: A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland Hamlin - Authors American 20th century Biography; Authors American 19th century Biography; Garland Hamlin 1860-1940

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Transcriber's note:

THE SERPENT'S TOOTH

B. M. CROKER

New York Brentano'S 1913

Printed in Great Britain

THE SERPENT'S TOOTH

Colonel Fenchurch stood on his own hearthstone--that is to say, the smoking-room rug--with his back to the fire, and a cup of tea in his hand. He was a good-looking dapper little man, with a neat white moustache, a cheery voice, and an unfailing flow of talk.

"I say, Doodie," turning to a lady in a splashed habit, who was meditatively consuming buttered toast, "weren't the roads beastly? Just look at my boots and leathers!"

Doodie, his wife, nodded, but made no other reply.

"A clinking run," he continued, "and a lot of those thrusters got left--you went well--eh?--that was a nasty place out of the round plantation!--on the whole--a good hard day!"

Once more his better-half inclined her hatted head; evidently her mind was preoccupied. She was staring fixedly at a certain pattern in the carpet, with a remote and far-away gaze; a plain weather-beaten lady whose age--much discussed among her acquaintances--was probably five-and-forty; her habit displayed a slight square-shouldered figure; a pot hat pushed to the back of her head disclosed the inevitable red mark, a long but aristocratic nose, and a clever resolute countenance.

The couple had settled down in a ramshackle old house, in a ramshackle old village in the Midlands, inconveniently remote from the railway, but within easy reach of the principal Meets of a well-known sporting pack. The bride's relations--who had not favoured the alliance--shrugged their shoulders and commiserated 'poor Dorothy.' They little knew that 'poor Dorothy,' now thoroughly free and independent, was as happy as the day was long!

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