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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Border Ruffian, by Thomas A. Janvier
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+Title: A Border Ruffian
+       1891
+
+Author: Thomas A. Janvier
+
+Release Date: December 10, 2007 [EBook #23803]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BORDER RUFFIAN ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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+
+A BORDER RUFFIAN.
+
+By Thomas A. Janvier
+
+Copyright, 1891, by Harper & Brothers
+
+
+
+
+I.--WEST.
+
+_The Incident of the Boston Young Lady, the Commercial Traveller, and
+the Desperado._
+
+
+
+
+I.
+
+Throughout the whole of the habitable globe there nowhere is to be found
+more delightful or more invigorating air than that which every traveller
+through New Mexico, from Albuquerque, past Las Vegas, to the Raton
+Mountains, is free to breathe.
+
+Miss Grace Winthrop, of Boston, and also Miss Winthrop, her paternal
+aunt, and also Mr. Hutchinson Port, of Philadelphia, her maternal
+uncle--all of whom were but forty hours removed from the Alkali Desert
+west of the Continental Divide--felt in the very depths of their several
+beings how entirely good this air was; and, as their several natures
+moved them, they betrayed their lively appreciation of its excellence.
+
+Miss Grace Winthrop, having contrived for herself, with the intelligent
+assistance of the porter, a most comfortable nest of pillows, suffered
+her novel to remain forgotten upon her knees; and, as she leaned her
+pretty blond head against the wood-work separating her section from that
+adjoining it, looked out upon the brown mountains, and accorded to those
+largely-grand objects of nature the rare privilege of being reflected
+upon the retina of her very blue eyes. Yet the mountains could not
+flatter themselves with the conviction that contemplation of them wholly
+filled her mind, for occasionally she smiled a most delightful smile.
+
+Miss Winthrop, retired from the gaze of the world in the cell that the
+Pullman-car people euphemistically style a state-room, ignored all such
+casual excrescences upon the face of nature as mountains, and seriously
+read her morning chapter of Emerson.
+
+Mr. Hutchinson Port, lulled by the easy, jog-trot motion of the car,
+and soothed by the air from Paradise that, for his virtues, he was being
+permitted to breathe, lapsed into calm and grateful slumber: and dreamed
+(nor could a worthy Philadelphian desire a better dream) of a certain
+meeting of the Saturday Night Club, in December, 1875, whereat the
+terrapin was remarkable, even for Philadelphia.
+
+Miss Winthrop, absorbed in her Emersonian devotions, and Mr. Hutchinson
+Port, absorbed in slumber, did not perceive that the slow motion of the
+train gradually became slower, and finally entirely ceased; and even
+Grace, lost in her pleasant daydream, scarcely observed that the
+unsightly buildings of a little way-station had thrust themselves
+into the foreground of her landscape--for this foreground she ignored,
+keeping her blue eyes serenely fixed upon the great brown mountains
+beyond. Nor was she more than dimly conscious of the appearance upon the
+station platform of a tall, broad-shouldered young man clad in corduroy,
+wearing a wide-brimmed felt-hat, and girded about with a belt, stuck
+full of cartridges, from which depended a very big revolver. In a vague
+way she was conscious of this young man's existence, and of an undefined
+feeling that, as the type of a dangerous and interesting class, his
+appearance was opportune in a part of the country which she had been led
+to believe was inhabited almost exclusively by cut-throats and outlaws.
+
+In a minute or two the train went on again, and as it started Grace was
+aroused and shocked by the appearance at the forward end of the car of
+the ruffianly character whom she had but half seen from the car window.
+For a moment she believed that the train-robbery, that she had been
+confidently expecting over since her departure from San Francisco, was
+about to take place. Her heart beat hard, and her breath came quickly.
+But before these symptoms had time to become alarming the desperado had
+passed harmlessly to the rear end of the car, and after him had come the
+porter carrying his valise and a Winchester rifle.
+
+"Goin' to Otero? Yes, sah! All right, sah! Put yo' heah; nice seat on
+shady side, sah! Thank yo', sah! Have a pillow, sah?" And, hearing this
+address on the part of the porter, Grace knew that the desperado,
+for the moment at least, was posing in the character of a law-abiding
+citizen, and was availing himself of his rights as such to ride in
+a Pullman-car. Being thus relieved of cause for immediate alarm, her
+breast presently began to swell with a fine indignation at the impudence
+of this abandoned person in thus thrusting himself into a place
+reserved, if not absolutely for aristocratic, certainly, at least, for
+respectable society.
+
+
+
+
+II.
+
+The slight stir incident to the entrance of this offensive stranger
+aroused Mr. Hutchinson Port from his agreeable slumber. He yawned
+slightly, cast a disparaging glance upon the mountains, and then,
+drawing an especially good cigar from his case, betook himself to the
+smoking-room. Grace did not realize his intentions until they had become
+accomplished deeds.
+
+Mr. Hutchinson Port--although a member (on the retired list) of the
+First City Troop, and therefore, presumably, inflamed with the martial
+spirit characteristic of that ancient and honorable organization--was
+not, perhaps, just the man that a person knowing in such matters would
+have selected to pit against a New Mexico desperado in a hand-to-hand
+conflict. But Grace felt her heart sink a little as she saw the round
+and rather pursy form of her natural protector walk away into the depths
+of a mirror at the forward end of the car, and so vanish. And in
+this same mirror she beheld, seated only two sections behind her, the
+scowling ruffian!
+
+The situation, as Grace regarded it, was an alarming one; and it was
+the more trying to her nerves because it did not, reasonably, admit of
+action. She was aware that the very presence of a ruffian in a Pullman
+car was in the nature of a promise, on his part, that for the time being
+it was not his intention either to murder or to rob--unless, indeed,
+he were one of a robber band, and was awaiting the appearance of his
+confederates. For her either to call her uncle, or break in upon the
+Emersonian seclusion of her aunt, she felt would not be well received,
+under the circumstances, by either of these her relatives. As to the
+porter, that sable functionary had vanished; there was no electric bell,
+and the car, one of a Pullman train, had no conductor.
+
+For protection, therefore, should need for protection arise, Grace
+perceived that she must depend upon the one other passenger. (They had
+lingered so long amid the delights of a Santa Barbara spring that
+they were journeying in that pleasant time of year when spring travel
+eastward has ended, and summer travel has not yet begun.) This one
+other passenger was a little man of dapper build and dapper dress,
+whose curiously-shaped articles of luggage betokened his connection with
+commercial affairs. Grace was forced to own, as she now for the first
+time regarded him attentively, that he did not seem to be wrought of the
+stern stuff out of which, as a rule, champions are made.
+
+As she thus looked upon him, she was startled to find that he was
+looking very fixedly upon her; and she was further startled, as their
+eyes met, by the appearance upon his face of a friendly smile. She would
+have been vastly surprised had she been aware that this little person
+labored under the belief that he had already effected a favorable
+lodgement in her good graces; and she would have been both surprised
+and horrified could she have known that each of her own strictly
+confidential smiles during her day-dream had been accepted by the
+commercial traveller as intended for himself; and had been met, as they
+successively appeared, by his own smiles in answer. Yet this was the
+actual state of the case; and the little man's soul was uplifted by the
+thought that here was a fresh proof, and a very pleasant one, of how
+irresistible were his personal appearance and his personal charm of
+manner when arrayed in battery against any one of the gentler sex.
+
+Viewed from the stand-point of his experience, this inquiring look
+and its attendant eye-encounter indicated that the moment for more
+pronounced action now had arrived. With the assured air of one who
+possibly may be repulsed, but who certainly cannot be defeated, he arose
+from his seat, crossed to Miss Grace Winthrop's section, and, with a
+pleasant remark to the effect that in travelling it always was nice to
+be sociable, edged himself into the seat beside her.
+
+For a moment, the insolent audacity of this move was so overwhelming
+that Grace was quite incapable of coherent expression. The lovely pink
+of her cheeks became a deep crimson that spread to the very tips of her
+ears; her blue eyes flashed, and her hands clinched instinctively.
+
+"Looked like a perfect little blue-eyed devil," the drummer subsequently
+declared, in narrating a highly-embellished version of his adventure,
+"but she didn't mean it, you know--at least, only for a minute or two. I
+soon combed her down nicely." What he actually said, was:
+
+"Been travellin' far, miss?"
+
+"What do you mean by this? Go away!" Grace managed to say; but she could
+not speak very clearly, for she was choking.
+
+"Come, don't get mad, miss! I know you're not mad, really, anyway. When
+a woman's as handsome as you are, she can't be bad-natured. Come from
+California, I suppose? Nice country over there, ain't it?"
+
+What with surprise and rage and fright, Grace was very nearly frantic
+For the moment she was powerless--her uncle in the smoking-room, her
+aunt locked up with her Emersonian meditations, the porter in the lobby;
+the only available person upon whom she could call for aid a horrible
+drunken murderer and robber, steeped in all the darkest crimes of the
+frontier! She felt herself growing faint, but she struggled to her feet.
+The drummer laid his hand on her arm: "Don't go away, my dear! Just stay
+and have a little talk. You see--"
+
+But the sentence was not finished. Grace felt her head buzzing, and
+then, from somewhere--a long way off, it seemed--she heard a voice
+saying: "I beg your pardon; this thing seems to be annoying you. Permit
+me to remove it."
+
+Her head cleared a little, for there was a promise of help--not only in
+the words but in the tone. And then she saw the desperado calmly settle
+a big hand into the collar of the little man's coat, lift him out of the
+seat and well up into the air, and so carry him at arm's-length--kicking
+and struggling, and looking for all the world like a jumping-jack--out
+through the passage-way at the forward end of the car.
+
+As they disappeared, she precipitately sought refuge in the
+state-room--where Miss Winthrop was aroused from her serious
+contemplation of All-pervading Thought by a sudden and most energetic
+demand upon her protection and her salts-bottle. And, before she could
+be made in the least degree to comprehend why Grace should require
+either the one or the other, Grace had still further complicated and
+mystified the matter by fainting dead away.
+
+
+
+
+III.
+
+In the course of two or three hours--aided by Miss Winthrop's salts
+and Mr. Hutchinson Port's travelling-flask of peculiar old Otard, which
+together contributed calmness and strength, and being refreshed by a
+little slumber--Grace was able to explain in an intelligible manner the
+adventure that had befallen her.
+
+"And no matter what dreadful crimes that horrible man may have
+committed," she said, in conclusion. "I shall be most grateful to him to
+my dying day. And I want you, Uncle Hutchinson, no matter how unpleasant
+it may be to you to do so, to thank him from me for what he did. And,
+oh! it was so funny to see that detestable little impudent man kicking
+about that way in the air!" Which remembrance, at the same moment, of
+both the terrifying and the ludicrous side of her recent experience, not
+unnaturally sent Grace off into hysterics.
+
+Mr. Hutchinson Port was quite ready to carry the message of thanks to
+the desperado, and to add to it some very hearty thanks of his own. But
+his good intentions could not be realized; the desperado no longer was
+on the train.
+
+"Yes, sah; I knows the gen'l'm yo' means, sah," responded the porter,
+in answer to inquiries. "Pow'fl big gen'l'm yo' means, as got on this
+mo'nin' to Vegas. Thet's th' one, sah! He'd some kind er trib-bilation
+with th' little gen'l'm'--th' drummer gen'lm' as got on las' night to
+Lamy--an' he brought him out, holdin' him like he was a kitten, to the
+lobby, an' jus' set him down an' boxed his ears till he hollered! Yes,
+sah, thet's th' one. He got off to Otero. An' th' little man he got off
+to Trinidad, an' said he was agoin' up by the Denver to Pueblo. Yes,
+sah; they's both got off, sah! Thank yo', sah! Get yo' a pillow, sah?"
+
+
+
+
+IV.
+
+And so it came to pass that Miss Grace Winthrop returned to Boston
+cherishing towards desperadoes in general, and towards the desperadoes
+of New Mexico in particular, sentiments as generous as they were
+unusual.
+
+Miss Winthrop the elder, whose soul was accustomed to a purer ether than
+that in which desperadoes ordinarily are found, presently forgot the
+vicarious excitements of her journey eastward in the calm joys of the
+Summer School of Philosophy.
+
+And Mr. Hutchinson Port longed to be able to forget the whole State of
+California: when he realized, as he did with a most bitter keenness,
+that the superficial charms of that greatly overrated region had
+detained him upon the Western coast until the terrapin season was
+absolutely at an end!
+
+
+
+
+II.--EAST.
+
+_The Incident of the Mysterious Stranger, and the Philadelphia
+Dinner-party._
+
+
+
+
+I.
+
+Mrs. Rittenhouse Smith had achieved righteousness. That is to say, being
+a Philadelphian, she was celebrated for giving successful dinners. The
+person who achieves celebrity of this sort in Philadelphia is not unlike
+the seraph who attains to eminence in the heavenly choir.
+
+It was conceded that Mr. Rittenhouse Smith (he was one of _the_ Smiths,
+of course--not the others. His mother was a Biddle) was an important
+factor in his wife's success; for, as became a well-brought-up
+Philadelphian, he attended personally to the marketing. But had these
+Smith dinners been commendable only because the food was good, they
+would not have been at all remarkable. In Philadelphia, so far as the
+eating is concerned, a bad dinner seems to be an impossibility.
+
+In truth, Mrs. Smith's dinners were famous because they never were
+marred by even the slightest suggestion of a _contretemps_; because they
+glided along smoothly, and at precisely the proper rate of speed, from
+oysters to coffee; and, because--and to accomplish this in Philadelphia
+was to accomplish something very little short of a miracle--they never
+were stupid.
+
+Therefore it was that Mrs. Rittenhouse Smith stood among the elect, with
+a comfortable sense of security in her election; and she smelled with a
+satisfied nose the smell of the social incense burned before her
+shrine; and she heard with well-pleased ears the social hosannas which
+constantly were sung in her praise.
+
+
+
+
+II.
+
+Occupying a position at once so ornate and so enviable, the feelings of
+Mrs. Rittenhouse Smith may be imagined upon finding herself confronted.
+with the tragical probability that one of her most important
+dinner-parties would be a failure.
+
+In preparing for this dinner-party she had thought deeply in the still
+watches of the night, and she had pondered upon it in the silence
+of noonday. For Mrs. Smith, above all others, knew that only by such
+soulful vigilance can a perfect dinner be secured. It was her desire
+that it should be especially bright intellectually, for it was to be
+given to Miss Winthrop, of Boston, and was to include Miss Winthrop's
+niece, Miss Grace Winthrop, also of Boston. These ladies, as she knew,
+belonged to clubs which, while modestly named after the days of the
+week, were devoted wholly to the diffusion of the most exalted mental
+culture. Moreover, they both were on terms of intimacy with Mr. Henry
+James. On the other hand, it was her desire that the dinner should
+be perfect materially, because among her guests was to be Miss Grace
+Winthrop's uncle, Mr. Hutchinson Port. It was sorely against Mrs.
+Smith's will that Mr. Hutchinson Port was included in her list, for
+he had the reputation of being the most objectionable diner-out in
+Philadelphia. His conversation at table invariably consisted solely
+of disparaging remarks, delivered in an undertone to his immediate
+neighbors, upon the character and quality of the food. However, in the
+present case, as Miss Grace Winthrop's uncle, he was inevitable.
+
+And, such was Mrs. Smith's genius, she believed that she had mastered
+the situation. Her list--excepting, of course, Mr. Hutchinson Port, and
+he could not reasonably be objected to by his own relatives--was all
+that she could desire. The nine other guests, she was satisfied, were
+such as could be exhibited creditably even to ladies belonging to Boston
+clubs and personally acquainted with Mr. Henry James. As to the dinner
+itself, Mr. Rittenhouse Smith, who never spoke inconsiderately in
+matters of this grave nature, had agreed with her that--barring, of
+course, some Providentially interposed calamity such as scorching the
+ducks or getting too much salt in the terrapin--even Mr. Hutchinson Port
+would be unable to find a flaw in it.
+
+And now, at the last moment, at twelve o'clock of the day on which the
+dinner was to take place, came a note from the man upon whom she had
+most strongly counted to make the affair a success--the brightest man
+on her list, and the one who was to take out Miss Grace Winthrop--saying
+that he was laid up with a frightful cold and face-ache! He tried to
+make a joke of it, poor fellow, by adding a sketch--he sketched quite
+nicely--of his swelled cheek swathed in a handkerchief. But Mrs.
+Rittenhouse Smith was in no humor for joking; she was furious!
+
+When a woman misses fire in this way, it usually is possible to fill her
+place with a convenient young sister, or even with an elderly aunt. But
+when a man is wanted, and, especially, as in the case in point, a clever
+man, the matter very readily may become desperate. Mrs. Rittenhouse
+Smith certainly was dismayed, yet was she not utterly cast down. She had
+faith in her own quick wits, which had rescued her in times past from
+other social calamities, though never from one darker than this, of
+having, at a single fatal blow, her best man cut off from one of her
+most important dinner-parties, and the dinner-party itself reduced to
+thirteen; an ominous and dismal number that surely would be discovered,
+and that would cast over her feast a superstitious gloom.
+
+In this trying emergency Mrs. Smith acted with characteristic decision
+and wisdom. She perceived that to send invitations simultaneously to
+all the possible men of her acquaintance might involve her in still
+more awkward complications, while to send invitations successively might
+result in a fatal loss of time. Obviously, the only practicable course
+was a series of prompt, personal appeals from one to another, until
+assurance was received that the vacant place certainly would be filled.
+Therefore she despatched a note to Mr. Rittenhouse Smith, at his
+down-town office, acquainting him with the impending catastrophe and
+bidding him drop all other concerns until he had averted it by securing
+a satisfactory man.
+
+
+
+
+III.
+
+Now, under ordinary circumstances, Mr. Rittenhouse Smith would have
+obeyed his wife's orders cheerfully and promptly; but on this
+particular day there was a flurry in the stock-market (Mr. Smith was a
+stock-broker), and every minute that he was away from his office exposed
+him to serious business danger. At what he considered to be the safest
+moments, he made no less than five sallies after as many different men;
+and three of these had engagements for the evening, and two of them were
+out of town. What with the condition of the stock-market and the gloomy
+outlook for the dinner-party, Mr. Smith, albeit he was ordinarily a
+calm, sedate man, was almost distraught.
+
+Three o'clock brought a prospect of relief, but after a day of such
+active dealing his books could not be settled hurriedly. In point of
+fact, when at last he was able to leave his Third Street office the
+State House clock was striking five; and the dinner, in accordance
+with Philadelphia custom, was to be at seven! He knew that his wife had
+discharged into his hands the matter of procuring the needed man; and he
+knew that this line of action on her part had been both right and wise;
+but he groaned in spirit, as he thought how dreadful a responsibility
+was his!
+
+Mr. Smith was a methodical man, and in the calmness partly bred of his
+naturally orderly habits, and partly bred of his despair, he seated
+himself at his desk, in company with a comforting cigar, to think of any
+possible men whom he might beat up at their homes as he went westward.
+While he thus meditated--and while blackness settled down upon his soul,
+for of none could he think available for his purpose--he looked idly
+at the list of hotel arrivals in the morning paper that chanced to lie
+beside him; and suddenly he arose with a great shout of joy, for in this
+list he beheld the name, "Van R. Livingstone."
+
+Here, indeed, was good-fortune at last! Van Rensselaer Livingstone was
+in college with him, in his own class, at Harvard. They had been capital
+friends while their college life lasted; and although Livingstone had
+spent the last ten or twelve years in Europe, they had not wholly lost
+track of each other. Clever, handsome, well-born, and well-bred, he was
+everything that the present occasion required. He seemed to have been
+sent from heaven direct. In twenty minutes Mr. Smith was asking for him
+at his hotel.
+
+"Mr. Livingstone? Mr. Livingstone is out."
+
+"Did he leave any word as to when he would come in?"
+
+"Yes, sir. He said that a gentleman might call, and to say that he
+certainly would be back at six, and would not go out again to-night."
+
+Mr. Smith looked at his watch--it was 5:30. Had there been any
+uncertainty as to Livingstone's return, he would have waited. But it
+was clear that he was coming back to dine at his hotel, and to spend the
+evening there. A note, therefore, could be trusted to do the business,
+and by writing, instead of waiting, Mr. Smith would save half an hour;
+moreover, if he waited, he would not have time to make the mayonnaise.
+
+Probably it is only in Philadelphia that it ever occurs nowadays to the
+master of a feast to dress the salad; which, doubtless, is the reason
+why a better salad is served at certain dinner-tables in Philadelphia
+than at any other dinner-tables in the whole world.
+
+The thought of the mayonnaise settled the matter. Mr. Smith hastily
+wrote an account of the trying situation, and concluded his note with a
+solemn demand upon "dear old Van" to fill the vacant place, "in the holy
+name of the class of '68, and for love of your old classmate, R. Smith."
+
+
+
+
+IV.
+
+Presently the person thus adjured returned to his hotel, and with
+a somewhat puzzled expression read the adjuration. "R. Smith," he
+murmured, reflectively. "I think I do remember a Dicky Smith, from
+Philadelphia, at Columbia. But he wasn't in my class, and my class
+wasn't '68, but '76, and I don't remember ever saying a dozen words
+to him. He's got a good deal of cheek, whoever he is--and he, and
+his dinner, and his missing man may all go to the devil together! His
+invitation is absurd!" And with this ultimatum Mr. Livingstone laid the
+letter and envelope neatly together, preparatory to tearing them into
+fragments.
+
+But before this purpose was accomplished, another view of the situation
+came into his mind. "I don't see why I shouldn't go," he thought. "I've
+been muddling all day with this wretched wool man--which is a bore, even
+if I have made a pretty good bargain with him for next season's clip;
+and Ned hasn't come to time, which is another bore, for now I'll have to
+eat my dinner alone. And this Dicky Smith writes like a gentleman, even
+if he is cheeky; and he certainly seems to be in a peck of troubles
+about his missing man, and his thirteen at table, and the rest of it.
+Why, it's a regular adventure! And to think of having an adventure in
+Philadelphia, of all places in the world! By Jove, I'll go!"
+
+
+
+
+V.
+
+"How very, very good of you, Mr. Livingstone, to come to our rescue!" It
+was Mrs. Rittenhouse Smith who spoke, and she spoke in a guarded tone;
+for Livingstone was among the last to arrive, and she had no desire to
+publish among her guests the catastrophe that so nearly had overtaken
+her.
+
+"And I know," she continued: "that you will understand how sorry I am
+that this first visit of Mr. Smith's old friend to our house should be
+under such peculiar circumstances. But you will have your reward, for
+you are to take out the very prettiest and the very brightest girl
+here. Come and be rewarded!" And Mrs. Smith slipped her hand upon her
+benefactor's arm, and piloted him across the room.
+
+"Miss Winthrop, permit me to present Mr. Livingstone. Miss Winthrop is
+half Boston and half European, Mr. Livingstone; and as you, after these
+ten years abroad, must be wholly European, you can cheer each other as
+fellow foreigners in the midst of Philadelphia barbarism"--with which
+pleasant speech the hostess turned quickly to receive the last arrival
+(a man, of course; only a man would dare to be even near to late at
+one of Mrs. Rittenhouse Smith's dinners), and then, standing beside the
+doorway, with Mr. Hutchinson Port, marshalled her company in to dinner.
+It was a comfort to her to know that for once in his fault-finding
+life Mr. Port would be compelled, since he was to be seated beside his
+hostess, to eat his food without abusing it.
+
+Just at this time two things struck Mrs. Smith as odd. One was that as
+she presented her handsome guest to Miss Grace Winthrop she certainly
+had felt him start, while his arm had trembled curiously beneath her
+hand. The other was that as Mr. Rittenhouse Smith left the drawing-room,
+passing close beside her with Miss Winthrop upon his arm, he made a face
+at her. The first of these phenomena struck her as curious. The second
+struck her as ominous. Had it been possible she would have investigated
+the cause of Mr. Smith's facial demonstration. But it was not possible.
+She only could breathe a silent prayer that all would go well--and the
+while sniff anxiously to discover if perchance there were a smell of
+scorching duck.
+
+Mrs. Smith would have been still more mystified could she have been
+cognizant at this juncture of her husband's and of Miss Grace Winthrop's
+and of Mr. Livingstone's thoughts.
+
+The first of these was thinking: "It isn't Van Rensselaer Livingstone,
+any more than I am; though he certainly looks like him. And I'm sure
+that he knows that he don't know me. And I think that we've managed to
+get into a blank idiotic mess!"
+
+And the second of these was thinking: "If he's been in Europe for the
+past ten years, there's not one chance in fifty that I ever have laid
+eyes on him. But I know I have!"
+
+And the third of these was thinking: "There isn't man in the room who
+looks enough like Dicky Smith to be his tenth cousin. But if ever the
+goodness of heaven was shown in the affairs of men it is shown here to
+me to-night!"
+
+
+
+
+VI.
+
+Even as the sun triumphs over the darkness of night and the gloom of the
+tempest, so did Mrs. Rittenhouse Smith's dinner-party emerge radiantly
+from the sombre perils which had beset it. It was a brilliant,
+unqualified success.
+
+Miss Winthrop was good enough to say, when the evening was ended--saying
+it in that assured, unconscious way that gives to the utterances of
+Boston people so peculiar a charm--"Really, Mrs. Smith, you have given
+me not only a delightful dinner, but a delightful surprise; I would not
+have believed, had I not seen it myself, that outside of Boston so many
+clever people could be brought together!"
+
+And Mr. Hutchinson Port, upsetting all his traditions, had kept up a
+running fire of laudatory comment upon the dinner that had filled
+Mrs. Smith's soul with joy. She had expected him, being cut off by her
+presence from engaging in his accustomed grumbling, to maintain a moody
+silence. She had not expected praise: and she valued his praise the more
+because she knew that he spoke out of the fulness of his wisdom; and
+because in a matter of such vital moment as eating she knew that she
+could trust him to be sincere. His only approach to invidious comment
+was in regard to the terrapin.
+
+With the grave solemnity that marks the serving of this delicacy in
+Philadelphia; in the midst of a holy calm befitting a sacred rite, the
+silver vessels were carried around the board, and in hushed rapture (a
+little puzzling to the Bostonians) the precious mixture was ladled out
+upon the fourteen plates; and Mr. Hutchinson Port, as the result of
+many years of soulful practice, was able to secure to himself at one
+dexterous scoop more eggs than fell to the lot of any other two men.
+
+It was while rapturously eating these eggs that he spake: "My dear Mrs.
+Smith, will you forgive me if I venture to suggest, even to you--for
+what I have seen this night has convinced me that you are one of the
+very few people who know what a dinner ought to be--that the Madeira
+used in dressing terrapin cannot possibly be _too_ old?"
+
+
+
+
+VII.
+
+Proceeding in accordance with the cue that Mrs. Smith had given her,
+Miss Grace Winthrop engaged Mr. Livingstone in conversation upon
+European topics; and was somewhat astonished to find, in view of his
+past ten years in Europe, that they evidently had very little interest
+for him. And all the while that she talked with him she was haunted by
+the conviction that she had seen him somewhere; and all the while she
+was aware of something in his manner, she could not tell what, that
+seemed to imply that she ought to know who he was.
+
+What Miss Grace Winthrop did feel entirely certain about, however, was
+that this was one of the cleverest and one of the manliest men she had
+ever come across. His well-shaped hands were big and brown, and his face
+was brown, and the set of his head and the range of his broad shoulders
+gave him an alert look and a certain air of command. There was that
+about him which suggested a vigorous life in the open air. There was
+nothing to suggest ten years in Europe, unless it were the charm of his
+manner, and his neat way of saying bright things.
+
+As for Livingstone, he was as one who at the same time is both entranced
+and inspired. He knew that he never had been happier in his life; he
+knew that he never had said so many clever things in so short a time.
+Therefore it was that these young people always thereafter were most
+harmoniously agreed that this was the very happiest dinner that they had
+eaten in all their lives.
+
+It came to an end much too soon for either of them. The ladies left the
+room, and cigars were invoked to fill their place. This was the
+moment that Livingstone had looked forward to as affording the first
+practicable opportunity for taking his host apart and explaining that
+his, Livingstone's, presence at that particular feast certainly must be
+owing to some mistake. And this was the moment that Mr. Smith, also, had
+looked forward to as available for clearing up the mystery--of which
+his wife still was blissfully ignorant--as to who their stranger guest
+really was. But the moment now being come, Livingstone weakly but
+deliberately evaded it by engaging in an animated conversation with Mr.
+Hutchinson Port in regard to the precise number of minutes and seconds
+that a duck ought to remain before the fire; and Mr. Smith--having
+partaken of his own excellent wines and meats until his whole being was
+aglow with a benevolent friendliness--contented himself with thinking
+that, no matter who his guest was, he certainly was a capital fellow;
+and that to cross-question him as to his name, at least until the
+evening was at an end, would be a gross outrage upon the laws of
+hospitality.
+
+Livingstone, however, had the grace to feel a good deal ashamed of
+himself as they returned to the drawing-room. In all that had gone
+before, he had been a victim of circumstances. He had an uncomfortable
+conviction that his position now was not wholly unlike that of an
+impostor. But as he pushed aside the portiere he beheld a pair of blue
+eyes which, he flattered himself, betrayed an expression of pleased
+expectancy--and his compunctions vanished.
+
+There was only a little time left to them, for the evening was almost
+at an end. Their talk came back to travel. Did she like travelling in
+America? he asked. Yes, she liked it very much indeed, "only "--as a
+sudden memory of a past experience flashed into her mind--"one does
+sometimes meet such dreadfully horrid people!"
+
+They were sitting, as they talked, in a narrow space between a table and
+the wall, made narrower by the presence of an unused chair. Just as this
+memory was aroused, some one tried to push by them, and Livingstone,
+rising, lifted the obstructing chair away. To find a clear space in
+which to put it down, he lifted it across the table; and for a moment he
+stood erect, holding the chair out before him at arm's-length.
+
+When he seated himself and turned again to speak to Grace, he was
+startled to find that her face and shoulders, and even her arms--her
+arms and shoulders were delectable--were crimson; and in her eyes he
+found at last the look of recognition that he had hoped for earlier in
+the evening, but that now he had ceased to expect. Recognition of this
+emphatic sort he certainly had not expected at all.
+
+"You--you see," she said, "I al--always have thought that you were
+a robber and a murderer, and shocking things like that. And I didn't
+really see you that day, except as you walked away, holding up that
+horrid little man, kicking--just as you held up the chair. Can you ever,
+ever forgive me for thinking such wicked things about you, and for being
+so ungrateful as not to know you at the very first?"
+
+And Livingstone, then and later, succeeded in convincing her that he
+could.
+
+
+
+
+VIII.
+
+By an emphatic whisper Miss Grace Winthrop succeeded in impressing
+upon her aunt the necessity--at no matter what sacrifice of the
+social conventions--of being the last to go. In the matter of keeping
+Livingstone, she experienced no difficulty at all. And when the
+unnecessary eight had departed, she presented to her aunt and uncle her
+deliverer, and--in a delightfully hesitating way--told to Mr. and Mrs.
+Smith the story of her deliverance.
+
+It was when this matter had been explained that Livingstone, who felt
+that his position now was absolutely secure, brought up the delicate
+question of his own identity.
+
+"You can understand, I am sure, Mrs. Smith," he said, "how very grateful
+I am to you for this evening; but, indeed, I don't think that I am the
+person you meant to ask. And it has occurred to me, from something that
+you said about my having been in Europe for a good while, that Mr. Smith
+might have meant his invitation for Van Rensselaer Livingstone. He's my
+cousin, you know; and he has spent the last ten years in Europe, and
+is there yet, I fancy. But I am Van Ruyter Livingstone, and if I can
+be said to have a home anywhere--except the old home in New York, of
+course--it is on my sheep range in New Mexico.
+
+"But you won't be cruel enough, Mrs. Smith, after letting me into
+Paradise--even if I did get in by mistake--to turn me out again; will
+you?"
+
+And Mrs. Rittenhouse Smith, who was a clever woman, as well as a
+remarkably clear-sighted one, replied that even if she wanted to turn
+Mr. Van Ruyter Livingstone out of Paradise she believed that it was now
+too late.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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