The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11

brother ready in that time, and off
/ they went with him. They must ha'
| got their train before this. No, sir,
she didn't leave no kind of word of
any kind at all. Law me! / don't
know her address, never heard of it
only t she lived in the city an taught
school,"
And the next evening Stannard was
back at his home in the city laying
plans for the retrieving of Ellen KEN
] bic, the missing
The telegram suggested that she had
not fed from him, but it also suggest
ed that she must be in trouble. in any
event he was compelled to make haste
to reach her. If she should be III need
should not be in any need that he
could answer there was still reason
enough, in the wording of David's note,
why he should yet hurry.
But whittier was he to hurry? He
had no idea of her address, and no
clue to her beyond the fact that She
had reached the city.
Out of Kembles and Kimballs in
plenty the city directory yielded only
four Ellen Kembles, and inside of a
lay he had traced three of them to a
negative conclusion. But the fourth ad-
iress, which he believed to have been
lers, had given place to an exce'- -
ion for a new building, and no one
knew anything of her.
She had been in the movement for
the Kane place playground, and he
knew she had been a teacher in one
If the schools. but which one? The
teachers register told him it was the
Ninth venue school and it was the onlS-
hing that told him anything. The
opening of school was five days away,
50 ne could not wait for that.
He hunted up the principal of that
school, only to be staggered by the
news that, while for two years Miss
ellen Kemble had been one of his best
eachers, she had not been reelected
Why ne did not know-and he could tell
lothing of her whereabouts or her
riends. There was no question of
her identity, for as he described her,
a slender, pretty girl, whose brown
| eyes lent wonderful charm to a sweet
| face, and who was devoted to a
younger brother, there could be no
doubt
Then he remembered David as a
possible clue. If she were not in school
it was probable that David was. She
might have gone into some other work
but she would not take him from mis-
lessons. 50 he began a systematic
conlbing of the grammer rooms of the
city, In his first days search he over
hauled seventy-three of these rooms
and was himself overhauled for over
speeding his automobile as he pushed
his search in a perfect frenzy; bu
though ne found DavidS in all variety
he did not find the one he was look
ing for. 1t began to look discourag
ing.
And then one afternoon his pc
nephew, Thomas Stannard Penwarden
came bravely home with a beautifully
BACKED eye.
"Ah, ha!' said Stannard, with un
sympathetic cheerfulness. Woke VI
the wrong boy, did your
Yep" responded Tommy, with a
least equal blitheness, for he was ;
courageous lad, and Stannard love-
him for his gameness. "Geel Unch
Tom, but he's a dandy! He's hitler !
l am, but 1 bet there amt any fou
boys in the school can lick US
"Us?"
"Uh-huhi We're the good solid team
now, all right. He let me have hi
knife until tomorrow, cause I've los
mine," and with this Tommy displaye'
this seal of the new alliance, and 81
doing brought his mildly interested un
Gle to the very top notch of alert at
tention He had seen that knife be
fore: he knew it we'll; with it he eouli
conjure, and raise visions of beautiful
country days, and certain dear delu
sive presence that had been fitting be
fore him of late like a will-O'-the-wisT
More than that! With it he reViVeG
the Ianguishing hope that was in hi
heart till it leapened and bounded. H
lay back again in his deep chair anC
turned the knife over again and again
at last he asked: How long have 'yoI
known this boy?"
Just today. He came to school thi
morning"
And you thought you'd tease hin
a bit to try him, did you?"
"Oh, we always stir new boy vi
a little to see what he's good for
"And you found that David Kembit
was good enough for your
Tommy's eyes rolled wide oDen. A
last he cried: Uncle Tom, how d vol
know? Did you see him-us, mean
Who told you his manner"
Tommy" replied Stannard solemnly
| 4 didn't see it. 1 am a sort of mine
reader, you know. When [ hold this
knife to my head and think hard
can tell you the name of the owner
that's ALL I'll show YOU how l do i
some day if you will find out this boy:
home and show it to me-
With all his habit of self-command il
trying moments Stannard found him
self actually shaken by the hammer
ing of his heart in those nervous mo
,nents during which he waited for he
in the reception room of the hous,
Tommy pointed out as hers. 1t wa:
the end of the chase. without doubt
| hrt what sort of end2 But when ht