Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-14
CHAPTER Kill, continued.)


Billy Bryan" he said, taking his
ancient confidentially aside, "you
are young and need experience. You
trust an old fellow who has kept his
eyes open, even if he never had
girl that sent him to the rightabout
for ships cobbler. Watch the open
Ing of the woods yonder for a short
quarter Of an hour-that place where
the grass is wearing thin-you pick
1t up-like the track to field can
teen. And if you don't see Phil Cal
mont coming out of those pines at
harvesters trot call me Dutchman,
and promise to submit to Molly Mol
10y for the rest of my naturla life
without the winking of an eye!"
Billy pretended tiIe.s he was busy
with some intricacies of the revolving
apparatus, but, nevertheless, kept an
eye on the prescribed spot. Present
ly, in quicker time than Dick had
foreseen. Phil Calmont's slender fig
IRE, belted in the hlue-knitted jumper
and flannel trousers of his work-a-day
life, was seen Looping easily down the
steep track.
There you are. Billy" said Dick
triumphant1y, what did tell your"
! Billy Bryan growled something I'M
7 Ineligible
IF you want to do anything in the
\ plotting way-if you still hold the
opinion that 1t was you the. little one
signalleda ForAnows your chance.
You have time to be In ahead, yet!''
Look here!" cried the exasperated
Irishman, whose lighthouse is this,
anyway"
Yours" said Dick promptly, "but
10
hear to see another hand on that
clock-work and connections other than
Dick Finnan's, your old mates.
Faith, and that's true!' said Billy,
jumping across the platform, all his
hasty, anger vanishing, eye are an ag-
grevatin' ovid Scotch beast, but /
can't do without We, and that's fac.
But all the, same, and whatever We
think. It's Heavens own truth about
Molly! I've always been sorry | ran
away"
Then I take that back" said Dick.
Il had no right to gainsay any man
In, his affections"
Thus was peace re-established, and
about the same time Vida, having
made certain that her patient was not
likely to require anything for half an
hour, ran out to the shade of the
single rowan tree at the gable-end
where she was wont to meet her
lover
Phil saluted with his hand officially.
Come aboard. Captain!" he said. in
the manner of the only pilot he had
ever seen--Jim Mcbride, who ran the
/ Incubus coal vessels over the bar of
the Kirktown Waterfront down by
Coatestown
Phil said Vida, 81 wanted you
Immediately AT this he smiled up
on her. seeing that it was nothing
serious.
$50 our foreman, silas on the tip
I told me he laughed. you had bet
ter get away pretty smart" he said,
there's flag flyin that looks like
+ 'urgent-this side up, with care!''
But he didn't know the code! How
dared he?" cried Vida, indignant at
the progress of education among the
lower classes
No" drawled Phil. "but he guess
ed. You see man who loves one
woman is pretty like man who loves
another woman. One knows an aw-
| lot about the other. Now, Silas Mil.
ton has not been married a year, AMI,
when his wife hangs one Of his Sun
Icy ohit 20 Jul VI d peufOUIn WINDOW
at the Row Silas drops his shovel and
leaves. So that is how he knew to
pass me tae word"
Il think 1t was great liberty of
him! said Vida. in whose mind the
Sunday shirt ranked.
Well, I don't know said Phil, lay.
ing his hand gently on the girls
shonlder-his favorite caress. Il
wouldn't be too hard on Silas. If it.
hadn't been for him--I would have
been off down the shaft, you see. But |
what is it?-the pilot is at your serv-
ice Captain
"Your father has been here!" said
Vida, opening the subject.
All, returned Phil thoughtfulIy
sssaid anything?"
Lots of things" continued Vida,
n1eans it kindly. but
Annoyed you somewhat" querried |
Phil. moving his hand up over the
rippling cur's. brought out that |
wrinkle again. did he? l thought | |
had done for hint
And he smoothed her brow tenderly !