Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-24


WHY. bliss SrY west to which yOG
SOUL, OF ALL THE said you were
LUCKY THINGS. coming. Patricia p
at is. and you're TO blame. young
man" snapped the father of the peer
less maid. IF you've been telling me
fibs about those meGalosauridae which
you said could be dug out Of your sage
brush hills you'll pay our fare back
home again-understand? Now show
us to the best hotel in this mushroom
city of yours. and do it quickly
Having a definite thing to do. Blount
forgot his problem and bestirred him
self Hospitality.
Though il was only three squares to
the Inter-Mountain. he chartered the
best looking auto he could find in the
hack rank. put his charges into it and
went with them TO do the hOnors at
the hotel. thereby missing two things
which might have had an important
bearing on the temporarily forgotten
problem.
II he had gone directly to the office
Of the traffic manager on the second
floor of the station building he could
hardly have missed meeting a tall, full
faced man coming out of Gantry's pri
vste room, and he might have over
heard the visitors parting word to
Gantry: "Oh, yes; he fell for it all
right. II you'd seen his face when
Lackner and ] came away you'd have
said there We're battle, murder and
sudden death in it for somebody"
But, see here. Bradbury" Gantry
held his visitor TO say, ''it wasn't in
the game that you were to fill him up
with lot OF lies. l won't stand for
that. you know. He is too good a fell
low and too good n friend of mine"
1t was ut this con5uncture that
Blount. II he had been present and
invisible, would have seen a sour smile
wrinkle upon the fall face of the club
gossip.
1T wasn't necessary. II he or the
senator wanted TO sue US for libel we
could prove every word that was said.
And 1t got him-got him right In the
solar plexus. II you don't see some
fireworks within the next few days I
miss my guess and lose my ante"
On the other hand, II Evan had lin
gered few minutes longer on the sta
ton platform he would have marked
Vice President Mcvickar crossing to
the carriage stand, followed by the
private car porter bearing impedi-
menta- At the carriage rank the vice
president climbed heavily into the
senator's roadster. which seemed TO
have been arranged for in advance.
and was whirled stormily up to the
Inter Mountain. where he traced his
illegible name in the great guest book
two minutes after Blount. still anX-
ious for the comfort of Professor An
ners and the serene eyed maid. had
gone up in the elevator with them TO
see that the rooms 20 which they had
been assigned were all that they
should be
Coming down a few minutes later to
give the several luggage checks to the
hotel porter. Blount missed another
incident which might have sent him
back suddenly 10 his problem and its
unsettled condition When Mr.. Nc
vickar turned away from the clerks
desk IL was 10 shake hands perfume
torfly with the owner OF the fast road
ster.
We'll. senator" be said. with & GER
CAln upSSeu eHiplaSlS- III mere Lei ;
dnd place where we can Tiail il ont"
And together they entered an elevator.
as chance would have 1t, pass
ed. in ascending. the car in which the
younger Blount was coming down.
II was TO the senator's suit that the
two opposing field commanders made
their way when their car reached the
fourth floor. In the senator's sitting
room McVickar dragged a chair over
10 one OF the windows which com
handed Z view OF the Lost River