Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-05-31

E4 keS% near, ana WIlIle
SiH III he waited the
coming of t {
young lawyer, he indulged in pleasant
authorizations of the sensation he would
create, the largenessr of the scoop be
would have upon his contemporaries
and he even began to arrange In his
mind the details of the narrative for his
paper.
It was characteristic of the man that
he felt no pity for the intended victim,
or gave thought to the distress his expo
sure would carry into the household Of
Witherspoon.
Not that Tom was an unkindly man.
He had only been hardened in the prac-
tee of his profession and sought his
ends remorselessly.
While he was indulging these expecta-
tons Holbrook came i'll.
''Where have you been for the past
few davs?" he said, without waiting for
salutations ~ have, been seriously
alarmed. 1 sent everywhere for you
and could not find you"
ITO Newport"
"a pretty time to go pleasuring,"
grumbled Holbrook. az found your
Shadow, but he wouldn't tell me any
thing"
No, he never tells" said Tom, com
placently.
"You gave me a pretty fright; why
didn't you let me know you were going"
Hadn't time. But" said Tom, IN
felievS sou. | went s.. IL Ea1 business
you think l neglected. Shadow, who
keeps very close to Fountains man-his
valet-and worms everything out of him,
came to me hastily before was out of
bed few days ago, with the informa,
ton that Fountain had been summoned
to Newport, after considerable tele-
graphic correspondence with the Ash
grove girl. Upon the impulse of the mo-
ment, determined to so, and made up
my mind that if started at once with
out delay coIIdi get there before he did
An instinct-innition- you will
impelled me to go. So.not having time
10 see you L left at once. made a big
strike"
"Oh, the you, have learned some
thing?"
"a great dead: Listen. ! had not
time to pack anything, but L grabbeda
bag Lhad used on my last trip'out of
uowun in which. knew there was, a
ahange,of clean linen, and just caught
the train"
"Get to, your puinf," said HolbEook
Take it easy, my boy, it is not to be
told that way. The beauty of telling a
tale is telling it in sequential manner;
you make your points much stronger,
and clearer understanding is the re-
suit"
''Oh, go on youn own way" returned
Holbrook, irritably, pealizing, that Tom
was not to,he driven and that interrupt
tionlo only delayed! the course of his mar
native.
swell. then, as L travelled on. / had
time to,examine the reasons laying back
of my impulse. Of course, if Fountain
went to Newport he would, go to 'Wither-
spoons That several kilograms had
passed between. himself and the Ash.
grove girl, and that Fountain had ex;
pressed desire to remain. in New York
a. few days longer and had yielded in
obedience to the last telegram. from
Newport showed urgency. Now, what
urgency, and why? That was what
was travelling to Newport to find out il
Icouid."
'I should take it a very poor reason.
49, NNa,4 al l. H. ~
travelling off so many miles upon an i'm
pulse"
MY dear fellow, your inability to ap
preciate' how controlling such impulse,
are upon'so temperaments, shows mt
dearly you. would never succeed as {
newspaper man. make.it a rule of lif;
tD,obey the promptings- of my intuitions
Hence my success.
swell, get on with your story"
after Al while l thought l woult
open, my bag. and find what L had. will
me. and to mR surprise l discovered ;
suit of clothes, for laboring man;
working suit. Then | remembered tina
Ihad used, it asa disguise some time ag,
when, L was on, another affair, and tn,
thought popped into my head that
could use it again, possibly to good eff
feet. After got to Newport | mad
nv way to the Witherspoon cottage ant
took in the surroundings. l knew VIVA
time Fountain was to leave New York
and, therefore, about whattime he woull
arrive.
"Idete1mined' disguise myself as
gardener, get on,ttia grounds, and ris
detection. So procuring a pair OF garde
shears. / did my working clothes up IN
package, struggled it out OF the hote
and on q plausible pretext secured
noon in cottage in the town. where
could make the change About the onl
t.ing learned on the stage was e1per'
moss in make M, and when | issued tron