Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-11-30

at Gormly with the enthusiasm Of
boy; grasped his hand. and wruIg It
| franticaIly.
It's all right, he shouted. ITS
turned out better than anybody could
have expected. It's killed the opposi-
ton dead. Everybody is for you now.
Gormly heard him as in q dream
| He allowed him to shake his hand as
he might have shaken pump handle,
could that ancient and useful article
have been found in New York. He
/ was looking with all his soul In his
glance at Eleanor Haldane, who had
not come forward. but stood by the
chair in which she had sat, her hands
tightly clasping the low back of it.
The color that had flooded her face
when she first saw him had subsidized
almost as quickly IS il had come. She
was very pale and trembling.
Thoughts, strange, bewildering.
rushed through GormIy's mind. What
could Miss HaIdane be doing there?
/ What did she want? Why had she
| come? She had heard of the Incl
dent. He remembered that her broth
er had taken her one copy of his let
| ter last night What did her pres
/ ence mean?
4 just came down here" continued
young Haldane, ITO tell you these
| things to relieve your anxiety. and to
bring Eleanor. She wanted to see
you about-weIl, you know about
! what Of oOrJrco
Gormly did not know at all; but he
nodded vaguely.
''Of course, by this time you've read
all about it in The Planet. That old
/ miner came in like a scene in a play.
It was perfectly splendid, and 1 sup
! pose" he looked meaningly at his sis
/ ter, his glance calling the color once
more to her cheek, that you have
/ read the other communication, which
/ is scarcely less important"
Gormly stared at him IN utter
amazement.
Z must say" he continued mis-
chievously, that for a man who is
I getting everything he wants as you
are, you are singularly undemon-
/ strative about it."
MI Gormly," interposed the WON
an, Il don't believe that you have
/ read the morning papers?"
! Not yet, Miss Haldane."
OH" cried the girl in great dis
may.
by Jove!" exclaimed the young
man, ito think of it! [ should have
had the first copy from the press
brought to me if l had been in your
place. Well, then, I'll tell you the
whole story. Or you've got it in The
| Planet and you can read It yourself,
Well excuse you while you glance
over it; won't we sis?"
81 don't understand" said Gormly,
! lifting the paper slowly He had not
yet taken his eyes off Miss Haldane.
"On second thoughts" said the
! young man, q guess Eleanor had bet
! ter tell you herself If you'll excuse
me, you two, for q few moments, I'll
| go into the library"
''Liyingstone!" cried the girl i'm
! ploringly; but her brother only
laughed as he left the room, carefully
| closing the door behind him.
What is it that | am to be told,
Miss HaIdane?" asked Gormly, step
ping toward her, paper still in hand.
| Miss Haldane was in a dilemma.
| She had been surprised when he had
| entered the room that Gormly had
not greeted her differently. Her posi-
ton was tremendously difficult one
| at best, and his failure to read the
paper had rendered it almost insup-
portable.
q think" she faltered at last, that
: / had better go. You can see me later
in the day, and
NO" said Gormly resolutely, you
must not go yet. You came down here
for some purpose. That fact that
have not read the papers seems to
/ have affected you strangely. If you
! will give me five minutes, can look
them over and perhaps obtain some
clue to your conduct; but 1 would
rather you would tell me what it is,
do what you we're going to do, say
what you were going to say when you
came in, than try to find out from thu
newspapers"
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