Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-13

tons, but the girls no fool, and every
ounce of pressure bring to bear just
now only helps make her more rest.
less and suspicious"
you leave her to me-" Mulready
interposed, with brutal laugh. Ell
guarantee to get her aboard, or -
Drop it, Dick!" Calendar advised
quickly And go bit easy with that
bottle for five minutes, can't you?"
We'll, then" Stryker resumed, ap
parently concurring in Calendars atti-
| tude, 'W'y don't one of you tylse the
stuff, go off quiet and dispose of it
to proper fence, and come back to
divide. I don't see wy that"
Naturally you wouldn't" chuckled
Calendar. Few people besides the
two of us understand the depth OF
affection existing between Dick, here
and ME. We just can't bear to get
out of sight of each other We're
sure inseparable-since night before
last. Odd, isn't it,"
'sYou drop it, snarled Mulready in
accents so ugly that the listner was
startled "Enoughs enough and
There, there, Dick! All right; I'll
behave Calendar soothed him. Well
forget and say no more about it,
well, see you don't"
"But as either of you a plan?" per
sisted Strylaer.
81 have" replied Mulready; and it's
the simplest and best, if you could
only make this long-lost parent here
see it,
t'Wot is it?'
Mulready seemed to ignore Calen
dar and address himself to the cap
tain. He articulated with some diff
fculty. slurring his words to the point
of indistinctness at times.
Simple enough he propoundet
solemnly. We've got the gladstone
bag here; Miss Dolly's at the hotel
that's her papa's bright notion be
thinks she's to be trusted Nov
then, what's the matter with weigh
ing anchor and slipping quietly out t.
saa?"
'Leavin the dootiful darter?'
Certify. She's only drag any
way. Better off without her :
Then we can wait our time and ge
highest market prices
"You forget, Dick" Calendar put it
chat there's thousand in it for eacl
of Us if she's kept out Of England 70,
six week. A thousands five thousand
in the land hail from; can use five
thousand in my business
why can't you be content will
what you've got?" demanded Mul
ready Wratnfully.
Because I'm seventh son Of ;
| seventh son; I can see an inch or tive
beyond my nose. If Dorothy eve
finds her way back to England shell
spoil one Of the finest fields of legiti
mate graft I ever licked my lips t.
look at The trouble with you, Mul, il
you're too high-toned You want tt
play the swell mobsman from post t
finish. A quick touch and clea,
getaway for yours. Now, that's al
right; that has its good points, bu
you don't want to underestimate tht
advantages OF good blackmailin:
connection.
$50 If can keep Dorothy quiet Ions
enough, look to the Hallam ant
precious Freddie to be great comfor
to me in my old age"
Then, for Gods sake cried Null
ready, go to the hotel, get your bra
Ny I-iS 81. VA VI .-Ci JlSlty 1lSSt e11I
drag her aboard Let's get out O
this"
81 won't returned Calendar in
fexibly
The dispute continued, but the
listener had heard enough. He had Il
get away and think, could no longe!
listen; indeed, the voices Of the thret
blaclsguards below came but indistinct
" to his ears, as if from distance
He was sick at heart and ablaz'
with indignation by turns. Uncon
sciously he was trembling violently il
every limb swept by alternate-wave
of heat and cold, feverish one minute
shiverine the next. All OF which
phenomena were due solely to tn
rage that welled inside his heart.
Stealthily he crept away to tn
rail, to stand grasping it and starin
across the water. with unseeing eye
at the gray old city twinkling bacl
with her thousand eyes of light. TIL
cool night breeze, sweeping down ur
hindered over the level Netherland
from the bleak North Sea, was con,
forting to his throbbing temples. B.
. degrees his head cleared, his riotin
he did.
Over there, across the water, in tn
dingy and disreputable Hotel du Con
merce, Dorothy waited in her room
doubtless the prey of unnumbere
nameless terrors, while aboard tn
brigantine her fate was being decide
by council of three unspeakabl
scoundrels. one Of whom professin
himself her father, openly declare
his intention of using her to furthe
his selfish and criminal ends.
His first and natural thought,
steal away to her and induce her t
accompany him back to England
Kirkwood perforce discarded. H
could have wept over the realizatio
of his unqualified impotency. He ha
, no money,-not even cab fare fror
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