Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-02-07
CHAPTER XIII. (contlnued.)


But when I telephoned they stated
that Mr. Billings had not been at the
club since last evening. Some one
who answered the phone thought Mr..
Billings was with his friend, Mr..
Lightnut, In the Kahoka Apartments.
And, of course, knew jolly well he
was not.
AS 1 turned from the telephone,
something in Jenkins expression ar
eested my attention.
'Well?" l said impatiently, for he
.as so many devilishly clever inspira-
lions, you know; and. dash it, l like
to encourage him.
Pardon, sir, but don't you think"
Here he looked straight up at the
slectrolier and coughed. About Mr.
Billings, sir; l was going to suggest
that though he isn't over at the club,
hes somewhere, sir"
Why, dash it, thought that jolly
likely, myself! said SO.
Yes, sir" said jenkins darkly.
And Mr.. Billings usually knows
where he is. l guess, sir, he's In this
aeighborhood-h'm
l just sat staring at him minute,
thinking what a devilish wonderful
hing intuition is for the lower classes.
by Jove, Jenkins!" l said; then
you think"
Il think Mr.. Billings, sir might pre-
Ter to find himself-h'm! Yes, sir"
jenkins lifted the breakfast tray with
deliberation, removed it from the
COON and returned, moving about the
furniture and busying himself with an
cir of mystery. Dash it, l knew he
had up his sleeve some other devilish
clever notion, and SO presently
spoke up just to touch him or.
by Jove!" l 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
ing your way II he doesn't forget
about it, He's to go tomorrow, now,
mind you, Jenkins; and it don't mat
ter what comes up. You see that he
goes up tomorrow.
by Jove!" said as he paused, and
screwed my monocle tighter and
nodded. Il see"
OF course l didn't see, but knew
the poor fellow was driving at some
thing, and l wanted to give him 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 off Fact! I knew
that If there was one thing more than
another in all the world that l wanted
to do, it was to take that fourteen ex-
press. To think of seeing Frances
again. and today.
l left jenkins to travel by later
train, and little after four l was
whirling above Spuyten Duyvil and
looking about the chasr-car to see II
there was any one / knew. But by
love, there was hardly soul in the
car-nobOdv except Just women. you
know, and these filled the whole place.
by Jove. she could be spared" /
thought, studying young woman who
stood in the aisle beside me- She was
rather heavy set-what you might call
egg-shaped. Her face and her heavy
glasses seemed to proclaim a mission
In life, and the dowdyish cut of her
rig and the reckless way it was hurled
on made 1t plain that she was on to
the fact that nature had made a blum
der in her sex, and she wanted the
world to know she knew.
She was talking to the lady imme-
Aiately behind me. At least, discov-
,red after five minutes that she was
salking. By Jove, up to that time,
thought she was canvassing for
hook! The otnsr nsvar got IN . vesl