ergy repelled her, even
while it fascinated. Partly through youth, more through that contempt
for concealment which characterizes the courageous type of large man,
he showed himself to her just as he was. And she saw him not as an
ambition but as an appetite, or rather a bundle of appetites.

"He has no ideals," she thought. "He's like a man who wants food
merely for itself, not for the strength and the intellect it will build
up. And he likes or dislikes human beings only as one likes or
dislikes different things to eat."

"It'll take you years and years," she said to him, because she must say
something.

"Not at all." He waved his hand--Olivia thought it looked as much like
a claw as like a hand. "It's a sky-scraper, but we build sky-scrapers
overnight. Time and space used to be the big elements. WE practically
disregard them." He followed this with a self-satisfied laugh and an
emptying of his champagne glass at a gulp.

The women were rising to withdraw. After half an hour Langdon and
Herron joined them. Dumont and Fanshaw did not come until eleven
o'clock. Then Dumont was so abrupt and surly that every one was
grateful to Mrs. Fanshaw for taking him away to the west veranda. At
midnight all went to their rooms, Pauline going with Olivia, "to make
sure you haven't been neglected."

She lingered until after one, and when they kissed each the other good
night, she said: "It's done me a world of good to see you,
'Livia--more even than I hoped. I knew you'd be sympathetic with me
where you understood. Now, I feel that you're sympathetic where you
don't understand, too. And it's there that one really needs sympathy."

"That's what friendship means--and--love," said Olivia.

XIII.

"MY SISTER-IN-LAW, GLADYS."

The following afternoon Dumont took the Herrons, the Fanshaws and
Langdon back to New York in his private car, and for three days Olivia
and Pauline had the Eyrie to themselves. Olivia was about to write to
Scarborough, asking him to call, when she saw in the News-Bulletin that
he had gone to Denver to speak. A week after she left, Dumont
returned, bringing his sister Gladys, just arrived from Europe, and
Langdon. He stayed four days, took Langdon away with him and left
Gladys.

Thus it came about that Scarborough, riding into Colonel Gardiner's
grounds one hot afternoon in mid September, saw a phaeton-victoria with
two women in it coming toward him on its way out. He drew his h