The Second Honeymoon

my's plate the following morning. Jimmy looked at

were the matter. He was a good many years olde

ht of breaking the seal, then he took up the l

hat he managed to get entirely dressed by the time breakfast was ready. He

ly. What the deuce did the old chap want now? he wondere

Horatio had not m

m his full name, was a man whose health

state; all his life he had lived more or less at Spas, or o

n, as unlike Jimmy as it is po

gestion of some new doctor whose advice he had sought, and he had been so ill during the six we

it suited Jimmy very well that the head of the family should be so far removed from him. He hated supervision; he liked to f

them; most things bored him in these days; he had been drifting for so long, and under Cynthia Farrow's tuition he would very

Ferdinan

receipt of this letter and inform me if there is any truth in the allegation that you are constantly seen in the company of a certain actress. I hardly think this can be so, as you well know my dislike of the stage and anything appertaining thereto. My health is

d the letter

g about the room angrily. The tassels of his dressing-gown swung wildly at

ded old

is hair, making it stand on end. After a few strides he felt better. H

sore laugh, as if something in the s

ave given now to be

ht; she is

s it

likes. I don't care a h

hallone

n drooping on his breast,

nce Cynthia had sent him a

ink so. Much as he had loved her, Jimmy Challoner had always known hers to be the sort of nature that lived solely for the presen

up; so many times he had heard

you, Ji

. She did not want him any m

y woman should dare to so treat him

an can be angry with a woman he has once loved he is already begin

at his door; h

ne of contention betw

ra

hen I was your age," s

you need a valet for i

but thought better of it; he could not, at any rate, imagine his life without Costin. H

n now, coming forward, "Mr. S

rose to his feet and stood gna

to refuse to see him, but-well, they would have to meet sooner or later, a

ld chap!" with rather

ed. The two me

ced at the br

an early v

Sit down. Hav

tha

of suspicion. Sangster had heard something. Sangster probabl

if, indeed, she thought him worthy of a first. He was short and squarely built; his hair was undeniably r

Jimmy had vacated and loo

aid bluntly,

y fl

what

stopped him

n you all these years for nothing. . .

ard. He stared up at the c

h a sort of growl. He scra

d after a moment. "It's the best thin

haps it was coincidence that they rested on the place on

id gruffly. "You

suited to Henson Mortlake-I always thought so. He

h his elbow on the mantelpi

ercely. "What the deuce do you mean by dragging him

looking at

what was the reaso

ound the other man's ey

married, of course. She made no secret of it. He-the brute-left her years ago; but

ooking at Jimmy; he was staring into the fire. Prese

p!" he said

ped at once.

ubmitted dryly. "You've-yo

reak every bone in his infernal carcase,

s friend with defian

s good fish in the sea as any that were caught," he

e walked over to the window, and stood for

ll them the truth," he said jerkily. "I-d

roke

m the truth,"

the fire, pokin

night, Jimmy?" he asked

y tu

nds! Met them quite by chance the other night.

. "People from Upton House. You used to be full of them wh

've got a box for a show to-night, and asked them to com

e. Old sweetheart o

we wer

it? Well, ask me

llow-come b

ased at the suggesti

's one of

Chris

but she's only a ch

e lordly superiority