American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1910-11-26

dare not turn to our oldest friends
l have been afraid to trust fathers
friends at all since MI. Bosworth act
ed SO tr~aitorously."
MY time is entirely at your service,
Miss Osborne; but l have a shameful
report to make Of myself. l must tell
you how miserably l have failed, be-
Tore you trust me any further. We
that Is to say, the prosecuting attor-
ney OF this county and a party he got
together Of Appleweight's enemies
caught the outlaw last night-took him
with the greatest ease-but he got
away from us! 1t was all my fault,
and I'm deeply Disguised with my.
self"
He described the capture and the
subsequent mysterious disappearance
OF A~ppleweight, and confessed the
obvious necessity for great caution in
further attempts to take the outlaw,
now h a he was on guard. Barbara
laughed reassuringly al the end Of the
story.
Those men must have felt funny
when they went back to get the pris-
oner and found that he had gone up
into the air. But there's a new fea-
ture OF the case that's more serious
than the loss of this man" and the
trouble again possessed her eyes. She
drew from her purse a cutting from
a newspaper and handed it to him.
That's from last nights Columbia
Vidette, which Is very hostile to my
father"
He was already running over the
heavily loaded column hat set forth
without eq%uivocation the fact that
Gov. Osborne had not been in Colum-
bia since he went to New Orleans. 1t
secuted the story that he was abroad
in the state on official business con-
nected with the Appleweight case
the yarn which Griswold had forced
upon the friendly reporter at the tele-
graph office in Columbia. The gov
ernor of a state, the Vidette went on
to elaborate, could not vanish without
leaving some trace of himself, and a
Vidette representative had traced the
steps of Gov. Osborne from New Or.
leans until he had again entered South
Carolina under cover of night and for
purposes which, for the honor of the
state, the Vidette hesitated to dis.
close.
The writer of the article had ex-
hausted the possibilities of gentle
suggestion and vague innuendo in an
effort to create an impression of mys-
terry and to pique curiosity as to
further Developments, which were
promised at any hour. Griswold's
wrath was aroused. not so much
against the newspaper, which he as
sumed had some fire for it's smother
ed trife Of smoke, but against the
governor of South Carolina himself,
who was causing the finest and noblest
girl in the world infinite anxiety and
pain.
THE thing is preposterous,'' he said
lightly. THE idea that your father
would attempt to enter his own state
surreptitiously is inconceivable in
these days when public men are de-
MED all privacy, and when it's any
mans right to deceive the press If he
finds it essential to his own comfort
and peace; but the intimation that
your father is in South Carolina for
any dishonorable purpose is prepos-
ferrous. One thing, however. is GER
tain, Miss Osborne. and that is that
we must produce your father at the
earliest possible moment"
"But"-and Barbara hesitated. and
her eyes, near tears as they we're,
wrought great havoc in Griswold's
soul-"but father must not be found
until this Appleweight matter is set
tied. You understand without making
speak the words-that he might
not exactly view the matter as we
do"
1t was a painful subject; and the
fact that she was driven by sheer
force of circumstances to appeal to
him. a stranger, to aid her to perform
a public service in her fathers name
rallied all his good impulses to her
standard. 1t was too delicate a mat
ter for discussion: it was a thing to
be ignored; and he assumed at once
a lighter tone.
Come! We must solve the riddle
of the lost prisoner at once, and your
father will undoubtedly give an ex
cellent account of himself when he
gets ready. Meanwhile the fiction
that he is personally carrying the
war into the Appleweight country
must be maintained, and l shall step
to the railway station and wire the
newspaper in his name that
he is in Mingo county or the trail of
the outlaws"
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