The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1913-05-01


about it that he took me with him one
night lust before Aunt Octayia moved
here. and he and | found the rooms
and the stair and the secret spring by
which. if you know just where to poke
the wall in the fourth floor hall you
can disappear as mysteriously as you
please
"But how on earth did You darken
the halls so easily? You nearly gave
me- heart disease doing that
.'Oh. that was mere matter of
Young lady in haste. When l found
how easily | could pass you on the
stair it became fascinating game, and
it was no end of fun TO see just how
long IT would take you to catch me-"
'.I wish. Hezekiah, that you would
Stay caught
'.Re very. very careful. sir. We're
talking business now. There's another
ordeal for you before you dare become
sentimental
Then hasten. Let us be after it"
Things are in a serious predicament,
can tell you. WAS frightened when
looked into that notebook. | didn't
like TO do that, but | had to assist
Providence a little. Five men have al
ready got their quietus."
Then why don't they clear out and
stop their nonSense?"
''0h. it's their pride. suppose, and
every man probably thinks that when
Cecilia has seen little more of him in
he will win her favor. They're afraid
of one another, those men. That's the
reason they've been herding together
so close since the first day you came
Mr. Virgins was taking it for granted
that be was the whole thing-just like
to join in some arrangement by which
they were to hang together. These
calls in a bunch came from that, as
though any one of them wouldn't take
advantage of the others If he saw
chanceI Some of this | got from Wig
gy himself. the rest | just guessed"
But you may not know that they
sent delegation after me into town
to warn me off the grass
THAT was Mr.. Dick. He never saw
me when Cecilia was around, and he
was terribly snippy sometimes and
with him. I've about underlined him
for number six" she concluded with
the manner Of queen who. about to
give her chief executioner his orders
for the day, glances calmly over the list
OF victims.
That's good idea. Dick is insult
ferable. ! hope you haven't counted
wrong"
las we were saying. about the note
book" she resumed. 1.-The fifth man has
already been respectfully declined.
The dates of the proposals are written
in the notebook. so | learned from the
book that Mr.. Ormsby. Mr.. Arbuthnot
and Mr.. Gorse had proposed on the
steamer Professor Hume. you know.
tried his luck at Hopefield, and Lord
must have stopped Cecilia as
she was riding to the station on my
UlCyCic ySStciOug LILO SoOoc
is cooked"
HE stopped to tell papa goodby and
spoke very highly of you. Papa and
you are the only gentlemen he met in
America. But now we come to Mr..
Virgins"
1--WE do: and why in the name Of all
that is beautiful and good hasn't he
tried his luck?''
Because. knowing Cecilia's admira |
ton for him. replied Hezekiah de-
Il have kept him so diverted
that he hasn't been able to bring him |
self to the scratch
You didn't want him TO blunder In !
as the first. fourth or sixth MANI"
Hezekiah gravely nodded her pretty
head
And while you were engaged in this
sisterly labor, Cecilia has been afraid
that you were seriously interested in
him!"
THAT is like Cecilia. She's fine. and
cause me trouble for any