"I once knew a man from Baltimore whose name was Grand, that's all.
I'm wondering if she can be--"
"Her father is Colonel Robert Grand. He's the great racehorse man.
Every one knows _him,_" said one of the Baltimore girls.
"Colonel Bob Grand?"
"Yes. Of course he and Mrs. Grand don't live together any longer. They
were divorced about five years ago. Didn't you see the account of it
in the Richmond papers? It seems that he ran off with an actress--to
London, they say. Oh, I don't remember all the details. Mother
wouldn't let us read the stuff in the papers. But I do remember that
he bought a house in London for the woman and he never even fought the
divorce. He treated Mrs. Grand shamefully, I know that much. Father
says he is a terrible man."
David Jenison was very pale and very still. He did not take his eyes
from the face of the speaker.
"Who was this actress?" asked some one. He went very cold. He tried to
close his ears against a name he dreaded to hear on the lips of the
fair gossip.
"I don't know. Some one you never heard of. Just a common, ordinary
actress, as I remember.
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