CHAPTER V

THE SILVER FEATHER Two wonderful, miraculous days, and then a telegram from Ruth: Arrive to-morrow morning about mid-day Motoring from Polchester. On the morning that Nathalie was going, Ruth was arriving. Nathalie would be away for a week, Klimov was going also because he had fallen in love--not with Miss Thorne but with Miss Thorne's idea, with the Peace of the World. The idea was made for Klimov, and Klimov for the idea. Miss Thorne, introduced to him outside her house by Nathalie, knew at once that…