The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-11-21
CHAPTER XIII.

Putting this and that together, it
was the Griswold of his earlier New
York days-the days of the slender
patrimony = who presented hlmse1
at the counter of the Hotel Marlbor-
ough. The clerk was graciously at
| fable.
"GIad to have you with US, Mr..
Griswold. Will you have ROOM?
Griswold thought not; not in any
case if he could get late train to
| his destination. This brought on a
question and answer. There was
| train. and the clerk did know some
thing of Wahaska; knew much, in
fact. since he had lived there.
Griswold pumped the man dry, and
at the end of the pumping process
knew as much about the Minnesota
town as he could have CLEANED from
a six months residence therein. Aft
erward, he went to supper in the
| cafe. meaning to go thence to the
waiting Pullman at the Terminal.
He was scarcely out of sight be-
fore the diminutive Irishman who
had driven him came to the counter
and made cautious inquiries OF the
clerk, touching the name, address
and intentions of his late fare; all
this on the pretext that the fare had
, overpaid him.
The clerk knew his man and in
dulged him, even going so far as to
| write Griswold's name and intended
| address on card for him. Where
upon. instead of waiting for Girls
wold's emergence from the cafe, as
| he promised to, the cabman dlsap-
peared.
Griswold had quarter of an hour
| of purely philistine contentment
while he was waiting for his supper.
| At last the difficulties were all in the
past. He would resume his name
, and his plans; and these last took
! on all the roseate hues of their
| birthday.
He would go to Wahaska, settle
| down to his work, study the people,
be helpful and generous and brother
loving, using the money he had won
for the betterment of his kind. And
! in time he would meet Miss Farnham
on her own ground. and she would
see the demonstration of his theory
see and be convinced. But just
here he remembered that he could
never convince her, because sne could
| never know; and from this he passed
to many curious questions touching
= r e.. III ~
an who had been thrown in his way.
lie had been calling her faultless
J authors model; was she only that
to him? Assuredly she was much
more, and when he had gotten that
far, 1t was only a step to the admis'
sion that he was frankly in love with
her. The admission opened up
prospect for which there was no word
save grievous. For since he couid
never stoop to win her under raise
pretenses, she might never be WON
He knew well enough that all the
good deeds he could ever do with
the stolen money would not atone;
that in the moment of fruition her
conscience would condemn him ana
cast him out.
Perhaps it was this thought, as
much as the threat of coming i'll
ness, that made him lose his appetite
as soon as his supper appeared But
lose it he did. and nothing the wait
err could bring sutficed to tempt MIN
He forced himself to eat little in
sheer desperation, and afterward
went to the great rotunda to smoke
a cigar. To his great disgust, the
tobacco brought on return OF the
vertigo which had assailed him on
the levee; whereupon he PAID ms
score and took cab for the tram,
meaning to go to bed and try the
effect of forgetfulness.
The experiment was success tenn
porarily, at least, and he was asleep
before the Pullman porter came TO
adjust the screen in the window at
his feet.
The train was made mp ready TO
leave when hawl,-faced man saun-
tered up TO the ste of the Pullman
and pecked at the .orter.
"Much of load tonight, GeorgeY'
"No, sab; mighty light. Nobody
vet but de gen'rman from the MARI