Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-10-28

worrying my wits for fully five min
utes before Wotton settled the matter
by telling me about the captains hir-
ing OF the motor car Then in Il flash
l mad 1t. l talked with Charles by
telephone-his name is really Charles,
by the bye-overcame his conscientious
scfuples about playing his fish when
they We're already all but landed and
settled the artistic Details"
He chuckled delightedly. Its the
instinct" he declared emphatically-
the instinct for adventure. | NEW
1t was in me, latent somewhere, but
never till This day did it get the CD
poftunlty to assert itself. 4 born adj
Venturer-thats what / am! You see.
II was essential that they should be-
lleve we were frightened and cunning
from them. That way they would be
sure TO run after us. Why, We might
nave haited Il dozen traps and failed
TO lure them into my house after thai
stout scoundrel knew you'd had the
chance to tell me the whole yarn.
Odd!"
"Wcren't you taking chances. YOU
II Charlcs?" asked Kirkwood curl.
ously.
"Precious few. There was another
motor from Scotland Yard trailing
Captain ~Strykcr's. If they had run
past or turned aside they would have
been ~ovCrhaulcd in short order"
WHAT | don't understand" contend
ed MlrliWood, lis how YOU convinced
Calendar Chat he couldn't get rcvcnge
by pressing his charge against Miss
CalcnGar-Dorothy.'
"Oh-h,.' Mr.. Brcntwick elevated his
fine White eyebrows and sat up brisk
ly. My dear boy, that was the most
delectanle Gish on the entire menu.
have been r%cserying it. | don't mind
oWninG. fhat / might better enjoy the
full relish Of it. ] may answer YOU
best. perhaps, hy asking you to sean
what offered to the fat s~couMdrcl's
respectful consideration. my dear sir"
!c leVr}cd Il foreinGor ut the card.
At tigE; glance it conveyed nothin@ to
the younger mans bcnightcd intelli-
gcnce. He puzzled over it, twisting
his hrows out Of alignment. An orti-
nary oblonG slip of thin white card
board. it was engraved in fine script
as follows: Mr.. George Eur@oyne
Calendar, II Aspen Villas, $. w"
oh" exclaimed kirkNood at length.
standing up. his face bright With un-
derstanding. YOU
a." l&eonically assen1cd the elder
man.
lmpQl%ivoly Kirllwood leaned across
the tsblc "Dorothy." he said ton
derby ard when the girls happy eyes
met his quietly drew her attention to
the card.
Then he rose hastily and went over
to stald by the window, staring mist
lily into the blank face OF night be-
You'd its unseen panes.
Behind him there was Il confusion
OF little notes.-the sound of 4 chair
pushed hlrriedly aside. Il rustic of
skirts, Il happy sob or two. low voices
Observation-Disclosures. Out of it finally
came the fathers accents.
There. there, my dear, my dearest
dear" protested the old gentleman.
Positively don't deserve a 1.-THE OF
this. p The young old voice qua
vercd and broke in a happy laugh.
You must understand" he continued
more soberly, that no consideration of
any sort is due me. When we married
was too old for your mother, child.
We both knew it, both believed it
would never matter. But it did. BY
her wish L went back to America. We
were to See what separation would do
to heal the wounds ~disscnsion had
caused. 1t was Il very foolish expert
ment. Your mother died before /
could return"
There fell a silence, again broken
by the father. after that | was in
no haste to return. 81 But some years
ago came to London to live. | COM
nunicated with the old colonel, ask
ING permission to see YOU. 1t was re-
fused in Il AM which precluded
the subject being rcopened by me. l
was informed that if ! persisted in at
tempting to see you YOU would be dis
Inherited. He was very angry With
mc-.iustly, l admit. One must grow
old before Il can see how Nnforgiva-
bly, II was wrong in youth. SO l
settled down to a quiet Old age, de
tcrmined not to disturb you in YOUR
happiness. Ah-INirAwood.."
The old gentleman WAS standing. his
arm around his daughters shoulders.
when kirkwood turned.
Come here, Philip. I'm explaining
to Dorothy, but you should hear. The
evening l called on you, dear boy, ut
the Pless. returning home l received u
message from my solicitors. whom I
had instructed to keep an eye ON Doro-
thy's welfare. They Informed me that
she had disappeared. Naturally l can
celcd my plans to go to Munich and
stayed, employing detectives. One of
the first things they discovered was
that Dorothy had run off with an eld-
erly person calling himself George
Burgoyne Calendar, the name | had
discarded when I found that to ac-
Iva