The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-28
CHAPTER xlI.-Continued.

COR David with his ridiculous little
sling going against Goliath" added
she. VERY well put, BERTHE; only the
good advice comes too late; the ques-
tion now is, how to get out with a
whole skin. Surprising as it may be,
| expect to-with your help"
''Honored, I'm sure" growled Berthe
There is one thing | meant to ask
you'll haven't, but | shall now. In
stead of making it impossible for me
to sleep tonight, as you virtuously in
tended in order to clear your con-
science before you tried to pull me out
of the trap I've set for myself, suppose
you do me a favor. right now"
You put it so well, you make me
ashamed of my moral sense, Aunt
Becky; what is it you want?"
ooh, nothing unbetltting a soldier
and a gentleman, dear boy; just this:
Cary has to have some money. |
meant to give it to Stoves, but you
hustled him off in such rush that
didn't get at him. You know where he
is, don't you? You haven't sent him
straight back?"
Il can find him, reckon"
Then I'll give you the money, at
once"
How weak a thing is man! Here
was an eminently cool-headed, rea-
sonable man of affairs who knew that
paws which had escaped from the fire
unsinged had no excuse to venture
back for other peoples chestnuts; he
had expressed himself clearly to this
effect to young Tracy; now, behold
him as unable to resist the temptation
of a conflict and the chance to battle
Atkins as If he were a hot-headed boy
in plain shoulder-straps!
"I'll do better for you, Aunt Rebec-
ca" said he. "I'll not only take Fire
less the money, I'll go with him to the
house. | can make sneak from here;
and Atkins is safely downstairs at
this moment He may be shadowing
Fireless; if he is, perhaps | can throw
him off the track"
Thus it befell that not an hour later
Rupert Winter was guiding the shabby
ward the haunted house.
Nothing doin'," said the joyous APP
prentice to crime; 81 called old Cary
up and got a furious stating for doing
It: but he said there wasn't a watch
dog in sight; and the old man had sur
rendered. He was going to let him
into the library on parole"
You need a guardian" growled the
colonel; where did you telephone?
Not in the drug store?"
"Oh, dear, no, not in such a public
place; I've a shrinking nature that
never did intrude its private. personal
affairs on the curious world. | used
the phone of that nice quiet little res
taurant where they gave me a lovely
meal but were so long preparing 1t |
used up all the literature in sight,
which was the Ladies' Home Journal
and a tract on the virtues of Knox's
gelatine. When l couldn't think of
anything else to do routed out Cary
I'D smoked all my cigarettes and all
my cigars but one which was keep
ing for after dinner. And Cary rowed
me good and plenty. There wasn't a
soul in the room"
Has any one followed you?"
Not a man, woman or child. not even
a yellow dog. kept looking round,
too"
1T was a dreadfully risky thing to
do: you don't deserve to escape: but
perhaps you did. Atkins may have
come to the Palace for some other
nurpose and never have noticed you.
NY own father wouldn't have got
on TO me in that dinky rig
Winter was not so easy in his mind
But hu hoDed for the best, since there