rved. His
amazing success in dealing with a Livingstone, his audacity and nerve
in attacking the policy which he brought to nothing, were more wonderful
to the lawyer than to the friends of Dillon, who had not seen the task
in its entirety.

And this peculiar fellow was thought to be an Endicott, of his own
family, of the English blood, more Irish than the Irish, bitterer
towards him than the priests had been. The very impossibility of the
thing made it charming. What course of thought, what set of
circumstances, could turn the Puritan mind in the Celtic direction? Was
there such genius in man to convert one personality into another so
neatly that the process remained undiscoverable, not to be detected by
the closest observation? He shook off the fascination. These two women
believed it, but he knew that no Endicott could ever be converted.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

ARTHUR'S APPEAL.

Suit was promptly begun by Livingstone on behalf of Sonia for a divorce
from Horace Endicott. Before the papers had been fully made out, even
before the officer had been instructed to serve them on Arthur Dillon,
the lawyer received an evening visit from the defendant himself. As a
suspicious act he welcomed it; but a single glance at the frank face and
easy manner, when one knew the young man's ability, disarmed suspicion.
The lawyer studied closely, for the first time with interest, the man
who might yet prove to be his kinsman. He saw a form inclined to
leanness, a face that might have been handsome but for the sunken
cheeks, dark and expressive eyes whose natural beauty faded in the dark
circles around them, a fine head with dead black hair, and a handsome
beard, streaked with gray. His dress, gentleman-like but of a strange
fashion, the lawyer did not recognize as the bachelor costume of Cherry
Hill prepared by his own tailor. Nothing of the Endicott in face or
manner, nothing tragical, the expression decorous and formal, perhaps a
trifle quizzical, as this was their first meeting since the interview in
London.

"I have called to enter a protest," Arthur began primly, "against the
serving of the papers in the coming Endicott divorce case on your humble
servant."

"As the papers are to be served only on Horace Endicott, I fail to see
how you have any right or reason to protest," was the suave answer.

"I know all about the matter, sir, for very good reasons. For some
months the movements of the two women concerned in this affair