Willmar tribune., 1906-02-21
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bullet and was- holding It up for her

40 <1ways lad an idea :sst I seard
1t strike the wO0dwGfH.
"For you? Were you ever mere
when the house was occupied?"
eyes, once; it is the Senator Duvall
place. This is the window where I
broke in"
She nodded intelligence.
Il know now why you are going to
buy it. The senator is another OF
those whom you haven't forgiven"
His laugh was ready denial.
II have nothing against Duvall. He
was one of Bucks dupes, and he is
paying the price. The property is to
be sold at a forced. sale, and it is
good investment
*Is that all it means to you? It is
too fine to be hawked about as a thing
to make money with. It's splendid
ly ideal home-leaving out that thing
that Penelope is quarreling with"
And she made a feint of stopping her
ears.
He laughed again.
''Ormsby says ought to buy it, and
marry and settle down."
She took him seriously.
'*You don't need it, Miss Van Brock
has a very lovely home of her own"
she said soberly.
It was at his tongues end to tell the
woman he loved how the woman he
did not love had refused him, but he
saved himself on the brink and said:
"Why Miss van Brock?'
Because she is vindictive, too,
and"
But l am not viKdictiye."
Eyes, you are. Do you know any
thing about Judge MacFarlane's FAM
lily affairs?''
"A little. He has three daughters;
one Of them rather unhappily married,
believe"
"Have you considered the cost to
these three women if you make their
fathers name byword in the city
whore they were born?"
He should have considered it," was
the unmoved reply.
"David!" she said; and he looked up
quickly.
You want me to let him resign?
1T would be compromising felony.
He is judge, and he was bribed.''
She sat down beside him in the
cushioned window seat and began to
plead with him.
"Iou must let him go," she insisted.
1T is entirely in your hands as chair
man of the house committee; the gov
ernor, himself, told me so. I know all
you say about him is true; but he is
old and wretched, with only a little
while to live, at best"
There was curious little smile curl
ing his lip when he answered her.
''He has chosen a good advocate. It
is quite like man of his stamp to
try to reach me through you''
F'David!" she said again. Then: "I
really shouldn't know him if 1 were
to see him.
'''Then why" he began; but there
was a love-light in the blue-gray eyes
to set his heart afire "You are doing
this for me?' he said, trembling on
the verge Of things unutterable
eyes. You don't know how it hurts
me to see you growing hard and merci-
less as you climb higher and higher
in the path you have marked out for
yourself"
''The path you have marked out for
me-" he corrected. "Do you remem-
Der our little talk over the embers of
the fire in your sitting-room at home?
l knew then that 1 had lost the love I
might have won: but the desire to be
the kind of leader you were describing
was born in me at that moment.
haven't always been true to the ideal.
couldn't be, lacking the right to
wear your colors on my heart"
"Don't!" she said. II haven't been
true to my ideals. IL sold them,
David!''
She was in his arms when she said
it, and the bachelor maid was quite
lost in the woman.
'1'll never believe that" he said 10y
ally. ''But if you did, We'll buy them
back-together."
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full half-hour before she professed
herself satisfied with the mechanical
piano-tOy; and when she was through.
she helped the woman caretaker to
shut the venetians with clangings
that would have warned the most OBJ
livious pair of lovers
And afterward, when they were free
OF the house, she ran ahead to the
waiting auto-car, leaving Kent and
Elinor to follow at snail's pace
down the leaf-covered walk to the
gate. There was a cedar hedge to
mark the sidewalk boundary, and
while it still screened them Kent bent
quickly to the upturned face of hap
piness.
Zone more" he pleaded; and when
he had it: ''Do you know now, dearest,
why brought you here to-day?"
She nodded joyously.
1T is the sweetest old place. And,
David, dear; We'll bring our ideals
all OF them; and it shall be your haven
when the storms beat"
[THE END.1
Kit CarsOn's Last Trip.
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