Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-19
tcHAPrER xx-ccntinued.)

CHAPTER xX-Ccntinued.(
The two MacMorroghs were be-
stirring themselves, and Penfield was
slipping through the door into the
comnaissary when Eckstein's fingers
closed upon his arm.
"Your part Ia to keep tab on the
programme" ne whispered. Get word
Instantly to Brian if there is any
change. And if you weaken, Arthur.
I'll promise you Just n thing: III
pull you in with the rest of us if |
have to swear to a string of lies a
mile long. Remember that"
Penfield escaped at length, and
stumbled through the Uttered end-of-
track yard to where the lighted win
dows of the Nadia, marked the berth
Of the presidents car. Out of the
shadow of the car a man rose up and
confronted him. It was Frisbie, and
he asked a single question:
."Say, Penfeld, who was that fellow
who rode around to the MacMorroghys
back door just after dark"
"It was Eckstein." The secretary
let slip the name before he could lay
hold Of his discretion.
sob: all right. That's all" said
she engineer: and he vanished.
Climbing to the observation plat
form, Penfeld let himself into the
cheerful compartment Of the Nadia
quietly enough to surprise two people
who were sitting together on one OF
the broad divans. The two were Ford
and Miss Alicia Adair. with Aunt
Hester Adatr, reading under the drop
Hight at the table, for the only other
occupant of the compartment. 1t was
| Miss Alicia who told the secretary
that he was not needed.
mr.. .Colbrith was very tired. and
he has gone to bed she said; and
penfeld, still palHd and curiously
unready of speech. said he believed
he'd go, too:
Ford got UP when Pen1eld had dis
gppeared in the c%urtained vestlbule
leading to the state-rooms
sI shall wait more day. because
you want me to-" he said. resu,ning
the conversation which had been bro
ken off by Penfeld's incoming. "But
I'll tell the truth: ! came here to-
night to have 1t over with. We were
as near auarreling today as I want to
come, and IL Frisbie hadn't got be-
tween"
eGood Mr. Frisbie!" she said.
esome day ! hope to get a chance to
he very nice to him
Ford laughed. The evening had
healed many of the woundings of the
day.
eff you don't get the chance 1t won't
be Dicks fau1t-or mine. Meantime,
ri be delighted to pose as his sub
stitute.''
She had gone with him to the door.
and his last word was a reminder.
Don't forget" he said. I'm to drive
your blackboard tomorrow, whatever
happens"
you are the one who will forget"
she retorted. When Uncle Sidney
crooks his finger at you, you'll climb
up obediently beside him and let
him scold you all the way over to
Copah."
sSWait and see said Ford; and then
he said good night, not as he want
ed to. but as he must, with Aunt Hes
ter sitting within arms reach.
Frtsbie was sitting up for him when
hs reached the white tens of the
engineers camp pitched a little apart
from the MacMorrogh's conglomera-
ton of shacks and ~storehouses.
@Just one question:" said the first
assistant, sand I've been staying
awake to ask 1t. Are you still my
boss?
eFor one day" said Ford
shortly.
tWel1 we can't live more than a
day at 9. time, if we try. That will
do to sleep on
"All right: sleep on it, then"
Sin a minute; after I've freed my
mind OF one little news item. Do you
remember that fellow we saw riding
IN on the Jacks Canyon trail as we
were coming back this afternoon"
EYES,"
i 'Have you any notion who it was?"
~No."
ait was Mr.. julius Eckstein: and he
Is at present lying doggo in the Mac
Morrogh quarters. That's all. Now
You can turn In and sleep a few lines
on that"
CHAPTER XXI.
II was merely by chance that Adalr
J had Michael Gallagher for his engin-
eer when the "01" was made up for
the afteT-midnight u from Saints
Rest to the Marlborough headquar
tiers. But it was a chance which was
duly gratifying to Leckhard. The lit
tie Irishman was Ford's most loyal
itegeman, and a word was all that was
Most children eat too much.
overtax the digestion, get
thin, weak, languid, stop
growing-that's malnutrition
or non-digestion of food.
SCOTS Emulsion