Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-06-24

"Quite, thank you, dear Mr.. Anisty!"
With a pretty gesture of %conquering
impulse she swept her veil aside, and
the warm rose-glow of the newborn
day tinted her wan young cheeks with
color. And her eyes were as stars.
bright with a mist of emotion, brim-
ming with gratutude-and something
thing he knew, and that was that she
was worn with excitement and fatigue,
lear to the point of breaking down.
You're tired" he insisted, solicit
tous. Cant you let me-?"
81 am tired" she admitted, wistfully,
voice subdued, yet rich and vibrant.
mo, please. Please let me go. Don't
ask me any questions-now."
only one he made supplication.
"I've done nothing"
Nothing but be more kind han l
can say"
"And you're not going to back out
of our partnership"
"Ohi" And now the color in her
cheeks vas warmer than that which
the dawn had lent them. mo. !.
| shan't back out" And she smiled.
and if / call a meeting of the board
Of management of Anisty and Went
worth, Limited, you will promise to
attend?"
"Ye-es-"
will it be too early if I call one
for today"
why"
Say at two o'clock this afternoon,
at Eugene's. You know the placer"
Il have lunched there"
Then you shall again today. You
won't disappoint me?"
Il will be there. / | shall
be glad to ome Now-please!"
you've promised. Don't forget"
He stepped back and stood in a sort
of dreamy daze, while, with one final
wonderful smile at parting, the girl as
sumed control of the machine and
swung il out from the curb. Maitland
watched it forge slowly up the avenue
and vanish round the Thirty-sixth
street corner; then turned his face
southwark, signing with WEAKNESS and
discomfort.
At Thirty-fourth street a policeman,
lounging beneath the corrugated iron
awning of a corne saloon, faced about
with a low whistle, to stare after him.
Maitland experienced a chill sense of
criminal guilt; he was painfully con-
scious of those two shrewd eyes, bor-
ing gimlet-like into his back, over
looking no detail of the wreck of his
evening clothes. ~Involuntarily he
glanced down at his legs, and they
moved mechanically beneath the edge
OF his overcoat like twin animated
columns of mud and dust, openly adj
vertising his misadventures. He felt
in his soul that they shrieked aloud,
that they would presently succeed in
DINING all the town awake, SO that
the startled populace would come to
the windows to stare in wonder as he
passed by. And inwardly he groaned
and quaked.
AS for the policeman, after some re-
luctant hesitation. he overcame the in
herent ln~dlspositlon TO eXertion that
affects his kind, and, swinging his
stick, stalked after Maitland.
Happily land with heartfelt thanks
giving the young man CHANGED upon
a somnolent and bedraggled hack, at
rest in the stenciled shadows of the
Third avenue elevated structure. Its
pilot was snoring Justify the sleep of
the belated, on the box. With some
difficulty he was awakened, and Matt
land lodged into the musty, dusty body
of the vehicle grateful to escape the
unprejudiced stare of the guardian of
the peace. who in another moment
would have overtaken him and, doubt
less. subjected him to embarrassing
inquisition.
As the ancient four.whceler rattlad
ncisily over the cobbles. some of the
shops were taking down their shutters. !