Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-09
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you are the queerest boy" she COM
mented. Il ran over here Just for a
minute to ask how your mother Is, and
you won't tell me-"
I'm coming to that" he rejoined,
gravely. But l wanted to get this
other thing Strengthened out first. Now
tell me this: did you pray for my moth
er last night, like you said you would?"
You can be so barbarously personal
when you try Tom" she protested
And then she added: but 1 did"
We'll, the miracle was brought
Early this morning mother came TO
herself and asked for something to eat.
Doctor Williams has been here, and
now he tells us all the things he
wouldn't tell us before. 1t was some
little clot in one of the veins or ar
teries of the brain, and nine times out
of ten there is no hope"
20 Tom and she will get we'll
again?"
She has more chances to- day of get
ting well than she had last night of
dying-so the doctor says. But it's
miracle, just the same"
I'm so glad! And now really must
60 home"
what's your rush? I'm not trying
to get rid of you now"
Il positively must go back. We have
company, and l rama without say
ing word"
Anybody know" inquired Tom.
Three somebodies whom you know,
or ought to know, very we'll: Mr.. Dux-
bury Farley, Mr.. Vincent Farley, Miss
Eva Farley"
I'D like to know how under the sun
they managed to get on your grand
fathers good side" he grumbled.
why do you say that?" she retort-
ed. Eva was my classmate for years
at Miss De Valle's."
He made boyish face of disap-
proval, saying bluntly: II don't care If
she was. You shouldn't make friends
of them. They are not At for you to
wipe your shoes on"
You ought to be ashamed of your
self, Tom Gordoni Less than an hour
ago, we were speaking of you, and Of
what happened at Beersheba. Mr.. Far
ley and his son both stood up for you"
And you took the other side, / reck-
on" he broke out, quite unreasonably,
1t had not as yet come to blows be-
tween him and his fathers business as
sociates, but it made him immeasura-
bly, dissatisfied to find them on social
terms at Deer Trace Manor.
Perhaps l did, and perhaps / did
not" she answered, matching his tart
ness.
We'll, you can tell them both that
I'm much obliged to them for nothing"
he said, rising and going to the door
with her They would be mighty glad
to see it patched up again and me back
in the Beersheba school,"
"Of course they would so would all
of your friends"
But they are not my friends. They
have fooled my father, and they'll fool
your grandfather, if he doesn't watch
out. But they can't fool me-"
That is the first downright coward
ly thing l have ever known you TO
sayl" she declared. and I wish you
to know, Mr.. Thomas Jefferson Cor
don, that Mr.. Duxbury Farley and Mr. |
Vincent Farley and Miss Eva Farley |
are my guests and my friends." And |
with that for her leave taking, she |
turned her back on him and went |
swiftly across the two lawns to the |
great gray house on the opposite knoll |
III TIC uiSb lOi tlllSnl Ol HIS lnOlneT |
convalescence Tom slept badly, and |
his days were as the days of the ac- |
cused whose sentence has been sus-
pended. The time drew near when his |
continued stay at home must be ex-
planned to his mother.
Ardea had gone back to Carroll the |
Saturday before New Years and there |
was no one to talk to. But for that |
matter, he had cut himself out of her
confidence by his assault on the Far
legs. Every morning for a week after
the Christmas day clash, Scipio came
over with the compliments of Nav
steh Majah," Miss Euphrasia, and Miss
Dabney, and kindly inquiries touching
the progress of the invalid But after
New Years Tom remarked that there
were only the Major and Miss Euphra-
STA to send. compliments, and despair
set in. For out of his boyhood he had
brought up undiminished the longing
for sympathy, or rather for burden
bearer on whom he might unload his
troubles, and Ardea had begun to
promise well.
Ito be continued.)