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One thousand large Kentucky mules were bought, and a sufficient number of coaches to supply the proposed route with a daily line each way. There was already a semi-monthly line operated by Messrs. Hockaday and Liggett, running from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Salt Lake City. This line was poorly appointed. It consisted of a limited number of light, cheap vehicles, with but few animals to draw them.
It was only Joseph, leaning deferentially over Judge Lee's shoulder, who said softly: "Mr. Christopher Liggett, Judge. He has telephoned that he would like to see you for a moment after dinner, and will be here at about nine o'clock." The dinner went on, for Norma, in a daze.
There's a wonderful picture at The Favourite." He tossed his paper aside, and moved from under her, so that Norma found herself ensconced in the chair, and her husband facing her from the rug that was before the little gas log. "Where's Mother?" "Gone downstairs to see how the Noon baby is." "Norma," said Wolf, without preamble, "did you see Chris Liggett to-day?"
How Mr. Liggett picks up his glasses, on their ribbon, to read the titles of books " "Oh, you shut up!" Norma called, departing. And unashamed, when dinner was finished, and the table cleared, she produced a pack of cards and said that she was going to play The Idle Year. "... and if I get it, it'll mean that the man I marry is going to look exactly like Chris Liggett."
Norma, puzzled by the old butler's stricken air, went to the instrument. It was Miss Slater. "Norma," Miss Slater said, agitatedly, "is Mr. Liggett there?" "I think he's with Aunt Annie, upstairs, but he's going home about eight," Norma answered. "There is no change. Is Aunt Alice awake? Mr. Liggett wanted to be there when she woke!" "No she's not awake," the other woman's voice said, solemnly.
"You're sorry," she added, quickly, "I can see you are!" "No I wouldn't say that, Baby!" But Mrs. Sheridan spoke heavily, and ended on a sigh. There was a short silence. Then Regina came in with a note for Norma, who read it, and turned to her aunt. "It's Chris he wants very much to see you before you go away," she said. "I wonder if you would ask Mr. Liggett to come in here, Regina?"
Miss Melrose, said the paper, was the daughter and heiress of the late Theodore Melrose, and made her home with her grandmother. Mr. Liggett was the brother of Christopher Liggett, whose marriage to Miss Alice Melrose was a social event some years ago. A number of dinners and dances were already planned in honour of the young pair.
So Alice had come to be an actual asset, and now to her Aunt Annie's tremendous satisfaction, Leslie promised to add one more feather to the family cap by announcing her engagement to Acton Liggett. Annie smiled to herself whenever she thought of it.
Old Mrs. Melrose was going to see her daughter Alice, who was Mrs. Christopher Liggett, because Alice was an invalid. It had been only a few years after Alice's most felicitous marriage, a dozen years ago, when an accident had laid the lovely and brilliant woman upon the bed of helplessness that she might never leave again.
She imagined the beautiful drawing-room in which Acton Liggett perhaps as fascinating a person as his brother! would clasp pearls about Leslie's fair little throat; she imagined the shining dinner tables at which Leslie's modestly dropped blonde head would be stormed with compliments and congratulations.
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