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Updated: September 28, 2025
If only I could be sure Louise was safe I'd toss every care and every honest thought to the winds, from this moment." During the silence that followed Fogerty was thoughtful. Indeed, his mind dwelt more upon the defeated and desperate man beside him than upon the waif he was searching for. "What's been done, Mr. Mershone," he said, after a time, "can't be helped now.
But you'll have to strike for a place a good way from New York. Go West, forget your past, and carve out an honest future under a new name and among new associates. You're equal to it." Mershone shook his head. "You forget," he said. "They'll give me a jail sentence for this folly, as sure as fate, and that will be the end of me." "Not necessarily.
In the seclusion of her own room the girl thought it all over and decided she had teased her true lover enough. Arthur had not scolded or reproached her, despite his annoyance, and she had a feeling that his judgment of Charlie Mershone was quite right.
She is very rich in her own right, too and her husband will be a fortunate man." Mershone stared at her. Then he whistled, took a few turns up and down the room, and reseated himself. "Evidently!" he ejaculated, lighting a cigarette without permission and then leaning back thoughtfully in his chair.
I can't find any indication of those high-heeled shoes from this point, in any direction. Better get your car, Mr. Weldon, and run east a few miles, keeping sharp watch of the wagon tracks on the way. It was a heavy wagon, for the wheels cut deep. Mershone and I will go west.
Charlie Mershone was much in evidence this evening, as he had been before; but he took no active part in the proceedings and refrained from dancing, his pet amusement. Diana observed that he made frequent trips downstairs, perhaps to the hotel offices.
Publicity was to be avoided if possible, as it would set loose a thousand malicious tongues and benefit nobody. The only thing to be gained by prosecuting Mershone was revenge, and all were willing to forego that doubtful satisfaction.
Push me over in the snow and make tracks. I'll tell Weldon you've escaped, and advise him not to bother you. It's very easy." Mershone stopped short, seized the detective's hand and wrung it gratefully. "You're a good fellow, Fogerty. I I thank you. But I can't do it. In the first place, I can't rest in peace until Louise is found, or I know her fate.
She saw young Mershone at the Kermess that evening paying indifferent attentions to other women and ignoring her, and was sincerely glad to have done with him for good and all. She obeyed readily the man who asked her to be seated in the limousine. Arthur would be with her in a minute, he said.
"She is occupying Ma'm'selle Diana's room, in the west wing. Will monsieur please to come this way?" She led him to her own little room, and so engrossed were they that neither remembered he had failed to rebolt the front door. A good fire burned in the grate of Cerise's cosy den and Mershone threw off his overcoat and warmed his hands as he showered questions upon the old caretaker.
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