The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-28
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 for money" Grimbleshaw interrupted, hastily and somewhat roughly You've never seen me before and you'll never see me again! My friend here wants to get over the line. and without at tracting too much attention.
 1T hain't in thet line no more," the man said. sulkily. glancing over his shoulder as if in apprehension of be- ing overheard even thus late at night.
 ''Well, you have been. and you're go- ing to do this job and do it right Grimbleshaw saw his one chance and took it. holding in reserve to the very last tue sugar coating he felt he could give his brusqueness.
 The man shuffled and hesitated. seeking an avenue of escape. Calden sat silent, with scarce a movement to show that he was alive.
 And eff I wont?' The man finally found footing, and defiance sounded more in his tone than in his words.
 Grimbleshaw leaned toward him, and the man drew back slightly. showing seeming apprehension.
 There isn't any wont about it." said the doctor. You're going to do it!"
 "You think you've got me- said the man, trying to look defiant and suc- ceeding only in showing more clearly his fear.
 Grinbleshaw again leaned forward so that his mouth this time was close to the mans ear.
 'T know I've got you.' he said. in so low tone that Calden could not catch the words. 1T know I've got you. and I don't need to betray any professional confidence to put Russell on your track for and the sentence was finished in whisper.
 The man clearly had not even sus- pected what was coming. for he gave a start that was genuine and full OF apprehension Instead. however. of as- stunning a yielding manner. as Grim bleshaw had anticipated. he took on a sullen air and dogged tone:
 "I'd jest as lief go up an be done with it es be under your thumb all my lifep'
 ssDo what ask and I forget I ever knew it, Grimbleshaw, who felt with bitterness the part he was called to play, yet knew the danger of failure so great as to warrant the most des- perate means. retorted.
 The man stood silent so long that Grimbleshaw began to taste the bitter ness of a defeat, which would be deep ened for all time by the sense of un- manliness involved in making the threat he had. Finally. however. the man raised lis head and said. still speaking sullenly:
 q 'spose I've got to trust somebody, an you saved my life. enyway. I'll see him through. but I'll be d-d eff you or anybody else ever git me to do it again, so don't ax!'
 When Calden had gone into the cot tage and Grimbleshaw was ready to drive away, he said his final word. speaking it as if he were half con- scious of offering a bribe:
 .tSee him through and you needn't worry about that doctors bill at Lanceboro. Indeed, I shouldn't be sur prised if he sent it to you receipted
 He drove away, feeling that he had done his very best for Calden under all the circumstances. but disturbed in mind whenver the thought of Judith broke in on him. which it did with in creasing persistence. It was for her he was doing what he was. what as he knew, he would never have done for himself. let the consequences be what they might. The thought of her came to him in the determination of the route that he was to take back to Lanceboro. For. taking counsel or srewdness to add as much as possible to the blunders of the night. he was assured that it was better to return by some other route than that he had taken to Mystic Pond. Why should he. not go back by the Plains road? In any event he had got to get word to young Calden that his mother was at sthe camp and expected him to come as speedily as possible to her relief, and it was certainly easy to see that it would be far better to tell this by word of mouth than to trust it either to the telephone or a messenger. It was tough enough thing to go and leave Mrs. CaIden where she was, and he was not certain that even now he could do 1t. if she had not insisted so strongly on it's being the best yay. He would not add to this any increasing 
 lay for moment beyond what was un- avoidable.
 It was in the first gray of the dawn that he drew up at the somber old farmhouse. The rooms in which the murder had been done and Altenburg had died were closed. and the familfl made use of the passageway past the buttery in passing between their rooms and the kitchen. The deaf old ser want was just raking open the ashes. and David, the Canadian. was opening the barn to feed the stock.
 Grimbleshaw fastened his horse in the shed and went in through the rear door in the direction of the sitting room, which young Calden used at night as sleeping room He was just at the point of knocking at the sitting-room door when the swish of a skirt behind caused him to turn and face Judith, who had just come down