The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-19
(COntinued.)
CHAPTER Y.

80 HE following Saturday Alan
/ went to barley, as he fire.
Ryses.-,-1SS quently did, to spend Sunday.
lszEA1zi ON such visits he usually
STAYED ut the Johnston House, a great.
.l fashioned brick building that had
survived the civil war and remained
m...ghcd by the shot and shell that
.urud over it during that dismal pc
Rod when most of the population had
.ntuL-ed farther SOUTH 1t had four
stories and was too big for the town,
which could boast Of only 1000 inhab-
.HaH~. tut-third of whom were black
However. the Smallncss of the town
was IN the hotels favor for in a place
Waar. up one would have patrOnized
second class hotel opposition would
.ar, died a natural death. The genial
proprietor and his family We're of the
U.~, blood. and the Johnston House
WIS sort Of social clubhouse where
Oh" church people held their affairs
ai The less serious element gave
dances To he admitted to the hotel
without having 10 pay for ones dinner
WAS the hallmark Of social approval
II WAS near the ancient looking brick
car shed, under which the trains of
two main lines ran, and long freight
warehouse of the same date and archi-
lecture. Around the hotel were clus-
tered the chief financial enterprises of
the town its stores, pOstOffice, banks
al . fan l,.l tr,i,a 40 10
ley was the seat of its county, and an
other relic of the days before the war
was its courthouse. The principal side
walks were paved with brick, which in
places We're damp and green and some
NA.~ raised above their common level
ny llo 1Hdergrowing roots of the syc-
auoro trees that edged the streets.
Ia r-' office of the hotel. Just after
registering his name, Alan met his
Friend IItyhurn Miller, for whose bust
Ao>~ ability, it may be remembered.
A'urr Daniel had such high regard
ii" WAS a fine looking man of thirty
tire" tall and of athletic build. He
A.i dark eyes and hair and a rudy,
outdoor complexion.
Hello" he said cordially Il thought
you Illght get in today. SO | came
round To- see. Sorry you've taken a
foom | wanted You to sleep with me
tonight Sisters gone and no one is
N''IF but the cook. Hello l must be
careful FIN drumming for business
right under Sanfords nose"
iii make you stay with me to make
aH for it, said Alan as the clerk be
anna ta" counter laughed good natured-
y ever the aIlusion TO himself.
l""nrd if l don't think about it, )"
>3.o Miller. Come round to the Of
nee. / want to talk to you. | reckon
you ye eot every pillow going such
weather rs this"
HOOK my horse out OF the field to
1.-'" over said Alan as they went
o.' "'1 turned down to a side street
where there was a row of law offices.
. Two roomed buildings, single sto-
~' 'Q-t Of brick and bearing bat
'00 D'' Signs. one of these buildings
's ''--eF 5, which, like all its fellows.
law -Ss door wide open, thus inviting
sDe lawyers in the row and all
S'D4e1Is Of law to enter and borrow
y, Use the ever open desk
'"-N Miller was a man among
~, l1olSa1d in his class. Just after
@Iaduated at the state university
'S admitted to the bar and took
le practice of law. He could un-
nave made his way at this
0"'' A4d not other and more absorb
'- '@Ielts developed within him. Hav-
uad few thousand dollars left
- 81 his fathers death, he began to
'17 tAls capital in mote shaving
"1C other methods of turning over
.'s' Tor handsome profit furnished
'"e unsettled conditions, the time
-oNaHty. He soon became an adept
many lines Of speculation, and as he
T.. - remarkably shrewd and cautious
-ot 10 be wondered at that he soon
eN.u dIated quite a fortune.
>, axe seat he said to Alan as
,s! Went into the office, and he threw
,,. into the revolving chair at hrs
'>'1eu desk. Il want to talk to you
- Impose you are in for some fun.
'oEs are getting up a dance at the
N''el' and they want your dollar to
e'' pay the band. It's a good one
C,'s ume. They've ordered it from
: !" ia hooga. II will be down on the