Omaha daily bee., 1914-10-25
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

-CAMP-fOR-THE-NIGHT
well. gentsl" the driver observed cheerfuuy
Withdrawing head and hands from long and init.
mate communion with the stubborn genius beneath
the hood, Il reckon you-all mays we'll make I'D
yore minds to christen ths.hyeh salubrious spot
COMPREHENSIVE. You won't be goin' no fartheh
NOT Just t present Pulling this old wagon
through them desert sands back yondeh has lust
naturally broke the heart OF that engine!"
What, precisely is the trouble?" Alan Law in
quired, rousing from anxious preoccupation.
Plumb bust all to hell" the chauffeur ex
planned tersely.
Nothing could be fairer, more exact and com.
prehensive than that" Tom Barcus commented.
Law nodded a head too weary to respond to the
others humor. His worried eyes reviewed the
scene OF the breakdown.
Whats to be done?" he wondered aloud.
Take 1t calm" the affable chauffeur advised
"'Frettin' won't get you.all nothin II II was me
I'd call II day. make fire. get them cushions out
OF the cyah, and get some rest. You can't do moth.
in till get back, anyway, and that won't be much
before sunup"
Where are you going?" Barcus demanded
"Walkn', friend just waikiki"
What fort"
TO fetch help-leastways, onless yove got some
kick comm and I'D ruther stop hyeh permanent"
He turned of and busted himself with prepare
tons against his journey.
IT'S simply things like this make me believe
this isn't after all, nothing more nor less than
long-drawn-out nightmare" Bareus observed
Mr.. Law was not attending: he had turned away
and was just then standing by the running board
OF the motor and civiy explaining to Miss
Judith Trne the purpose OF the chauffeur's expe-
dition.
Discovery Of this circumstance worked a deep
wrinkle between the brows as we'll as into the
humor Of Mr.. Barcus
Here, he promised himself was a situation to
titillate the Comic Muse itself He pointed out in
turn the several component parts: the motor car
derelict In the hollow OF those awful and silent
hiils-for all the world like a mouse petrihed with
fright at finding itself In the midst of a herd OF
elephants; In the car that aged monomaniac, Mr.
Seneca Urine, author of all their woes and misad.
ventures gnashing his teeth in impotent rage TO
md himself In close juxtaposition TO and helpless
to injure the man for whose life he lusted with an
insatiate passion the latter standing outside the
car. IN polite conversation with Mr. Trne's mutt
nous Judth-talking to her in the friendliest fash
ion imaginable, precisely as IL she had not fallen
little short OF comprising his death, not once but
half dozen times Judith herself poised on the
runningboard and smiling down at her victim with
a warmth patiently even moro than the warmth OF
friendship; and at some little distance. Rose, Mr.
Laws hancee and Judith's sister eating her heart
out with Jealousy OF this new-sprung intimacy be.
tween her sister and her loverl
Bad business. my friendI" Barcus mentally
apostrophized the unwilling Alan Law bad bust.
ness-and only the beginning OF IT, or I'm no
prophet II you had the wit with which Providence
has endowed the domestic goose you'd realize that
you might well encourage the attentions OF a coy
young cyclone as the affections OF that handsome
outstanding and able-bodied young woman who's
splitting her heart out of her eyes into yours this
blessed minute as ever vast Not to mention the
troublo you're brewing for yourself with the young
woman to whom your affections are unswervingly
devoted"
He interrupted himself to nod knowingly and
with profound conviction: Il knew IT, Now Il
begins again."
For Rose had abruptly taken hand in the AFFAIR.
a gesture of evaporation prefacing her call:
Alan"
20 her Mr.. Law turned instantly with such alac-
rity that none who watched might doubt which of
the two women came first In his esteem
Nor this wasted upon the understanding Of
Judith. Eyeing her narrowly though furtivsly Mr.
Bsrcus saw her handsome face darken ominously
And her father was as quick to recognize these
portents OF trouble and to seek to advantage him
self OF them.
His head craned out horribly on his long wasted
neck as he pitched sbilant whisper for her ears
and his face in the moonlight seemed to glow with
the reflection OF that inferno which smoldered in
his evil bosom .
But one was sileneed the other quenehed. all in
a twinking. His daughter turned on him in
fash Of imperial rage.
BE SILENT" Barcus heard her say BE silent do
you hear? Don't ever speak 10 again unless
you want me to replace that gag. l say. don't
speak TO me! . ! am finished with you once
and for all time: never again shall you pervert my
nature TO your damnable purposes-never again
shall word wish OF yours drive me 70 lift my
hand against q man who has never done you the
least harm. though your persecution Of him would
have acquitted him OF . charge OF mAnsaughter In
any court-on grounds Of self-dsfenssi I'M
derstand mel" Hhe ragged. I'm through. Hence
forth 80 my way. and you yours. :"
Her voice broke She elenched her hands into
two tight nsts with the Effort at sslf-epatrOl. and