, but Lockwood was in the Museum, hiding in the mummy case, that night." Norton's mind was evidently working rapidly. "I wish I had your power of deduction, Kennedy," he said, at length. "I suppose you realize what this means?" "What does it mean to you?" asked Kennedy, changing front. Norton hesitated.
That is, the onward rush was being checked, and the steers were being made to go around in a circle. Thus are stampedes, when real, gradually brought to an end. "Well, it's all over," said Mr. Norton, as he stood beside the manager. "Is that about what you wanted?" "Indeed it is. This film will sure make a hit.
He could see hers and that it was lifted fearlessly. "How will you stop me?" she asked quietly. "I will finish Jim Galloway out of hand," he told her savagely. "It will no longer be the representative of the law against the lawbreaker; it will just be Norton and Galloway, both men! I will accomplish the one other matter I have planned. Both will require not over three or four days.
"Oh, there are brave men enough Fairfax, Ingoldsby, Bethell, Norton. The Presbyterians come to the front in our troubles. Your brother-in-law is with Lord Middleton. There is no lack of officers; and regiments are being raised. But our merchant-ships, which should be quick to help us, hang back. Our Treasury is empty, and half the goldsmiths in London are bankrupt.
"Norton hasn't much to say to-night," Mrs. Bartholomew remarked. "No more than if he were my boy." "I haven't anything to talk about," said Norton, looking at nothing but his book. "Matilda has lost her tongue too," said Judy. "She never had such a one as yours," replied her grandmother; "you must remember that. It isn't such a loss in the house."
She had barely had time to change for her ride and to glance at her "war bag" when a discreet knock sounded at her door. Going to the door she found that it was Julius Struve instead of Norton. "You are to come with me," said the hotel keeper softly. "He is waiting with the horses." They passed through the dark dining-room, into the pitch black kitchen and out at the rear of the house.
His tone was that of one correcting a child. He took Mr. Magee's arm in a grip which recalled to that gentleman a fact the muckraking stories always dwelt on how this Cargan had, in the old days, "put away his man" in many shady corners of a great city. "Come over here," said Cargan. He led the way to a window. Over his shoulder Magee noted the troubled eyes of Miss Norton following. "Sit down.
Without hesitation, for he felt sure Norton was both honest and reliable, Fred told his story to the head engineer, who nodded many times during the recital. "I see it," whispered Norton. "I suspected something was wrong. Carey and Bossermann are in some sort of a plot with this Wingate, who came on board solely to aid that Sid Merrick.
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