Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-07-14

self, beyond possibility of error, SIS q |
big independent trolley line running |
north out of Hartford. It's practically |
bankrupt, and will default on the in
terest, due on the first, for its first
mortgage four-per-cent bonds. Belden
| wants to buy them in. so that he can
| foreciose on the minute. and make
Bennington extension a part of New
England Transit. Slick. isn't her"
| But West was not asking q question
to be answered, for he continued, al
most without a break: "Belden found
out that he wouldn't get 'em for
song yesterday" he said, chuckling.
Bennington Fours are selling at fifty
nine. and drug on the market at
that But I'm holding a block on be-
half of a Western syndicate, and Bel
den has agreed to pay me eighty for
'em. / gave him to understand that
they'd never be cent cheaper. so he
had to knuckle under, and. pass me
his word to the deal"
YES" she breathed. vaguely. not
greatly interested
West paused to swallow his coffee.
then sat back and watched the cur
tains bellying in the warm June
breeze that had access through the
open window.
Tell you what" he broke out, Sc
riously, ut was a great relief to me
when I closed the transaction. stand
to get three or four hundred thousand
out of it. and need ready money the
worst way. myself. That last rise in
Ontario pinched me badly, and the
banks are beginning to fight shy of
my paper" He frowned. lettering alb
stractedly on two legs of his chair;
| ~,
"Hel1oi" he announced. "T'Il have to
hustle. BY. Bess."
West arose, came around to her
chair, and bent over to kiss his WIFE,
1t was something that had taken place
every business morning for ten years,
and still there was nothing perfume
tory about that kiss. There were
streaks of gray in the hair above the
mans temples, and a mage of fine
wrinkles around the corners of his
, eyes; both had come in the duration
I of their married days, but Vests
heart was unaged, his ardor undated.
The woman dreaded to think that the
) day was ever to dawn when he would
, know that caress for a habit, q for
/. mality; to her 1t meant such a very
i great deal.
I She lifted her lips to his, and they
j WCIS OdISAy pdILSus eyeiIuS uIOOp-
p ed heavily. and she sighed family.
: For the instant ten years dropped
: from their lives: Vests gaze glorified
= the firm curve of her cheek. the full
sweep of her bare throat: and he
s caught at his breath sharply.
r Also he noticed a little anxious
r quicker between her brows. for which
II he laid the blame at the door of the
d oppressive weather. nor understood In
II the asst that fear for him chilled her
n heart.
: Look here, m'dear," he suggested
in severely practical tone, as ht
4 Strengthened up. Don't you thinl
e you'd better run up to Newport"
IT And leave you here. alone. t.
n stand the heat? No." she decided
b. firmly. when Tom West takes {
Is vacation, his wife will Meanwhile
s. nothing worries me SO much as thu
d. knowledge that you are working to-
lie hard-slaving your life out. dear. b,
8. careful today. won't you-for m.
id sake?"
lie For no one elses. Bess." he laugh
ls ed. lightly.
lie minute later she was standing II
lie the windows embrasure. screening
herself in the folds of its light drar
lie cry. watching her husband as he raj
o. down the steps and strobe off towar
e. the elevated station. And there sh
is fingered long, thinking. anxious 70
ne him. He was strong. she would cor
of cede; but he had much to endure
IN weighty mental burdens. wearing boo
10 lily fatigue. And the day grew yer
II hot indeed. From the street the dust
IN. baked smell of the asphalt came u
to her in great. suitry puffs. and deeI
ufr latg
in in the softened paving by the wheel
Id of a passing huckster's wagon;
IFS huckster who staggered bareheade
IN. in the sunglare. yawping Internally
he In the early afternoon a thunde
to storm came growing out of Jerse.
lar and sluiced the sweltering streets wit
tepid water. But the relief 1t brougl
So in its wake was but temporary. Late
nd the heat again became well-nigh III
ny bearable. 1t was as though the cit
Tx lay submerged In a torrid sea, who's
invisible. glowing waves swept throug
the streets. So that the least NOV
en- ment became exertion: and exertic
18th was own brother to exhaustion
so. To dress for the evening was an O
re deal, but one to be faced with a smil
Co For Tom liked to find her Just so;
was good to him. when he had slougl
y" ed the cares of the day, to see he
ng fresh, unwilted.
he Later. she recalled that IL was viii
he she struggled to attire herself with N
os- grudged assistance of a cross mai
ma that she was suddenly convinced by
ne subtiy psychic. womanly intuition tn;
He something was amiss. either with Tol
ses or with Toms affairs.
'pe But forebodings such as that al
to sternly to be relegated to the limbo
ms superstitions until the event prove
Ing their excuse.