The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1912-09-06
CHATTER XIII. (continued.)

lat when / teiephoned they stated
that IL. Billings had not been at the
club since last evening. Some one
who answered the phone thought Mr..
billings Was with his friend. Mr..
L%tEEtnTt, in the Kahoka Apartments.
And. O. course, | knew jolly well he
was not.
As | turned from the telephone.
something in Jenkins expression ar
rested my attention.
"We!l?" | said impatiently, for he
has 50 many devilishly clever inspira-
lions. YOU know: and. dash II. | like
TO encourage him.
Pardon. sir. but don't you think
Here he looked straight up at the
clectroliar and coughed. About Mr..
Billings. sir; I was going TO suggest
that though he isn't over at the club,
he's somewhere, sir
Why. dash 1t. ! thought that jolly
likely. myself, | said so.
Yes, sir" said Jenkins darkly.
And MIR. Billings usually knows
whore he is. ! guess, sir, he's In this
EeighLorhood-h'm."
just sat staring at him a minute.
thinking what a deyilish wonderful
thing intuition is for the lower classes.
by Joye, Jenkins" | said; then
you think
i think Mr.. Billings, sir, might pre-
fer 20 find himself-h'm! Yes, sir"
jenkins lifted the breakfast tray with
dCliberat,or, removed II from the
room and returned. moving about the
furniture and busying himself with an
air OF mystery. Dash IL, ! knew he
clever notion. and so presently |
spoke ~ just TO touch him of.
by Jove!" | remarked.
Yes. sir jenkins rested the END
al the thumb brush on the table and
considered me earnestly. You know,
Mr.. LigEtnut. last night as Mr.. BIZ
ing. was retiring, he says TO me
jenkins. Mr.. Lightnut has promised
TO go up home with me tomorrow Tor
the week end. There's q tenner com
ing your way II he doesn't forget
about II. He's 10 go tomorrow, now
mind you, jenkins; and IL don't mat
tor what comes up. You see that he
gscs up tomorrow.
by Jove." | said as he paused, and
Z screwed my monocle tighter and
nodded. Il see
NJ course | didn't see, but l knew
the poor fellow was driving at some
thing. and ! wanted TO give him a run.
Exactly, sir" And he stood wait
ing, SO, shall ! pack, si-? You'll
want 10 take the fourteen express, /
tuppose?"
By Jove, II was the most amazing
~. dashed clever guess | ever knew
Jenkins 10 get of. Fact, | knew
that II there was one thing more than
another in all the world that | wanted
10 do, il was 10 take that fourteen OK
press. To think of seeing Frances
again, and today,
} left Jenkins TO a by a later
train, and . little after four I was
wblrliDg above Spuyten Duyvil and
looking about the chair-car TO see II
thrre was any one ] knew. But, by
Jove, there was hardly a soul in the
car-nobody except just women, you
know, and these filed the whole place.
by Jove. she could be spared" |
thought. studying a young woman who
stood in the aisle beside me. She was
rather heavy set-what you might call
egg-shaped. Her face and her heavy
glasses seemed to proclaim a mission
in life. and the ~dowdyish cut OF her
rig and the reckless way 1t was hurled
on made II plain that she was on to
the fact that nature had made a blum
der in her sex, and she wanted the
world to know she knew.
She was talking to the lady imme-
diately behind me. At least. / discov-
cred after i've minutes that she was
talking. by Jove. up to that time,
thought she was c~anvassing for q
tpaki The Sthsr never cot In . wore.
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