Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-11-22

he gave ner the pipe and tobacco
and by curious contradiction of terms
began to wonder IL he ought not to go
Notwithstanding his frank defiance
of BrOokes Ormsby, and his declara.
ton Of intention in the sentimental
affair, he had his own notions about
the sanctity of a betrothal. Mrs
Brentwood had vanished, and Penelope
was asleep in the hammock. Could
he trust himself to be decently loyal
to Ormsby If he should stay? Nice
questions of conscience had no,
troubled him much of late; but this
was new ground-or II not new, &C
old that it had the effect Of being
new.
He let the question go unanswered
and stayed. But he was minded to
fling the biggest barrier he could lay
hands on in the way Of possible dis
loyalty by saying good things Of Orms.
by.
Il owe you much for my acquaint.
ance with him." he said, when the
subject was fairly introduced. "He
has been making all kinds of good
friend to me, and he promises to be
more"
isn't your debt to Penelope, rather
than to me?" she returned.
mo, I think not. You are responsi-
bic, in the broader sense, at all events.
He did not come west for Penelope's
sake" Then he took the plunge:
May know when it Is to be-o1
am l to wait for my bidding with the
other and more formally invited
guests?"
She laughed, low little laugh that
somehow grated upon his nerves.
"You shall know-when / know:
Forgive me" he said quickly. But
from something Ormsby said"
HE should not have spoken of It.:
1 have given him no right" she said
coldly.
you make me twice sorry: once il
I am q trespasser, and again IL I have
unwfttingly broken condolences"
He rose and said goodnight, and was
halfway to the next corner before he
realized how inexcusably abrupt hts
leave-taking had been.
When he did realize it, he was Of
two minds whether to go back or let
the apology excuse another call the
following evening. Then the insistent
B prompting seized him again; and when
next he came to competent sense Of
things present he was standing oppo-
site the capitol building, staring fixed.
~ up at a pair Of lighted windows in
the second story.
They were the windows of the gov.
ernor's. room: and David Kent's brain
cleared suddenly. In the earliest be.
ginnings of the determinate plan tc
wrest the Trans Western out of thu
grasp Of the junto he had known that
it must come finally to some desper.
ate duel with the master-spirit of thu
r1ngsters. Was Jasper Bucks behind
those lighted windows alone? ="
Kent had not meant to make the
open attack until he should have =
weapon in his hands which would arm
him to win. But now as he stood
looking up at the reckoning windows
a mad desire to have It out once TO,
all with the robber-in-chief sent The
blood tingling to his finger-tips. True
he had nothing as yet in the oil-fslt
conspiracy that the newspapers or The
public would accept as evidence d
fraud and corruption. But on thu
other hand, Bucks was only a man
after all; a man with a bucaneer'l
record, and by consequence vulnerable
beneath the brazen armor of assur.
ance. If the attack were bold enough
Kent did not stop to argue it out
When mans blood is up the odd.
against him shrink and become al
naught. Two minutes later he was II
the upper corridor of the capitol, strid.
ing swiftly to the door Of the lighted
| room. - 80" -. - 70
: ITO Be Continued