The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-01-10
Then We NAV be in time"

He stopped short, struck by a sud
den thought. Why hasn't Mrs. Brad
dock written to me? She promised.
The five years have passed. We were
to see each other al the end OF five
We'll, maybe you will, kid. guess
Mrs. Braddock knows her business.
Has il ever occurred to you that there
might be another Romeo Iookin' at
Christine?"
For Gods sake, Dick, if YOU know
Of anything like that, tell me-"
Cross my heart, Davy, / don't
know, and that's straight"
She may have forgotten me. /
wonder ii you can understand how 1t
is when you care IS much as l do
oh, I've had a case or two myself,
kid. 1t amt nOthjn' new. this crimI
you've got said Dick. Adam had it,
SO did Solomon, only he had it ia so
many places he got so he didn't mind
it. lid, every mans a Mormon at
heart. And every woman, no matter
how ugly she is, thinks she's a siren.
Oh, don't look SO surprised. | got
SbtiAG VI my NhS"S olJ Ol me hlINiOIl
airy, but most of EN- came from OBJ
seryin' people as they look to me from
my W level. It's human nature TO
be bad, or wan to be bad. Wed all
be a little bit bad from time to time
il we wasn't afraid Cf being found out.
Course, it m il different size
doses. Some girls think it's terrible.
bad just to wink at a Teller, but they
do it because it's bad and not because
it's s~unctimonious, you bet. Then there
are other girls who'd cut your throat
Will a razor while you're asleep.
You bet they wouldn't be doing that if
It was considered good. All men have
got deviltry In en-. and all women
mischief. The women like the men
for the deyiltry, and it's the mischief
in women that plays the devil with
the men
What amazing philosophy laugh
ed Dick.
The next morning Dick appeared at
breakfast with his host. He rescued
Zuley AIMS greatly priced silver
watch from the staaming coffee urn
and picked Jeff's pocketbook from the
mouth OF a lamp chimney, afterward
restoring the thirty eight cents il CON
tanned. Strangely enough. he took
coins from the wo u on Jeff's head.
If ever a negro's wool undertook to
stand on end it was at that moment.
Zuley AIMS eyes were permanently
enlarged.
At eight o'clock they were off for
Richmond and the New York express.
Long before the train reached the
station in New York David and Dick
parted company. The shrewd but
whimsical scamp presented at cousid-
cradle length the problem Of virtue
and vice stalking arm in arm, as it
We're, through the streets Of New
York. He pictured with extreme unc-
ton the doleful undoing OF virtue and
the practical escape Of vice.
David went to one Of the big hotels
patronized by all Well to do southern
ers or the day. The mex morning saw
him on his way to- the home Of Joey
Noakes, far downtown and TO the west
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house. He had been there before. a
narrow, quaint little place il was,
reminiscent In an exterior sort Of way
of the motley gentleman who solemn
ly called it his castle.
joey was expecting David, which
accounts for the genial shout Of vel
come from the top Of the stairs.
Come in, my lad" called joey
bounding down the steps with all the
residence Of a youth Of twenty. MY
crimes. I'm Apply to see YOU"
You knew | was coming?" asked
David.
Il found a note under the door this
morning, David, left there mysterious
like during the night. il was left By
the fairies, ! daresay, although the
handwriting was scarcely wot .you'c
call dainty Joey pulled a knowing
wink.
Dick Cronk,' announced David
He came up with me. Braddock il
in the city, joey
"Sit down by the winder, David
so. NOL d dlliSOiiiS Iiidp YOU 20 So
TO be, Ruby will be proper Graz!
about you. ! beg pardon. You men
toned Tom Braddock. Well, he wa
setting right there where you are no
more than twenty-four hours ago
you don't mean it,"
The old clown stared in a trouble'
sort of way at the leg Of Davids chair
Then he began to fill his pipe.
He's ere for no good purpose, II
afraid said he at last. In a wa.
I'm kind o. sorry for Brad, Davic
He'd "a been a different sort O ma
if it hadn't been for Bob Grand. ]
ever a chap 'ad an evil genius Bra
'ad one in that nan ! suppose Die
told O Brad's been up for two o
three years doing time. Not but VIC
he deserved it, the way he treate
Mary. but it don't seem just right tina
Bob Grand should be the one to sen
i'm I'D. Mary 'ad nothing to do wit
It, but you cant make Brad believ
that. He's got it in is cad that she
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