The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-11-24

been so kind about helping me; but
dare not turn to our Oldest friends
| have been afraid to trust fathers
friends at all since Mr.. Bosworth act
ed so traitorously."
"My time is entirely at your service,
Miss Osborne; but have shameiul
report to make of myself. | must teil
you how miserably | have failed, be-
fore you trust me any further. We
that is to say, the prosecuting attor'
ney of this county and party he got
together of Appleweight's enemies
caught the outlaw last nlght-took nm
with the greatest ease-but he got
away from us! 1t was all my tauit'
and I'm deeply Disguised with my
self"
He described the capture and the
subsequent mysterious disappearance
of Appleweight, and confessed the
obvious necessity for great caution ID
further attempts to take the outlaw
now that he was on guard Barbara
laughed reassuringly at the end OF the
story.
"Those men must have felt funny
when they went back to get the prls'
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 that set forth
without equivocation the fact that
| Gov. Osborne had not been in Column
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 its smother
ed trifle 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. 1.-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 were
wrought great havoc in Griswold's
soul-"but father must not be found
until this Appleweight matter is set
tied. You understand without making
me 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 t.
him, stranger to aid her to perform
a public service in her fathers name
rallied all his good impulses to hel
standard. 1t was too delicate a mat
ter for discussion: 1t was thing t.
be ignored: and he assumed at once
lighter tone.
Come! We must solve the riddl,
of the lost prisoner at once, and you
father will undoubtedly give an ex
cellent account of himself when h,
gets ready. Meanwhile the fiction
that he is personally carrying tn,
war into the Appleweight countr,
| must be maintained and 7 shall sta,
to the railway station and wire tn,
Columbia newspaper In his name tina
he is in Mingo county on the trail O
the outlaws"
ITO BE CONTINUED)
{ To Start A Tight Screw
At, %