The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-05-18
WHITTAKER,S
PLACE
By JOSEPH C. LINCOLN
t:opydsht. 1905. BY o Appleton q C


Copyright. 1908. by D Appleton e c,
be one? There's the deed out IN Fri'
co. with yours and Johns name on 4
There's the records 70 prove the salt
There's the receipt for the $500
signed by you on behalf OF yourself
and your partners widow. There's oh
man Everdean alive aud competent {
testify There's John Thayer's will Of
file over 10 Orham. Proofs. Why
you thief. II it's proofs you want Nv,
got enough 10 send you TO state prison
for the rest OF your life. Don't yol
dare say proofs 20 me again. Hemar
/ Atkins. you owe me. as Bos'n's guard
ian. $4,000. with interest since 1854
What you Goln' to do about it?'
Here was one ray. feeble ray. OF
/ Hight.
You're not her guardian" cried At
kins, THE courts have thrown you
out. and your appeal won't stand ei
Their. II any money Is due Il belongs
TO her father She isn't OF age. No
sir. her father
Captain Cy's patience had been Civ.
ing away. Now he lost II altogether.
He strobe across the room and shook
his forehnger in his victims face.
$50" he cried. That's your tack.
is Il? BY the big dipper. you go 10
her father-Just you go to him and tell
him! Just hint to him that you owe
his daughter thirty thousand dol,
lars and see what he'll do. Good heav-
ems above, he was ready TO sell her
out to me for $50 with OF sand bank
in Orham-almost ready. he was. till
you offered a higher price to him to
fight. Why, he'll have your hide nail
ed up on the barn door. II you don't
pay him every red copper down on the
nail he'll wiring you dry And then
he'll blackmail you forever and ever.
amen-unless. OF course. go home
and stop the blackmail by printing my
story in the Breeze. I've a precious
good mind to do IT, By the Almighty.
will do II unless you come off that
high horse of yours and talk like
man"
And then the monument fell-fell
PROSTATE. with a sickly. pitifu crash.
II we of Bayport could have seen our
congressman then! The great man.
great no longer. broke down complete
ly. He cried like a baby. It was all
true-all true. He had nst meant to-
steal at first He had been led into
lsing the money in his business. Then
he had meant to send II TO the heirs.
but he didn't know their whereabouts
Captain Cy smiled at this excuse. And
now he couldn't pay-he couldn't. He
had lost money In stocks. His prop.
erty In the south had gone to the
bad. He would be ruined. He would
have to go To prison. He was getting
TO be an old man. And there was
Alicia. his daughter! Think of her!
Think of the disgrace! And so on.
over and over. with the one recurring
was the captain going
TO do-what was he going TO do? 1t
was miserable. dreadful exhibition
and Captain Cy could feel no pride in
his triumph.
There. therey" he said at last stop
(. man; stop it, for goodness sakes
Pull yourself together | guess we can
TX II up somehow. | amt goin' TO be
90 hard on you. II II want for your
neanness in bein' willin' to let Bos'n
ufrer her life long with that drunken
,east OF q dad OF hers I'd feel almost
Ike tellin' you to get up and forget It.
,ut that's got to be stopped. Now, you
isteu 10 me-"
Hemap listened. He was on his |
nees beside the bed. his face buried |
n his arms, and his gray hair. the
CONNIE Atkins hair. which he was
Won't TO toss backward in the heated |
eriods of his eloquence, tumbled and |
ragged. Captain Cy looked down at
I'm.
This whole business about Bos'n
lust be stopped" he said. "and
topped right OF. You tell your law
ers TO drop the. case. Her dad is only
sngin' around because you pay him
}. He don't want her; he don't care