The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-11-22

immediate steps for the apprehension
of Appleweight, she was still reading
and sorting letters. tapping her cheeb
lightly meanwhile With the ofdciaI
paperknife
Here, Mr. Ardmore," she said,
drawing a paper from her pocket, "is
the answer to that telegram we sent
yesterday evening Suppose you read
that next. and we can then decide
what to Go"
She was making the letters into lit.
tie piles. humming softly meanwhile;
but he felt that there was storm
brewing. He read the message from
Columbia a number of times, and II
the acting governor had not been so
ominously quiet he would have laugh
ed at the terse sentences.
There must be a mistake about
this. He wouldn't have used divert
ing that way; that's insulting!"
so you appreciate its Significance,
do you, Mr. Ardmore? The iron en-
tiers your soul, does it? You realize
that l have been insulted, do your?
Il shouldn't put it that way, Miss
Dangerfield Gov. Osborne would
never have sent a message like that
to you-he thought he was sending It
to your father"
Hes insulted me and every other
citizen in the Old North State; that's
who he's insulted. Mr. Ardmore. Let
ME read it again." and she repeated
the telegram aloud:
Your extremely diverting tele-
gram in Appleweight case received
and fled think it's the extremely
that's so perfectly mean. The divert
ing by itself would not hurt my feel
ings half so much He's a good deal
smarter man than l thought he was
to think up a telegram like that But
what do you think Of that piece In the
newspaper"
He says he's going to catch Apple
weight dead or alive. That sounds
pretty serious"
Il think it's a blum, myself That
telegram we sent him yesterday must
have scared him to death. He was
driven into a corner and had to do
something to avoid being disEraced,
and it's easy enough to talk big in the
. newspapers when you haven't the
, slightest intention of doing anything
, at ALL I've noticed that father talk
. the longest and loudest about things
i, he doesn't believe At all"
rs it possible?" whispered Ard
more incredulously.
"Of course it's possible! Father
would never have been elected II he't
!, expressed his real sentiments; neither
= would anybody else ever be elected
If he said beforehand what he really
q believed"
!. That must have been the reason
got defeated for alderman on the re
i. form ticket l told 'em l was TO
turning the rascals out"
That was very stupid OF you
\ You've got to get the rascals to cleo
you first; then If you're tired Of Of
fee and don't need them any NOR
you bounce them. But that's politics
practice; it's q theory we've got t
work out now. The newspapers n
q lot of bother. l spent all yesterdA
n evening talking to reporters The
came to the house to ask where pap
II was and when he would be home!"
N What did you tell themr'
II Il didn't tell them anything. l SCI
VI out for two other girls and We all Jul
III talked to them and kept talking. an
NJ gave them lemon sherbet and gingt
cookies; and Eve Hungerford playe
the banjo. But what were you dom
Mr. Ardmore, that you didn't con
around to help? 1t seems to me yc
don't appreciate the responsibility,
OF being secretary to q governor"
Il was afraid you might scold n
If l did And besides l was glued
. the long distance telephone all eve
ing. talking to my manager at Ard
ley He read me my letters and q Il
en- Of kilograms that annoyed me vel
Ok much. l wish you wouldn't be
ad hard on me, for l have trifling tro
er bles of my own"
ed Il didn't suppose you ever had tro
at bles you certainly don't act
in though you ever had"
hit NO one who has never been brot
ed er-in-law to duke has the slighte
ng idea of what trouble is"
lily I've seen the duke of Ballywinklt
n picture in the papers and he loo
.ty very attractive"
Well. if you'd ever seen him e
re. celery you'd change your mind H,
he going down to Ards1ey to visit m
for sheer nerve l must say my re
nd tons beat the world. l got my pla
his over here in North Carolina Just
-ou get away from them, and now my 5
ter-not the duchess. but Mrs Ate
err ison-is coming down there with
s." lot of girls and Ballywinkle has
ing tached himself to the party. They
Sc pass through here to-day, and they
It'll expect to find me at Ardsley."
tTO BE CONTINUED)