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Quarrier's huge liolden in the sun, was tenantless; its owner, closing even The Sedges, his Long Island house, and driven northward for a breath of air, was expected at Shotover

The house of Mrs Mortimer was closed and boarded up; the Caithness es', the Shannons', Mrs Vendenning's, all were sealed up like vaults A caretaker apparently guarded Major Belwether's house, peeping out at intervals froreat pile of hted ere to be seen in it at night, and a big yellow and black touring-car whizzed don froularity

For there was a fight on that had steadily grown hotter with the weather, and Plank had little time to concern himself with the temperature or to ton and Quarrier were after hiton had even taken a house at Seabright in order to be near in person; and Quarrier'sIsland to Shotover House was not as flippant as it ht appear, for he had his private car there and a loco station, and he ithin striking distance of Rochester, Utica, Syracuse, and Albany Which hat Harrington thought necessary

The vast unseen un to grind in May; and, at the first audible rued A few industrials began to rocket, nobody knehy; but the y and spineless, and the reaction, already overdue, becay slump Nobody knehy

The noise of the fray in the papers, which had first excited then stunned the outside public, continued in a deliriu up at the week's end

Scare heads, involving everybody and everything, from the District-Attorney to Plank's office boy, succeeded one another Plank's na faan to appear in neighbouring paragraphs Who was Plank? And the papers told people with more or less inaccuracy, hu to do? The papers tried to tell that, too, ood-natured or ill-natured according to circuht to have so to do to Plank--if he was trying to do anything? They told that pretty clearly What was Quarrier going to do to Plank? That, also, they explained in lively detail A few clergyan to volunteer pulpit opinions concerning the ethics of the battle A ated nuisance of hi that he was a "hero" Some papers called hiot it under the stress of the increasing heat