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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Module 1 Exploring the Basics of Microsoft Session 1.2 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 36
Windows 10 Review Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 37
Investigating the Windows 10 Operating System. . . . . . WIN 1
Case Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 38
Session 1.1 Visual Overview: Windows 10
Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 2 Module 2 Organizing Your Files
Managing Files and Folders in Windows 10. . . . . . . .WIN 41
Introducing Windows 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 4
Starting Windows 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 4 Session 2.1 Visual Overview: Files in a
Interacting with the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 6 Preparing to Manage Your Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 44
Selecting and Opening Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 7 Understanding the Need for Organizing
Files and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 45
Displaying Shortcut Menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 8
Developing Strategies for Organizing
Exploring the Start Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 9
Files and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 46
Starting Apps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 12
Exploring Files and Folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 48
Running Multiple Apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 13
Navigating to Your Data Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 52
Switching Between Applications . . . . . . . . . . WIN 14
Navigating with the Address Bar . . . . . . . . . . WIN 54
Manipulating Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 15
Using the Search Box to Find Files . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 55
Using App Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 18
Managing Files and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 56
Using the Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 18
Creating Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 57
Using Dialog Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 19
Moving and Copying Files and Folders . . . . . WIN 58
Closing Apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 20
Selecting Files and Folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 61
Session 1.1 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 23
Copying Files and Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 61
Session 1.2 Visual Overview: Working in Session 2.1 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 63
File Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 24
Exploring Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 26 Session 2.2 Customized Folder Window . . . . . . . WIN 64
Navigating with File Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 26 Naming and Renaming Files and Folders . . . . . . WIN 66
Using the Navigation Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 29 Working with New Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 68
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Session 3.2 Visual Overview: Personalized Using the Hub to Revisit Webpages . . . . . . . . . WIN 169
Start Menu and Taskbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 116 Creating a Reading List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 169
Modifying the Taskbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 118 Using the History List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 170
Pinning Apps to the Taskbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 119 Adding Webpages to the Favorites List . . . . . WIN 172
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Organizing the Favorites List . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 175 Defending Against Email Viruses . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 225
Printing and Saving Webpage Content. . . . . . . WIN 176 Session 5.1 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 225
Session 4.1 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 177
Session 5.2 Visual Overview: Microsoft Edge
Session 4.2 Visual Overview: Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 226
Windows 10 Mail App . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 178 Managing Microsoft Edge Security. . . . . . . . . . WIN 228
Getting Started with Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 180 Checking Websites with the SmartScreen
Examining How Email Works . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 180 Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 228
Addressing Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 181 Downloading Files Safely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 231
Setting Up Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 181 Blocking Malware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 232
Sending and Receiving Email Using Mail . . . . . . WIN 183 Blocking Pop-Up Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 233
Creating and Sending Email Messages . . . . . WIN 184 Selecting Microsoft Edge Privacy
Receiving and Reading Email Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 234
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 186 Protecting Your Privacy with InPrivate
Responding to Email Messages . . . . . . . . . . WIN 187 Browsing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 237
Attaching a File to a Message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 188 Requesting Tracking Protection . . . . . . . . . . WIN 238
Deleting Email Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 190 Setting Up User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 240
Adding Information to the People App . . . . . . WIN 191 Selecting a User Name and Password . . . . . WIN 241
Managing Your Schedule with Calendar . . . . . . WIN 193 Creating a Local-Only User Account . . . . . . WIN 242
Scheduling Appointments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 194 Changing Sign-in Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 244
Restoring Your Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 196 Controlling Access to Your Computer. . . . . . . . WIN 249
Session 4.2 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 197 Startup and App Security Features. . . . . . . . . . WIN 250
Review Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 198 Restoring Your Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 250
Case Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 199 Session 5.2 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 251
Review Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 252
Module 5 Protecting Your Computer
Managing Computer Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 205 Case Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 253
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Searching by File Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 270 Opening a Graphic in Paint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 312
Filtering the Search Results by Size . . . . . . . WIN 272 Saving a Graphics File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 314
Filtering Search Results by Date Copying and Pasting to Create a Graphic. . . . WIN 315
Modified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 274 Modifying Graphics in Paint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 317
Examining the Search Results. . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 275 Resizing the Canvas and Moving
Saving a Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 276 an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 317
Using Tags and Other Properties . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 278 Adding Text to a Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 320
Adding Tags to Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 279 Drawing Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 325
Session 6.1 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 281 Moving Part of a Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 327
Resizing and Rotating Graphics . . . . . . . . . . WIN 330
Session 6.2 Visual Overview:
Searching the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 282 Deleting Part of a Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 332
Using Advanced Search Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 284 Changing Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 334
Combining Boolean Filters and File Session 7.1 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 339
Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 288
Session 7.2 Visual Overview:
Searching the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 288 Editing Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 340
Searching for Web Information with Working with Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 342
Cortana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 288
Acquiring and Importing Photos . . . . . . . . . WIN 342
Searching the Web with
Viewing and Organizing Photos . . . . . . . . . . WIN 344
Microsoft Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 291
Playing a Simple Slide Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 348
Narrowing Your Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 292
Editing a Photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 349
Choosing Search Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 296
Sharing Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 352
Restoring Your Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 298
Sharing Photos from the Photos App . . . . . . WIN 352
Session 6.2 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 299
Sharing Photos Using OneDrive . . . . . . . . . . WIN 354
Review Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WIN 300
Finding and Playing Music. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 359
Case Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 301
Finding Music Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 359
Playing Music Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 361
Module 7 Managing Multimedia Files
Working with Graphics, Photos, Music, Creating a Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 362
and Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 305 Working with Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 364
Session 7.1 Visual Overview: Restoring Your Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 365
Creating Graphics in Paint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 306 Session 7.2 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 365
Exploring Computer Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 308 Review Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 366
Creating Graphics in Paint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 310 Case Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 368
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Module 8 Connecting to Networks with Mobile Using Sync Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 420
Computing Resolving Synchronization Conflicts . . . . . . . WIN 421
Accessing Network Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 375
Using Remote Desktop Connection . . . . . . . . . WIN 422
Session 8.1 Visual Overview: Restoring Your Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 426
Mobile Computing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 376 Session 8.2 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 427
Managing Mobile Computing Devices . . . . . . . WIN 378 Review Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 428
Using Windows Mobility Center . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 379 Case Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 429
Setting Speaker Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 380
Module 9 Maintaining Hardware and Software
Displaying the Battery Status . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 381
Managing Software, Disks, and Devices. . . . . . . . . WIN 433
Selecting a Power Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 384
Customizing Power Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 386 Session 9.1 Visual Overview:
Managing Data and Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 434
Modifying a Power Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 389
Backing Up and Restoring Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 436
Selecting Other Power Options . . . . . . . . . . WIN 393
Setting Up File History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 437
Presenting Information to an Audience . . . . . . WIN 394
Selecting the Backup Location . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 438
Preparing a Computer for a Presentation . . . . WIN 394
Selecting Folders to Back Up . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 438
Displaying Information on an External
Display Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 396 Backing Up Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 439
Exploring Network Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 398 Changing Backup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WIN 440
Setting Up a Small Office or Home Restoring Files and Folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . .WIN 446
Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WIN 400 Managing System Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 448
Managing Network Connections . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 401 Creating a System Recovery Drive . . . . . . . . WIN 449
Connecting to a Wireless Network. . . . . . . . WIN 402 Creating a System Restore Point . . . . . . . . . WIN 450
Session 8.1 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 405 Resetting and Recovering a System . . . . . . . WIN 454
Managing Application Software . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 456
Session 8.2 Visual Overview:
Installing Apps from the Windows Store. . . . . WIN 456
Sharing Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 406
Uninstalling Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 458
Using a Windows Homegroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 408
Setting Up a Program for Compatibility. . . . . WIN 459
Creating a Homegroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 408
Exploring Windows To Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 461
Adding Other Computers to
Session 9.1 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 461
a Homegroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 411
Sharing Files with a Homegroup. . . . . . . . . . WIN 412 Session 9.2 Visual Overview:
Sharing a Printer with a Homegroup . . . . . . WIN 415 Managing Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 462
Accessing Offline Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 415 Maintaining Hard Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 464
Setting Up a Computer to Use Viewing Hard Disk Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 464
Offline Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 416 Checking for Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 466
Making a File or Folder Available Offline . . . . WIN 418 Deleting Unnecessary Files with Disk
Synchronizing Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 419 Cleanup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 468
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Checking a Hard Disk for Errors . . . . . . . . . . WIN 469 Monitoring System Performance . . . . . . . . . WIN 512
Defragmenting a Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 472 Using Resource Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 517
Working with Devices and Drivers . . . . . . . . . . WIN 476 Generating a System Diagnostics Report . . . . WIN 519
Understanding Device Resources. . . . . . . . . WIN 478 Increasing Memory Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 520
Understanding Device Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 479 Using ReadyBoost to Increase Memory
Installing a Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 479 Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 522
Enabling and Disabling Devices . . . . . . . . . . WIN 479 Session 10.1 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 525
Installing and Updating Device Drivers . . . . . WIN 482 Session 10.2 Visual Overview:
Rolling Back a Driver to a Previous Solving System Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 526
Version. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 484 Responding to Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 528
Safely Removing Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 484 Finding Troubleshooting Information . . . . . . . . WIN 529
Maintaining Your Display Device. . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 484 Using Troubleshooters to Find and Fix
Adjusting the Screen Refresh Rate . . . . . . . . WIN 485 Computer Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 531
Selecting Color Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 486 Searching the Microsoft Community . . . . . . WIN 534
Installing and Setting Up a Printer . . . . . . . . . . WIN 488 Troubleshooting Printing Errors . . . . . . . . . . WIN 536
Installing a Local Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 488 Recovering from Software Errors . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 538
Restoring Your Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 490 Reporting and Solving Software
Session 9.2 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 491 Errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 538
Review Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 492 Viewing the Reliability History . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 540
Case Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 493 Viewing Details About System
Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 543
Module 10 Improving Your Computer’s Performance Recovering the Operating System . . . . . . . . WIN 545
Enhancing Your System and Troubleshooting
Computer Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 497 Using the Steps Recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 547
Requesting and Managing Remote
Session 10.1 Visual Overview:
Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 549
Tracking System Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 498
Requesting Remote Assistance . . . . . . . . . . WIN 550
Improving System Performance . . . . . . . . . . . .WIN 500
Restoring Your Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 553
Displaying Basic System Information . . . . . .WIN 500
Session 10.2 Quick Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 554
Reviewing Detailed System Information. . . . WIN 503
Review Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 555
Optimizing Visual Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 505
Case Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 556
Using Task Manager to Examine System
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WIN 506 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REF 1
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MODULE
1
OBJECTIVES Exploring the
Session 1.1
• Start Windows 10 Basics of Microsoft
Windows 10
• Explore the Start menu
• Start and close apps
• Run apps, switch between
them, and close them
• Identify and use the controls in Investigating the Windows 10
windows and dialog boxes
Operating System
Session 1.2
• Navigate your computer using
File Explorer
• Change the view of the items
Case | For Pet’s Sake
in your computer For Pet’s Sake is a nonprofit pet-adoption agency in Glencoe,
• Get help when you need it Illinois, dedicated to placing adoptable companion animals in
• Turn off Windows 10 suitable homes and educating the public about responsible pet
ownership. The agency depends on its volunteers to help with daily
operations, pet care, and fundraising. As the volunteer coordinator
at For Pet’s Sake, Ashley Cramer recruits, trains, and manages
volunteers. Some of her training sessions involve teaching volunteers
how to perform their daily tasks using the agency’s computers.
Ashley recently hired you as her assistant. She has asked you to
lead the upcoming training sessions on the fundamentals of the
Microsoft Windows 10 operating system. As you prepare for the
sessions, she offers to help you identify the topics you should cover
and the skills you should demonstrate while focusing on the new
features in Windows 10.
WIN 1
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Windows 10 provides
default taskbar buttons
you can click to access
The Start button provides popular apps.
access to Windows 10
apps, documents, and
settings.
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Windows 10 Desktop
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Introducing Windows 10
The operating system is software that manages and coordinates activities on the
computer and helps it perform essential tasks, such as displaying information and
saving data. (The term software refers to the programs a computer uses to complete
tasks.) Your computer uses the Microsoft Windows 10 operating system—Windows 10
for short. Windows is the name of the operating system, and 10 identifies the version
you are using.
The most popular features of Windows 10 include its speed, flexibility, and design.
Windows 10 runs software created specifically for Windows 10 and for earlier versions
of Windows, such as Windows 7 and 8. This type of software is called an application,
or app for short. You use apps to perform specific tasks, such as writing a document or
exchanging messages with another computer user. You can use more than one app at a
time and switch seamlessly from one app to another to perform your work efficiently.
Windows 10 is designed to run on computers that use a touchscreen, such as tablets
and some laptops, and those that use a keyboard and mouse, such as other laptops and
desktop computers. A touchscreen is a display that lets you touch areas of the screen
to interact with software. To select a button, for example, you touch the button on the
tablet display with your fingertip. However, you are not required to use a touchscreen
with Windows 10. This book assumes that you are using a computer with a keyboard
and pointing device, such as a mouse.
Starting Windows 10
Windows 10 starts automatically when you turn on your computer. After completing
If you have a Microsoft some necessary start-up tasks, Windows 10 displays a lock screen, which includes a
account, you can use the picture, the date, and the time. You clear the lock screen to display the Welcome screen.
user name and password Depending on how your computer is set up, the Welcome screen might list only your
for that account to sign in user name or it might list all the users for the computer. Before you start working with
to Windows 10.
Windows, you might need to click your user name and type a password. A user name is
a unique name that identifies you to Windows, and a password is a confidential series
of characters that you must enter before you can work with Windows. If you installed
Windows yourself, you probably created a user name and password as you set up your
computer. If not, the person who created your account assigned you at least a user name
and possibly a password. After selecting your user name or entering a password, the
Windows 10 desktop appears (as shown in the Session 1.1 Visual Overview).
To begin preparing for your training session, Ashley asks you to start Windows 10.
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◗ 3. If necessary
necessary, click your user name, type your password, and then press the
Enter key.
The Windows 10 desktop appears, as shown in the Session 1.1 Visual Overview.
Your screen might look different.
Trouble? If your user name does not appear on the Welcome screen, try
pressing the Ctrl+Alt+Del keys to enter your name. If necessary, ask your
instructor or technical support person for further assistance.
Trouble? If a blank screen or an animated design replaces the desktop,
your computer might be set to use a screen saver, a program that causes a
display to go blank or to show an animated design after a specified amount
of idle time. Press any key or move your mouse to restore the desktop.
Trouble? If your computer is using a screen resolution other than 1366 768,
the figures shown in this book might not match exactly what you see in Windows
10 as you work through the steps. Take the screen resolution difference into
account as you compare your screen with the figures.
The background area that appears after you sign into Windows 10 is called the desktop
because it provides a workspace for projects and the tools you need to manipulate your
projects. The desktop displays icons that represent items on your computer, such as apps,
files, and folders. A computer file is a collection of related information. Typical types of
files include text documents, spreadsheets, photos, and songs. A folder is a container that
helps you organize the contents of your computer.
Windows gets its name from the rectangular areas called windows that appear on
your screen as you work, such as those shown in Figure 1-1.
overlapping windows
You can open two types of windows in Windows 10: those for Windows apps (also
called universal apps), such as the Weather app, and those for traditional desktop
applications, such as File Explorer, a tool you use to navigate, view, and work with the
contents and resources on your computer. You’ll explore both types of windows later in
the module.
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To view ScreenTips:
◗ 1. Point to the File Explorer icon on the taskbar. A ScreenTip identifying the
icon appears near the icon, as shown in Figure 1-2.
ScreenTip pointer
Trouble? If you don’t see the ScreenTip, make sure you keep the pointer still
for a few seconds.
Clicking refers to pressing a mouse button and immediately releasing it. Clicking
sends a signal to your computer that you want to perform an action with the object
you click. In Windows 10, you perform most actions with the left mouse button. If you
are told to click an object, position the pointer on that object and click the left mouse
button, unless instructed otherwise.
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user icon
apps used
frequently
tile
live tile
menu
commands
◗ 2. Click the Start button on the taskbar to close the Start menu.
Besides menu commands, the Start menu includes colored rectangles called tiles,
which represent apps. Some tiles display icons, such as the Calendar tile. Other tiles
display information that previews the contents of the app, such as the Sports tile, which
displays photos and headlines for current sports stories. A tile that displays updated
content is called a live tile. Tiles such as the Weather tile become live tiles after you
open their apps for the first time.
If clicking an object doesn’t open its app, you probably need to double-click it.
Double-clicking means clicking the left mouse button twice in quick succession.
For example, you can double-click the Recycle Bin icon to open the Recycle Bin
and see its contents. The Recycle Bin holds deleted items until you remove them
permanently.
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Ashley suggests that you have volunteers practice double-clicking by opening the
Recycle Bin.
Close button
Trouble? If the Recycle Bin window does not open and you see only the
Recycle Bin name highlighted below the icon, you double-clicked too slowly.
Double-click the icon again more quickly.
Now you can close the Recycle Bin window.
◗ 2. Click the Close button in the upper-right corner of the Recycle Bin
window.
You’ll learn more about opening and closing windows later in this session.
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In Windows 10, right-clicking usually selects an object and opens its shortcut menu,
which lists actions you can take with that object. You can right-click practically any
object—a tile on the Start menu, a desktop icon, the taskbar, and even the desktop itself—
to view commands associated with that object. Ashley suggests that when you’re not
sure what to do with an object in Windows 10, you should right-click it and examine its
shortcut menu. Now you can right-click the Recycle Bin icon to open its shortcut menu.
shortcut menu
Trouble? If the shortcut menu does not open and you are using a trackball
or a mouse with a wheel, make sure you click the button on the far right, not
the one in the middle.
◗ 2. Click Open on the shortcut menu to open the Recycle Bin window again.
◗ 3. Click the Close button in the upper-right corner of the Recycle Bin
window.
Now that you’ve explored the desktop, you can return to the Start menu and use it to
start applications.
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recently installed
apps, if any
appear here
commands for
important tools Search the web
and Windows box
For easy access, the left pane lists the apps you use most often in the Most used
list. If you have recently added apps, the left pane also lists those apps in the Recently
added list. When you first install Windows 10, the Most used list contains a few apps
already installed on your computer. After you use an app, Windows 10 adds it to this
list so you can find it quickly the next time you want to use it. The Most used list can
contain only a certain number of apps—after that, the apps you have not opened
recently are replaced by the apps you used last.
Near the bottom of the left pane are commands for the following important tools:
• File Explorer: Navigate, view, and work with the contents and resources on your
computer.
• Settings: Select and change system settings.
• Power: Control the power to the computer by shutting it down, for example.
• All apps: Select from an alphabetic list of all the apps on the computer.
Use the Search the web and Windows box to access Cortana, an electronic personal
assistant that can search the web, find files, keep track of information, and respond
to your questions. You can activate Cortana by typing text or talking. For example,
you can ask Cortana to tell a joke, remind you about an appointment, or find a file.
See Figure 1-7.
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Cortana
INSIGHT
Cortana comes from the Halo series of games where she is a smart and powerful
character that provides information and helps the master chief complete missions. In
Windows 10, Cortana is not a character, but a personalized assistant. The Notebook
is where Cortana keeps track of what you like, such as your interests and favorite
places, and what you want it to do, such as display reminders or information that might
interest you. Settings in the People and Maps apps also affect Cortana. For example,
if you identify a contact as a friend, Cortana can remind you to call that person. If you
identify locations on the map as your home and workplace, Cortana can estimate the
time of your commute. As you work, Cortana can take note of your preferences and
what you’re doing when you ask for information to give personalized answers and
recommendations. Because you control the type of information you share with Cortana,
the interactions are on your terms and are personalized to your benefit.
From the right pane of the Start menu, you can select tiles for Windows apps, or
universal apps, a type of app that can run on many devices, including laptops, tablets,
and mobile phones. You purchase, download, and install Windows apps from the
Windows Store, an online resource for games, music, video, and other types of apps,
including social and productivity apps. In contrast, many apps in the left pane of the
Start menu are desktop apps, which run only on personal computers (PCs) such as
laptops and desktop computers.
Now that you’ve explored the Start menu, you’re ready to use it to start an app.
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Starting Apps
Computers can run two types of software: system software and apps. System software
is the software that runs a computer, including the operating system. As you know, an
app is the software you use to perform tasks, such as writing a screenplay or viewing a
webpage. In general, a computer runs system software to perform computer tasks, and
you run apps to carry out your work or personal tasks.
Starting an App
REFERENCE
Ashley suggests that you demonstrate how to start the Calendar app, a Windows app
that displays a full-screen calendar where you can schedule appointments and other events.
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the appearance
of your Calendar
might differ
Now that you have started one app, you can start another app and run two at the
same time.
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Calendar window;
yours might be hidden
by the Paint window
Calendar button on
Paint button on the
the taskbar is not
taskbar is highlighted,
highlighted, indicating
indicating that Paint is
that Calendar is not
the active window
the active window
When you start an app, it is said to be open or running. A taskbar button appears on
the taskbar for each open app. One taskbar button is highlighted with a background
lighter than the other taskbar buttons. This button is for the active window, the window
you are currently working with—Windows 10 applies your next keystroke or command
to the active window. Paint is the active window because it is the one you are currently
using. If two or more windows overlap, the active window appears in front of the other
windows. Even if the Paint window completely covered the Calendar window, you
could still access the Calendar app by using its taskbar button. The taskbar organizes all
the open windows so you can quickly make one active by clicking its taskbar button.
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thumbnail
of the Paint click to add
app a virtual
desktop
Task View thumbnail of the
button Calendar app
You can switch to one of the running apps by clicking its thumbnail or close it by
clicking its Close button. Clicking a thumbnail displays its full window as the active
window. To close the Task view, click the Task View button again.
Besides switching apps, you can click the New desktop button in Task view to add
a new desktop to the interface, called a virtual desktop. For example, you might use
the default desktop for school or work projects, and another desktop for entertainment,
such as a music player and games.
Another way to switch apps is to bypass the taskbar altogether and use keyboard
shortcuts to switch from one open window to another. A keyboard shortcut is a key or
combination of keys that performs a command. Use the Alt+Tab keyboard shortcut to
switch between running apps. To do so, you hold down the Alt key and then press the
Tab key to display thumbnails of all running apps, press the Tab key again to select a
thumbnail, and then release the Alt key to make that app active. Pressing the Alt+Tab
keys displays thumbnails similar to Task view. However, when you release the keys, the
thumbnails no longer appear. In Task view, the thumbnails remain on the screen until
you select one.
Manipulating Windows
After you open a window, you can manipulate it to display as much or as little information
as you need. In most windows, three buttons appear on the right side of the title bar. See
Figure 1-11. The first button is the Minimize button, which hides a window so that only its
button is visible on the taskbar. Depending on the status of the window, the middle button
either maximizes the window or restores it to a predefined size. The last button is the
Close button, which closes the window.
Minimize button
Maximize button
Close button
Paint and Calendar are open on the desktop, so Ashley encourages you to show
volunteers how to use their window controls. Start with the Minimize button, which
you use when you want to temporarily hide a window but keep the app running.
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You can redisplay a minimized window by clicking the window’s taskbar button.
When you redisplay a window, it becomes the active window.
The Maximize button enlarges a window so that it fills the entire screen. Ashley
recommends that you work with maximized windows when you want to concentrate
on the work you are performing in a single app.
To restore a window:
◗ 1. Click the Restore Down button on the Paint title bar. After a window is
restored, the Restore Down button changes to the Maximize button .
You can use the mouse to move a window to a new position on the desktop. When you
click an object and then press and hold down the mouse button while moving the mouse,
you are dragging the object. You can move objects on the screen by dragging them to a
new location. If you want to move a window, you drag the window by its title bar.
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You can also use the mouse to change the size of a window. When you point to
an edge or a corner of a window, the pointer changes to the resize pointer, which is a
double-headed arrow. You can use the resize pointer to drag an edge or a corner of the
window and change the size of the window.
resize pointer
◗ 2. Press and hold down the mouse button, and then drag the corner down and
to the right.
◗ 3. Release the mouse button. Now the window is larger.
◗ 4. Practice using the resize pointer to make the Paint window larger or smaller.
You can also use the resize pointer to drag any of the other three corners of the
window to change its size. To change a window’s size in any one direction only, drag
the left, right, top, or bottom window borders left, right, up, or down.
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To start WordPad:
◗ 1. Click the Start button on the taskbar to display the Start menu. The
insertion point appears in the Search the web and Windows box so you can
search for an app or other information.
◗ 2. Type
T WordPad to search for the WordPad app and display the results in the
Start menu.
◗ 3. Click WordPad on the results list to start the app.
◗ 4. Click the Maximize button on the WordPad title bar to maximize the
window.
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“That McMorris is a genius,” mused Vreeland, as Mrs. Willoughby
concluded: “And, Hathorn has been silent. I have not heard one word
from him.” Her bosom heaved as she gloomily said: “I will give him a
last chance to speak out, and if he acts the moral coward, then it is
war to the knife!
“Her husband’s lady-love! An ex-goddess! ‘A star on the retired list!’ I
will make her pay for these brutal vulgarities! I will force him to
speak, and in her presence!”
The artful Mr. Harold Vreeland fancied that he had discovered the
reason of the storms of sorrow which had swept over the lady of
Lakemere. He knew not of Endicott’s bootless quest for a message
from the misty shores of the past. “These two women foes will
decide my fate!” he quickly decided. “Here is the place to leap into
the breach and widen it.”
Taking Elaine Willoughby’s trembling hands in his own, he fixed his
ardent eyes upon her, and once more her glances fell under the spell
of his steady gaze.
His voice had the ring of sincerity in it as he proceeded with a
feigned reluctance.
“You need not wait, Madonna!” Mr. Vreeland had easily reached the
stage of a special appellation for the Queen of the Street.
“He has already spoken, and I will fight in this good cause—to the
death, under your colors.”
He drew out a letter from Hathorn and read it slowly, without a single
comment, and with a dramatic, hushed solemnity.
Before he had finished he saw in her glowing eyes that she was his
prey. The poisoned arrow had struck home. She was, after all, a
woman at heart.
Hathorn’s jerky letter referred to the “end of the season,” “a return
incognito,” and demanded an early meeting with his chum. “I
presume that you know all of Potter’s troubles. He wants to become
a ‘special partner,’ and then to go away for two years. You must join
us at once, or I must find another man. So, have your answer ready.”
Elaine Willoughby was silent until Vreeland slowly read:
“I count on you to control in future Mrs. Willoughby’s business. Make
yourself her friend and confidant. My wife is a tiger-cat of jealousy.
Some fools or fiends have been working upon her spoiled babyhood.
I’ve vainly told her that the woman whom she hates was past her
youth and old enough to be her mother; but she will listen to no
reason.
“Now, old fellow, you can easily gain Mrs. Willoughby’s good will. Her
account is the best on the Street, and, in this way, if you join us, we
can divide the profits, and I am then safe from a fruitless quarrel. Of
course, I’ve got to drop the Willoughby for good.”
There was a shrill cry of rage and defiance. Vreeland’s heart leaped
up.
“Let me read the rest of that alone,” cried Elaine, with blazing eyes.
After a moment’s pause, she handed it back, when she had noted
Hathorn’s signature.
“He asks you to cable him your decision!” breathlessly said the
Queen of the Street.
“I have simply telegraphed: ‘Impossible! I decline!’” answered
Vreeland, and then, in the silence the shade of Judas Iscariot
laughed far down in hell.
Their hands met in a silent pledge of a friendship which shone in
Elaine Willoughby’s misty eyes. “How can I thank you?” she began;
but gravely Harold Vreeland addressed her to her growing
astonishment.
“Wait!” he said, with a seeming reluctance. “I never would have
shown you that letter but to save your own noble soul from the
humiliation of stooping to a conference with a man who would so
meanly trade upon your past bounty and try to trap you, through me.
Your confidence has brought this out. But, you must hear all. I claim
no credit for declining to be the man to hoodwink you. ‘The pleasant
days of Aranjuez’ are waning fast. I am soon going to leave New
York and go back to the great West.”
Vreeland noted the quick, convulsive start, and his heart rejoiced as
she grasped his hands, whispering: “Never! My one faithful knight
shall stay here near me to battle in my defense, ‘even if I am old
enough to be Alida Hathorn’s mother.’ Tell me all. It is my right now
to know all your plans.”
The handsome adventurer raised his grave face to her own. “I will, if
you will promise me to ignore these two people—the hollow-hearted
man who would use me to entrap you, and that saucy girl, a spoiled
child from her cradle. Hathorn carries his own future punishment
around with him in that crisp bundle of dimity.”
The unspoken pledge of her eyes told him that his coup had
succeeded. “By Jove!” he mused, “she is only a woman, like the rest.
The taunt as to her age has cut her deeper than this fellow’s rank
ingratitude.”
He gazed upon her Indian summer beauty, and his eyes strayed
away to the pillared glories of the matchless country mansion. “She’s
worth the risk—with Lakemere,” he reflected. “I’ll try it!” He yielded
and spoke, and she listened with tender eyes.
And the shadows deepened around them, as the young schemer
told a plaintive story of emotional lying embroidery to the woman
whose agitated heart was swept with a storm of revengeful feeling.
A passionate desire to punish the younger woman whose husband
had used the mean taunt of her sunset years to quiet the jealous
little spitfire heiress.
“I did not come to New York City under false pretenses,” began
Vreeland, “but, Hathorn has taken me wrongly to be a rich man. I am
only a poor man to-day, and a weary and a lonely life lies before
me.”
“I could not muster the hundred thousand dollars needed to go into
their firm, for I have made myself poor in the discharge of a sacred
duty.”
With a fine affectation of manly earnestness, he then told the
generous-hearted woman a romantic tale of his gifted father’s career,
and of the death of his patient mother. He judiciously unfolded the
story of his father’s professional errors, and painted that “sudden
taking off” in the wilds of Montana.
A knowledge of Judge Endicott’s encyclopedic memory, and some
previous hints from the wary Justine, caused Vreeland to put in a
hidden plea in bar, to offset any private researches of the only two
men whom he feared in Elaine’s glittering entourage. They were the
silver-haired Hiram Endicott and the manly Conyers.
Once or twice he had observed the latter’s eyes searching him in no
unmeaning hostility.
There were tears on Elaine Willoughby’s lashes as he concluded
with manly earnestness:
“Left with a supposedly ample fortune, I found, on an examination of
my father’s private papers, that there was before me a sacred task of
restitution. A work of self-abnegation, of simple honesty, lay before
me.
“I had never known of the baleful influence of the woman who led my
father (once in her clutches) on to lead a double life.
“But, in justice to his own better self and in honor of my beloved
mother’s memory, I gave up nearly all, and so arrived here with only
a few thousand dollars in my pocket.”
The shades had deepened around them when he concluded with his
last master stroke of manly simplicity.
“Chance threw me across Hathorn in the train as I came here to
collect the only honest money left to me after my work of secret
restitution was done. I saw that he valued only money—success—
and the glitter of your hot-hearted swell circles.
“It was hard for me to dishonor a father’s memory. To undeceive my
old college friend, I intended to ask him later for aid—for
employment. But I soon saw that I would not get it. He fell into the
innocent error of supposing me to be very rich.
“And,” the young special pleader rose as he said, under his voice, “I
met you there—at the depot! My heart and soul craved another sight
of you. And that I might meet you again, I did not undeceive him.
“You know the rest. I have been true to you, and I have given up my
last hope of fortune in refusing to be his tool.”
He could see her splendid eyes shining upon him through her happy
tears.
“Let us go in, Harold,” she softly said. “I must think! I must think! But
promise me that you will not go away from New York till I bid you.
Trust to me.”
“I promise,” he gravely said, as he lifted her trembling hand and
kissed it, and then, arm in arm, they wandered back to her splendid
pleasaunce palace. It was the “betrayal with a kiss.”
After the dinner, to which a few of the nearest county magnates had
been previously bidden, Vreeland watched Elaine’s imperial bearing
as she proudly queened it in the drawing room.
A richer rose burned upon her cheek. Her eyes were lit up with a
strange fire, and her magnificent voice echoed in every heart with a
thrill of a quivering life, as her defiant soul rose to the prelude of that
coming war with the jealous girl who had determined to shine down
the Lady of Lakemere.
The last carriage load of guests had rattled away, and Mme. Lafarge,
wearied “dame de compagnie,” was nodding, with her eyes hopefully
fixed upon the old colonial hall clock, when Elaine said, softly: “One
last word with you in the library.”
The Queen of the Street stood there with downcast eyes before the
great carved mantle, as she slowly said: “They will arrive in three or
four days. You must confirm your answer to him.
“He has told me that you know stocks, and are familiar with all board
matters.”
Vreeland bowed in silence.
“Then,” she said, fixing her sparkling eyes upon him, “I will make you
a confession. I had decided to withdraw gradually my entire business
from their firm. In fact, I have been already secretly operating
through a trusted friend on the outside.
“You must find a good man, one acceptable to Hiram Endicott.
“I will set you up, and Hathorn & Potter shall soon find a rival. I will
carry the war into the enemy’s camp. So be on your guard. Hathorn
must never know!
“It is the only punishment for his abandonment at the first hostile
signal from his enraged wife. I have made him on the Street! I can
unmake him!” Her voice had the ring of a singing bugle calling to
arms.
“But, I have no money,” the crafty Judas faltered.
“Leave that to me,” laughingly said Elaine. “You are now my own
knight. Here are your colors.”
She handed him a knot of ribbon blue. “Come to me next week. Meet
him frankly and decline all connection. Senator Alynton will be here
then.”
And she smiled and pressed a rosy finger to her lips.
“The Sugar magnate!” whispered the happy Vreeland, as he stood
spellbound, while his goddess fled up the stair, leaving him there
alone.
CHAPTER IV.
Mr. Harold Vreeland was awake with the birds, and in an early
morning walk long communed with himself under the whispering
trees of Lakemere. The enchanting prospect of the superb estate
delighted his eyes more with every visit. He blessed the goddess
Fortune, and smiled truly, “the lines have fallen to me in pleasant
places!”
It was only with a severe struggle that he concealed the secret joy
now burning in his heart, and he carefully laid out all his plans for the
crucial week to come. He must widen the breach.
There was the conference with Senator Alynton, Hiram Endicott, and
that strange “big brother,” Hugh Conyers. He felt instinctively that
these three men would not share “Madonna’s” enthusiasm.
He aimed to continually efface himself and to allow the resentful
woman to goad herself along in the path of social and financial
revenge.
“Any fool can stand hard times, but it takes a wise man to keep his
head, under a run of winning luck!” he mused, with reminiscences of
“Mr. John Oakhurst” and his pithy proverb, that “the luck usually got
tired—before the man did.”
He retraced his steps to the house, and was most calmly quiescent
and tenderly respectful in his adieu.
“That burst of confidence has fixed her—for good!” he mused.
“You are to report to me, here, by letter, the result of your interview
with that man!” hurriedly whispered Elaine Willoughby, as her
“knight” turned toward the wagonette. “I will summon you here, when
Alynton comes. Do nothing else. Leave all to me.” And his eyes
burned into her soul, as he promised a happy slave’s obedience.
The bright smile of the dark-eyed enthusiast haunted him all the way
to New York. “Talleyrand was right,” he murmured, at ease in the
parlor car, “Point de zèle! She will make all the running for me.” He
enjoyed the salutations showered right and left on him, as the train
picked up the men of note carrying the hopes and fears of a new
week to Gotham. “I am a somebody now!” he grinned.
The rising light of the Sentinel and Locust clubs, the man who had
superbly engineered the brilliant Hathorn-VanSittart’s nuptials—“the
great Montana capitalist,” was surely a man of mark, and Nature’s
easy gifts had earned him a warm welcome in the slightly jaded
circles of the Four Hundred. He was, moreover, a “new face,” and
several spasms of unrest under aristocratic corsages had already
proved that there were eyes “which brightened when he came.”
As for his false rôle of man of leisure and élégant—“custom of it, had
made a property of easiness.” “I am a fraud—and—half these
anæmic swells are fools as well as frauds!—I am content!” he
smilingly decided, as he reviewed his plans for a daring course
during the next trying week.
As he had surmised, a telegram awaited him at the Waldorf from the
returned Hathorn. It was of a simple directness.
“Meet me to-night, seven. Old York Club. Must have your answer
reconsidered. Every inducement possible.” The subtle smile of
triumph which played around his lips recalled Private Ortheri’s stern
remark, “See that beggar—got him!”—as he dropped the faraway
Pathan with the “long shot.”
All day, Frederick Hathorn secretly tormented himself over the curt
answer, “Will be there. Vreeland.” There was much before the
tortured bridegroom to arrange. The mutinous Dickie Doubleday,
phantom of audacious and unrestful beauty, was now driving
Mr. James Potter out of his wits.
He longed for a “boat upon the shore and a bark upon the sea!” He
had learned that in some distant Afghan hole called “Swat,” there
were neither post-offices, telegraphs, banks, detectives, song and
dance theatres, nor any of the machinery of a “bastard civilization”
which the reckless Miss Dickie could work to ensnare or follow him.
“By Gad! Just the place! I’ll get a white shirt—brown myself up like
parched coffee, and turn into a Ghazi, or Dervish, or fighting Mollah
—or, any old thing. She is a hummer. Pray God, that some other
good-looking fellow will soon catch her ‘wandering eye.’ Her
constancy is an ‘abnormal feature’ of later development. This is the
only time in her life that she has stuck to a victim—for over three
months. Other fellows should help me bear the burden.”
There was all the details of Hathorn’s newly enhanced social state to
arrange. The Union and Metropolitan clubs were to be haunt of
Benedick—the married man. And—the war to the knife, the fight of
Marius and Sylla now lay before him.
There was Oakwood, his wife’s magnificent place at Ashmont,
awaiting its social monture. Her Imperious Ladyship Alida had
ordered him to go in for the pennant-bearing honors of Vice
Commodore of the Ashmont Yacht Club, and her beautiful schooner,
“L’Allouette,” was awaiting his practical hand.
A positive mandate for the best box at the Horse Show, and a royal
gallery box in the tiara-wearing tier of the Opera, were matters of
pressing urgency.
Hathorn was already “broken in” as a “general advance agent” and
“heavy man” for his wife’s “Great Moral Matrimonial Show,” and that
lady, with the coming Hathorn-Willoughby feud first in her mind, had
brought luggage enough for Cleopatra and all her nymphs on that
record-breaking voyage of splendor to the Cydnus.
All these and many more things busied the disgruntled Hathorn until
the hour set for the meeting with Vreeland. He had posted his wife
and her train away up to the Buckingham, for he felt, instinctively,
that the handsome groomsman was not just the party to linger
around his newly-enclosed sheepfold.
He had already discovered several shades of color in his rosebud
not visible to the ante-nuptial eye, and, moreover, he was hungry for
news of Elaine Willoughby and of her state of mind. He now saw the
“firm’s” interests seriously endangered.
There was the vastly profitable past business connection, and
“Sugar,” too, loomed up before him now as a vanishing pyramid of
alluring sweetness. He knew that the woman whom he had coldly left
had been the very spirit of his own wonderful success.
But Hathorn never knew how eagerly Vreeland, at the Waldorf, his
anxiety veiled by a thoughtful smile, watched the clock hands crawl
around till seven.
“That fool has but one chance left to ruin me forever—and—to block
my little game!” restlessly reflected Vreeland. “If he only had the
manly nerve to dash up to Lakemere and to throw himself there on
Elaine’s generosity, he might be forgiven—even now. The swaying
bosom of womanhood is always ripe for forgiveness. A woman is
fondly weak to a man who calls up a lost love. And he has been all in
all to her, in the past days.
“She set him up on a high pedestal and fairly worshiped him.
“Perhaps he felt like the Frenchman, that two women are necessary
to every man—one whom he loves, and one who loves him.”
But the telegraphed reports of his secret spies arriving every half
hour, told the delighted Vreeland that Hathorn was still “at the office.”
“Give me to-night, and just one telegram to reach the Madonna—
then—I will have made that breach irrevocable!” gleefully cried
Vreeland, as he was driven down to the Old York Club.
The two men met in an apparent cordiality, and the Western man’s
poker nerve stood by him, as he calmly enjoyed a dinner, at which
Hathorn merely nibbled, with an ill-concealed restlessness.
They exhausted all the usual banalities with regard to the well-
beaten paths of the wedding tour, and Mr. Vreeland was graceful in
all his perfunctory interest in the young Adam and Eve in their newly
found Paradise.
When the cigars and liqueurs brought them around to the “hard-pan”
stage of the interview, and a guarded seclusion, with a slow
constrained manner—Frederick Hathorn began to carefully
interrogate the “devil whom he had let out of the bottle.”
Vreeland keenly eyed the speaker through the blue-curling smoke of
a Henry Clay, and, when Hathorn had reviewed all his past
arguments as to the proposed business connection, he buried his
head in his hands in deep thought.
Hathorn had even offered to aid Vreeland with the capital to qualify
him as a member of the projected firm of “Hathorn, Potter &
Vreeland.” It was a clear “giveaway” of his temporizing fears of the
coming war.
“You see, you could swing Mrs. Willoughby’s account and give it your
special attention,” concluded the man who had now shown every
card in his hand.
Hathorn noticed, with a growing uneasiness, that Vreeland had been
very reticent. The “Montana capitalist” had grown pompously
solemn.
Suddenly his old college chum lifted his head, and frankly eyed the
anxious banker. “Have you conferred with Mrs. Willoughby on this
plan?” he said, curtly. It was pinning his dupe to the cross—this sly
thrust.
Hathorn stammered, as he reddened, “Why—no! I have left that all
to you. I have not written her nor seen her, since the wedding dinner.
The fact is—” and the alert man of the world was left strangely
searching for words which seemed to die away on his lips. He dared
not betray his wife’s orders.
“I may as well say frankly,” impressively remarked Vreeland, “and,
right here—once for all, that I can not enter your firm. I have made
other plans. The thing you propose is impossible. I am sorry—but it
is impossible.”
“How does Mrs. Willoughby look at it? I thought that you were getting
on splendidly there?” feebly urged Hathorn, conscious that he was
very rapidly slipping “down hill.”
There was a fine show of regret in Vreeland’s speaking eyes, as he
slowly answered, “My dear boy! You have made the mistake of your
life. There are some very ugly social rumors current in my clubs—”
he paused, “more in sorrow than in anger.”
“And those stories wafted over the sea do not lose by the telling. I
have refrained from even mentioning your name, or that of your wife,
to Mrs. Willoughby since this petticoat cabal has taken up the subject
of the impending social war. Women’s unbridled tongues are the
furies’ whip-lashes.”
Hathorn sprang up in excitement. “By Jove! Hod! I look to you to tell
me the whole miserable business. I’ve taken you up and worked you
in at Lakemere. You have got to stand by me now.”
“Hold on! Stop right there,” coldly remarked Vreeland, with a vicious
gleam in his stony eyes. “I never mention a woman’s name. That is a
point of honor with me. I am no club scavenger.
“You know what you owe to Elaine Willoughby. She was the architect
of your fortunes. Perhaps she builded better than she knew.
“You can not face the situations publicly. I advise you to keep silent—
and—to keep others silent.
“Now, beyond that I will not go. I feel that your references to me, and
what you have done for me, authorize me to say that I have more
than repaid you in the volunteer labors of your wedding.
“Once for all, let us drop Mrs. Willoughby. I will not, in any way, take
sides in this unfortunate affair, save to silently cleave to the Lady of
Lakemere, through good and evil report.
“If you dare not face her, if you have abandoned her to the mercies
of the pack of be-diamonded old ghouls who are slandering her, you
know, of course, that you will close the door of your house to every
friend of hers.” The bridegroom was cornered—and his heart was
filled with a sullen despair.
Hathorn strode up and down the room in a white rage. He paused, at
last, before Vreeland, and then, in a choking voice, said: “I must ask
you to return my last confidential letter.”
Vreeland calmly moved toward the door. “I am a free man—am I
not?” he quietly said. “I believe a letter is the property of the party to
whom addressed when regularly delivered through the mail. When
you divide the clans of society you will find me—on the other side.
“And, as my time is of value, you will now excuse me. Don’t force me
to tell Potter, whom I respect, that you only wanted to use me as a
stool pigeon to entrap the woman who has made you what you are—
a solid man—in Wall Street!”
With a mad impulse, Hathorn sprang to the door.
“No! by Jove! No row here!” he muttered, and when he sauntered
downstairs with an assumed carelessness, his guest had departed.
There was a “lively interlude in married life” transacted late that
evening “behind closed doors,” at the Buckingham, in which
Mr. Frederick Hathorn, for the second time that evening, suffered a
sore defeat, and “went below” to seek the consolation of Otard-
Dupuy & Co.’s very ripe old pale cognac.
That bright-eyed falcon, Alida Hathorn, then and there ran up the red
flag of “War to the Knife”—and “No Surrender!”
But the jubilant Harold Vreeland slept not till he had personally, at
Broadway and Twenty-third Street, sent off an urgent dispatch to
Lakemere. “I think that reads strongly enough,” chuckled Vreeland,
as he gazed on the words.
“He played the craven. Wanted me to give him secret reports of your affairs, and
then demanded his letters back. All relations are permanently broken off. Will
guard absolute silence.”