Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-11-15

blowing with the boisterousness OF youth
and health
"Yes. sir; and we'd better hurry up, for
they won't stand tied much longer. My
BYE but it's dark out doorsl"
500 and tell Prof. Cronin to be ready for
us by the time we get back. Tell Pat and
Dave to come on and bring the uark lhAterh
with you you come back.
"All right, sir" and the young man went
| out
Arthur Denver, left alone, slipped his
pistols into his pockets, looked all around
tho waiting-room of Westmoreland Col
legc, In which he WINS standing, whistied
softly part of a tune In an absent-minded
way, and stepped out OF the light room
Into the darkness of the storm.
The sudden transition from light to dark
blinded him. but he soon saw the dim
liphts In the far-otf windows of the college
dorinitory, and discerned before him the
swaying branches of the trees and the
rush of rain-drops across the ath of
HQht that streamed from the window of
III room he had Just left
lie remained standing long enough to
have developed some impatience-th though,
II the wind could have taken cogn zance OF
the face II beat against 1t would have per-
reiyed that tho mind was far away and was
noticing neither the weather nor the low
ering tcInpernture--when simultaneously a
good natured peal of laughter and catter
OF horses hoofs announced the arrival OF
hls young friend with tho team He drove
up ut dashing pace and refined his horses
In so suddenly 1t threw them on their
. launches Arthur could dimly see, behind
tho restless horses, light spring wagon
| and In II the dark and shadowy figures oi
three mon. He climbed in and took the va
cant seat beside the driver. At word the
mettlesome steeds sprang forward and
/ sped through the darkness at breaknecb
pace.
, You will have to learn to be more quie
on expeditions of this sort, Norton" sale
Arthur Denver.
1T was not who laughed so boisterousl.
t Just before we came up with YOU replied
= the young man
a "lndeedg thought 1t was"
mo sir. Ii was Graeme,"
''Graemel The IDIOT What does he GU
ON such night us thisy"
He be always out on these koind o
noights, scr" spoke up one of the men o
tho back seat.
Arthur Denver shrugged hts shoulders
Are you sure you know the road, MOI
tons"
"Been over II ever since l was Il chile
" sir
X And he did know IT, for they flew aroun
{. tho hillsides, over dangerous gronN
6 enough In daylight without an accideI
IA Tho rain still beat in gusts directly In the
faces A smothered impreca ion from on
- or the other of the two men in the bac
IT scat betrayed their nativity and early r,
:, ligious training as we'll varied tn
il monotony by marking the passage OF SON
M particularly rough chuck-hole or hig
~ eulyert They sped on winding anon
;" the hills aud measuring many u dreai
rs lane before they stopped. And when the
n did halt it was before gate that had ov'
= IL a hugo white arch dimly discernib
:, through the murky night. Tho gate vi
% locked but 1t yielded to tho open sesame
II OF n broad key in tho hands of Morto
is Through tho gate tho wagon passed, AT
IN along the graveled driveway wound
,s tortuous way among the habitations of u
!, dead until IL came to new-made gray
~ Here the men alighted, and while tho la
no occupants of the rear seat shoveled aw'
k, at the mound, Morton hitched the hors
re and stepped back to watch the gate, al
~, Arthur skilfully lit his pipe beneath
great-coat and smoked
~ Half an hour later the same team W
eu making 4 return trip over the same ros
no hfth passenger was now aboard II
in this passenger lay ON the floor of
n. wagon in sack
=. At the college gate Prof Cronin II
them.
ru Have you got Allces' he inquired 'Y
ch had better put her in your room, Pr
ID. Denver, till tonight; the lock is broken
di- tho door OF the dissecting room, and II
-, will not Inconvenience"
~ MOT at all"
mr. Morton drove on slowly through thu c
lege grove The wind had died down 1
rs the rain ceased leaving the air full
es. damp fog. The first indications of da
it'll were barely observable in the gradus
clearing eastern horizon as the trees be.
to loom into spectral shape, holding Il
we Incorporating arms and drippisg ting
NC over the wagon passing beneath.
Jus somber pile of the college outlined it'
"a indistinctly against the gray sky. To
ler left lay the dormitory hall, to the right
hi. building occupied by the laboratories RI
ho tation rooms and the bachelor apartme
of Prof Arthur Denver To the last-n
lay toned place they drove. The profe.
J q paid the men, dismissed Morton with