Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-12-15

aovertentIy permitted watty the tailor
to best him at checkers that morning;
otherwise the office was deserted.
Tracey Weakened Will by stamping
heavily across the floor. and Will me
chanically pushed down his spectacles
and dipped u pen In ink. Slowing the
register round for the guests sigma
ture. He says he knew ut glance
that the mysterious stranger was no
travelling man. But this IL a moot
point. Tracey's memory being minute
ly accurate and at variance with
Wills assertion.
Inc mysterious stranger was
7oung man. rather severely clothed in
dark suit which excited no interest
n Bigelow's understanding. although
l. when saw him later. had no din.
Guilty Ia realizing that 1t had never
been made by II tailor whose place of
business was more than five doors re.
moved from Fifth avenue He was
tatlSh. but not really tail. and carried
himself with II slight stoop which took
away from his real height Tracey
says he had Il way ~ looking ut Won
as If he was sniilin. inside at some
joke he'd heard II Ions time ago. and
| don't know huI that's IL fairly ant
description gt his ordinary expression.
lie had way too. of nuGdhg terribly
NJ YOU just onte To show he recog-
nized you or understood what you
were driving IL, AT other times he
t1stff ~.
and slightly forward He was IL man
you wouldn't FORGET. somehow, thongh !
what there WAS about him that WIS
remarkable nobody seemed 70 know
He nodded that ierky WAY IN an
swer to VIII Bigelow's &c devpnin'."
and without saying anything took the
pen and started To register He bad
to stop however. fer Tracey was
pressing him so close upon the right
that he couldn't get any play for his
elbow, and after Il minute or two he
asked Tracey politely would he mind
stepping round to the left, where he
could see just as well SO Tracey did
Then he wrote his name In good
round hand. Nathaniel Duncan.
n. Y"
I'D like a room with bath" he
told VIII. something simple and
chaste. within the means of man In
moderate circumstances
VIII thought he was joking at first.
but he didn't smile, 80 VIII explained
that there was bathroom on the
third floor at the end Of the hall.
though there wasn't much call for it.
II could give you room next to
that" he said but you wouldn't want
it, guess"
why not?" asked the mysterious
stranger
Because" said VIII. "'taint near
the sample room
That doesn't make any difference
I'm on the wagon
The only sense viii could get out OF
thai was that the young man WIS trav-
cling toi buggy house and hadn't
brought nny samples with him. Il
thought" he allowed. las how you'd
h. waniln II place to display your
implies but of course Ii you're In the
Wagon business
lou meant the sample room over
there" He nodded toward the bar.
That's what you call the dispensaries
of intoxicating liquors in this part of
the country. is it not?'
VIII made noise resembling an af-
frmative and as soon as he got his
breath explained that travelling men
generally wanted sort of a show
room next to theirs and that that was
called a sample room too.
But I'm not travelling man." said
the mysterious stranger. $50 shall
have as little use for the one as the
other"
''Then the room on the third foor'li
do for you" said VIII. How long do
you calculate on stayin'Y'
'That will depend" said Mr.. Dun
can, "a day or so, perhaps longer. I'M
til l can find comfortable and more
permanent quarters"
In his Amusement Will jabbed the
pen so hard into the potato beside the
ink well that he never could get the
nib nnt and had In buy s rpT Ca