The Golden Silence

								


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                           THE GOLDEN SILENCE

                                BOOKS BY



                       C. N. and A. M. WILLIAMSON

                    THE MOTOR MAID

                    LORD LOVELAND DISCOVERS AMERICA

                    SET IN SILVER

                    THE LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR

                    THE PRINCESS PASSES

                    MY FRIEND THE CHAUFFEUR

                    LADY BETTY ACROSS THE WATER

                    ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHER

                    THE PRINCESS VIRGINIA

                    THE CAR OF DESTINY

                    THE CHAPERON

                             "'Allah sends thee a man--a strong man, whose brain

                 and heart and arm are at thy service'"

                                  THE

                                GOLDEN

                                SILENCE



                                   by



                              C.N. & A.M.

                              WILLIAMSON



                             Illustrated by GEORGE BREHM

                         GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK

                       DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

                                  1911



           ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION

           INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN



              COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY C. N. & A. M. WILLIAMSON

                                   TO



                               Effendi



                                HIS BOOK

THE GOLDEN SILENCE

I

Stephen Knight was very angry, though he meant to be kind and patient
with Margot. Perhaps, after all, she had not given the interview to the
newspaper reporter. It might be what she herself would call a "fake."
But as for her coming to stop at a big, fashionable hotel like the
Carlton, in the circumstances she could hardly have done anything in
worse taste.
He hated to think that she was capable of taking so false a step. He
hated to think that it was exactly like her to take it. He hated to be
obliged to call on her in the hotel; and he hated himself for hating it.
Knight was of the world that is inclined to regard servants as automata;
but he was absurdly self-conscious as he saw his card on a silver tray,
in the hand of an expressionless, liveried youth who probably had the
famous interview in his pocket. If not there, it was only because the
paper would not fit in. The footman had certainly read the interview,
and followed the "Northmorland Case" with passionate interest, for
months, from the time it began with melodrama, and turned violently to
tragedy, up to the present moment when (as the journalists neatly
crammed the news into a nutshell) "it bade fair to end with