News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-04-15

I was unusually reused about something.
He was so absorbed in the matter
that was exciting him that when he
met Miss Andrews with her visitors
for the first moment he spoke to her as
! if he did not recognize the Others.
"That scoundrel, Tommy Randall,
Miss Andrews! Do you know what he
has succeeded in doingY
He had said that much when he real
| lied who the visitors were. But even
then the passion of the information he
had come to give Miss Andrews was SO
strong that he simply bowed to Mrs
Penrose and Luella as if he were in the
habit of meeting them every day in
| Bowen street, and nodded to Penrose,
as if Penrose was a familiar sight in
the neighborhood of Hope House.
"What has Tommy Randall done
now?" Miss Andrews questioned, with
faint smile Tommy Randall does
the heavy tragedy in Ward 49," she
said to Mrs. PenrOse.
Randall has bought up lots all over
this burnt district. He has closed con-
| tracts for half a dozen double deckers
like the one Mr.. Marsh had put up"
John Gordon continued, entirely I'M
| mindful Of Luella, or, at least, careless
of the effect of what he said upon her.
"He has worked all this time we have
been discussing the park plan. But
how could we do anything?" Gordon
spoke in despAN', addressing Miss An
drews as if no one else were present.
1--WE only had the money to purchase
anything last night. We never dreamed
that anything would get in the way of
our purchase of at least half the area,
Randall has secured his lots all over
the district. If he puts up those dou-
BILE deckers, he ought to be arrested for
murder. That is what the buildings
result in"
Luella flushed and then defantly
looked at Gordon as he unconsciously
said the last words looking at her. The
expression on her face smote John Cor
don into a sudden realization of all his
surroundings. Miss Andrews stood
quietly gazing over the dreary pile of
rubbish. A man left the group at the
point where Gordon had been standing
and came walking deliberately toward
them.
"It's Tommy Randall. If he attempts
to insult you, Miss Andrews
AS he spoke Gordon laid his finger
for a second on Miss Andrews arm.
He was standing close by her, and the
movement was perfectly natural. Lu-
ella noticed it and was also quick to
note the color in Miss Andrews face as
she moved a little away from Gordon
and said:
"He will not insult me-"
Il almost wish he would insult some
one so that l could have some excuse
for knocking him down." Gordon an
swered Neither Miss Andrews nor
Luella had ever seen him so angry.
Mrs. Penrose watched all this with
cleaning eyes 1t had become exceed
ingly interesting to her. Archie was
divided between his disgust at the hor
rible surroundings and his wonder at
what would be the result of the en-
counter between Randall and Miss
Andrews. Luella had no thought for
anything except that movement which
John Gordon had made as if to protect
Miss Andrews. And all of them faced
the man as he came up, entirely igno-
rant of his purpose in seeking an inter-
view, but two of them at least fully
aware that, whatever it was, it con-
cealed some evil, and one of them pray
Ing in her great, strong heart for SOME
way of deliyerance, that her love for
the children of her desOlate parish
might find expression before Gods
sunlight and flowers closed to some of
them on this earth forever.