The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-07-26

blown the feeble spark of protest
against machine domination to a fame
We had sung song to that very tune.
and with this white faced girl across
from me it's words came back with re-
Voting truth.
Oh, once there was capitol
That sat on hill!
As it's too big to steal away
It's probably there still.
The rings hand in the treasury
And Fleming with sack.
They take 1t out in wagon loads
And never bring it back
Il am more than sorry" l said.
was too. Whatever he may have been.
he was her father AFTER all, there
may be dozen simple explanations.
and there are exigencies in politics.
Il hate politics. she broke in sud
denly. when l read of women want
ing toto vote and all that | wonder
it they know what it means to have to
be polite to dreadful people. people who
have even been convicts and all that.
Why. our last butler had been a prize
fighter She sat upright with her
hands on the arms Of the chair. THAT
is another thing. too. Mr.. Knox The
day after father went away. Carter.
our butler. left. He was not there that
evening to serve dinner but-he came
back late that night and got into the
house. using his key to the servants
entrance. He slept there. the maids
said. but he was gone before the serv-
ants were up. and we have not seen
him since"
"Your father has not been i'll. has
he? | mean recently"
II cannot think of anything except
that he had tooth pulled" She was
quick to resent my smile.
"You have not noticed any mental
symptoms any lack of memoryY
Her eyes filed.
HE forgot my birthday two weeks
ago." she said. lit was the first one
he had ever forgotten in nineteen of
them"
Nineteen: Nineteen from thirty five
leaves sixteen.
what meant was this" l explain
ed. people sometimes have sudden
and unaccountable lapses of memory
and at those times they are apt to
stray away from home. Has your ia
Their been worried lately?"
HE has not been himself at all. He
has been irritable even to me and ter
rible to the servants. Only to Carter
he was never ugly to Carter"
You have no brothers or sisters?"
None. | came to YOU there she
stopped.
"Please tell me how you happened to
come to me-" | urged.
Il didn't know where to co. she con-
fessed. 80 | took the telephone direc-
tory, the classified part under 'Attor-
neys,' and. after | shut my eyes. ! put
my finger haphazard on the page 1t
pointed to your name"
/ am afraid flushed at this. but In
q moment ! laughed.
I'VE will take it as an omen." said.
land | will do all that l can. But l
am not a detective. Miss Fleming.
Don't you think We ought to have
One?"
mot the policew She shuddered.
"Suppose you tell me what happened
the day your father left and how he
went away. Tell me the little things
too"
I'm the first place." she began. we
live on Monmouth avenue. There are
lust the two of us and the servants
q cook. two housemaids. laundress. q
butler and chauffeur My father
spends much of his time at the capital.
and in the last two years since my Old
governess went back to Germany at
those times | usually so TO mothers
sisters at Redwood. Miss Ledtia and
Miss Jane Maitland"
| nodded. ! knew the Maitland Ia
dies we'll l bad drawn four different
wills for Miss Letita In the last year.
my father went away on the 10Th
of MAY He got up from breakfast,
picked up his hat and walked out OF.
the house He was irritated at let.
ter he had read
"He took the letter with him. He did
not come home that night. and ] went
TO the office the next morning Inc
stenograpbpr- said he had not been
there He ~ not at Plattsburg be.
cause they nave been trying to call
him from there on the long distance
telephone every day"
In spite Of her CANDID race ! wa
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