The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-04-24

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lespies take their medicine; father
never squealed, which makes me sore
that your Aunt Pat gives me the icy
eye"
Their affairs are certainly mixed,
1 replied, non-committally.
'They are indeed; and have studied
the whole business until my near
mind is mussed up, like scrambled
eggs. Your own pretty idyl of the
nunnery garden adds the note pi-
quante. Cross my palm with gold and
I'll tell you of strange things that lie
in the future l have an idea, Dono-
van; singular though it seem, I've a
notion in my head"
Keep it," 1 retorted, ito prevent a
cranial vacuum"
Crushed Absolutely crushed" he
replied. gloomily Kick me. I'm only
the host"
We were silent while the few sounds
of the village street droned in. He
rose and paced the floor to shake off
his mood, and when he sat down he
seemed in better spirits.
'HoIbrook-will undoubtedly return"
I said
yes; there's no manner of doubt
aboN that"
And then there will be more trou-
BILE"
"Of course"
But I suppose there's no guessing
when he will come back"
. HE will come back as soon as he's
spent his money"
I felt a delicacy about referring to
that transaction on the pier. 1t was
a wretched business, and 1 now
realized that the shame of it was not
lost on Gillespie.
How does Henry come to have that
Italian seoundrel with him." I asked
after a pause
He's the skipper of the StiIetto,"
Gillespie replied, readily,
Hes a long way from tide-water,"
1 remarked. "a BLACKBOARD of just his
sort once sailed me around the Italian
peninsula in a felucca, and saved me
from drowning on the way His hero
ism was not, however, wholly disinteT
ested. When we got back to Naples
he robbed me of my watch and money
belt and / profited by the transaction,
having intended to give him double
their value But there are plenty Of
farm boys around the lake who could
handle the Stiletto. Henry didn't need
a dago expert"
The mention of the Italian clearly
troubled Gillespie. After moment he
said:
HE may be holding on to Henry in
stead of Henry's holding on to him. Do
you see?"
No; I don't"
We'll, I have an idea that the dago
knows something that's valuable. Last
summer Henry went cruising in the
Sound with a pretty rotten crowd,
poker being the chief diversion. A
man died on the boat before they got
back to New York The report was
that he fell down a hatchway when he
was drunk, but there were some ugly
stories in the papers about 1t. That
italian sailor was one of the crew"
Where is he now"
cover at Battle Orchard. He knows
his man and knows he'll be back I'm
waiting for Henry, too Helen gave
him $4,000. The way the market is
running he's likely to go broke any
day He plays stocks like crazy
man, and after he's busted he'll be
back on our hands"
It's hard on Miss Pat"
and it's harder on Helen. She's in
terror all the time for fear her father
will go up against the law and bring
further disgrace on the family There's
her Uncle Arthur, a wanderer en- the
face of the earth for his sins That
was bad enough without the rest of it,
THAT was greed, too, wasn't it,"
mo, just general cussedness. He
blew in the Holbrook bank and
'fYou told me that Henry Holbrook
found his way here ahead of you. How
do you account for that?"
He looked at me quickly, and rose. /
again pacing the narrow room.
Il don't! I wish I couldl"
It's about the last place in the
world to attract him Port Annandale
is quiet resort frequented by western
people only. There's neither hunting
nor fishing worth mentioning; and a
man doesn't come from New York to
Indiana to sail boat on a thimbleful
of water like this lake"
you are quite right"
If Helen Holbrook gave him warn
ing that they were coming here
Don't you dare say IT. She couldn't
have done! She wouldn't have done
it, | tell you 1 know, independently of
her, that he was here before Father
Stoddard ever suggested this place to
Miss Pat"
We'll, you needn't get so hot about
it,
And you needn't insinuate that she