Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-11
CHAPTER XII.
The Conversion Of Grinding

thoughtfully, "but I'm low about the
old man = yes, McKill, I'm low; I've
served him long!"
No longer than | have" retorted
Hector McKill brntally, land there
never was a day when l stood calm
and took his back-chat but l said,
The pride of the naughty shall be
brought low. The horse and his rider
shall be thrown into the deeps of the
seal &1
"McKill,' said Grinding, "there are
times when, if you were of my age,
could gladly punch your head"
"Ah,' said McKill, there speaks
the man of wrath"
Wrath" cried Walter Grinding,
don't you start any of mine. or all the
faith-heaIing in the world won't keep
you out of the hospital when I'm
through with you"
81 meant no offense, Grinding"
said McKill, lifting up his hands in
shocked innocence. "but you can't
deny that in the days when his horn
was exalted Jacob Romer OVERRIDE
us numerically Pharaoh and his
chariots yes, Pharoah and his
mighty men!"
He was good master to me-"
said Walter Grinding doggedly, "and
so he was to you McKill - better
than either of us will see under any
Limited Company
sThen you think he's done -
smashed?" asked Hector McKill, with
a quite unholy joy on his long horse
countenance.
Kahn has taken away every cent
he would" Grinding answered "and
what he couldn't take he has speculat-
ed with. The Castle and all will have
to go, l can't think Of an asset Mr.
Romer will have in the world - the
purchase money is all paid and re-
ceipted for by the proper person -
Kahn! The vendors shares were sal
able on the open market. They were
sold there by the person in charge
of them = Kahn. But where is Kahn?
Where is Casimir? The police can't
find them. They may end by finding
the automobile, yes. But the money
not so much as farthing!"
Then the man is bankrupt
cried McKill. rubbing his hands glee-
fully.
81 did not say that said Grinding
wisely. 81 never yet saw smash SO
big that with care some basketfuls
might not be gathered up. But this
is a big one and no mistake. Kahn
had the charge of all his investments
''Ah." said McKill, chat would be
what took the little Confidential sc
often to East Dene and Thorsby I've
s had news that things are every BIZ
, as bad there!"
And he almost danced with the
mirth of man who has all the vir
tues which cost him nothing = but
who is yet nothing, lacking charity.
Walter Grinding turned on hi:
heel with hard word. offensive t.
the ear of this good man. But before
!, he went he moralized.
"If l ever get to heaven by any &C
cident," he said, "and find it filled
with your sort, Hector McKill, l will
take one jump into the Great Gul
Fixed aye, if it were out Of that oil
, fellows bosom I forgot his name
but I always was partial to him :
though he did let his wife lead hin
! too much by the nose, about that poo
,, girl out in the wilderness, mean
Abraham yet, that was the man.
liked him. He had feelin' heart. an
, wouldn't have gone back on an oil
! employer! You read a bit in You
Bible. McKill and attend to it. Their
) are some as true and lively things i
, Genesis as any man could wish t
: read Beats the daily papers all, t
bits. Read your Bible, McKill, an
/. do what it tells you once in while
: you will feel better mani"
!. McKill thought Grinding wa
! mocking because he did not go t
church, but Walter Grinding mean
every word he said. It had neve
u struck him to read single chapte
T till one night, being left alone wit
I his sick master and Dick Finnan
Bible, he had made the best of a ba
job. The seed had fallen on tougl
clayey soil There were lots of thorn
9 and thistles abounded. But neverth
n less it had taken root. Now McKi
= was getting the benefit of an earl
. crop. that was all. and Walter Grin,
! ling. by taking long railway joufne
!, and Disgusting himself thorough
u was in hopes of becoming by-and-f
8 the possessor of a Bible, of his OWE
: OF course. he would be ashamed
60 and ask for such a thing - at tt
! Kirktown stationer's! But all ii
, same he meant to get one It was NJ
Z often that he took to book. but th'
of Old Dicks was decidedly interes
~ ing.
ts Meanwhile. Jacob Romer lay on h
~ daughters bed in the little cottas
and heard from great distance II
. sound of many waters There W;
=. peace in the chamber great e
: ceeding peace. Even DR.. Hugh G;
"a mont approved in his brusoue mann
of the whiteness, shaded and so
:, of the open window of the soft sous
ia of the sea. saying regularly hue
hush" upon its pebbles outside, of Il
w freshness of the June morning
d above all of the girl beside the b.
ar dressed in close -ftting, supple BIZ
serge and white apron, who sto'
silent and took his instructions. Ye
DR.. Hugh Calmont approved all thes
"How do you keen everything
uuiet?" he demanded suddenly tur
ing upon the nurse. my own place