The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-09-13

secret she was the Kind Thaf con,dnf
keep secret. She wasn't responsible
tell you. she was extravacant. Look
at that glove! And she had three na,rs
nalI worn in her bureau"
Miss Maitland" l asked snddon,v
did yon ever hear of eleven twenty.
twoY' "en''
ELEVEN twenty-five whatr"
Just the number eleven twenty.
two," | repeated HAS It any signid.
cancer"
Asnould say it has. she retorted. I'm
tne last ten years the Colored Orphans
nome has cared for. fed. clothed and
pampered exactly 1,122 colored chill
uren OF every condition of shape and
misshape. brains and no brains"
1t has no other connecticut"
loaned Allan Fleming a thousand
collars once. l guess my mind was
1a1llng 1t would be about eleven
twenty-five by this time"
Neither Of which explanations suf
need for the little scrap found in Miss
James room. What connection, if any.
had it with her fight? Where was she
now. What was eleven TWENTY-FIVE?
And why did Miss Letitia deny that
she had lost the pearls, when already
knew that nine Of the ten had been
sold. who had bought them and ap-
proXlmately how much he had paid?
ate light lunch at Bellwood alone
with Bella to look after me.
"Oh, Bella" l called as she was 60
Ing out, Il want to ask you something
The night at the Fleming home when
yoc and l watched the house didn't
you hear some person running along
the hall outside your door? About 2
O'Clock. think?'
She looked at me stolidly.
mo, sir; slept all night"
That's strange. And you didn't hear
ME when l fell down the dumb wait
er shaft?'
"Holy saintsv' she calculated. "Was
that where you fell?'
She stopped herself abruptly.
"You heard that?" l asked gently,
land yet you slept all night? Bella.
there's hitch somewhere You didn't
sleep that night at ALL You told Miss
Fleming had been up all night. How
did you know that? If l didn't know
that you couldn't possibly get around
as fast as the person in the house that
night would say you had been in Mr..
Fleming's desk looking for-let US say.
postage stamps. May l have another
cup of coffee?"
She turned sickly yellow white
and gathered up my cup and saucer
with trembling hands. | put another
line in my notebook. What does Bella
know
l got back to the city and found
Wardrop waiting for me at the Office.
He seemed to have shrunk in his
clothes, his eyeballs were bloodshot
from drinking and his fair hair had
dropped. neglected. over his forehead.
He looked at me with dull eyes
when / went in. He was sitting on
my desk.
"He says he's crazy-lost his think
works." said Burton.
II didn't know you knew each 9th
err" put in.
HE says we do" Wardrop said
YEARLY: says he used to knock me
around at college. He wants me to
60 to a do. TOR. I'm not sick. It's
only
Better see one. Wardrop." I urged.
It seemed incredible that an inno-
cent man would collapse as he had
done. and vet at this minute ! can
name dozen men who. under the
club of public disapproval. have fallen
into paresis. insanity and the grave
We are all Indifferent to our fellow
men until they are against us
Burton was very well acquainted
with the specialist to whom we took
Wardrop,
Il think I've got 1t all from Mr.
Burton" said the doctor when he had
sent Wardrop into another room.
1.-The idea is Munsterbergs. and I've