r the rout
upon the dock had been to dart back to Europe as expeditiously as
possible, with Adelle's recovered lamp, and never darken again their
native shores. But this pettish mood had been largely forgotten during
the fortnight that ensued, and they remembered their plan of going to
California so that Archie might present himself in his new estate and
his wife to his own people. A cable from Sadie Paul, stating that she
had taken "the B. and T." (which being properly interpreted meant that
she had decided to marry her Hungarian count) and was returning to her
home to celebrate her wedding, determined them. They forthwith made
their arrangements to cross the continent and spend the summer on the
Pacific Coast.

It may as well be said that before departing Adelle had one quite
serious business talk with President West of the trust company and the
excellent Mr. Smith, whose had been the chastening hand at the time of
her elopement. Possibly the wisdom of his remarks was becoming more
evident to Adelle as marriage wore on, or it might be that she still did
usually as she was told, if she were told with sufficient authority. At
any rate, she agreed to leave in the hands of the Washington Trust
Company the bulk of her estate, not strictly in the form of a
trust,--they could not induce her to surrender the privilege of the lamp
to that extent,--but under an agreement by which she bound herself not
to disturb the principal of her fortune for a term of years. The bankers
represented to her tactfully that neither she nor Mr. Davis had yet had
extensive experience in the investment of money; that the operations of
the Clark's Field Associates were not finally wound up; that they had
had such success in their investments on her account that it would be
well to allow them to carry out their scheme of investment, etc. In
short, she signed the agreement, which was the last thing she did in
B----.

Archie, when he learned what she had done, was irritated. Naturally he
did not like Mr. Smith and had a grudge against the trust company as a
whole. He said that the arrangement reflected upon him and his dignity
as a husband, although, as Mr. West had pointed out to Adelle, it was
not customary for a husband to be entrusted with the disposal of all his
wife's property. Since the vogue of international marriages, American
fathers had taken refuge in the trust companies. In spite of argument
and sulks, however, Archie could not prevail u