Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-08-18


the crowd comma nded Nj. Waddy's
sincere respe.s He went about with
marvellous rapitity. sending away those
whose nOnut:ity was unquestionuDle
and making engagements with others
at our Wall street office" the uume
OF which made everybody more re-
spectfll.
took Mi De Land. Miss Brown and
Mr.. Waddy was the first Of series
which reduced MIR Waddy to iorpor
The old gentleman. in his long fruck
coat which buttoned to II surtout. his
frowZy face and his evident attach
ment 10 Mr.. Craighead was remember
ed in certain ultra bohemian circles
for his surrepitious Sinking into the
dfmmest corners Of cafes aud roof gar
dens. He had dark secret Mr.. Craig
head said. which. he did not explain.
originated in Mr.. Waddys agreement
with the lady In goggles that the whole
situation was improper He felt obliged
to keep with Craighead because OF
4 suspicion that the aeronef was a
f1gment of two Slattery institute i'm.
aginations. and he did not purpose 10
let any guilty man escape. So he
providently engaged detective to
shadow both himself and Mr. Craig
head. the unremitting presence of
whom In very plain clothes made Mr..
Waddy feel and look gul :, and fugi-
tive
His second reason for becoming Mr..
Craigheads double was his sense of
duty Of preventing rhat pupil of DIR.
Witherspoon from Ia aking the vow
OF abstinence. So he drank most of
the intoxicants served to Craighead.
somewhat to the injury of his health.
but much to the betterment Of his rep
utation as roisterer Altogether II
was relief to get Craighead back
home. where he installed him as
ledger and boarder charging him we'll
FOR his accommodation and lending
him the money on his note to pay for
1t. On arrival be went to bed and
turned Craighead over to Mrs. Gray
bill. with strict injunctions to tele-
phone the sheriff's office If he was un-
accounted for for more than an hour
1t was situation with some unique
aspects. Mr.. Craighead began Willing
away time with work on the Nor
phology of the Crawfish" and dips into
De Quincey's Spanish Nun" Look
ing from the library window, he saw
Mrs. Graybill enter a summer house.
leaving red hat on the railing out
side
The "Morphology" grew uninterest-
Ing. Craighead stepped from the win
dow. went into the summer house and
started at finding Mrs. Graybil there.
her hair tousled about her head. her
little nose elevated In that comical re-
semblance to her fathers. MIR. Wad-
dy informs me that the late Mr.. Gray
bill was minister of the gospel" he
ventured.
YES" she replied. "he was"
And that he has been called" Craig
head went on. ITO better life a year
or more?"
Fourteen months" answered Mrs.
Graybill.
II have been reading" said Craig
head. "a work on the 'Morphology of
the Crawfish' 1t holds me enthralled
The person who fails to CLEAN wisdom
from the crawfish has never tested his
intelligence with bare toe or studied
his morphology."
Mrs. Graybill looked at Craighead
sternly.
Don't poser said She Don't think
that | want beautiful lesson In every
thing, II have been a minister's wife.
Tell me of Mr.. De Land and-and Sa-
die Brown and the chop suey and-and
that life Tell me. Mr. Craigheadr
The point here is that there was no
danger of Craighead's running Off
while she listened with such breath
less interest to his adventures. He ex-
planned his natural transition from the
study of artistic anatomy to surgery
and then through medical jurispru-
dence to law. and over all gloomed the
shadow of his wonderful. his poetic,
his epic designations. Mrs. Graybil
was shocked. but she asked for all the
horrible tale that he might so relieve
1t that nothing would ever. ever induce
him to drink again.
Only one thing would ever do that.
said he. 'or maybe two. The pangs of
despised love-
(which You have never expert
enced?" she asked
Never" said he. "as I am now
likely tor
And the other shock that might
overturn your self control?"
THE failure of Carson" replied
Craighead. That would put me down
and out--down and out.'
The relations of Craighead to Mr..
Waddy became more and more strain.
ed, for the former could no longer ex-
plain satisfactorily the failure of Car
son to appear with his airship. Final
| ly as last resort MIR. Waddy resolved