Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-24

steps leading to his arrest and incar.
ceration."
"Ah." said /. now We understand
each other"
Il would hardly have expected this
of you, Ankony."
you admit the theft, don't your"
do you admit the motive that
prompts you in the prosecution?
That's got nothing to do with it.
But naturally-quite naturally, I'm
sure-it is to our interest to stop this
business and make an example of the
thief We've stood it too long al
ready. This is the fifth time this has
happened to the company in twice
that many years. tell you it won't
do to let 1t go on"
l looked at him and smiled. 1t may
nos have been very pleasant smile;
| certainly didn't intend it to be, and
he flushed beneath it.
What do you mean?" he clustered.
THAT what you ere telling me is all
nonsense ! retorted.
Nov that you've gone this far, per.
haps you will go little farther and
make yourself plain" EA cried an
grily.
Certainly. You were refused last
night by Miss Hemingway"
She told you that?"
, IF you knew her better you would
not ask such a question She told nae
nothing. You made your proposal so
public that the refusal was bound to
be more or less So, and you have your
self to thank for the fact that l, with
others, know of it. Now, to make her
j suffer, you throw her brother into
4 prison"
: He got up holly and took a step or
two toward me.
4 BE careful what you say. You
2 know better than that"
t "Your habit has not been to run
1 down offenders" remarked.
9 We've had to let several of them
d go because of their relation to mem
hers of the company. But there mus
d be a stop somewhere, and l am in
9 earnest when 1 say that it must be
d here. I'm sorry for the boy and fol
y his sister, though l don't expect YOU
: to believe it. But"
mo, don't" said 1.
IOOh up my
d "Wait! Where are you going?"
n Back to my Office"
What for?"
!" Because our interview 10 at al
n end"
. Its only begun. We must talk O
IL how we are to proceed"
walked toward the door.
re Am l to understand you refuse
have anything to do with the prose
4 cution?" he cried.
| you certainly are, Ankony"
i Il must remind you of your obligs
Il ton to the company"
I There's an obligation before It,"
4 said, my hand on the knob.
THAT sounds very fine" he sneere,
i Naturally. 1 can understand that yo
wish the Hemingway name kept cleal
since"
| Don't go any further, If you pleas
Il l shall send in my resignation {
III once"
II ooh, better think twice of that, M
Twining."
/ went out and shut the door. Bi
ii halfway down the hall l turned d
III liberately, hesitated only a momen
4 and went back. What pride had fl
myself and for Dan and Barbara We
u gone. Matters must be amicably a
Il justed il possible.
r "Ankony," / said, going in to hiI
i for Gods sake think of Miss Hemin
n ray, If you won't think of the DO
Il If -she had accepted you last nigh
you would not have followed tn
course. You wouldn't have consi
- cred it. You would have been full
I'm other plans this morning. Surely v
can't hold women to blame for n
- caring for us when we ask them I
: It's not fair. Love isn't to be col
PEELED; you know that as well as
do. Think better of this. Won't yol
is' You know what an honored pla
theirs has always been In the col
munity. You know what luck they
of had ever since their fathers deaf
Tie and how they've met it. You ha
been a guest in their house, a friel
We. of them both. You must have a
nd mired their courage, their smiles, al
it the Incompatible way in which tn
ms have both set themselves to ma
YER things come right. The boy has be-
my weak"
led (TO BE CONTINUED)
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