The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-05-11
WHlTTAKER'S
PLACE
BY JOSEPH c. LINCOLN
Copyrish.. 1908. by D. Appleton o


What. Hello. Hold on minu
Don't get mad. Heman. only wa
ed to say just word You'll let "a,
say word won't your"
This was more like it, This wa.
more nearly the tone In which Mr.. At
/ kins was wont to be addressed Il
/ was possible that the man. recognizing
the uselessness OF further opposition
| desired 10 surrender.
II cannot" declared the honorable
understand why you should wish tC
speak with me. We have very little
In common. very little. I'm thankful
to say. However. | will hear you
briefly, Go on
much obliged Well. Heman. |
only wanted to say that thought
maybe you'd better have little talk
with me. I'm here at the hotel. the
Regent. You know where IT'S. pre-
sumo likely. ! guess you'd better come
right down and see me-"
Heman gasped. actually gasped with
establishment.
IL had better come and see you? l.
Well, sir-well, | am not accustom-
ed
II know. but think you'd better
It's dirty weather. and I've got cold
somehow or other. | amt feelin' quite
up 10 the mark. so / callate I'll stay
in port much as can. You come
right down. I'll be In my room. and
the hotel folks II tell you where it's.
I'll be waitin' for you"
Mr.. Atkins breathed hard. In his
present frame of mind he would have
liked to deliver blast into that trans.
mitter which would cause the person
at the other end OF the line to shrivel
under its heat But he was politi-
clan of long training. and he knew
that such blasts were sometimes ex-
pensive treats. 1t might be well to
hear what his enemy had to say. But
as to going to see him-that was out
of the question.
81 do not" he thundered-"I do not
care 10 continue this conversation. II
If you wish TO see me. after what
has taken place between us, am will
ing. In spite OF personal repugnance.
10 grant you brief interview. My
o'clock tomorrow morning. But tell
you now that your interference with
this appropriation mater Is as useless
as 1t is ridiculors and impudent. II is
of piece With the rest of your con-
Duet"
"All right. Heman. all right" was
the calm answer. II don't say you've
got TO come. only say | guess you'd
better. I'm goin' back to Bayport to-
morrer early. And II | was you I'd
come and see me tonight"
II have no wish TO see you. nor do
care to talk with you further. That
appropriation
Maybe it amt all appropriation"
'Then | cannot understand
81 know. but | understand. I've
,ome TO understand considerable many
things in the last fortni't. There. |
amt boiler into this machine any long
ar. I've been clear out TO Frisco and
back In eleven days. and | got cold in
hose blessed sleepin' cars. r.
The receiver fell from the congress
mans hand. 1t was difficult object
% pick up again. Heman CROPPED for 1t
n blind, strangely inadequate way.
fet he wished to recover it very much.
wait. Waitr' he shouted anxiously. |
Ill dropped the Are you there, !
Whitaker? Are you oh. yes! / |
lidnt- Did you say-er-FriscoT"
"Yes. San Francisco, California. I've |
,een west on little cruise. Had an
time. It's an interestin' !
place. Don't you think so? Well, I'm |
orry you can't come. Good night"
Waltz faltered the great man. Il
let me think. Cyrus, | do not wish |
o seem-er-arrogant in this matter. |
I Is not usual for me to visit my |
but--but-I have no en- |
agement this evening, and you are not
veil. and Hello. Are you there?
Hello. why. under the circumstances.
think Yes. viii come. III come
-er--at once"
The telephone enables one to procure
cab in q short time. Yet to Heman
| tkins that cab was years in coming
lie paced the library floor, his hand to
Is forehead and his brain whirling. 1t
ouldr't be! 1t must be coincidence!
lie had been an idiot to display his
citation and surrender so weakly. And
et--and yet
The ride through the storm to the
regent hotel gave him opportunity for
lore thought. But he gained little
omfort from thinking. II II was a
obedience, well and good. IL not
A bellboy conducted him TO the
Whitaker room ION the saloon deck"
/ was a small room, very different
rom the Atkins library. and Captain
", in a cane seated chair. was hud-
led close to the steam radiator. He
,oked far from well.
"Evenin', Heman." he said as the
entered. Pretty dirty
light, amt It? What we'd call a
ray northeastern back home, Sit down.
Don't mind my not gettin' up. This
eatin' arrangement feels mighty
omf table just now. If get too far
way from it shiver my deck planks
pose. Take Off your things"
t.