COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS TAUCHNITZ EDITION. VOL. 3333. THE OPEN QUESTION. BY C. E. RAIMOND. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. THE OPEN QUESTION A TALE OF TWO TEMPERAMENTS BY C. E. RAIMOND (ELIZABETH ROBINS). arkes COPYRIGHT EDITION. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LEIPZIG BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ 1899. THE OPEN QUESTION. CHAPTER I. THE next afternoon Mrs. Gano and her son took Val and Emmie watched Ethan looked back at the of the same expression. Ethan out driving in state. them off with eyes of envy. young people with something The hack was old and fusty, and was drawn by a single sorrowful beast, but there was an air of ceremony about the whole proceeding not lost on Ethan. His uncle pointed out the sights, and, in the intervals of bouts of coughing, discussed town and national politics. Mrs. Gano, in excellent spirits, planned a series of drives to points of interest, in every direction, as long as the fine weather should last. Ethan began to quail inwardly at the prospect, and yet these odd relations interested him infinitely more than he had expected. And as soon as that cough of his uncle's became intolerable he would have urgent business in Boston. Meanwhile, apropos of these drives, he realised that he would never dare to offer to pay for the carriage hire. He turned the prob lem over in his mind, and after they came home he |