The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-03-27

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cabin sat Bin Wheaton eating break
EAST.
As the morning wore By with no
news OF the lawyer. McNamara's IN
sasiness grew. AT noon the marshal
returned with a report that the pas
sengers were all aboard and the shin
about 10 clear.
"By heaversl He's shipped through
you." stormed the politician.
"No he hasn't Tie may be hidden
] aboard somewhere among the coal
bunkers. hut | think he's still ashore
and aiming TO make a quick run just
before she sails He hasn't left the
beach since daylight. that's sure. I'm
going out to the ship now with -four
men and search her again. II we cont
bring him Off. You can bet he's lying
out somewhere in town, and we'll get
him later. I've stationed men along
the shore for two miles"
'T won't have him get away. II he
nhould reach 'FEipOo- TN your men
TIL give $500 - me enc nat finds
him"
Three hours later VOORHEES, returned
''She sailed without him"
The politician cursed. ~ don't be-
Hove IT, He rAeked you. know he
did"
Glenister grinned into q hah eaten
sandwich, then turned upon his back
and lay thus ON the plank, Identifying
the speakers below by their voices
He kept his post all day. Later in
the evening he heard Strive enter.
The man had been drinking
80 he got away eh?' he began. 81
was afraid he would. Smart fellow.
that Wheaton"
"He didn't get away" said McNa-
mara Hes in town yet Just let me
land him in jail on some excuse! I'll
hold him till snow flies Strive sank
into a chair and lit q cigarette with
wavering hand
This s a hen Of a game, amt it,
Mac? u you s'pose well winT
The man overhead pricked up his
ears.
''Win2 Aren't we winningi What
do you call thisH only hope we can
lay hands on Wheaton. He know
things. A little knowledge rs dan
gerous thing but more is worse. LORI
II only I had a man for judge In place
Of Stillman! donE know why
brought him.
That's right Too weak. He hasn';
got the backbone OF an angleworm,
He amt half the man that his niece f.
There's girl for yout Say, what 9
we do without her, ehH She's pippin'
Glenister felt a sudden tightening
every muscle. What right had tina
mans liquor sodden lips to speak so O
her?
She's brave little woman all right
Just look how she worked Glenister
and his fool partner. It took nerve t.
bring in those Instructions of you~
alone, and II It hadn't been for her
we'd never have won IKE this. II
makes ne laugh TO think of those two
men slowing her away IN their state
room while they slept between deck"
with the sheep, and her with the pa
pers In her bosom all the time. Then
when we got ready to DO bushes
why, she up and talks them into givin
us possession of their mine without
fight. That's what call reciprocatin",
a mans affection"
Glenister's nails cut into his flesh.
while his face went nvid at the words.
He could not grasp 1t at once. 1t made
him slck-physically sick-and for
many moments he strove blindly to
beat back the hideous suspicion, thu
horror that the lawyer had aroused
His was not doubling disposition, and
TO him the girl had seemed as one pure
mysterious, apart, angelically incapa
BILE of deceit. He had loved her, feel
ing that some day she would return his
affection without fail. In her great, un-
clouded eyes he had found no lurkln
place for double dealing. Now-Godi
It couldn't be that all the time she had
known!
He had lost a part OF the lawyers
speech, but peered through his obser
walton hole again.
Mcnamara was at the window gaZ
ing out into the dark street, his back
toward the lawyer who lolled in II.
chair. babbling garrulously Of the girl
Glenister ground his teeth-a frenzy
possessed him TO- loose his anger n
rip through the rrail ceiling with naked
hands and fall vindictively upon the
two men.
She looked good TO me the frs
time l saw her." continued Strive. lie
paused, and when he spoke again a
change had coarsened his features
Say, I'm crazy about her, Mac. |
tell you, I'm crazy-and she likes me
Il know she does-or, anyway, she
would
"Do you mean that you're IN love
with herr asked the man at the win
dow without shifting his position. It
seemed that utter Indifference was III
his question. although where the light
shone on his hands, tight clinched be
hind his back, they were bloodless.
Love her? Well-that depends-ha!
You know how 1t is," he chuckled