The Red Cloud chief., 1909-03-25
SYNOPSIS.

Mr.. Solomon Pratt began comical mar
ration Of story, Introducing weli,to.do
Ny.n Brunt and Martin Hartley. two rich
Kew Workers. seeking rest. Because OF
'%latter pairs lavish expenditure of money;
. with lunatics. Van Brunt. it was learned.
was the successful sutton for the hand
OF Miss Agnes Page, who gave Hartley
boy, known as freddy" from under a
horses feet and the urchin proved to be
had taken to the country for an outing.
Out sailing later. Van Brunt, Pratt and
Hopper were wrecked In a squali. Pratt
two revealed an island upon which they
were found Van Brunt rented It from
Scudder and called Ii Ozone island. In
children Miss Taiford and Miss Page Wis
tied Ozone island. In smother storm Van
Brunt and Hartley narrowly escaped be-
pigs. etc. with which they were to start
a farm. Eureka Sparrow. a country girl,
was engaged as a cook and Van .Brunt
who for years had been claiming con-
sumption as ar excuse for not working.
Upon another island visit by Miss Page,
Of love for Agnes. At a lawn fete, Van
Brunt shocked the church community by
railing a quilt for the church's benefit.
Hartley. invented a plan to make, wash
lngton Sparrow worH. In putting the plan
into effect Hartley incurs wrath OF Miss
Page, for whom the sick man" sent.
row to escape the treatment proclaimed
himself we'll and went to work. Storm
bound on Ozone island Van Brunt and
Hartley tired of the Natural Life"
CHAPTER xvn.-continued.
| expected for sure that they'd lick
Nate Scudder for charging his dry
season rates for secret keeping. But
they never mentioned 1t to him. When
I spoke of 1t to Van Brunt, he laughed,
"Oh, Scudder's all right" he says.
HE had a corner in secrets and
squeezed the shorts. that's all. That's
legitimate. Scudder has a talent OF
Ills own"
Eyes, and he's making 1t ten talents
in a hurry, like the Teller in Scripture
Gays l.
well. he doesn't hide 1t in a napkin
anyway" laughs Van.
= no" says |. 81 believe he uses one
OF Hubby AIMS stockings"
About three o'clock we got into the
ekiff. the three of us, and rowed to the
main. twas a hard wet row. judged
tue gaze wa IL l al oNcI yct' WV
walked up as far as Mates and there
he was waiting In his buggy to drive
Van Brunt to the Wellmouth depot
Martin and Van said good-by and had
a final pow-wow over the Tea Lead.
"Good-by' says /. Amt got any
real gilt-edged&,xpensive secrets YOU
want kept whiN, you're gone, have
you? I'd like to squeeze a short Of
two, myself"
You ought to have seen Nate Scud
der bristle up and glare at me. Blu
his passenger only laughed as usual.
mo-" he says, mot a one. My con
science is clear. But l may uneartf
a few while I'm away"
Well, he did. But not the kind h'
expected.
had to step into Mates house t.
get a few eggs. Our W hens was tot
weighted down under the Natural Il
he working overtime. Hubby Ann ha'
the remnants Of a nicked blue set o
dishes that was handed down from he
great aunt on her grandmother's side
and she thought maybe Hartley'd b
interested at a dollar a nick. IL tool
so long to make her believe he wa'n't
that we wasted an hour or more there
When we got to the hill by the beac'
twas most Ave o'clock.
'"The winds hauled cleo arouph.