Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-10
LADY SHIP.
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AnCAueHtS OF Encouragement ana cruelty
among the tenants. Clearly now he recalled
that old incident of Mrs. Muiready. There was
his enlightenment. Dot held it up to him, and
he refused to see.
And his mother! In season and out Of sea.
SON she had warned him.
And he, bally fool, played tennis while the
sun shone, and let the wrongs 60 on.
At last he came in sight of his home The
southern wing was all lit up. There were the
nurseries and Dots rooms. He quivered when
ne thought of the dearness Of what they held,
and his face hardened when he thought Of
Thunderbolt.
A groom came running up, saw the altered
face above him and touched his hat.
Good evening, Mr.. Gresham" he ventured.
Pat looked at him stolidly. Then turned and
mounted the steps.
"The masters worse than ever" the groom
reported at the stables.
The great hall was empty. So were the bill
lard room and the drawing room. But in the
library Dorothy was standing before the big
fire with her hands on the mantelpiece and
one small shoe toasting on the fender. She
turned at Pats entrance, looked at his wild
and ravaged face and with a cry Of "John! Go!
Too latew she fell fat upon the hearth rug in
the first and only faint of her career.
Pat sprang to her, and as he did so he saw
his haggard face in the mirror and thought
that John was behind him. He wheeled about.
The room was empty. He turned back to the
mirror and realized that the face was his.
and as he gathered his wife into his arms, pre-
pared to carry her up stairs, he muttered-
"No necessity for asking her anything. Poor
little girl she's given her evidence in full.
Tainted dead away when she thought she saw
him. Dot! My plucky, fearless Dotw
He carried her to her mother, and they soon
restored her, and then Pat went in search Of
Forbes.
He found him knocking the balls about the
billiard table, Forbes glanced up as Pat came
in.
"well, son." said he, "who told your"
cambridge"
Forbes nodded. "Just like the dirty skunk"
'sWas he right?"
81 guess so, as far as he got. OF course he
don't know it all. / doubt if anybody ever
will"
"Where is he," demanded Pat savagely.
"Oh where is hep
"That's more than can say" Forbes an.
swered. 81 gave him until sun-up this morning
to get away from here He seems to be gone.
Pm darned if know how he went. 1 left him
in his room and sat outside all night. He
never came ont, and when went into the room
at sun-up he was gone. And good thing, too"
he added, as he looked at Pats altered face.
eff you could get at him now you'd do some
thing you'd be sorry for later on"
Pat dashed off at tangent "And you've
all been deceiving me, treating me like boy, a
child"
'Well,' said Forbes, "yOu've been behaving
like boy. Pooling around with your tennis,
your our-in-hand and one thing and another
Leaving your work in life to another man and
never seeing how he did it. And, besides, it
was Dorothy's wish that her coming shouldn't
separate you two brothers"
"Oh where is he? Where is he? If could
onlv fnd tbo haoctf TIL uo ont auo;n J,ll 10
to some of the other neighbors and see if they
have news of him."
AS he opened the door the long wailing note
of a bloodhound caught his attention and he
realized that he had been hearing it ever since
he entered the house.
"What the devil is that?" he demanded of
Forbes.
"Thats Pluto. He's been carrying on like
that for hours. Cheerful, amt it? Nothing
can bulge him and nothing can make him
STOP"
Pat went to the oak room and found the dis
consulate Pluto bowling and whining with his
nose pressed to one spot in the wanscoting.
At sight of the Earl his whines changed to
yelps of entreaty. Forbes had followed Pat
and now he spoke.
chats the way he carries on every time
anybody comes into the room. What do you
suppose is the matter with him?"
well soon see,' said Pat. There's an old
secret passage here and Pluto is evidently
suspicious Of it. Stand back bit till see II
l remember the combinations. John and
used it often and often when we were young
sters."
At this "reminiscences the realization of his
wrongs struck him freshly. 81 oughtn't to be
here" said he. 81 ought to be out looking for
him. And when / find him-oh, well, threats
are nothing"
He made one or two false attempts at And
ing the secret combination. Pluto mean while
was shifting and whining more busily than
ever, and when at last Pat mastered the prob
lem and the door slid back Pluto sprang