The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-29

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whether it was agreeable or not But like
you to think"
Braine Lit the cigar and began his customary
pacing. At length he paused.
Suppose we have a real old fashioned
coaching party out to the old mansion We
know about?"
And what shall we do there9"
MAKE the mansion an enchanted castle
where sometimes people who enter can't get
out Do you think you could get her to got"
Il can try"
Olga, must have that girl: and must
have her soon. Sometimes / find myself
nightly puzzled over the whole thing. II
Hargreave is alive. why doesn't he turn up
now That it's practically known that his
daughter presides over his household?
might understand it If didn't know that
Harsreave is really afraid Of nothing. Who're
IL the man with the five thousand, picked
up at sea? What was the reason for Jones
carrying that box out in broad Daylight
Who IL the chap watching across the strset9
oneLthat harsreave il playing with M.
playingl Well" hingins the half consumed
cigar into the CRATE. "ths Black Hundred al
ways goes forward. win or lose. and nssef
forgets"
I'VE are . line pairl" said the woman
bitterly.
= We are exactly what tate intended o. b
BE- They wrote you down in: the book q
beautiful body with crooked mind. They
wrote me down a. the devil, doomed to roam
earth's top till I'm killed"
= Killed."
Why. yes. I'm not the hind Of chap Who
dies in bed. surrounded BY the weeping mem
bers Of the family, doctor. nurse. and priest
I'm = Scoundrel: but it has this saving grac,.
I enjoy being scounlreL Now. I'm going
up to the club. There's nothing like game
of billiards or chess to smooth that wrinkle
which seems to worry you"
In the great newspaper office there was a
mighty racket Midnight always means pam
demonium in the city room of . metropolitan
daily. Copy boys were rushing to and fro,
messengers and printers with sticky salleys
in their hands; reporters were banging away
q. their typewriters, and intermingling you
could hear the ceaseless clickety- click from the
telegraph room
The managing editor came out Of his once
and approached the des'. OF the night city
editor.
Editorial page gone down?"
Twenty minutes ago." said the night city
editor.
Il wanted a stick on that Panama rumpus-"
TOO late"
Where's Jim Norton?"
AT the chamber of commerce banquet The
major Is going to thro- . bomb into the
enemy's camp"
Nothing ON the Hargreave stuff"
No. Guess Ia better put that in the
cubbyhole. He's dead"
No win found yeti"
Not a piece ~ big .. a postage stamp"
That will leave the girl in q tough place
No will, no birth certificate: and worst Of ALL
NJ photograph of the old man himself l don't
sec why Jim sidestepped this affair. He the
only man In town who knew anything about
Harsreave."
He hasn't giver i: NJ; but be wants 70
cover it on his own. turn the yarn over when
he's got it. no false alarms"
All! So that's the camel"
Yes: and Jim is tie sort every paper
needs When the time comes the story turns
up. if there 10 one. Here he d now. LOOKS
like an actor in the fourth act Of . drama
Good looking chap. though"
Norton came in through the outer gates. He
~as in evening clothes. top hat. dead
cigaret dangied between his lips
How much do you want?" asked the night
city editor.
Column and . half"
-O6 with your glad r1!"
Anything eood:" s1sd = managing "a
ftor.
The lid has been jammed on tisht. "a