Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-02

udQ not IOlu me what YOU navy, l
should have judged Mr.. Vandraken
to be young man who had taken the
greatest care of his health .
Five days afterwards Vandraken re-
covered consciousness. The first
thing he said was, Twill you shake
hands with me now, Slap Dash?'
And Dashmore, checking Weepy
feeling, wrung Vandrakens hand as
hard as he dared.
you upset all calculations, he
said. you are going to recover, in
spite of the doctor"
Il say, Slap Dash" asked the young
man, eagerly, has Lady Kitty asked
about me? Does she seem to take any
interest in my recovery"
Does she? Why, man. she can't
be shooed away from your bedside.
tell you, you battle-aXed your way to
that girls heart all right. don't
know what terms you were on before,
but if she ever thought she had any
thing to forgive, she has more than
forgiven it. Wonderful, how return
to barbaric methods goes to woman's
heart! Florence Sidcombe can't see
any black wool in my fleece, nova
days, and considers that l must have
been grossly maligned. The glad hand
is constantly outstretched. However,
what's the good? l couldn't keep
wife in hairpins. So to the devil with
pipe dreams! But it's different with
you. There's only one thing between
you and marrying Lady Kitty, and
that's the 'hoochee-coochee' menag-
erie out there in the harbour on board
the Barbaric So far, have managed
to keep that dark, but sooner or later,
you Know
Vandraken turned his face to the
wall
Eve got no chance, anyway, Slap
Dash. 1 don't know why, but | used
to think could make the game to suit
am going to be made to pay for my
hurrah times in some other coin than
money enouh you could plan your
scious as you think. | could feel
Lady Kitty's presence about me all
these days, and Oh, well l can't ex-
plain, but it has made me see my life
through her eyes, and it looks pretty
bad. I had an idea that if you had
money enought you could plan your
life to suit yourself, and defy con-
sequences. But I've had bad dreams,
Slap Dash, since l got knocked on
the bead The clouds of consequence
are beginning to gather. A man may
postpone them, but that's all. Sooner
or later, they catch up with him.
LOOK here, old chap" said Dash
more, you are worrying about that
woman chipping in and spelling the
game. You give me free hand, and
I'll get rid of her and all those gay
dipsomaniacs on board the Barbaric.'
Vandraken shook his head. "You
don't know Veeda. She is too clever
and subtle to be got rid of till II
suits her. She is wonderful won
derful 1 felt all that, too,'' he muir
INJURED, dreamily while l was in thai
trance-like Inconsistencies. Lady
Kitty and the Cobra battling for my
soul-good and evil fighting over me
and the Cobra wont"
4 Dashmore went over to table ant
began writing. Then he returned t.
the bed you don't mind spendin,
, a bit of money over it, suppose?'
Money! Why, it's awful to thinl
how my income must have caught Vi
: with me these last few days, with NJ
one to sign cheques. No, l don't car
what it COSTS
"And you trust me to do the bes
| can, and handle the money to sui
myself?"
; well, rather Slap Dash!"
Very well, then. Sign those tw
), papers"
Vandraken signed, without looking
IT suppose you'll do something, Sla
Dash-you are good at doing thing
but all the kings horses and a
! the kings men can't put Humpt
, Qumpty together again. That's tn
, way l feel l wonder if there's an
! chance that Lady Kitty would com
, and see me?"
4 "Of course she will. By the way,
\ have naturally laid low in this bus
1 ness. 1t is recognised as your sho'
e entirely; so don't go and say anythin
v to upset that idea. AS matter {
2 fact it was you who took the bi
| risk, allowing yourself to be captured
!, and defending the women at the b.
n ginning of the fight land you furnishe
the men and the money and tn
n arms; so you are fairly entitled
a the credit. The American papers al
+ full of it. They are sentiments
lot over there, and they have TO
. given you your surplus wealth ar
n your method of spending It. say tn
h because Lady Kitty is liable to Sc
n very nice things to you about savir
a her from our friend, Muley, and NJ
4 much about me. Now l am going
q send the doctor in to feel your pulls
and your man to slick you up-the
Lady Kitty for heart-to-heart talk
q CHAPTER XIV.
n Woman is accused Of being inco
L sistent. She may appear SO on Il
a surface, and in the little things of tt
II little parish, but in her relations
a the universe she is absolutely &C
d sistent Blindly, undeviatingly, s.
a pursues her high mission Of herdil
"a the human race towards perfectio
L Selecting and creating, she NOV
a forward to that goal as fast as M
CT titude of obstacles will allow, DIRE
H. ging man behind her, as nurse dra
IL recalcitant child by the nand.