iness. Little difference is it likely to make with her that I have
been and am acting for her good! In that connection, _you_ were more
sensible! You refused to discharge the man without proof, but you did
pay my judgment the compliment of changing your attitude toward him.
Now, however, it seems to me you have a perfectly good excuse to get rid
of him permanently, without regard to my possible discoveries.
Apparently he doesn't intend to obey your order to return, but is
determined at any cost to go on to the end, playing the gentleman of
leisure who can drive a high-powered motor car while he's being paid for
addressing envelopes! A bitter end may it be for him! I shouldn't wonder
if it would be. I shall do my best to make it so. It will come at the
Piping Rock Club, where _I_ have got an invitation for the members of
this party for a dance. If Storm has the cheek to go, his blood be on
his own head! The dance is, as Miss Moore says, the "climax" of our
tour. I hope it may be so for Storm in _one_ sense of the word, though
not in hers.

I have told you before that I can get you a better secretary than he is,
at a day's notice; and perhaps you will presently be willing to let me
try, now his "eyes alone" don't seem worth the money, as you once
thought them. Other eyes are of more importance to you in these days.
Apropos of the latter eyes, I understand why it may have been
inconvenient to let Storm come back, but certainly he couldn't have been
as much in your way in a big house as he is in mine in a motor car.

I shall travel in the Grayles-Grice in spite of him, as the Wilmot is
out of the running for days. But the trip is spoilt.

I felt I must let you know how your mistake has affected me. But I have
not ceased to be

Sincerely your friend,
E. CASPIAN.

P.S. I am wiring you to send him on the proofs of the new peace tract to
correct on the way. That may keep him out of the car a few hours.

VIII

PATRICIA MOORE TO ADRIENNE DE MONCOURT

_Long Island._
_At a Beautiful House_
_Where We Are Guests._

MIGNONNE:

You cannot figure to yourself how the life is wonderful, just after one
has thought, "Crack! the sky tumbles!" But yes, you can figure it,
because of your adventure at E