The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-12-02
A X nave of
Con science
BY FRANCIS LYNDE.
Copyright 1900, by Francis Lynde.)
CHAPTER XVIII.

upon which Margery Grierson had
asked her father for bread and got
a stone-was fraught with other
happenings to more than one of
those whose trivial tale this is. The
first of these fell upon Jasper Grier-
son, as we have seen, and was little
short of a rebellion in his own house
hold. The next was of import to one
Andrew Galbraith.
The president of the Bayou state
bank was spending a very pleasant
vacation in the quiet Minnesota sum
mer resort. The people at the hotel
were chiefly from New Orleans, and
hence congenial; the cooking was
good, the weather perfect, and the
few social doors of the town that Mr..
Galbraith cared to enter We're opened
wide to him. Moreover, Mr.. Jasper
Grierson had been exceedingly kind
to grabbed old man who was with
out kith or kin to make much of him;
and Miss Margery had quite neglect
ed the younger men to be gracious
to him.
1t was in the forenoon of this day
of happenings, while Mr.. GalbraitE
was smoking his after-breallfast CT
gar on the great veranda which over
looks the lake, that caller was an
nounced. A bellboy brought the card
from the office, and Mr.. Galbraith adj
justed his glasses leisurely and read
the name.
"'Mr. Kenneth Griswold,' Ell? l
don't recall the name. Stop bit
yes, l do. He is Miss Maggie's writ
er friend. Ask him if he will step
out here, where it's cooler.
The bellboy disappeared, and pres
emily returned, towing Griswold.
The old man rose with the courtly
good breeding of the elder genera
ton and shook hands with his visitor.
II am glad to met you, Mr.. Girls
void. Miss Grierson has often spoken
of you. Sit down-sit down and be
comfortable. If you could only have
our Louisiana winters to put with
your summers, this would be Para
disc itself"
acknowledgement, sat down, and be-
gan to tumble for his cigar case.
What he had come prepared to say
to Mr.. Galbraith was not made any
easier by this instant Juggling in of
Margery Grierson as his social spon-
sor.
"a cigar?" said the banker, inter
negatively. CRY one of mine; they
are Cubans with pedigree, and if
may toot my own pipe bit, I'll say
they are not to be duplicated this
side of New Orleans"
Griswold took the proffered cigar
and was still more i'll at ease. While
he hesitated, not knowing exactly
how to begin the tale which should
twist itself into warning to the
would-be purchaser of worthless pine
lands, the old man leaned back in his
chair, regarding him with kindly in
terest. But all at once he sat VI
very straight, and the kindly gaz;
became a sharp scrutiny.
Have you ever been in New Or
leans, Mr.. Griswold?" he asked, alb
ruptly.
Griswold was instantly on hi
guard, but in the thick of it he Sc
his teeth upon a sudden resolve no
to lie.
81 have; but not very recently"
Him; may | ask how recently?"
81 was south for few weeks las
spring, and spent part of the time il
New Orleans
Andrew .Galbraith sat back in hi
chair, and for all his apparent laps
into disinterest, Griswold could Sc
the long upper lip twitch nervouslS
"Hm; last spring, you say? w
had quite a bit of excitement las
spring, Mr.. Griswold. Did you chanc
to hear of the robbery of the Bayo
bank while you were there?"
Now Griswold knew that, notwitf
standing the seeming abstraction c
his questioner, he was under tn
sharpest surveillance that pair q
well-trained old eyes could bring t
bear; knew this, and made sure tina
the slightest hesitation, the meres
quivering of "a muscle, would betra
him So, though his lips wer
parched and his tongue clave to hi
teeth, he answered with well-sim,
lated nonchalance:
81 read of it in the newspapers o
my way north" he said, with exac
and literal truthfulness. 81 remen
Der thinking it was the most braze
thing | had ever heard Of / presum
you know all the parties concerned?
This was said with the mildest pos
sible shading of decent curiosity, an
was a very master stroke of evasion
which did it's work effectually for tn
time Andrew Galbraith smiled
sour little smile, and confessed tina
he knew one of the parties very we