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But he did not know where she was. As he came off the stage into the wings he met Alston Lake dressed for his part of an officer of Spahis. "I say, Claude, have you heard?" "What?" "Jonson Ramer's here for the rehearsal!" "I know. Can you tell me where Charmian is?" "Haven't an idea! There's the prelude beginning! My! Where are my formamints?"
Jonson Ramer leaned toward her. He thought she looked pretty, and he liked pretty women even more than most men do. "Very original!" he said. "Opens powerfully. But I don't think we can judge of it yet. It's going remarkably well." "Wonderfully!" said Mrs. Shiffney. Charmian turned quickly toward her. It was Adelaide's verdict that she wanted, not Jonson Ramer's.
Through a terrible network of misunderstandings she married Theron St. Vrain. He, by the way, was the other college chum I spoke of just now. He and his foster-brother, Bertrand, were wards of Fred Ramer's father. But their guardian, the elder Ramer, had embezzled most of their property and there was bitter enmity between them and him. Theron and Mary were the parents of Eloise St. Vrain.
It is no wonder that she is beautiful. She had Mary Marchland for a mother. Theron St. Vrain died early, and the management of his property fell into Fred Ramer's hands. At Mary's death it would descend to Eloise, with the proviso I just mentioned of an unworthy marriage. In that case, Ramer, at his own discretion, could give the estate to the Church.
We'll have that all over the States to-morrow morning. Where's Cane?" "I'll fetch him, sir!" said a thin boy standing by. "Are you going to let them in?" "Am I going to! Finnigan, go and take the lady and Mr. Ramer to any box they like. Ah, Cane! Here's something for you to let yourself out over!" Mr. Cane read Ramer's card and looked radiant. "Well, I'm !" "I should think you are!
Then he turned back toward Santa Fé and found his doom up there at Santan's spring. "I'm like Bev. I wish he had gotten the Apache, now. I don't know yet how I was fooled in him, for he has always been Fred Ramer's tool, and Father Josef never trusted him. And to think that Bill Banney, in no way touching any of our lives, should have been martyred by the crimes of Fred and this Apache!
And this was the man who was seeking to control the life of Eloise St. Vrain. I fairly groaned in my anger. "The failure to win Mary Marchland's love was the first time in his life that Fred Ramer's will had ever been thwarted, and he went mad with jealousy and anger. Gail, they are worse masters than whisky and opium, once they get a man down."
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