The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, March 18, 1921, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
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THE I
| alieud 07 iiursey. '
I two or three times
iANCASTER NEWS, LANCAS
1 1?h?1 to Wink ham want a to lalk 1
hffore I ??ulil real- ???ii ? ?? i
ITER, S. C.
fo you about tt. "But | ftralKut In TI
I kn.... II...1...... I I'll I II ir thil tr
FRIDAY, I
ie "eyei. "You are not over Uie at a
nth now. .1 Inutile You Inst what tl
"*Y
MARCH 18, 1921 I
te were saying That "R wai I
liev had exueoted?that n.? I
m
ECKEI
ly make up my m
was Malale Ann.
I might be the nurs?
I B had a nifty little li
I B mop of hair,
I was meant to be
I wa* frlllevl and tr
LVKw/ W"You poor, poo
patting my pillow
Ind that tie tlp-toer and for Cousin
She looked as If she Norcross', we m
e's understudy. She human soul. A
aee cap on her thick has been appoir
1 guess fcer apron way out here fn
nursey too. only It thing lias gone
icked to a fare-you- road, and all of
are getting reat
r boy!" ahe cooed, perfectly heart-l
Just like my grand- jt Was: It *
i nuun, uiiimiir, uvm , n ?--- %Sheila's
Rake and Mr. know Mr. N?
ust never lisp It to a of us. and yo
new general manager le?Ht little bl
ited, and lie Is on Ills chI leave eve
Jin New York. Every- Have you ev
to pieces on the rail- anything like
Mr. Norcross' frlenda I had to ac
ly to resign. Isn't it ?n the other
oreaklngT" thing you'd I
>n so heart-break In* Hut at the Bt
?rcrosa better then any railroad wi
u know that It Isn't the branch, and
t like him to walk out ntuy with I
rythlng to go to wreck, breath,
er known of his doing "Then thi
that before?" been appoli
Unit that I hadn't; that. He nodd<
hand, It was the very name of D1
east expect him to do. un(j neither
ime time I had to hang hjg way w<
us crooked In root and
that u good man couldn't
It long enough to get hla
new general manager haa
ited?" I asked.
?d. "Some fellow by the
amuke. I don't know him,
does Homack. He Is on
pat now, they say."
mother used to v
a kid and had the mi
"Are you still roa
Oregon woods?"
That brought m
them, back; the o
around In a forest
having to Jump un
big trees from fi
"l:.""hln?me: .
,-hen I wai a little that I Just ga*i
Limps or the measles. w<>nt off the ho<
mlng around In the Ann's frlghtene<
In my eurs as
y dream, or one of back from sltpp
ne about wunderlng
; of Douglas fir and CHA
d dodge to keep the
ailing on me and What Ever)
I wasn't gone
?*d once or twice and on *? ">y ?>?**!
?ka again, with Malsle thing he had
i little shriek ringing tell her the ti
she tried to hold we "Every man
Ing over the edge. time!" I prol
Norcrosa to d(
iPTER VI Mr. Cliadwlck
? Mr. Dunton t
t Man Knows "The thing
very long on this aec- be to go off
til belief that It was the ?Mr. Nor
I done: either that, or Chadw
ruth. ventured,
i reaches his limit, some "No. Tl
ested. "What was Mr. |>r?-ii wiring
u, I'd like to know; with ; any trace o
getting scared out, and ! "Tell tfiei
hreatenlng to ttre him?" where his |i
he wouldn't do would "I know,'
und leuve all of ills note of the
crosa tiHKn't shown up at
Ick'a Chicago offices?" I
le telegraph people have
; everywhere anil can't get
f him."
n to try (lalesburg. That'a
teople live."
' he said; nnd he made a
address on the back of an
8YN0PSII
CHAPTER I.?Graham
ntd manager, and b>? m
Dodds, are marooned at I
In* with a young lady,
and her small cousin. Ui
ness a peculiar train he
a special car Is carried <
nMlfllHMHhaiilUkUM
few weeks ago flSwi
siding; but that IsnM
not going to."
Norrroaa, iaH> " . . . .
cretary, Jlmmla If I had had the
mOU8e' 1 mIght hRV
tseen, tber wit- was no match for s
ldup. In which j lacked the sense?It
ttt- hard.
- - . iiu uiurr WOOUI
H0JVVE|| sort of feebly.
BflEMMEB am ir
i at San3 Creek **You ore In bwl
I aaylng that Tm at conain Basil's
take you to the rt
sense of a field night, but when
e known that I here to try to
uch a man; but Cousin Basil wer
icked It good and brought you home
hulunce."
* mr mine, i saia. ond excursion ir
ind then: "Where though It was
shaded electric
I In the ajare room when I opened
They wanted to Mrs. Sheila sit
illroad boipltal that The change In
they telephoned up made me gasp,
find Mr. Norcross. pretty as she sal
it right down and clasped In her
with him In the am- ferent; sober, a
ito the woozy-woozles, friends, Mr.
night-time, und the uack, and all
light was turned on alone. You I
my eyes and found do, Jlnimle E
ting by the bedside. "If you woi
Mrs. Sheila sort of must have on
She wasn't any less not knowing \
t there with her hands "I have," i
lap. but she was dlf- I want you t<
nd with the laugh all that you can
i an Isrltt and Mr. lior- envelope. 1
the rest, to tight It out on the "dli
know that as well as I gay.
odds!" * "You've t
n't take my theory, you an Intimate
e of your own," I said; mle: haven'
vhat else to suy. thing that <
site flashed haok, "and more light <
:> hurry and get well so I hodn'thelp
me trace It out." I couldn't I
I'tieii he came at me again,
reel." aa a lawyer would
?eeo cloaer to Norcron In
way than any of ua, Jimt
you aeen or heard tomewould
help to turn a little
>n this damnable blow-up
-outxlde of the one thing
alk about?and 1 told hltn
CHAPTER Il.-Norerost
car stolen as John Chad
magnate, whom he was tc
City. He and Dodds re
The latter offers Norcros
hip of the Pioneer Short
In the hands of easte
headed by Breckenrldge
dent of the line. Norcros
Sheila Macrae la stopping
accepts.
CHAPTER III.?Dodds
varsatlon between Rufus 1
tave Henckel. Portal Hit
j recognises the 'lou'^ like your
Wlck'S, financial ahnrtlv "V*...',! ?.,?
? meet at Portal 8n?rtl.v- ??utl *o n
scue Chadwick. of your wuy to make
s the manager- there is no need nf
Une. which Is ",e ?s no neea or
rn speculators, business was a Jok<
?^ralngPmat" fln,8h- 1 <lon,t know 1
at Portal City, cross came to get In
was meant to be on
overhear, con- The n,?hf before- ftt 1
Hatch and Qui- were giving him at t
v flnannlpm in kA t.i at
boss," he said 'ThHt night,' y<
long distance out "It was last night
> an enemy when on tiio. wasn't It 1
It. That hohl-np "i don't know an
?, from start to hut the night that
iow you and Nor- burnt and cripple*
on It; the Joke 0f your office stal
John Chadwlck. aRO> You have be<
i little dinner we nearly all the tlm
he rallroud club, j "Burnt and crli
^tmr' win ??i nit"
m say?" I parroted. look in theui a*
: tliat the door fell become so wlw
" ever fool her.
ythlng about a door. "You ure feel
they foutd you all asked, when sht
1. lying at the foot her.
ra, was three days i told hv I gt
en out of your head my hand hurt t
e ever sltce." "You have had
ppled? What hap- kind ?hi>?l(l?<i ft'
niK KHI) iimi ti Jin i i|ii
i If she haul s'iiilil4>nly "Yes, you.
e that nohoily could stupid! even
Ripley. They
lug better now7" Rhe went east to
; found ine staring at Chadwlck. T!
. ? Mr. Chadwlcl
tensed I was, but that after he sent
ne Home. Into the Cam
a great shock of some some mines, i
||? hitrn .Tlimnlo " nha that Mr. Nor
rrifii. mi, iiimi in
The others are all so more of w
Mr. Van Hrltt ami Mr. own in I ml.
Insist that Mr. Norcross "You're ?
see and talk with Mr. mle, and I
hey have found out that Mrs. Maert
? left Chicago the duy been foul |>
that telegram, to go up I you-weren't
adlan woods to look at on Norcross
>r something. They say ; "No; I (
cross has followed him. . went nwnr.
iiiin n*- iei in*- nit n III110
hat ?aa Kolng on In his
me of oh, In h way, Jimcan
talk freely to you.
te Insists that there has
lay of some sort. You say
present when Hatch called
* at the office that night?"
*ame In Juat after Hatch
which they admit compile!
kidnaping, their object
Ch&dwlck from attending
directors to reorganize th<
Line, which would Jeopar<
esta
CHAPTER IV.?To curl
controlled by Hatch and P
Tewer corporation, Norc
Citizens' storage and \V
pany. He begins to man!
lerest in Sheila Macrae,
tliat Sheila Is married, b
? v: . 77. 11 c aaiu nitre never
Ity In '-h Ad wick . , .. ...
being- to keep hold-up that couldn t
' meellnA ?f A few of us go
e Pioneer Short . . ? .
ilze their Inter- ward and put up a J
him over to Strathco
to have him held up o
[enclkel the>Ked "Mr. Chadwlck did
roaa forms the joke!" I retorted,
'archouse comIfest
a deep In- * know no ilitfn t \
Dodds learns we're ull anxious no
-ut Ivtng apart . . f. ... .
was a raiiroaa pened to mo, Ma I
have been stood "Nobody knows;
t together after- tors. We've been
lob on hlni; sent ^ay you'd be nbl?
nu and arranged yoi, tell me now,
n the way back." j tolrt her Rn
n't tuke It as /mumbling around
the best I could.
; end that's why |imv tbe bendqunr
w to dig a bola found me about i
sle Ann?" rejoined, folding
; not even the doe- that the handai
hoping that some easier. "The d<
? to tell >s. Cun't Does your head
Jlmmle?" so that you can
there was to tell. "It feels as It
among the words in It," I said. "
Then she told tne is nil right. 1
ters watchman had thing from Mr.
midnight; with my ?jCot a word.
lip the hed covers so und that is w
eed hnnd would rest thing from hi
>ctors nre all puzzle<l. "What do ;
feci quite clear now? She didn't
think?" j In the little
' I had a crnr.y clock i frlphtened lo?
Hut the thinking part j Hut all she si
lave you heard any- 1 hurry up and
Norcross yet?" - i <-1in help."
We have been hon- ! ' hi well ei
hy they don't henr any- 1 "Did Nun
Ini." you think t
you think?" I asked. | "He told
answer right away, and und luid mi
pause I saw a sort of i way."
>k come Into her eyes. ! "In a bus
lid was, "I want you to mean by tl
get well, JHnuiIe, so you I 'pioted
nearly as I
Dough now, if they'll let "So I Intel
ro?? ku Anything to mako
here hid been a light?" ,
mo il at Hatch was abusive
ude threats?in a business
dncsa way? What do you
int ?".
the boss' own words, as
I could recall them.
It did make a threat, thenT
"u?i uci uuowuiu. i\ur
know tills.
CHAPTER V. ? Hatcl
Dodds has knowledge ot !
el's participation In the
naptng, offers him Induce
Norcrosa. Dodds refuses
office, he Is knocked sen
ering consciousness, he le
cross has disappeared ant
have resigned and gone e
CHAPTER VI.?Dodds
cross uoea no I
we had all been tal
much nt the chih dii
Si. that I swelled
Chad wick kid- kicked the whole kt
menu* to leave th fl
Leaving the ,ne nre*
iselees. Recov- "Of course, it was
i&rns that Nor- , 41 . . .
1 Is believed to ped out. And your
aet. night to try to hire m
Ntrcross is unother.
connects Nor- fujj nf good shorthand
J" right hand Rcored
ting a drop too n.s, ?f x
iner that night." fo hp hurfod Tl|?
up man-size and hn<1 ln?,sUM, 8nt,
sttle of fat into that , hnd |)een hj
l?ut there were no
a Joke! I rip- lower hall, and no
coining here to- nn incandescent II
e away from Mr. entire office hulld)
Hie woods aro "And you sav I'
I men. Mr Hatch . . ?_
?ed hluek and the I |ng thnt you co
itly dend and ready when you shoul
nmhulance surg*?on tG talk. Can't
was still Insisting. lUMiieinhering
nulling a live wire; tol(j me just l>
wires at all In the hooks. I though
thing stronger than lot jf | dared t
Ight current In the ,jn So I just i
ng. "I told Maisle
ve h?>n he"e hang- j^|r Nor cross. I
iiltl toll ua something ! ,n^ ^,,r U'K
lil recover sufficiently , . ' <>,on'K!
you, Jlnunle?" j 1 lioii: Mr.
. , . i willi Cousin I
what Mulsle Ann had i
. , anxious to tn
efore I wont off *he 1
,t 1 might loll her a ! ?,u *M
o. Hut that wouldn't | ,up?
.aid: Of course
.. ,, , , . . i soon alter si
Ann all I kn??w about ,
i !/ ..? .?< anil only ml
le left the office some 1 , ,
j Cnn you a<
it ; tomorrow, maybe." ! I could, I
Vain llrltt is down stairs Van nr|tt d
tasll. He liiis been very , tlte Sttnd (
lk with you hs s??on as supposed h<
e to talk. May I send to be the tlr
the whole
I Kald yes; and pretty mark. Mnl
te went away, our cue that the bo
ltionnlre came In. He HH he was
Ill anything more?"
tiut I illdn't want to. Mr.
Ililn't know anything about
'reek aiding hold-up, or I
f didn't, and I didn't want
at one to tell him. Besides,
business wan beside ths
Kie Ann knew, and I knew,
ms, strong and unbreakable
In other ways, had atmply
tiuod uisuppearance win
Of Hatch and Henckel, a
lng strength sets out to
tery.
CHAPTER VII. - Wltl
road's master mechanic,
line on Norcross' dlsupp
follow a clue given tin
missing locomotive.
CHAPTKR
Anil Sntnn f?>?
>1 maciiinaiioni "
ad on recover- but for the present
solve the my?- stay right where I un
subpoena can find
t Kirgan. the wanted."
podds geta a "That's all nonsena
SmS"r?ughhei M-lf S'ouTe not too i
know anything," he *
out his heavy Jaw a I
y wanted to give you
rid of the railroad c
lit .llfiA
uiu on ny my eyeia
I think I shall \\hut has heen g<
a?where a court time, Malsle Ann
me when I'm been here to see r
She gave a llttl
e, and you know nearly. Mr. Van
much of a kid to every day, and son
mapped, shooting j,ns been nwfu
t me. "I merely to rf)nie alive."
a chance to get "Hut Mr. Norr
ollar, if you felt a<? !? ? ?? ?
nreo, j little time befon
>lnS on n nil that , , du,n.t k,
? ITssiit anybody
nnr* *
" i Mn . 'Tbpv wont to
e nod "K very body, ou, ..Mr Hlplo
Ilritt hns bean up UIltil uft,M
letiiues twice a day. Mr Norrross W(
illy anxious for yon <)f (,(|||rs(, , ,
.... . . knew all about
to**? I queried. , .
in?"
. , ... ... ., ... WMIKtMl US IK
p I uld?witli Mr. Itip- ? . ...
i ., I lie had that i
new where they were
Turkish biMh
.. , , . . ' scrub am'
the hotel, she helped I ....
.. . . V? How a.,
y says they sat in the ..... ,
... ... our. "(Jlml t?,
ten o clock, ami then > ,, .,
rut up to his rooms." !
knew that Mr. Itiplev 1 ? ' '
...... take more th:
<h?? !" ? ruetinn;
. .. of my size to
. ner, I wnsn t go- ; . .
lr 11 111111 *r I IK'
m\Mivs nu;: ,i"si as 11 thn?>\vn up I
minute stepped out of a somebody I
wlipro ' -(VP ' ;icl
,. . o 11.," ,?? <! ! "Nothing
1 see you on earth again. j after lie li
le more tit. tonight?" 1 longer our <
I didn't think it would stairs agaii
an halt a dozen fellows K>s KO f
knock me out, hut I vie* arouiui for
n !.*? will oii.I ???#
Ills hands nn?l quit because
had told him that Mrs.
a husband living. So I
that would help out," and
ad talked n little while
?nly millionaire went down*
i.
'unny how things change
a person Just by giving
"1 saw youa* ofiidV (ij
street," was the way tl
president bepan on me,
took me etraipht hack
woodi; ?tid a lumber en
saw-fliers were at worl
Mr. Norerossl"
like It. I like a fig
you've pot nerve. T
.. . .. . sleep on It. Maybe
S its the ferently in the iuornl
e Re.l Tower ? ??s ,
and his voice ... . ,
? pet off with a whole
to the Oregon .. .
. .. time I wus complet
nip where the , ...
?,irL. , sober weighing and i
v, here ii
possible consequences
the desk end I gave
htlng man; and Slle shook her h
ake a night and fa(tfl nway nm,
joull th nk dlf- straight o it of the
np* ting ~u.. when she
chance for me to the last tlrae you
skin, hut by this Jinimla?"
e!y lost to any
measuring of tl.e , 1 ? Mit1
. Leaning across \hn* ?<? *
him a tinul shot. M h,,s lo SM
end nr.d turn"'1
, I *"lhere was !
she was I..oniric ..
, . . .. nection with Mr
winnow at the set ,
, , wasii t there?
1 naked. M hen was .... ...
.? Hatch had si
saw Mr. Nomos*, _ ., .
I guess the hos
repli. I
? n\er n h!g scare -Tell rue ahou
ush up mi* -if the and I told tier Jr
inthor rue. But I j nmv |Ia,P|, hn(l
... ftw.e *..11.
. . . ine on the (in
inmo trouble In coiv- ,, , , ,
, all 1 nn<l?ex'
. Hatch that evening, ,
... undelivered te
she nsked. .. . ^ .
, , ? . i others that 1
line trouble?yes. Rut .
s didn't have any," I 1 "V. .
"Were in |
t It." she eonitnnnded; I w<|.u. '
ist us little us I could; NV;
, was *li? ?\ay
hr?i an Interview with me a |iit|e jno
"... ..." i"" them time
est ion ruck. I Rave him pinee ami
opt that thliiK about the After a wl
locrtuns ami two or three wed Re that
couldn't Rive him or ai.y- i?j, to ?lr?\
hold, Just i
pretty had shape, arent knew?or t
sted. harely poss
rt he in worse shnpe." |,a,| been f
he put It. Tlten he told jn ,|ie j
ire than Mutate Aon hud: ? ?
to sort of shake down Into
fit themselves together,
illo the chin edge of the ^
Mrs. Sheila hud boeu tr.ve
into me liegun to take
t little. In spite of* what I
thought I knew. Was It
dhle, after nil. that there
oul play of aotne sort?
Irst place, something had
I tola him that Mr.
op-towr, and thut I did
Mould come Imck to tl
tliu night, now that it
"My name is Hatch.
Tower company," he g
tEianJn or .two. "You.'rjt
?ud Liodds, aren't your
I I admitted Jt, and h<
"Norcross .brought y
Xorcros* was Just as 1,e w?s #?t*t 11
n't suppose ho "Listen, Mr. Iiatcli
le office ai;uin haven't fooled me for
: was so lute. Your micas ljg. rlght_
of the Ited #ord That* passed" f>
rated, after a Mr. Menckel that Mc
;,the one they the Ilullard lobby. A
" told anybody yet bu
e went on. hat If you go to mu
ou here with him hoc! the railroad
Inir up to ? >. .
.. T , , ...._ li??r how Mr. N
i, I suld. "\ou
, . . omre uiavlto half u
u single niln.ite. , ... '
T . I did. that night,
; I bennl ^ Mr. Ripley. The.
etween :.ou slle to kll
tndn'r morning In ..,,?.aus? llobo?
" 1'** ' h'v?"^ a little Inter tltn
'Lt ?^r?!"! Mld- Mylng It ve
* ,roub??'? out turning her he,
eontpnn:,. I ll to v.? BHt,
1 IH'I ?|inr? >- | -:.t ZOS.i OJirlkT
orrross hut! loft the j I was an ay.
in hour or so before | "p wasn't u qi
going up-town with "Why shouk
i 1 asked her why asked,
ow. She shook her
i has seen him since ring with me, .
t saine night," she taken Idea of h<
ry softly und with- cross. You nit
ad. And then: "Mr. Norcross has t
? tetter from Mr. . ? *- -
in llit* t?\i'iiin?, wiiil^ iio^v i'lvsid^n
. . , I *top a?l the 1
inrrel? she suggested.' .. ,,
, i.... * ! -short Line un
1 they quarrel t I I
uger could gel
. . .... local capitalI
head. "Uu are spar- ... *
. . new Citizens
Jimmie, In sotne tnls.
, .. .. .. organization >
ping loyal to Mr. Nor- .. . .
. w i their shoes ui
?dn t. you know. Mr. . ,
.. i. . ... i move; ami 1
old me all about his i '
. i
Iieeil UOtie I
I Duuton had 'vlred to R sure ,j,|nj
betterment work on the half-killed i
til the new general inan- \ Then they
[ mi the ground; how the stayed up <
sts at the head of the until after
Storage & Warehoinfc gone up to
ver? reared plumb out of
id were afraid to make a (Contlr
iow the new'spatrt'ra all
[o me ny somenoay: it was
; that I hadn't crippled and
myself nil by my lonesome.
had vald that the buss
with Mr. Klpley that night
ten o'clock, and had then
go to ted. That being the
lued on Page Three.)
him from the West, did
pay are you getting hei
It was on the tip of
cuss him out. right th
and tell him it was noi
ness. But the second t!
Isn't u I ways as good a
be) whispered to me t<
and see how far he w<
told him the figures >t
In't he? What hi to court and swear
ret** He waa half-way
my tongue to when I got through
ere and then made any sign that
le of his husl- aald. After he was
bought (which aense. Just a little. I
s It's said to had made of myself.
> lead him on mad Hear through i
>uld gt>. So I he had taken me for
my pay check. fool?the kind tha
.. IvT Norcrow on hi. tie*
out of the door ? j a ||t,
. and ho never on , Hot(1| ? ?
lie heard what I , ? h ,
gone I began to ? , ,?e ,,,
,ow big a too I h ? , ,
,h m ""."a ! <????tog < '
?t the Idea that lra|D for , Ka3,
the other kind <X , stral ht ?
t would., t know have |la? (1o ,
ne ntts
sk the next morning,
le typewritten note, ( ' ' j?
d letter sheet, saymade
up his mind
Short I.lne wasn't
\ and that he was
<lng the midnight
p In bed; I should
t if hoth arins had
even neen generous |
mm
hii m?>
m i6t
im needing anoth
man. and I can afford
bit more than that,"
They tell me you are
top in your trade. Are ;
offer?"
I let hfm have It straij
from you," I said.
"And why not from 111
Here was where I i
I.O/I K lr All M M.
er ghortnnnn rouusu 10 ne sure u
to pay a good of a big corpora tic
he growled. Jown to tampering
well up at the clerk unla'.s there wi
>'ou open to un I to ho ?k ,od off hy It.
I Stewing iiiwl slzzlii
Klit then. "Not tsared around with tl
desk for quite a lift
|c?" remembered the t\v<
flrSt the f,l, t that rd hav
mi me presiuent (,een burnt to a
>n wouldn't shoulders,
wltrh a common "Resigned??gav
is !*?me big thing j don't believe tin
ute, Mnlsle Ann !"
tg over it, I pot- she was shakii
ue paper* on dm Htm without tuini
le while before 1 I could see It.
* tVlegruiiiS. and "I?I'm afraid i
e to go and stick There were two t
crisp clear to the ^
e up and ran away?
it for a single niln1
I burst out.
jr her head again, jffiv mjl *> ji
ng her face so that
t's all true, Jlinmle. 1
elegranis that came *| | |jv y
~~ ? '
t'ou iiiciiiv. Ail ui a ni
angry at the thought tli
tunlly trying to buy me
aee anything but red,
out, "Because I don't hi
for nny strong-arm 01
know It!"
For a little while hi
at me from under his hi
and his hard mouth w.
m atro Inrht llna mith
niut-ii i me inree-i>ia?led kni
int he was ae- cross. When I did re
that I couldn't the messn/es Into m
and I blurted off the lights and s
re out to work town and hunt for t
itflt?not If 1 After closing the <
office I don't recall ai
e sat blinking except that I felt m
jshy eyebrows, headquarters stair 1
as drawn Into groped across the 1<
. mAAM IU?U Jk
fe Sato Mr. :sor- to Mr. Norcross
member, I shoved away; one from M
ly pocket, flicked other from Mr. I>
tarted to go up- Van Hrltt telling
he boss. the messages wei
?uter door of the copies ef them th
lythlng particular telegraph oftice."
iy way down the It was on my t
n the dark and that Mr. Norcross i
ower hall to the two telegrams. I>e<
the night he went lyl J \Jjf
r. Chadwlck und tlie IfT I ^Kl/ih
unton. I heard Mr. I J/UJi
Cousin Sheila what
re. He'd seen the
at tliey keep in the |J
tongue's end to say /'
never had seen those ////
ause I had them In / / /
We thoroughly apprec
changed conditions of to(
desirability and necessity
ness and production expa
Every man owes it t(
,
iatc the
lay, the
of businsion.
i
) him
T^lII I
wrinkle coming and gol
ners of It.
When he got ready t
be wild, "You're only a t
to get on in the worl
I*m offering you a goo
beat you ever had. 1
Norcroas anything mo
Job, do jrou?"
"IfkvhA nnt "
uiruu "Hie UulnlUc UUUr lllttl Sfl
ng at the cor- case entrance from t
I had felt around an<
:o speak again knob, something ha
toy. You want know just what I
Id, don't you? fraction of a second
d chance: the as you might say, be
'ou don't owe
re than your the grave, I hat
that the door was ft
and mashine mm flat
veu ior mc amir- my pocicet and wa
he street. When liver them when I g
A found the brass Instead, I said: '
ppened, I didn't was why Mr. Noi
n the tiny little hands and ran av
that I had left. "No; I don't th
itween the hearse sort. I know wh
know what it wa
A a vague notion turned around an<
tiling over on me down among the
and after that. Mir
is on my way to de- /
ot shot; but I didn't.
'And you think that "You Ars 8parr
'cross threw up his
ray?" enough to say t
Ink anything of the them. That Is
at It was, and you stand why he
s." and at that she *one?or at Ie
d pushed me gently 'leves he has d<
pillows. I saw how It
* ?t-1- ? - ?? tn lifts! flitmo A1
ing With Me, JI mm la."
hat I helped him maka
why I cannot undershould
do aa he has
ast as everybody be>nfe."
was. She was trying
nlanatl/>n that n'nuM
self and the public good
tend his business and pi
ing activities to the lii
legitimate endeavor.
We welcome calls foi
financial or advisory, t
"end.
to ex- x
rod ucnit
of
r help,
o til is
"That*# better. Put
and come along with n
aiiow jrou what I can d
better field than railroa
or ever will be. It'll p
he named a figure tin
made me fall dead out
Of course, It was all
The boss hud him on th<
kidnaDinir business, w
on your har everything went blai
ae. I want to When I came to
o for you in a seemed like an endt
ding ever was. bed dreams it was bi
ay you?" and the sun was shining
it very nearly some filmy kind of <
of my chair. big window that looki
plain enough, west. I was in be<
e hip with thuf strange, and my
Itfc me for ? I wrapped up In a l<
w ? ?- ??? it not won hi
ik. than half afraid I
life out of what hear a conflnnatlo
ess succession of taking conviction,
road daylight and right,
brightly through "it was what
mrtnln stuff In a about, that same t
cd out toward the her?down In tl
1, the room was brought the flowei
right hand was you told him will
>t of cotton and von?"
i wiiinptrrtfu, uiurv ? ? ? ?vm.? v
that I was going to clear the boss,
n of ray own breath- ftie Hatch crow
And I heard It, all *be rcal reason
, Malsie Ann ha
I was telling yon about thwt; we
evening, you reraera- tw<> selves. H
ie hall when you down easy.
"SI for Cousin Sheila. "Mr. Van Hrl
it I told you, didn't those two teloji
Mr. Noicross l<
?|/innuviuu iiiav Tf uuiu i
and perhaps Implicate | ?
d. I couldn't tell her I
why he hod run away. |
d been right - a* right
( must keep It to our _
ut I tried to let her
JHE
Itt hns told you .about 5?
;rains that came after J3W|
rft the ofllce." 1 srih) *^E88yB
/
mm
witness. And he was ti
witness.
"I guess we needn't I
hushes any longer, Mr.
hntdng np to him. "
the sheriff, or anybody
cross, whuf I Yoov. a I
little train *?n!t!-nn tin
ylng to fix the bandaged.
I hadn't more thn
liont about the rations move before
Hatch," I said, -pie-faced woman in >
I haven't told apron ntart to get ii)
hut Mr. Nor- wa? Hitting by the
?out a certain she could rome over
jt happened a ' hJ-dy opened a door
^
' "No; I didn't I
n ninde the first any real chnnee."
I saw a sort of "Then unnielindj
i nurse's <-2ip and mie; and that is
} from where she resigned and col
window. Before Brltt thinks it wa
to the bed. eonio two messages fi
and tip-toed in and .Mr. iHinlon,
hnve a chance?not "S'?II coveting uj
grams hadn't lie
' else told him. Jim- ' were probably
the reason he hns j ''out right now
?e away. Mr. Van '"'hey were em
s on account of the "'row up his hi
rom Mr. Clwnlwick s?iy."
and Unit is why he "No," slip
i thf fact tlint tlie tele- j I '
en delivered?that they j L??hm?
hi the pocket of my i f
tfhetever that was. : \~ZZmm
nigh to make any man !
inds and quit, I should '
insisted, Jooklng mo bmmhbh
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