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Here again were old Stannard and his loyal, radiant wife: here were the Turners and Raymonds and Webbs and Waynes and Truscotts and Heaths and Freemans, and others of whom we have not heard, and stanch old Bucketts, the sorely badgered but imperturbable quartermaster, and Billings, the peppery adjutant, and Mrs.
Wayne was an elderly wood-nymph; but I was wrong. Of course the truth is that she's a very young witch." Mathilde laughed, but not whole-heartedly. She had already identified herself so much with the Waynes that she could not take them quite in this tone of impersonality. Farron threw down his napkin, stood up, pulled down his waistcoat. "I must be off," he said. He went and kissed his wife.
The King turned also, and stared out into the dark, where the great lamps that commemorated the battle were already flaming. "And is this the end of poor old Wayne?" he said, half to himself. "To inflame every one so much that he is lost himself in the blaze. Is this his victory that he, my incomparable Wayne, is now only one in a world of Waynes?
They finished with nine "Waynes!" and a long, rousing "Peggie Ward!" and then they went away. "By George! look here, Peg," said Reddy, earnestly, "they gave you Wayne's Nine! Wayne's Nine! Do you hear? I never knew a freshman varsity man to get that cheer." "You've got to beat Place now, after tellin' 'em you'd do it," added Worry.
It is doubtful, however, if Mrs. McGee was much affected by this sentimental reflection, and her husband, in a manner, lent himself to the desecration of his exclusive domain by accepting a claim along the shore tendered by the conscientious Waynes in compensation for restricting the approach to the promontory and thus participated in the fortunes of the Bar. Mrs.
Then the cheering leaders before the bleachers bellowed through their megaphones, and the students, rising to their feet, pealed out nine ringing "Waynes!" and added a roaring "Raymond!" to the end. With two out, Kern called play. Once again MacNeff was at bat. He had not made a foul in his two times up. He was at Ken's mercy, and the Wayne rooters were equally merciless.
Was this the way serious, endless separations began between men and their wives? Her mind flitted sickly to other people's troubles: the Waynes, who had separated because Rose liked gayety and Fred liked domestic peace; the Gardiners, who well, there never did seem to be any reason there.
"Yes; and I remember old Stephen Rand, Gideon's father a pirate of a man, sullen, cruel, and revengeful! A black stock!" "The Waynes were not angels either save by comparison," quoth the first. "All the same it was a great speech." "I grant you that," said the other. "Black stock or not, we'll see him Governor of Virginia. Curious, isn't it?"
"Well, I think it's awfully incompetent always to be waiting for other people," she returned, just laying her hand an instant on his shoulder to indicate that he alone was privileged to make fun of her. "That perhaps is what the Waynes think," he answered. Mathilde's heart sank a little at this. She knew her mother did not like to be kept waiting for dinner. "When I was a young man " began Mr.
Lanley pricked up his ears like a terrier. "In love?" he exclaimed. "And who is he? Not one of the East Sussex Waynes, I hope. Vulgar people. They always were; began life as auctioneers in my father's time. Is he one of those, Adelaide?" "I have no idea who he is, if any one," said Adelaide. "I never saw or heard of him before this afternoon."
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