Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-16

Is away from town. The other clerks
sent away on purpose this morning
Father had left his Office keys at home
and | came in to see if l could fine
the papers in the Appleweight case
They are there, and on the top of the
packet is requisition on the governor
of North Carolina for Appleweight's
return
"Signed?"
Signed. I'm sure he had only de
ferred acting in the case until his re
turn, and he should have been back to
day"
But of course he will be back; it is
inconceivable that he should ignore
much less evade, duty as plain as
this-the governor of state-it is
preposterous! His business in At.
| lanta accounts for his absence. Gov
ernor Osborne undoubtedly knows
what he is about"
| My father is not in Atlanta. Mr.
| Griswold. He is not at the Peach Tree
club, and has not been | have not
the slightest idea where my father is .
The echoing whistle of the departing
Virginia express reached them family
as they stood facing each other be.
fore the open window in the cover.
nor's reception room.
CHAPTER III.
Mr.. Thomas Ardmore, of New York
| and Ardsley, having seen his friend
Griswold depart, sought a book-shop
| where, as in many other book-shops
throughout the United States, he kept
standing order for any works touch
| ing piracy, subject, which, as al
ready limited, had long afforded him
infinite diversion He had several
hours to wait for his train to New Or.
leans, and he was delighted to find
that the bookseller, whom he had
| known only by correspondence, had
Just procured for him, through the dis
pers1on Of Georgia planters valuable
library, that exceedingly rare nara.
tive, The Golden Galleons of the Car.
ribbean, by Dominguez Pascual "a
beautifully bound copy of the original
Madrid edition.
With this volume under his arm
Ardmore returned to the hotel where
he was lodged and completed his ar
engagements for leaving. 1t should be
known that Mr.. Thomas Ardmore was
a person of democratic tastes and
habits. In his New York house were
two servants whose sole business it
was to keep himself and his wardrobe
presentable; yet he preferred to travel
unattended. He WIS, by nature, some
what secretive, and his adventurous
spirit rebelled at the thought of being
followed about by a hired retainer.
His very wealth was, in way, nui-
sance, for wherever he went the news
papers chronicled his movements,
with specuiations as to the object OF
his visit, and dark hints at large public
gifts which the city honored by his
presence at once imagined would be
bestowed upon it forthwith. The
American press constantly execrated
his family, and as he was sensitive to
criticism he kept very much to him
self.
1t was a matter of deep regret to
Ardmore that his great-grandmother,
whose name he bore, should have
trified with the morals of the red men,
but he philosophical that it was not
his fault. and If he had known how to
squeeze the whisky from the Ardmore
millions he would have been glad to do
SO. His own affairs were managed by
the Bronx Loan and Trust company,
and Ardmore took little personal in
terest in any of his belongings except
his estate in North Carolina, where
he dreamed his dreams, and had, on
the whole, a pretty good time.
When he had finished packing his
trunk he went down to the dinner he
had ordered to be in readiness at a
certain hour, at a certain table, care
fully chosen beforehand; for Ardmore
was very exacting in such matters and
had an eye to the comforts Of life, as
he understood them.
AS he crossed the hotel lobby on his
way to the restaurant he was accosted
by reporter for the Atlanta Pal.
ladium, who began to question him
touching various Ardmeres who were
just then filling rather more than their
usual amount of space in the news
! papers Ardmore's family, with the
single exception of his sister, Mrs