Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-12-06

Jury has now been out twenty-eieht
hours My head spins III walk in the
park an hour 10 tone me up
That" | declared, is where Martin
went 10 smash"
ut is" assented the doctor. Cant
you some way connect that jury business
with the mystery? Can't you make that
and the walk in the park and the dizzy
head mean something TO you? Put your
self in his place, MIR Marsh, can't your"
Can't see it." | replied I'm not
Vidocq, you know. In short, / make
nothing out of il"
Nothing at alli' cried young Martin,
i'll despairing voice | turned TO see
him at the door with lady whom |
supposed was his mother. They had
been cavesdropping, and | did not like
that | bowed formally In spite of
Wrangle's detaining hand, Mrs Martin,
most attractive person, I must admit,
came quickly to my side and sank down
with her arms about me.
MY darling" she whispered. won't
my love help you to see it all as it is?"
! leaped to my feet and flung the wo-
man off. Wrangle's face was an added
insult
by heaven. sir" l cried; eff this is
a joke. well sir" and l started for the
door, Il don't wonder poor Martin left
home"
Just then the detestable Jolworthy en-
tered. | read insolent intentions in his
eyes and met them in perfect kind.
They've enough of you, sir" l
growled. savagely as I could.
He grinned insultingly
con, drop this bluff he said. 1T
makes me tired"
'Will you leave. sir, and let me finish
my business with these peope?" | de-
manded, very angry.
Jolworthy snecred audibly. I started
for him. He lodged around the library
table. I vaulted over it. As | aliehted
my violence, extended his fist quite
vigorously. Something cracked back in
my head and could do nothing but
fall on the floor
1t will always seem that it was a very
long while later when | awoke. The
slender youth and his mother were over
me- They looked strangely alike-then it
began coming back. Why | was in my
house. My wife and boy-7==
"Mr. Marsh" he said, "are you bet
ter?"
| was irritated.
Harold" I cried, whats the matter
with you? Don't you know your own
father? Who is Marsh, and what's the
matter with my head Helena, how does
all this happen? Why Helenar'
Ny wife threw a towel one way and
a bottle of camphor the other, after
which she shrieked in loud voice and
cast her arms about my neck. | will not
say what she said into my left ear
discovered that my right ear was COW
cred with huge damp towel
Harold was yelling like an Indian buck
And then that great boy kissed me. Il
was angry.
BE quiet, you silly peoplep I cried,
striving to look not too deeply disgusted
over such hysteria. "Now, tell me, did
the jury report?'
Harold whooped and Helena began to
''Harold," commanded sternly,
Something has happened. Tell me-"
yes" cried Wrangle, who had been
standing behind me all the time. Tell
him, Harold, all of it-beginning with
three weeks ago"
I reared my son to be truthful at all
times, but I did not believe all he then
said. After he had done | turned to
Wrangle:
What brought me out of it?"
"That laundering rap Jolworthy gave
you," he answered, grinning.
'T don't know who Jolwortfy is, said
|, going over to Helena and taking her
in my arms then and there; 'but, white
or black. or whatever, ] insist that he
he invited here to dinner and that the
hest in the house be his"
But Helena did not seem to care about
Jolworthy.