The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-11-19
CHAPTER ll.-Continued.

She laughed brokenly. "More than
you. l 4 picture to you just what
will happen" She rose. There will,
of course, be a great newspaper clam
or; the interstate commissioners will
put their heads together; there will be
Investigations by the government.
That viii be the attack. The keenest
lawyers are on the side of corpora
tons; that is because the state is
higgard with her pay. Let me outline
the defense. Father will resign from
his high office, to be reelected later
when the public cools off! A new di-
ent one. Suddenly falsified entries
VIII be discOvered; the head book
keeper will have disappeared. All
fingers will point to him. He will be
IN South America, having been paid
several thousand to go there. All this
VIII make the passing of the dividend
perfectly logical. The matter will
never be tried in court. Money will
do all this"
My dear little woman, you reason
like Pythagoras; but Darlington
added. gravely, when I undertook to
untanSle this affair, | realized it's huge
proportions. For every redoubt your
Father has, | have an assault, for every
wall a c%atapult. for every gate a
petard. But, as | said before, you
have only TO say the word, and for the
present nobody will be any the WISER"
If | permitted you to do this, l
should destroy my faith in both of us.
1t would erect a barrier which would
he insurmountable. That is not the
way out"
Il have weighed all these things"
discOuragedly.
lie took the document from his
pocket and caught it in a way that
indicated how easily it might be
ripped into halves, the halves into
quarters, the quarters into infinitesi-
maj squares of meaningless letters.
Once more, shall |, Kate?'
No, John. That would only make
u dlnicultieS greater. But | do ask
th!s one favor; put your evidence into
IN" hands OF q strange attorney, have
nothing to do with the prosecutions:
for my sake
I must have the night to think it
over. Most of my attacks are not
herein written; / dared keep them
only in my head"
I am very unhappy said the girl.
He took her hand and kissed it
1everently. He longed to console her,
bnt no words he had in mind seemed
adequate.
'Forc!" came lazily over the knoll.
They were no longer alone. So to-
gother they wandered slowly back to
the clubhouse. Tea was being served,
and Darlington drank his abstractedly.
From time to time he joined the con.
NersatiOn, but without any heart.
Som of the buster ladies whispered
that it looked this time as though
Kate had given the young man his
congo.
On the way home Norah, with her
comment on the weekly
budget of gossip. saved the situation
from any possible contretemps. Mrs.
'avenaugh was easy-going, but for all
that h pOssesSel remarkably OBJ
servant eyes; and Ger eldest daughter
was glad that they we're occupied else.
where.
Kate was very unhappy: her father
a not honest, and the MAJ she loved
had come into the knowledge of the
fact All, how quickly shadow can
darken sunshine!
What did you make it in to-day,
Mr.. Carrington?" asked Norah.
Make WHAT" he counter-ques-
toned, absently.
The course, Mr.. Goose! What did
you think l meant?"
oh" lamely, Il made a bad play at
the beginning and gave it up"
BY this time they had arrived at
the gates, and everybody was thank
ful; Mrs. ~Cavenaugh, because her
nose smartcd with sunburn; Noran,
because the gown she was to wear
at the dance that night was new;
Kate, because she wanted to be alone:
Il Darlington, because he wanted to
learn whether the angel threw Jacob
or Jacob threw the angel. The driver
ana the horses We're glad to arrive be-
Cause they were hungry