Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-11-08

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failure coming to ask my help" !
He smiled. t .:s:. S. .4~ =. .: :
"You don't need to be the prophet
ess Penelope says you are to foresee
part Of that. I always come to you
with my woes.'' e. sS III ". II f:
DO ou?-oftener than you go to
Miss Brentwood" :s ~4sS .,..,s. 2
This time his smile was 4 mere
tightening Of the lips. .s,.@: -.
"You do love to grind me on that
side. don't your" he said. II and my
Affairs are less than nothing to Miss
Brentwood. and no ore knows it any
better than you do" III ~ So -.
But you want to go to her." she
persisted. II am oily the alterna-
tive -. -.
He looked her full in the eyes.
Miss Van Brock, what is it you
want me to say? What can say more
than I said moment ago-that you
are the truest friend a man ever had ?"
The answering look out of the brown
eyes was age-old in its minute wis
dom. =. .~.: ...s -. 49,.
How little you men know when yor
think you know the most she said
half-musingly; then she broke of alb
ruptly. Let us talk about something
else. It Maj. Guilford is wrecking the
railroad, why is he spending so much
money on improvements?f' Have you
thought to ask yourself that ques-
tion?" -'.'
"A good many times" he admitted,
following her promptly back to first
principles.
'And you: have not found the an
swer?"
mot one that fully satisfies me-
no."
= eve found one"
"Intuitively?" he smiled.
mo; It's pure logic, this time. Do
You remember showing me "a letter
that Mr. Hunnicott wrote you Just be-
fore the explosion letter in which
he repeated a bit Of gossip about Mr..
semple Falkland and his mysterious
visit to Gaston?'' .'..:ss..:
Eyes, I remember Il. y =:
DO you know who Mr.. Falkland
is?". :. = ~.:
who doesn't?" he qucried. HE has
half of Wall street in hiss clientele"
4, s. yes; but particularly he is the ad-
visory counsel Of the Plantagould sys-
tenn. Ever since you showed me that
letter have been trying to account
for his presence in CASTOR on the day
before Judge MacFarlane's spring term
Of court. / should never have found
out but for Mrs. Brentwood
"Mrs. Brentwood -.
Miss Van Brock nodded.
:, Eyes; the mother of my-of the
young person for whom am the al
tentative. is in a peck of trouble: I
quote her verbatim. She and her two
daughters hold some 5000 shares OF
Western Pacific stock. It was pur-
chased at 81, and it is: now down to
e." :.>.ess<s :,
& Twenty and a quarter to-day -
Kent corrected.
! Never mind the fractions. The
mother Of the Incompatible Penelope,
has heard that I am famous business
woman; worthy understudy of Mrs.
%Hetty Green; so she came to me for
advice. She had letter from q New
York broker offering her fraction
more than the market price for her
5000 shares Of Western Paciffc."
."Well?" said Kent; =
Meaning what did / do? I did
what you did not do-what you are
not doing even now, I put two and
two together in the twinkling of q
bedstaff. Why should a New York
broker be picking up outlying West
ern Pacific at fraction more than
the market when the stock is sinking
every day? was curious enough to
pass the why along to a friend OF
mine in Wall street" -z.s=..s
"Of course he told you all about it,
said Kent, incredulously.s r..
HE told me what 1sneeded to know.
The broker in question Ii a Planta-
gould man. = .*~.f :
/! Still fail to connect up as the
slinemen say. ~ >s... r.
DO you? All, David, David! will you
leave 1t for q woman to point out
what you should have suspected the
moment you read that bit Of gossip In
Mr.. Hennfcott's letter?'' -.
Her hand was on the arm OF h r
chair. He covered It with his own.
II leave it for you, Portia. You
are my good angel (. +"
She withdrew the hand quickly. but
there was no more than playful re-
sentiment in her retort. ~ &. =
# Shame on you!" she scoffed,
What would Miss Brentwood say?'''
II wish you would leave her, out
of It," he frowned. "'You are con-
ztinually ignoring the fact that she
has promised to be the wife Of an
other man. =r== " " II !
# And has thereby freed you from all
obligations Of loyalty? Don't deceive
yourself: women are not made that
way. Doubtless she will SO on and
marry the other man in due season:
but she will never forgive you IL you
smash her ideals. But we were talk
ing about the things you ought ia
have guessed. Fetch me the atlas
from the book case lower shelf:
right-hand corner; that's IT,
45@ ITO Be Continued
Long-Felt want.
Customer Say, what kind: of q crazy
novel IL this, anyway? It begins with
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