ded for what they did.

But why, Adelle urged more softly, did he have to speculate--try to make
more money than they already had? And Archie's somewhat incoherent reply
was much the same as Irene Pointer's reasons for going into the society
of one's fellows. To try to make more money when one already had the use
of a great deal was an honorable and sensible ambition--every one would
tell her so. All moneyed men who were worth their salt were always alive
to opportunities of enlarging their possessions. Did she want her
husband to sit around with folded hands and do nothing in the world?
Archie waxed righteous and right-minded, which is the easiest way to
eloquence.

Adelle was silent, though not convinced by his reasoning any more than
she had been by Irene's about "taking her part." Both seemed to make
life needlessly dangerous and complicated, under the disguise of duty.
But she could not endure sullenness and bad temper in Archie. Having
taken the sort of husband she had, she must make the best of life with
him, even if he hazarded her fortune in doubtful enterprises. She
remembered with comfort that there was a great deal of money, and
ultimately would be even more when Clark's Field was finally liquidated.
Archie could hardly go so wrong in investments as to make away with all
of it. So she agreed to his selling another block of General Electric or
Bell Telephone and taking up his options, and having thus made up their
difference, they drifted on their way.

They motored across the continent to the remote fastness where the
Countess Zornec was housed upon her husband's estate and spent some
weeks with the couple. It was easy, even for Adelle's unobservant eyes,
to detect signs of trouble in this new marriage. Sadie had a temper. All
the girls at the Hall had known that. Indeed, she had the
characteristics of her mother, who report said had been an Irish girl in
one of the U. P. construction camps when old Paul found her--that was
long before his fortune came, when he was a simple contractor for the
railroad. Sadie had an unfortunate mouth, with coarse teeth, and when
she was crossed, this long mouth wrinkled into a snarl. The Count
apparently had already found out how to cross her. Indeed, he did not
disguise his contempt for his bride's origins, and sometimes decorum was
badly strained at the dinner-table. Sadie was little and lithe and was
something of the _gamine_--her "tricks," as the girls called her daring