Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-09-23
heart danced. She had taken up the
cudgels for him!

heart danced. She had taken up the
cndgels for him! .4
Out. In the hall Rosalie remarked;
You can trust quite a lot OF people
with secret II you pick the right ones
Now We must be gettin' on" .s.5
But Betsy.Barbara's curiosity made
one final struggle.
"Oh, Mrs. lie Grange ia Mr.. Wade
to be proved innocent? May I tel
Constance that?'
"You can tell her nothing--under
stand? Just nothing. But probably
he is, just the same!"
When will We known" asked Betsy
Barbara.
You may know somethin' tomorrow
| II you're a good girl an DO just a.
I've told YOU"
From the morning papers?''
We'll, I certainly hope mott" said
Resale lie Grange.
They parted at the corner. No soon.
er had Betsy Barbara taken Fifth
Avenue stage and started on her pug
cling Journey of intrigue, than Rosa.
lie called a taxicab and set her
course for the East Side docks OF lower
Manhattan.
Here we must introduce new
character in this story, a person who
flashed in and out "a people are ever
flashing In and out of our lives, bear
ing service In their hands. AT, this
point also appears though ever 20
slightly-the element of coincidence.
Luck had entered little into these
operations of Rosalie lie Grange. ~
| It enters, to an extent that . novelist
never dares admit, into all chains of
human affairs. This hnal stroke OF
luck was small; but 1t fell toward Ro-
sales ends. Doubtless had 1t failed,
she. the fertile, would have found an
other plan as good.
The new character, then, Is Skipper
Matt Baldwin Of the schooner Maud,
engaged In the coastwise lumber trade.
The Maud is lying at the dock, prepar-
ing to sail for Halifax on the morrow
with return cargo. A battered and
pleasant old man, the Skipper Bald.
win, with an eagle profile which de-
notes his courage and q softseye which
indicates his gullibility. He tossed .
life long on the seven seas before he
bought the Maud and settled down for
the rest Of his days to coasting. He
was q widower OF long and affectionate
memory; because OF that and because
Of his searchings of the spirit on lone
" voyages, he became believer In
spirftualism Of the kind which ,Rosalie
LIE Grange used to practice. Rosalie
was his favorite' medium-and his
friend. Between voyages, whenever
he found her in New York, he used to
visit her and receive q consolation
which was false in detail and yet true
| In spirit. To the general, there are
only two ways of looking at a profee-
sional mediums hell-born fraud
or q heaven-sent friend To him. she
was all q friend. There was nothing,
he told her again and again, that he
would not do for her. She believed
that; and her beliefs in the heights and
depths of humanity seldom went
wrong. Toward the schooner Maud
she was now driving her taxicab.
The piece Of luck was this: at the
very moment when the taxicAba round
ed the corner from Wsll street and the
driver began to inquire for Pier 1871.
Captain Baldwin was as near to pro
family az his convictions SLOWED. Az
for the mate, he had no convictions
which prevented him from expressing
himself to the limits Of hts vocabulary,
over the unlucky accident, that tum-
BILE into the matches, which had sent
newly.signed Italian member OF the
crew to Bellevue Hospital nursing a
, broken arm. With all the heaven
condemned things they had to do be-
fore the improper old scow could sbe
cleared In the morning, how the sin
an sulphur (the mate inquired Of the
bright air) were they going to dig up
another sailor to satisfy the port regu.
lations? The skipper, braiding rope,
returned no answer, for answer there
i was none.