Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-09

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To go through the world. without legal
advice at every step was bad enough.
But to fly in the face of a qualified
practitioner was the next thing to de-
flying providence.
And so indeed it proved.
One morning James Kahn did not
arrive at the Incubus Offices. The
guardian doorkeeper ran in and out
like dog at a fair. Johnemann had
been down to see Mr.. Kahn half a
dozen times. Within the call bell Of
the telephone was ringing shrewishly.
A dozen aides and foremen stood
about expecting orders. McKill and
Grinding were there waiting for a
Conference of the Greater Powers.
Still James Kahn did not come.
| They were all instinctively watch.
| ing the pale lilac strip of road, sparse
ly bordered with brick cottages, down
which the big automobile was wont to
rush like a mustard colored bolt. The
road remained open and empty. Ger
itain children, removed by, careful
mothers at the hours of the masters
passing, trickled out and began to
play again.
Got something the matter with
him." said Hector McKill tentative
ly.
The second acting superintendent
cast glance at him out of pale blue
eye, SO deeply trenched in his club
by face that it's position seemed the
result OF surgical operation. III
Something wrong with the till,
more likely!" snapped Grabbing, who
had been UP late for three nights run
ming (Hector treasured this innu-
endo for future use) "I will give him
until twelve o'clock and then
WHAT" said Hector McKill. hoping
that Grinding would give himself
away yet more and worse.
II will get on horse and ride to
"The 'Caravanserai, said Grinding.
who had a kind of stubborn courage of
his own; Kahn has been extra care
full this while back that nobody should
see the books-not, that is, to make
anything Of them"
Plnctual to his word, Grinding
mounted his chestnut mare and rode
off through tho village ofs Kirktown,
Taking the road aforesaid, a pale lilac
shaving set at an angle up the op-
posite brae, he was at 1.-THE Caravan
serai" in a quarter Of an hour. He
rang the bell, and began to question
the boy in buttons who appeared at
the door in answer to his summons.
'tMr Kahn?" he cried, out of
breath; "can l see MIN? Most urgent!
"Mr Kahn left yesterday afternoon
in the motor, SIR said the boy.
'Was Casimir with him?' painted
the stout Grinding. 70
, "No, sir, but when Mr.. Casimir
came in twenty minutes afterwards
he went and got the big merciles (Mer
cedes) one, the one that goes SO fast
and set off, too. He grazed the gate
post going out--he was in such a
hurry"
; "Why didn't Mr.. Kahn take the bet
ter motor?" said Grinding, slipping
| the boy nalf-a-sovcreign.
Don't know that, sir!" said the boy
!; in buttons, "'cept p'raps he was more
: accustomed to the old one, as it were
} He wasn't near the good driver that
, Mr.. Casimir had come to be, sir! He
| was too nervish, to my thinking!"
'Then Casimir wasn't nervous?''
!, ooh, no, sir" said the boy; "but
that's what ne made us-yes, sir, he
scared us sick-everybody about the
place-always popping off pistols ane
fSin' up iron targets the size of your
hand in stable yard. He smacket
them every time, it is true. But ther
,, how were you to know when he would
. miss, and very likely fetch you az
, like as not?'
Il see,'' said Grinding, she was no
popular, then, this Mr.fCasimir. ?"
'Eim!" said the boy, with emphasis
and then, recollecting himself. he add
+ ed, not that l have anything to sa,
against any of masters guests-yo;
] yourself sir, have been here seve-a
: times, and l am sure you would no
r wish to get poor boy into trouble!
t Certainly not" said Grinding, anz
: ious at all hazards to make his point
e 81 think | have seen your face-sol
l. of Gregson, butler at Corn Castle, ar
:. you not?"
e yes, sir.-thank'ee, sir" the bo
t jerked a bow.
well, Master Gregson," said Crime
= ling, severely, 'if you want to kee
your father in his place. you had bel
j ter tell me all you know about MI
3 Kahn and Mr.. Casimir!"-
It What has that Casimir been doing
|. sir?"
8 The cry was quite involuntary, bu
/" the curious joy that lit the boys fac
$ was the best certificate of the unpop,
It larity of Mr.. Casimir. Strangel
|. enough. nothing whatever was sal