The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-01-26

day after was atabbeGs
Miss Smith Indicated pile on ,
little table, placed ready at hand. n
kept them for him" she said
Read about--thc Midland" com
manded the faint, lndomitable voice.
Want the election and the newspa
per sentlments2" asked the colonel,
he gave Il all conscious the while o.
Janet Smiths compassionate. per
picked, sorrowful eyes
Don't slSipl" Keatcham managed &
articulaie after q pause.
The colonel gave him keen glance
Want i straight. without cheserg'
Keatcham closed his eyes and
nodded.
The colonel read about the virtually
unanimous election OF Tracy: iho ae
tonlshmeni Of The outsiders among the
supposed anti.Tracy element: the com
posed and impenetrsble from. of the
men closest 70 Keeicham; the rotlcenoe
and availability Of Tracy himself IN
whose mlen there could be detected no
hint either OF hostility or Of added
cordially toward the men who had
been expected TO drag his blecdlae
pride IN the DUST" finally Of the re-
sponse % the stock.market IN phel
aomenal rise Of Midland.
Keatchem listened with his unde.
clpherable mask Of t~tentIon: there
vas not 30 much as the flicker OF an
syelld or The twlteh OF q muscle. Al.
he said was Nov, read II there Is
anything about the endowment OF the
new feIowahips In some medical
schools for experimental research"
who gives the endowment
anonymous Ii memory Of Maria
Warren Keatcham and Helen Bradford
Kcatcham. Find anything?'
The colonel found great deal
about IT, The paper was full OF this
munIhcent glit, amounting 10 many
millions OF dollars and filling with
most carefully and wiseyplanncd de.
tallsl en- almost absolute Vacuum In
tho Ameflean scheme OF education
The dignity and fame or the chalrr
and fellowships endowed we're ampls
TO tempt the best ability OF the profes.
sion, The reader grew enthusiastic
aa he read.
why It's immensel Aad wo hsvS
always needed III" be exclaimed
There are some letters about Il,
thorc"-Neatcham feebly motloned 70
g number o. neatly-opened, neatly
assorted letters on a desk eTha doc
tor said might have the letterc read
TO me Miss Smith got him to, For
fear Of exciting you, the doctors usual.
" let you worry your head OH be.
cause you don't know about things.
I've got to carry a few things througa
u Il Kills me. Don't you see2"
y sec, said the colonel. you shall.T
The next time Ae saw the 1nancler,
although only few days had elapsed,
be VAS much stronger. he uaa abIa
to breathe comfortably he spoke with
ease. In hln ordinary voice: IN nne. he
looked his old self again, merely thin.
nor and paler. Hardly was the colonel
seated before he said without preface
--Kcatcham never made approaches to
his subject, regarding conversational
road-makiag as waste Of brains Tor q
busy man:
Colonel. Miss Smith hasn't time Ia
be- my nurse and secretary both.
won't have one sent from New York;
win you help her outg"
The colones lips twitched. hs uas
thinking that vera Miss Smith work.
ms for Atkins, she couldn't have
better chance 10 make e killing. "But
Ill bet my liie she isn't" he added
"she may be trying 10 save hls ufo,
but she isa'f playing his gamei"
de said aloud "A wifi Mr.. Koateh.
en-, II you win let me do II as part OF
The obligation Of the situation; and
there IL 40 ballg eot shout compenaa.
ton"
"Vesy veil" aald Keatcaam. He
did not hesitate; II waa Cas- the colonel
had already discovered the raress
thing IN The world Tor him to hesitate;
he thought wlih astonishing Fapldlty;
and he formulated his answer while
his interioeutor talked: before sha
speech was over the answer Has
ready Another trait Of hls had struck
the soldier namely. tie laborious cor.
rectnesa of bis speech: Il @as often
formal and old-fHshoned; aunt Re.
becce said that he talked Ike Daniel
Wehstere apeeehea: but II bad nons
Of the nomely end pungent SAVIOR one
might expect ffnm a mat whose hoy.
hood had scrambled through miners
eamns int a San francisco stock Of.
foe: Who bad never gone 70 school IN
bis life oy daylight who had been
mine superintendent. small specnIator
and small director IN California until
ne heeame big fpeealator ana Big
railway controller ID New York.
"fon might begin on the morning
mail, keaiclam continued. el.et mo
sort them 1fsi' re merely glanced
~ the Inscriptions or the envelopes.
opening ane taking cut ono which he
read rather earaleBsly. frowning a If.
lie before he placed !, 10 one side.
8 number OF the letters concerned
ne endowments Of the experimental
'nairs Al the universities KeatchaIns
lttenilon vas not Ilghtened by any ray
Y pleasure Once he said: "That
leliow has caught my idea, and once:
That's fisht," but there was no AMI.
nation IN bis solce no interest in his