The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-06-05

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again drank His eyes grew watery but his man
became moro stately.
"Now. Pat me BY tell your old father all about
couragement "Tis Ut father knows thore's
somot'ing do'un. Ah. me by. me by, may 20 niver
know the nsid1usness OF sons ingrauchude. II
yr firms 80 back ye. It's wan ting. but Ut son.
Vt very flesh and blood. the sthrain OF turrbe
An soc what yove como to. Pat me BY Why did
yet not FOLEY some manly calling like y'r fathher7
In the old country the o'ouins the flower OF
the nobility. Farr be ut fr wan who's fallun on
evll days to boast but the blood Of kings flows In
Tr veins IT'S noble ye arr. "Tis noble Vt father
Is"
Jaw. roll your hoop. father" said young Pat
Il yer me wad II must, but can't waste
here listening to such foolish noise as
dat Noble. surel You're as noble as Robblt EN-.
init one minute and yood swat sick baby the next
Old Pat, with sudden upward heave OF his body.
reached across tho table. He cuffed his son much
e1asperated motherbear might cuff mis-
chievous cub-son Young Pat shot out OF his chair.
OF himself in corner. The violence seemed to as.
suage the irritation Of old Pats spirit He gazed at
his son with expression that Appropriated GOOD
nature Nov. Pat, BY, tell us ell about it."
Young Pat picked himself up and skunk into chair.
When he spoke again 1t evident that he had
decided to lay his cards on the table.
There was. aB old Pat had guessed. "eomething
DOING" something more important than Young Pat
a eVQr unhe rfako hafn Oh
The house stood In a lonely suburb. woman
lived there with child and maid She had a lot
Of money on the place. also silver. It's me own
business how know" said young Pat They would
have to be getting at It; the husband would come
back In week The house we'll protected.
young Pat did not know how he could break In He
bad scraped acquaintance with the maid. had
thought for a while he going to have his way
with her. ''But nuttin' doing there-the girls stuck
on the kid" There was nothing to 1t but that pal
must conceal himself somewhere in the house to lot
young Pat in Was his father willing to do that7
For moment the old man, partly sobered by the
proposition. demurred But young Pat, f the idea
OF his fathers collaboration gained with considera-
ton, urged It On him, rang for drinks and
urged again He drew plan OF the house. clos.
ct In the back hall was the natural hiding place-it
was big, ventilated. seldom used and filed with
clothes hanging hooks, convenient to hide bo-
hind They would go out there late in the after
noon. He would introduce his father to Margaret
the maid Old Pat would tako his leave after q
bit But In reality he would go further than the
arbor. Young Pat in the meantime would go with
Margaret Into the cellar, where he regularly chop
ped wood for her Whc he kept her there talk
Ing. old Pat was to slip back though the kitchen
to the back hall and hide himself in the closet
After dark young Pat would cut the telephone
wires; there would be nothing to fear In case the
two women were alarmed There sheds over
an excavation on the vacant lots next door. Young
Pat would wait there until his father opened the
door and gave the signal It looked feasible, In
the end the old man agreed
The crackle OF open fire, the SOLEMN tick OF a
tall clock, the occasional chirp OF two lttle gray
birds. the spasmodic rustic of a email black kitten
personally conducting himself in tour through the
wastebas6et-the big room full OF sound, and
yet 1t had tense air OF quiet Points OF cheer
dotted its bleak squarencss everywhere And yet
percepuble cloud OF melancholy hung over tho
room. Tho quiet seemed concentrate In tho still
figure OF q child lying on couch The melancholy
seemed to emanate from the woman who stood at
the window looking an1iously out
Outside tho long, cold twilight was DYING A
sunset had cut its way under the horizon line. But
1t did not deceive Alicia Prendergast She had
been studying tho weather all day. She knew that
she might expect bad night, with rain and perhaps
with fierce winds thet shook and pommeled the pro-
testing old house 1t only for its effect on tho
child that sho comprehcnded bad weather She turn.
ed to Molly. whom she had studied With fierce
intentness all day. Her slim body barely lifted tho
covers from their own level She looked up at her
mother under line OF heavy oyelashes which cut
the gray lines OF hcr big eyes exactly In half then
falling wearily, made blank OF her pale face Now
sho was perfectly quiet
Dr. %yricie insisted that there was nothing ser,
QUO tho matter with Moy-she would oo better
rather than worse. But, mainly for Aaoa's comfort
he had left bottle of medicine to be used In case