Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-02-21
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Before the engine had ceased moving
slowly up to the Elmdale station.
a tall young man swung himself
easily to the platform, and stood
bag in hand, looking, asifundecided'
toward livery stable across the
street. Then he sprang to the
ground, crossed the track and disap-
peared up the main road.
"I'n walk up to the house, he
said to himself, sit will be quite a
surprise, as they do not look for me
FOR some time vet; besides, | am
cramped and stiff from sitting so
long, and it will give me a chance to
stretch my limbs.
After proceeding a short distance
he took down some bars and follow
ed a well-worn footpath which led
through several fields, until he finally
came to a Travelled highway. BY
this means he saved a considerable
distance. He soon came to n hand
some gate, opened into well-kept
grounds, and entering approached
a large house standing on the crest
OF broad, sloping lawn.
Home again, he cried exultingly;
how the sight quickens ones pulse. "
All was dark in the house. He
walked to the rear and looked up to
the second story of large wing Mt
that side Here he stood for a while,
gazing at the windows of this room,
and then down at the broad pillared
yeranda beneath.
st would be a great surprise to
them," he said to himself, with a
smile Il could find my way easily
to my room and no one be the wiser
It's regular freshman's caper, but
III venture"
He set his bag down beside one oil
the pillars and climed uD to the root
as nimbly as cat. He found the
window unfastened, as he had ex-
pected, and gently raising it, leaped
forward and listened intently. To
6is surprise he fancied he heard q
noise in the adjoining apartment
4 but he dismissed the notion at once
as ridiculous.
Nonsense" he thought. as blind
ratified beside him, sit was nothing
but the wind. Everybody has long
been abed."
He stepped carefully inside at this
and stood in the flood of moolight
looking abont on the desks an(
benches and other school-room para
phernalia. Then he made his waJ
slowly to the other end of the room
He had Just reached a small closet
the door of which was standing opel
when he distinctly heard light foot
fall. He stopped, motionless, ani
looked back. The steps came neare
and nearer.
In moment more the PORTER
that hung across the door of tn
next room was flung open, and h
saw brilliantly defined in the moon
light, young girl holding the cur
tain back with one hand. Sh
was dressed in a gown of virgil
white, of some light summer mater
rial, but hermagnificent hair fell j
tresses down her back, as if she ha,
been interrupted just as she wa
loosening if.
A moment more and she steppe
toldly into the room and then th
young man saw that she had q re
volver in her right hand. There wa
: significance, too, in the flashing oil he
. eye and the compression Of her lip
! that was not to be disregarded.
Beautiful as she was, and she seem
ed to him almost like vision fror
Paradise, he did not doubt that sh
would use the revolver without hes
tation. She might shoot wildly, bu
shoot she.srrely would. Instructive
Nv he dashed into the cupboard
' In a second the quick witted girl ha
closed the door and turned the key
For the first time Gerald Mowbra
realized the danger into which hi
foolish freak had led him.
: "a pretty piece OF business this,
, he thought: "shut mp here like Gag
e ed WHO'S she, anyway, and wha
u is she doing here? For my life | can
: make out"
He waited few minutes and ther
! approaching his lips to the keyhol'
:. asked in his blandest tones:
!, "Will youhave the kindness to te
. me who you are?"
t A long silence followed.
Have the goodness, please, to tie
g me who you are?" He repeated
i giving the door an impatient kicl
!. II am Gerald MoworayP
& No answer was vouchsaied him.
) Every well, then. Since you d
not choose to tell me who you are
, perhaps you will have the kindnes
! to listen while | explain who / am,
began Gerald softly. And ther