The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-08-23
CHAPTER XIII. (contInued.)

But when l t~elephoned they stated
that Mr.. Billings had not been at the
club since last evening. Some n
who answered the phone thought MI.
Billings was with his friend. MI.
Lightnut, In the Kahoka Apartments.
And, of course, l knew jolly we'll he
was not.
As I turned from the telephone,
something In Jenkins expression ar
rested my attention.
"Wellr" l said impatiently, for he
~ 80 many devilishly clever inspira-
lions, you know; and, dash 1t. l like
10 encourage him.
Pardon, sir, but don't you think"
Hero he looked straight up at the
electrolier 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 it, l thought that jolly
likely, myself! I said SO.
Yes, SIR" said Jenkins darkly.
And Mr.. Billings usually knows
where he is. guess, sir, he's in this
neighborhood-h'm!"
just sat staring at him a minute.
thinking what a devilish wonderful
thing intuition is for the lower classes.
by Jove, Jenkins!" l said; then
you think
Il think Mr.. Billings, sir, might pre-
for to find himself-h'm! Yes, sir"
Jenkins lifted the breakfast tray with
'deliberation, removed 1t from the
room and returned, moving about the
furniture and busying himself with an
air OF mystery. Dash 1t, l knew he
had up his sleeve some other devilish
clever notion, and so presently /
spoke up Just to touch him on.
by Jove!" / remarked.
Yes, sir" Jenkins rested the end
Of the thumb brush on the table and
considered me earnestly. You know,
Mr.. Lightnut, last night as Mr.. Bill.
ings was retiring, he says to me
Jenkins. Mr.. Lightnut has promised
to go up home with me tomorrow for
the week end. There's a tenner com
ting your way II he doesn't forget
about 1t. He's to go tomorrow. now
mind you. jenkins; and 1t don't mat
tar what comes up. You see that he
goes up tomorrow"
by Jovei" I said as he paused, ant
] screwed my monocle tighter anc
nodded. II see."
OF course l didn't see, but I knew
the poor fellow was driving at some
thing, and l wanted to give him a run
Exactly, SIR" And he stood wait
ing. 80. shall l pack, sir? You'll
want to take the fourteen express,
suppose?"
, BY Jove. 1t was the most amazing
~, dashed clever guess l ever knew
Jenkins to get on! Fact! knew
that If there was n thing more thai
another in all the world that l wante'
10 do, It was to take that fourteen e1
press. To think Of seeing France
again, and today!
left Jenkins to travel by a late
train, and a little after four l wa
tvhirling above Spuyten Duyvil an
looking about the chair-car to see
there was any one ! knew. But. b
Jove, there was hardly a soul in tn
&r-nobody except Just women, 20
know, and these filed the whole place
by Jove, she could be spared"
thought, studying a young woman VIII
stood in the aisle beside me. She wa
rather heavy set-what you might ca
s~gg-shaped. Her face and her heav
glasses seemed to proclaim a missio
IN life, and the dowdyish cut Of he
rg and the reckless way 1t was hurle
On made 1t plain that she was on I
the fact that nature had made a blul
der in her sex, and she wanted th
world to know she knew.
She was talking to the lady imm,
Aiately behind me. At least, I disco
cred after five minutes that she wa
talking. By Jove, up to that time,
thought she was %canvassing for
ghooki The other eve got in a wor'